Williams Niagara Oiler Linkage Repair - Help Needed

The "pin" should be the rivet, which was inserted from through the valve gear (not "oiler") rods and peened from the backside. The "ring" was the end of that valve rod. I believe it is the combination lever or linkage.

Some of this Williams valve gear may be available on eBay; if not, others may be adapted. MTH and Lionel Niagara (or other locos) valve parts should be very similar, of course, as they all modeled the same prototypes. Small rivets may be on eBay (look outside the model RR listings, also). I made a rivet from a small brass screw many years ago.

Those links are riveted on. You’ll have carefully grind away the peened section of the rivet to get to the broken piece of your combination lever that’s busted. You can sometimes harvest the rivet for re-use if you’re careful & plan your attempt. You can try soldering it back together, but need to find the root cause of the failure first. If unsuccessful, but you can get the link off and measure the length of the link, I may have a link suitable for repair. Need to put the rod together as best can be, and measure center of hole to center of hole. MM’s works best for this measurement,….

Pat

As D500 and Harmonyards stated you might be able to use a Lionel or MTH part that being the whole assembly. If you have any other Niagaras or Hudsons measure the lengths of the various rods. You may find one very close. Too long is OK as you can cut and redrill. Too short is not OK.

I was able to repair a 3rd Rail Hudson using Lionel parts.

Pete

Thanks much, gentlemen.

I'll have to set this one aside for a while till some higher priorities are managed.

Looks as if it's going to take some dedicated time and patience to address.