ADCX Rob posted:Johnsgg1 posted:While not wheel related that field winding looks pretty bad. Looks burnt and maybe hand wound?
That's pretty much how the double wound fields look, it looks like a lighting issue, not burned.
C W Burfle posted:Rob:
Do you know the part number of the postwar diesel wheel with a traction tire groove?
I am just curious.That wheel was introduced with the 222 diesel, and is 222-107.
GeoPeg posted:A pic is worth 20 or 30 words, as they say...That truck has all of the 634 features - one geared axle, with a 222-107 non-gear grooved wheel for the traction tire and three non-grooved non-gear wheels #2243-33... two with spacers, making it a 221-101 truck. It also has the same lack of traction, per Tandem-Associates
GeoPeg posted:The same issue exists on my 1055 which has dual powered axles, no magne-traction and no traction tire, grooved wheels! Honestly, what were they thinking on these two engines? Had to be cost cutting!!!!!
The Alco FA was cheapened immensely in many ways after 1954 with a design that would allow all of the top features on some models as well as severely stripped versions for price points as mass merchandising came into the norm. The only one stripped down more than the 2024 was probably the 1066 UP.
If you 1055 has dual powered axles, no magne-traction and no traction tire, but grooved wheels, then you can add the 222-108 tires to the wheels.
I wish it were that easy
