The 42 & 44 to 1 gear boxes aren’t that miserable to fiddle with, ….usually the right Pittman motor will make them ….let’s say reasonably descent runners,….the fist fight with the diecast Williams Hudsons is the horrible 9:1,……there’s just no where’s to go,…you just can’t get a motor to spin that slow and make it smooth,….Pete’s certainly tamed it, so hats off to him,….I surrendered on my Williams Hudson and it now resides as a static display on the layout with little workers trying to fix something I couldn’t …..it would be nice if the gear boxes Pete found were more readily available as this would open a new frontier in modifying Williams Hudsons into nicer models worthy of adding more & more details,…..IF the gear boxes were easier to obtain, modding a Williams Hudson into a nice scale model would be a far cheaper endeavor than cutting up the old Lionel Pulmor Hudsons,….cause if you want a big can motor in a Lionel, step one is chop off the whole back of the chassis and cry cause you ain’t turning back!!…..I might be letting the cat out of the bag, but I got to watch every other evening as Pete wrestled this thing,….one thing he did that’s neat is he’s scooted everything forward, so now he can add important parts, like a full backhead, and judging by the depth of the motor, it ain’t gonna be stuck out the back like a Lionel,…..impressive work,…
Pat
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