Porter

[MR SPOCK]

I have just got this little chassis,​

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I need a small switcher or crane loco, not decided on what, any one any ideas,, a fireless loco takes my fancy as well???​

Of course some wagg suggested that if it was working the brewery siding !!!!,​

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I did a small addition to the gearbox using a waggon axle cut down to stop the coggs sliding out of mesh , it runs smoothly now
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[Richie]

Thats one Smooth Loco Pete

 

[ntpntpntp]

A Widget....... it's got a Widget....... it's got a Widget...... a Widget it has got

 

[Dtsteam]

Although my vote is for the Beer Engine, howsabout a fireless Porter (apparently) .....
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[MR SPOCK]

wow that is so ugly I like it lots that is in the running list

Although my vote is for the Beer Engine, howsabout a fireless Porter (apparently) .....
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[peterbunce]

Hi Pete, Rather than a beer can, which has rather thin walls, see if you can find some drainpipe (as in house drainpipes), it is much stronger and virtually the same diameter.

 

[Rob s]

Hi Pete
Now i know who beat me on e-bay
I dont feel so miffed.
I have two of these porters, both sadly sitting on the shelf at the momment, both with stripped drives gears :crying:
Have not been able to locate any spares yet, yours look in good condition though, but be gentle with then, i think most of the damage was done whilst they ran back and forth on an LGB shuttle line.
Nice little runners when they were working

 

[MR SPOCK]

Hi Rob this had gears that wandered about, it only took ten minutes to sort out, I dropped the rear axle out and slid the layshft out, I then got two steel washers and a twelve mm peice of plastic axle slid on that keeps the idler gears from wanderin, the motor was then stuffed with doublesided foam tape to stop it jumping out of mesh, I need to make a plastic cover to hold the axles in as well,

pete

 

[MR SPOCK]

after a lot of fiddling about I have found something that apeals to me for this chassis,​

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the fireless locos looked really ugly but this looks ugly and brutish enough to apeal to me, it lasted a long time in work for such a small loco, the original displaced a diesel, but was in service actually longer.​

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I think I can get a battery pack in this shell,the mock up is next to my shrunken piko loco
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[ceejaydee]

I quite like the look of that loco; not beautiful but chunky and very functional.
It certainly carries on the ethos of your original beer can mock-up in that it a 'no nonsense' workhorse

 

[MR SPOCK]

thanks Chris , I will fiddle about a bit more with this, I got the bits from funand trains and managed to get the chassis to run half decent again, I think all of the problems on this scale/guage is that manufatureres use nylon drive gears and they are total rubbish, use metal to metal , and you have a chance,​

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the original loco was displaced by a pioneer deisel, that is now in some museum collection, one of the pics shows it being hauled out dead by the new upstart, steam loco seemed to linger till the mid 60's around New York,

I quite like the look of that loco; not beautiful but chunky and very functional.
It certainly carries on the ethos of your original beer can mock-up in that it a 'no nonsense' workhorse

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[Richie]

Looking good Pete Those loco parts look like the Aristo C-16 that were on e bay the other day

 

[persistent_bodger]

I like the look of the prototype, quite a brute. Will you need to add a lot of extra weight to the chassis for it to run well?

Best

Tim

 

[MR SPOCK]

I am hoping the get a lead acid battery inside that pannier tank, should be out of sight as well​

I got this inside the piko and it makwes a massive plus for hauling

I like the look of the prototype, quite a brute. Will you need to add a lot of extra weight to the chassis for it to run well?

Best

Tim

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[MR SPOCK]

Thanks Steve, I never have enough time either,​

thanks Chris , I will fiddle about a bit more with this, I got the bits from funand trains and managed to get the chassis to run half decent again, I think all of the problems on this scale/guage is that manufatureres use nylon drive gears and they are total rubbish, use metal to metal , and you have a chance,​

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the original loco was displaced by a pioneer deisel, that is now in some museum collection, one of the pics shows it being hauled out dead by the new upstart, steam loco seemed to linger till the mid 60's around New York,

I quite like the look of that loco; not beautiful but chunky and very functional.
It certainly carries on the ethos of your original beer can mock-up in that it a 'no nonsense' workhorse

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I've still got a few left hoping that one day I will get time to scratch build again myself although I've got more fireboxes than I know what to do with. There was a guy on US ebay selling job lots of left over Delton and Kalmazoo parts a year or two ago who I bought them from.

Pete I still entend to sort through my parts to find stuff for you but just can't get any spare time at the moment!