Hello all, Been awhile since I've posted, and I've been lurking as well as playing with other scales and such. I've got a question. What is the diameter of the Marklin 0-6-0 drivers? I'm wondering about adapting them to an Nn3 loco, but need this info first. Thanks, Dan M,
I get .194" on the tread and .242" on the flange. Have you seen the kit by Toma? http://markfielder.fotopic.net/c1264634.html guess they are sold out right now: http://homepage1.nifty.com/tfw/index-e.html
Yeah, I have seen that one. My thoughts were bashing it into something alittle smaller, like an 8 ton Porter in Nn3 (Think Huntsville & Lake of Bays Railway)...
Cool I know the 8T porter well. I pretty much scratchbuilt one in HOn30, you can see pics here: http://picasaweb.google.com/ErieChris333/HOn30
Chris, I have seen it, and I must say, excellent work. Gorgeous little engine. I'm thinking if I did do an Nn3 version, I'd pretty much have to scratchbuild the entire thing from chassis up. I don't think any part of the Marklin chassis would work, as the axles are probably spaced too close if I were to use the rear two wheelsets, and too far apart if I were to remove the middle one. I was thinking something along the lines of a rear-facing drive, similar to what you did on yours, just likely using a worm and spur gears instead of a band drive. I could even possibly get away with Disc drivers in that size, possibly using an MTL F7 truck as a starting point. I'd have to go home and measure the wheel diameter on that. For a small motor, the tank 'should' cover it. I think the hardest part sill be getting enough weight. I'd need two of the locos anyway (they were double headed), so that may work. I've got a plan here in a larger scale, I just need to scale it down to Nn3.
Double heading. So are you modeling the Lake of Bays RR? I have an old Gazette article if you are interested. They double headed 2 8T's. If you get them built I'd wire the pick-ups to each other. Also the drawings on my pics link is from a Grandt Line On30 porter. The instructions have many scale drawings. I can send you any you need, they are easy to resize to N scale and print out (I can size them if you need that) Oh the Marklin 0-6-0 wheels are about .304" apart axle to axle.
Chris, That would be awesome, I've only got a couple of drawings and I had to work out most of the dimensions. This is one of those projects that's in the "planning" stage indefinitely until I can get the materials, but it's something I'd "like to do" eventually. Dimensioned drawings of an 8 Ton porter in N (and possibly larger to see details), would be great. thanks The axle spacing is only about 1mm off the actual dimensions, 7.7mm compared to 9mm - I think I can live with that. Now the next order of business is to get an 8805/88051... Regards, Dan MacKellar
