Hi all,
a little late on this, but I was working on the broken helix gear axle ( lift motor) on the MiJack I bought a few months ago . I live in the Netherlands so no lionel parts on the corner or anywhere.
I removed the helix gear from the axle and slid a ( G-scale) LGB 62007 idler gear on it and stuck it with super glue. This gear is made to run just free on a 3mm axle.
The LGB gear has angled tooth especially for worm gears , is very strong and much heavier that that tiny lionel gear. You only have to cut away a little plastic in the gear case to make room for the wider gear. It runs very smooth and strong now.
Link to the lgb gears:
http://www.amazon.com/Lgb-6200...e-Gear/dp/B000AXFRVO
As for the traverse , the motor only makes a few turns to move it left to right so it will always go too fast.
I removed the big motor and single gears , and put in a smaller motor with dubble and much smaller gears from a cheap 12 V transmission kit so the motor runs faster and the traverse runs slower.
Not so difficult to do because the motor sits on a lose plastic shield inside the traverse box. This part does not need heavy drives , it only moves left-right.
So now to work , on the other parts....
What I do not have is the controller box. No problem, I will make one. The only thing is, I don't know all the values of all the resistors.
Does anyone know them from his own controller ?
It would be a great help.
thanks,
fred
0-scale-nederland