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Model Forum / General / Railroads / October 2004Plastic O-gauge Reno....
Last weekend I picked up the well-known O-gauge plastic Reno kit (Rivarossi/AHM/etc) at a show for the princely sum of $10.00. It seems complete, although un-motorised. Does anybody know if a re-powering solution is offered? Eg by NWSL or anybody else? Are the axles a standard diameter for NWSL gears? It didn't come with the motorising kit, and to be honest, if it had I would have preferred to remotor it because it's not a very good motor. The wheel bearings slide into the plastic frame. Has anybody sprung these? The prototype is one of my all-time favourite locomotives, and I have a couple in HO brass, in oil- and wood- burning condition. >Last weekend I picked up the well-known O-gauge plastic Reno kit >(Rivarossi/AHM/etc) at a show for the princely sum of $10.00. It seems >complete, although un-motorised. > >Does anybody know if a re-powering solution is offered? Eg by NWSL or >anybody else? AHM/Riv made a power kit for all of the unpowered O scale kits but these are long out of production. Now, it is possible to come up with your own drivers and drive train but this would be a big project, not easily done at all. Maybe the only solution, though. Maybe eBay on that power kit. There's got to be one somewhere. -John >>Last weekend I picked up the well-known O-gauge plastic Reno kit >>(Rivarossi/AHM/etc) at a show for the princely sum of $10.00. It seems [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >project, not easily done at all. Maybe the only solution, though. >Maybe eBay on that power kit. There's got to be one somewhere. The motor of that kit was pretty poor. I liked the plunger pickups though. I can get plungers from England where they're common. The big problem might be the axles, if they're not a standard NWSL size. I'd rather not take the wheels off the axles though - if the pitch of the gear matches a worm from NWSL that might be a solution. >-John |
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