I need a motor mount for my zephyr, I have been looking for one for a while now and can't find one. Willing to trade for one or buy it. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Hi,
This is Harry. I might have your motor mount from a donor motor. Problem is I do not know what it looks like. Can someone post a picture ? My motor hangar mount is riveted to the motor side plate w/ 2 rivets. I do not want to remove if not the one needed. Harry
Thank you Ken, I haven't had the chance to take a pic of my engine....been too busy working my butt off.
Not a problem! I know what it's like! Hope you get your Zephyr up and running soon.
Ken
Me too I wanted to give it to my father for Christmas but you see how that turned out lol
Have a bracket for you! Send me your mailing info and I will get it to you. May take a week to 10 days as I live in Canada.
Ken
jetsntrains@gmail.com
ps- no charge as am paying foreword some kindnesses shown to me by others in the hobby!
Thank you for the picture. My motor is entirely different. Glad you found a mount from a train brother. Harry
Thank you guys so much its amazing to know some people still have kindness in their hearts....I'm almost in tears, this has been eating at me like crazy to find a bracket ever since I got the train in November. Harry I need to order and smoke stack and decals for it as well.
Can I use a Lionel transformer to run it.
Any AC trans will work.
Thanks Ken for the bracket and there finally starting to take shape. Finally got some time off to start polishing them.
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Arron- that is really nice! Glad that you started! Are you using a power tool or doing it by hand? As I said before, the corregations areas and window areas are the pits to do, but again, I was doing those by hand with rags and Q-tips.
I am at a standstill with my last set as I got tired of doing the same Zephyr decal decorations as done by Flyer. I decided to do a set decorated as the Silver Streak from the 1934-35 movie, with a bunch of custom names for the cars, as well as the fictional Chicago, Burlington and Denver road name. Had them laser printed here in Canada by a custom producer that I have used before.
But have yard work to do so that project is waiting for time on my part.
Keep me posted on your progress!
I used a power tool for the roofs, as for polish I used mothers mag and aluminum polish. But for the sides I'm going to use old fashioned elbow grease. I may send it to you to do...just kidding...I'm having too much fun doing it myself. The results are stunning so far.
As I said, once you start seeing the results of the polishing, it motivates you to keep going. One of my sets took over 40 hours of hand polishing! But as you say, the results are stunning! Keep up the good work!