Reply to "Prewar Marx 0-27 Compatible with Lionel 0-27 Track"

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Choo Choo Charlie posted:
Duknfish
You can easily make the pickup from a piece of tin can. Or if you want to get fancy and go to the trouble find a piece of brass shim stock at a auto shop or machine shop. It should be about the thickness of the other pickup. ...

the prewar pickup shoe (copper) is quite a complex little piece that needs the shape to function properly. the flexibility of the material needs to be great enough to allow the part to mount yet strong enough to hold shape in operation. imo, not a very easy task for homebrew construction.

Choo Choo Charlie posted:
Duknfish
.... Lionel and most ever other switch will not pass that old Marx gear flange. ...

the Lionel 1024 manual switch (O27) will work with Marx single reduction drives.
in Flyer, their #665 (manual) and #688 (remote) switches (O40) also featured the same pivoting frog construction.

cheers...gary

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