Weaver Chassis parts

Your pics didn’t come through buddy, & it sounds like you got a mess on your hands, so we’ll need to see what you’ve got so we can steer you in a direction…..

Pat

Reads like a marriage of inconvenience.....but as noted, pictures that we can see might get you some help.

If you have a brass chassis, you can get a NWSL gear box.

@harmonyards posted:

Your pics didn’t come through buddy, & it sounds like you got a mess on your hands, so we’ll need to see what you’ve got so we can steer you in a direction…..

Pat

I do not know why the pictures did not come through.  I will try to attach them to this reply. 

Is there a Weaver name plate on the bottom?…..flip it over and take a picture,….

Pat

@harmonyards posted:

Is there a Weaver name plate on the bottom?…..flip it over and take a picture,….

Pat

Here is the picture of the Weaver name plate on the bottom.

Is there a hold down plate that you can take off to get the drivers out?

MTH purchased a fair amount of tooling from Weaver as Mr. Wolf worked for Weaver prior to starting MTH.  I suspect like many early MTH models that have a Weaver heritage the parts may be interchangeable.  I know this is the case with the GG1s as I have used MTH parts to restore Weaver ones.  I am speculating on the steam locomotives.

It looks like a late Weaver diecast 4-6-2 chassis, not brass.  Weaver and K-Line made USRA Pacifics that are reported to have nearly identical mechanisms.

^^Bob beat me to it.  This chassis is die-cast, imported from China circa 2003?  K-Line sold the 3-rail versions, and Weaver the otherwise-identical 2-rail versions.  Unfortunately this design doesn't have a "bottom plate", removable drivers, or a separate gearbox.  It's made like a typical 3-rail O gauge train.  It also inherited K-Line's bizzare arrangement of a small motor leaning FORWARD into the boiler (rather than in the firebox where there's plenty of room for a larger motor.)  The motor had a worm gear pressed directly onto its shaft, and a mounting plate that screws into the chassis with no obvious provisions for adjusting the gear mesh.  Unless you find an original-issue donor motor complete with the worm gear, you're gonna have a tough time getting this running.

I'm not a fan of that chassis and motor combo even when it's complete.  If this lot came to me, I think would sell both pieces separately for what they are and try again.

As stated by above. This chassis is an oddity. It has captured axles, so installing an entire new gear box would be a daunting task. That chassis may use the same motor & motor mount as the Kline 3 rail Pacific from around the same time period. Finding that would be another daunting challenge……I wonder if that chassis would accept the motor & mount from the Kline Hudson, if you could clean that gear up, and get a tooth count, we could compare notes. I have motor & mounts for the Kline Hudsons.

Pat

K-Line and some others used the same shell for their USRA Mikados and Pacifics. If wheel arrangement is not important you may have more luck finding a K-Line or Lionel USRA Mikado chassis. In any case I am not sure it makes economic sense given all the other parts needed to make this engine whole again.

Pete