Looking for Railking RS-285PH Motor

John,

 What is the actual MTH motor number?

Chuck, that's all I can read on the label.  It came out of a RailKing 0-8-0 locomotive.  I try to get a product number.

Do you have a caliper to measure the gear? I might have one.maybe some pic's too 

It sounds like BE-0000099. I'm sure I have one in stock. I will verify tomorrow.

That appears to be a Mabuchi number. The most common motors used by most of the manufacturers is the RS 385PH. Many types of gears might be installed on this motor.

Best bet is try and get one from MTH for that particular engine. If that doesn't work you will have try and find a motor and swap gears. Not as easy as it might appear as they are a very tight fit and its easy to bend the shaft. BTDT.

Pete

"RS-385PH"...that's the same motor I got for my doodlebug un-dummy{need the geared truck now}. Now you got me wondering if that's the same gearing....oh,oh. 

The gear is .270" in diameter, the length of the threads is .550", the total length of the gear is 1.020, and the gear pitch appears to be .08" for each rev. 

Sadly, the gear is off the shaft, so I don't know what the distance from the motor end was, what I have is sort of a basket case of crushed motor, gear, and flywheel.

I haven't heard back on the exact product number of the locomotive.  The appearance was very similar to the Railking 30-1313-1, but I don't know if that's the actual number.  Reading about the BE-0000099, the size of the gear does seem really close.

How did he crush the motor...wish you would've said something, my park flyer gear puller might have done the job better...at least for the gear.

John, what's the chances of that 0-8-0 being the same motor as my MTH 0-8-0...I could measure the gear offset from the motor...I'll look mine up today and see...

Not exactly sure as it doesn't give full specs, but mine has a BE-0000016 motor..no gear specs nor actual motor # given.{my engine is 30-1123-1/problematic proto1 board} 

...side note, what is it with mth that nearly every part number has to have 5 zeros in it?

John, The motor in the pic below was purchased from Lionel. I had to remove the gear that was on it to install the gear from the small motor next to it. I will ty and find that gear and see it it matches your description.  

BTW I didn't see an RS 285 listed at the Mabuchi web site. What is the shaft diameter of that motor?

Pete

Originally Posted by Burlington Route:

...side note, what is it with mth that nearly every part number has to have 5 zeros in it?

Planning for expansion?    

Originally Posted by Burlington Route:

How did he crush the motor...wish you would've said something, my park flyer gear puller might have done the job better...at least for the gear.
John, what's the chances of that 0-8-0 being the same motor as my MTH 0-8-0...I could measure the gear offset from the motor...I'll look mine up today and see...

Apparently in the press trying to put the flywheel back on.

A- that's being very optomistic

B- ouch!

I'm a big fan of vices-

-smoking

-drinking

-women

-trains/toys

...and the ones you can carefully push things back together with... 

The label is partially obscured, so the 2 may be a 3, that part is just a black smear.  I thought it looked more like a 2.  The shaft is .09" in diameter.  Hard to know how long it was, the top of the motor is caved in so it's probably longer now.

John,

 I have the complete motor assembly with gear and flywheel and tach stripe. 25.00 + 7.00 priority mail.

I'll run it by the guy with the engine.

I pretty sure it is a 385.  Again that designation is the manufacture of the motor number that tells you the size of the motor, length, winding and poles.  There is actually another 4 numbers that would include voltage and speed, torque rating.

MTH uses a 2 letter and 7 number part number for O.  HO has picked up a few more digits.

The normal can motors are the 365 for RK, 385 for Premier and some steam, and 545 for some steam.  Need MTH number to get the right gear and right style flywheel.

The BE-99 is the correct number for the RK 0-8-0:

Haven't heard anything back from the guy with the locomotive yet.

When you get that other number...my motor is the RS-385PH/RD479924.

If I can't use for my doodlebug truck maybe your friend can use it..same I paid.