Williams Hudson

Phooey on the tach. Install a Cruise Commander from Electric Railroad. It needs no tach whatsoever and it works great. It really tames the high speed Hudson beast.

Uhhh, I'm not sure that would work if I'm installing protosound 2.

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make your own

.....Oh yeah. Thanks Greg!

Cleartrack, Gregg isn't kidding. It is done and there are many threads on the forum addressing that subject.  But first question is what is the diameter, in millimeters, of your flywheel?

 

As to mounting a tach reader, when I upgraded Weaver steam switcher, which had a very small flywheel, I was able to epoxy the tach reader bracket to the motor shell.  You might be able to do the same thing, with appropriate shims.

 

Ralph,  What did you do for tach tape on those brass weavers.  The Flywheel is about 22-23mm, or did you expand it?  G

GGG, I don't know if you're talking to me (I'm not Ralph), since the Weaver I did was brass and had a 22mm flywheel.  I just used the 27mm tape and I live with the speed being off.  Making the tape shorter while keeping the same number of stripes resulted in a the loco flying---reader couldn't read it.  Another thread somewhere says this has changed since I did my conversion.

Hi GGG I did a Weaver Royal Hudson(brass) with a really small fly - wheel between the motor and drive train . I had to make a bracket for the reader .  I used the largest tape that came with the upgrade kit, (just the opposite of what I though I should use) and the engine is a great runner,  very smooth. Since I wasn't thinking of double heading this engine I didn't worry about the scale miles per hour.  It's still running.

RJR, I wasnt joking either. That is indeed a good idea. Also, the diameter of this flywheel is greater than that of the largest tape.

You can take the tape images and enlarge them in a graphics application and print one that's the proper length.

The next question is what do I use for a smoke unit?

Sorry, Thought you were Ralph.  G

I would use MTH if you need to purchase one anyway.  Already set up to work with PS-2.  G

Hudson is finished and runs like a charm. Needless, to say, my father was quite excited when he went into the tree room to run his engines. He had quite the surprise when he applied power