Locomotive ID?

John, You may have to send picture to MTH to get right part.  I repaired a 4-4-2 Standard gauge with a striped gear.   It used a set screw.  The part number was EG-0000021.  This was a PS-2 3V engine.  G

John, chances might be that the same part has been carried on to current production.  With luck, Chris Lonero might see this as he has many of those locomotives.  You might get lucky by asking Jeff if you could send it to him.

Hi John did you check with dad to see if we have that part.

 I had that same 400. I had it running around the cealing in my office for years.

I had to replace the gear on mine from pulling 15 cars around all the time.

Harry, your dad handed me the locomotive, and the motor, I assumed if he had the gear I'd have gotten that too.  I'll give him a call.

Marty, I'll reach out to Chris and maybe he has some insight.  For all of these locomotives on the MTH site, I'm surprised they don't have the one with PS/1 listed.  Since they want an actual product number on the parts order site, I wanted to get the right product number.

These things are easy to repair, not so easy to find the parts.

John,

I think if you come close with any number of the same locomotive you should get lucky with the ZZ order.  Take a look at 10-1058.

Marty, that's my "fall-back" position.   I wanted to have an actual product number, but this locomotive with PS/1 seems to be MIA on the website.  I had to go back and look at the boards again to make sure I wasn't seeing things, but it really is PS/1.   The 10-1058 does look like the same one just in different paint and trim, so it's a good bet.

It's really odd they have a parts breakdown, but they don't show the parts for the gearbox, probably the ones that take the most abuse. 

John, I have been thru this with MTH on several tinplate both standard and O.  The type of motor (build a loco, or the other standard) is more important than the model number.

I would not ZZ-1 this.  Send the picture to Jeff and Deb, or get on the phone.

It sure looks like the one I provided a part number for.  That one WAS NOT a build a Loco motor.   G

Is this it? 1999 Volume 2, page 67.

400E

That may be it, it doesn't say ProtoSound, but the manual has PS/1 in it.  I talked to MTH and we figured out which gear it is, and I have two on order.  That way we'll have a spare, since the brass gear is the one that gets trashed first. 

Incidentally, the ZZ option didn't work anyway!  I used a valid number and described the part, and when I went to add that part to the order it insisted on me searching for a part number!   That's when I just went with the phone call.

John, that is very frustrating.  

Weird, did you use 6 zeros?  It has worked for me.  G

I think the site was just being ornery, in any case I hope the parts are on the way.  It was good I talked to someone, they knew right away what part I needed, apparently they die pretty regularly.  I ordered two of them, so we'll have a spare in the store for the next time.

Was it the number I provided?

George, the order hasn't been processed yet, so I can't reprint it.  I just typed in the number he gave me and it came up.  However, I'm pretty sure it didn't start with EG, so it may have been a different gear.  I'll look on Monday when they process the orders so I can see the processed orders.

If you go to the new order view it should have the part number you ordered sitting in the Que..  Once processed it shows up in the previous order list.

I didn't realize they were still sitting there until they processed them, good to know.  Turns out that part was the one you mentioned, hope it's the right one.   This one has a screw that goes through the gear, the shaft is threaded.

Sounds correct.  Lucky it was that one, some O tin plate used a press gear, that was fun changing out.  G

The press gear would be really fun, the shaft goes through the sides of the motor frame.  How in the world would you get it out of there?

Since the order is still sitting there, I added some stuff to it.   I do remember now they mentioned that during the turbo parts order entry session, but I didn't remember until you mentioned it.  We covered a lot of ground in a short time, hard to remember it all. 

My other orders were picked up pretty quickly and appeared on the processed side, that's what fooled me.

Pin punch and a appropriately sized socket.

Well, the screwdriver was much easier.