I have an old Riverossi Casey Jones 4-6-0 and would like to change over the motor to allow better speed control especially at low speed.
What would be a recommended motor swap? Should the gears be changed as well?
Give NWSL a call, I am sure they have had this question a few times before.
David B
Ask cv-backshop on eBay. He may make a retrofit kit for the Casey Jones, or be able to come up with one if he doesn’t. I don’t think NWSL has a regear kit for it. They make a kit for the vertical motored 0-8-0’s, but since Rivarossi didn’t standardize anything, the gearing is most likely different. If it fit more than the 0-8-0, NWSL would have said so.
They (NWSL) do have a regear set. Can’t remember the number but I installed one about three months ago on a Casey Jones that I had. It slowed it way down but I have a bit of a problem with a quartering issue. In order to change the gearing, I had to remove a wheel & replace the gear on the main axle… without a quartering jig. Now, I think I’m ever so slightly off as the engine isn’t as smooth as it once was.
I think the same gear set fits the Riv. 0-6-0.
dlm
Back in the days before the quartering jig we would take a very narrow chisel set the point so it was on the axel and wheel hub and give a hit with a hobby hammer just enough to leave a clear mark.
Then once we had the wheel off and new gear installed all we had to do was carefully line up the chisel mark and press the wheel back on.
That’s good to know. I hadn’t seen it online or at the LHS before.
Remove the driver and give it another try - it’s a trial and error process without a jig or a reference mark like Ragnar described. Rivarossi was the only manufacturer to use 89 degrees, which is why you can’t use the NWSL quarterer on them. Don’t ask me why.
i to have one and wondering how to remotor ,but gave up and just installed a tsunami 750 in it and it’s works great .