Reply to "UPDATE 3/7/17 WITH VIDEO !!!!!!!!!!! Niagara gears and drive shaft"

texastrainOGR Forum Member

Again, thanks for the information, this time on the Niagara CCll engines. I have already replaced the u-joints in mine, interesting to find out about the problematic gearbox internals. I had a similar problem with broken teeth on the drive gear for a Third rail SP cab forward from the late 90's. They, Sunset Models, sent me brass gears to use in the replacement I did. Makes me wonder why any manufacturer may continue the use of nylon for gears. I know car manufacturers did so to reduce the noise in timing gears, changed quite a few due to this over the years. But, I do not believe it would be a noise issue for gearboxes in any model steam engines from any manufacturer.

Again, many thanks for the information input..... Happy New Year to all. God bless......

Jesse

12/31/1511:21 AM

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