Lionel HO
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@leverettrailfan5414 2 жыл бұрын
What's the model? It runs really nice. Looks really good too!
@cheeztrainz 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! It's a Lionel FA1 with a rubber band drive, and matching cars. They made these units around 1960.
@leverettrailfan5414 2 жыл бұрын
@@cheeztrainz I meant which number- band drive should date it to between 1959 and 1962. They switched the Alco and Geep drive to a spring belt in 1963, later on they went to a geared truck and then a truck-mounted motor. The latter was only around for 1966.
@cheeztrainz 2 жыл бұрын
@@leverettrailfan5414 The road number is 0565. Is that what you're asking? I believe it's the 59-62 model based on diagrams I've found online. It's running a pair of rubber hair elastics for the belts, and several of the wormshaft clips had to be 3D printed as the originals were cracked.
@leverettrailfan5414 2 жыл бұрын
@@cheeztrainz yes thanks that's exactly what I was curious about! Good to know about the elastics too. Very clever to 3D print the clips, yet another reason to wish I had a 3D printer! I have an 0566 I need to repair the motor of, but once I can sort that out I do want to try the hair elastics out to see how well they perform.
@cheeztrainz 2 жыл бұрын
@@leverettrailfan5414 The printer has definitely saved my ass on several occasions! Actually, if you look closely in the video, you'll notice the couplers on this set are bright blue. The entire set started with one good coupler, which I used as a reference to reproduce the others. The resin in my printer just happened to be blue. lol Good luck with your engine!