Alco Models "Jawn Henry" on eBay

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The wheel spacing on the trucks is not symmetrical - so 'reversing' trucks to align the gear towers results
in a visually incorrect locomotive ?
Jerome Crosson;  NWHS residing in St. Peters MO.



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Great info, Lynn.  Much appreciated!

-Eric Bott

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I took a relook on my Jawn, I used the 2 side prong universal joint. The ball joints were just too big. Lots of shortening, cutting / filing to fit. I put a -small- dab of superglue to hold them on the shafts, never over use it or it may get into the washers.

I also ended up reversing 2 of the trucks to get the gear towers to fit so the towers were centralized and didnt move around much which keeps the main power shafts from floating around too far.

I tried 2 small can motors directly mounted to the tower gears but just too much (too little) side room for the body for the motor to move around. It ran, but body off, body on, nope. Why I went single motor, moving the gear towers.

The body is -Live power- shorting to the tender, so I isolated the frame using modded kadee coupler boxes, it works! I had to isolate it because of DCC as well.

I had to do some frame modding to get the towers to work and at a sharper radius. Brass aficiandos would go WHOA!!! but had to be done.
It took me about 4 months of tedious work to try/fail/try/success this project.
All this chat on the Jawn is making me give it some running workevers and recheck it out. Thew engine is what I call a HUGE brick when it runs.

N&W used it in pusher work and one story was pushing a train it  smashed the caboose into the train. They cut the Jawn in before the caboose later after this. The engine was a powerhouse and was really a success except for some technical repair issues, so it just really didnt work out.

-Lynn-


On 9/6/2016 1:37 AM, nw-modeling-list-request at nwhs.org wrote:
> From: NW-Modeling-List [mailto:nw-modeling-list-bounces at nwhs.org] On 
> Behalf Of NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List
> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2016 20:03
> To: NW Modeling List
> Cc: NW Modeling List
> Subject: RE: Alco Models "Jawn Henry" on eBay
>
> I used NWSL universal couplings on mine and they work very well, kept two motor drive.  I have not converted to DCC yet.
>
> Kurt S. Kramke
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Fri, 9/2/16, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>
>  Subject: RE: Alco Models "Jawn Henry" on eBay
>  To: "NW Modeling List" <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
>  Date: Friday, September 2, 2016, 9:40 AM
>
>  Lynn:
>
>  I am very interested in what universal joint  parts worked in this application-- especially between the  truck pairs on each bolster.? Did you keep a parts list of  the stuff that finally worked?
>
>  Thank you!
>
>  -Eric Bott
>

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