O scale drivers!!!!!

Try Pacific Locomotive Works, he has a number of exquisite driver castings and if he does not have what you want, he'll make it for you.

Pacific Locomotive Works

Baldwin Forge and Machine can put the tires on for you.  See his ad in the magazine for his number.

TT

TNT53

Thank you very much,ill try PLW.

Best regards

Ohj38

Pacific Locomotive Works drivers will be exquisite and so will the price. Check out Stevenson Preservation Lines (http://stevensonpreservationlines.com/). Bob has drivers of all sizes, with and without tires, and with various counterweight designs. He also has a large variety of lost wax castings.

If you purchase driver centers, I can machine tires insulated for two rail.  I have done thousands of driver tires over the last five years, mostly on three rail to two rail conversions.  Machining drivers from unmachined castings takes more time than converting 3 rail drivers as the crankpin holes have to be drilled precisely on the same offset from the driver center and the axle holes must also be drilled and reamed to your axle size.  If you are looking for drivers mounted on axles, before anything is done, if you cannot do the assembly work in your shop, you will have to determine frame width of loco, bearing style, gearbox etc. so that the drivers can be assembled in quarter with the bearings and worm gear on the axles.

Joe Foehrkolb

Baldwin Forge & Machine

Gentlemen

Thank you for your input, most apriciated, there is a gye in the NY area who is

a fantastic custombuilder, but you have to deliver the drivers.

Since i do WM an would like a H-7 60" drivers, and a H-8 50" drivers and a K-2 69"

drivers, none of that sizes is easy to get.

I think that maybe the brass importers has been blind, and lost some good income. 

No matter what i will gladly come back to you mr.Foehrkolb, i am shure i will need

your services.

Best regards

OHJ38

Try Walsall Model industries in England.  I have used  many many  sets of drivers.  Unless you are a spoke counter, I believe you will be satisfies.  Remember tho, they are  1:43, so a little  arithmetic is needed to convert diameters.  They have several axle diameters, and  will make them  for  NMRA Standard or  P:48.  Ask for British Fine scale treads

You can Google them  for  e-addy

Ed R

Pacific Locomotive works has turned over all his patterns to Stevenson Preservations Lines almost 2 years ago. You can have them done in either brass or bronwhite. I had Joe Foehrkolb install a set on a Pacific a while back. They are quite nice.

Tom Mapes

I had not heard that.  That is excellent news.  I had thought that a PLW  driver was of the order of $400 for the first pattern.

I tried Walsall, but they must have seen me coming.  I ordered just a couple of samples and the price convinced me I should stick to what was available on the used market.

Look for a beat- up Pearce 0-8-0 for the smaller drivers.  These can be had for around a hundred bucks if you are careful, and maybe you could use the leftover pieces on other projects?

For some very nice, insulated, self quartering wheels, try Slaters Plastikard https://slatersplastikard.com/

Look for the seventh bullet point down; "A huge range of Locomotive, Coach and Wagon Wheels in O Gauge, Gauge 1, 7mm, 1:32 and 16mm Narrow Gauge and 5 inch Gauge" and follow the links to '7mm scale' and 'locomotive driving wheels'.  The range of sizes for O-gauge is indeed huge, although I really wish they had pictures of every wheel so the potential buyer can tell if it resembles what they are after.  They do list what British prototype the wheels are for, so I guess you can always search for photos of the locomotives to get some idea of what the wheels look like.

I think their prices are pretty good, just shy of sixteen pounds for two wheels and square-ended axle.

I have purchased from them before, and their service is excellent.  If you have any questions, they are usually quite prompt to reply.  They will even manufacture wheels to order - so long as you purchase a minimum quantity of 100 sets!

Regards, Paul, Whangarei NZ