I wonder if anybody is interested in my battery conversion of an OcCre ?Adler? kit
I took a fancy to the look of the kit & wanted to run it rather than just be a static model. I bought both the kit and the OcCre motor at the same time. I want to run the model just occasionally and it had to be battery powered because I run steam engines.
The kit was of the usual OcCre high standard ,not that impressed with the motor thou. The first job was to workout how and where to fit the batteries & controls. The tender was the obvious place because that is where the motor is and there is some space above it. The building of the engine was straight forward just followed the instruction and filled every empty space with small pieces of lead just to give it extra weight . The wheels have wooden spokes which fit onto a brass axle, this in turn fit into wooden sockets , these sockets are slightly elongated some vertically some horizontally which gives some play for the axles
The tender construction was quite straight foreword. I left the void above the motor detachable which rather than gluing as per instruction. In this void I connected a PP3 9volt battery to the motor and a simple magnetic reed switch
To make the switch I glued a smal clyinder magnet to one of the kits white metal water covers
Finally I drilled a hole just slightly larger than the magnet
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To make it go just insert magnet & to stop remove
The engine only goes forward, the only speed control is the battery power, but IT WORKS
I took a fancy to the look of the kit & wanted to run it rather than just be a static model. I bought both the kit and the OcCre motor at the same time. I want to run the model just occasionally and it had to be battery powered because I run steam engines.
The kit was of the usual OcCre high standard ,not that impressed with the motor thou. The first job was to workout how and where to fit the batteries & controls. The tender was the obvious place because that is where the motor is and there is some space above it. The building of the engine was straight forward just followed the instruction and filled every empty space with small pieces of lead just to give it extra weight . The wheels have wooden spokes which fit onto a brass axle, this in turn fit into wooden sockets , these sockets are slightly elongated some vertically some horizontally which gives some play for the axles
The tender construction was quite straight foreword. I left the void above the motor detachable which rather than gluing as per instruction. In this void I connected a PP3 9volt battery to the motor and a simple magnetic reed switch
To make the switch I glued a smal clyinder magnet to one of the kits white metal water covers
Finally I drilled a hole just slightly larger than the magnet
,
To make it go just insert magnet & to stop remove
The engine only goes forward, the only speed control is the battery power, but IT WORKS
