Over a year ago Regner announced that they were producing a Class A Climax in three styles: Vertical boiler, straight boiler and T boiler. Being a huge fan of the Climax I placed an order fr one. Thetime had finalley come and Regner finally shipped the Class A Climax. When Jay called and told me it was in I decided to take a ride and pick it up rather then wait till tuesday for the mail.

Regner always packs their parts well and tight so nothing rattles. After unwrapping all the parts I checked everything and so far so good. The only problem I see so far is the directions are in German. Apperently they have not done an English version yet. This might cause a bit of a challenge but at least I have pictures to go by. I love pictures.

Box

All the parts

Motor

Step 1

The first step is putting the two trucks to tegether. Below are all the parts required. A few of the wooden parts have to be glued. and the rest are just screwed on.

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Looking good Shawn, all you need is pictures anyway. I just built the Max and know problem. Thay have great pics. Good luck my buddy.(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-sealed.gif)

I managed to get the trucks together. Overall it was fairly easy. The only problem I ran into was one side of the wood pieces with the grooves (see below) should have been glued after everything was assembled. The two T looking pieces with two larger eye looking holes are glued onto that metal flat bar. One should be glued after everything is assembled otherwise you cant slip the axles on with the side truck frame. Im sure it is clear in the directions but I can read German grrrrrrrr…

The springs were a challenge but I found threading some string through the springs prevents the springs from flying across the room.

One thing I found is only one axle per truck is geared.

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The easy fix to my problem was to cut out the notches on the bottom piece (see picture below) The wood piece below the two springs have natches that go against the truck frame. (See two photos comparing cut piece vs uncute). Doing the cut has no effect on anything as long as the other side is not cut. Eventually I will glue a piece to replace what was cut. Because its wood its easy to repair or replace.

Bottom piece not cut

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Bottom piece cut so it can slide through frame

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Completed trucks

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So far so good.

That looks like a fun project Shawn! My first engine was an Aster climax from a kit! Had to have something to pull my lgb bobber!

Wow, Great winter project Shawn. Regner makes nice stuff. I just bought one of their Lubricators that look like and air pump from Jason. Not a word of English came with it. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif)I’ll be checking in on your progress often. I’m guessing your not going anywhere this snowy weekend, so more time for the work shop!

Will you be bringing this to ECLSTS to run? (I know you will have it done by then!)

Vincent D’Agostino said:

Will you be bringing this to ECLSTS to run? (I know you will have it done by then!)

Hope he does, I’d like to see it.

Thanks guys. It should be done in time for York. I will definently be brining it with me.

Looking great Shawn, but I think you have a little bit of a gauge issue here

I believe that’s auto adjusting John!

Hahaha Im trying see if I want to guage it for ho track or G scale.

I just thought that some people didn’t believe in standards…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)

Looking great, Shawn. Promise you’ll put plenty of stuff on Youtube, right?

BTW, for the longest time - like more than thirty years - we have been badgering Regner to provide instructions in the language spoken by the vast majority of folks who buy these models. It’s OK for those of us who speak German, but it seems that it’s quite rare in the USA. If you get any problems, give me or H-J a call.

tac

Ottawa Valley GRS

Shawn - this video is from the 2013 Llanfair show - you might have a problem watching it, or not.

Give it a go -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yz699JEokY

tac

Ottawa Valley GRS

Thanks again guys. Tac thanks for the video. Havent see that one. I like the speed. Once the layout is up and running Ill have plenty of videos, cant wait.

I made more progress over the weekend. I manged to get the deck and frame together. It was fairly easy assemblimg the deck and the braces for the motor. As long as you study the pictues and pay attention to what way everything faces.

Parts layed out

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All the pieces glued and clamp together

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Once everyting was dried I bolted the motor to the frame. This was a simple task that requires 6 bolts.

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The truck brackets and trucks were then added as well as the drive shaft.

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while connecting the drive shafts I noticed the back shaft was too long, not allowing the truck to go straight. After looking everything over and making sure I didnt miss anything (because all holes are predrilled its ard to be off on the placement of things) I decided that I had to cut some of the shaft to shorten it. It was an easy task using my dremal and a file. AFter putting the shaft back together I was able to swing the trucks around with nothing getting tight.

Below is the shaft. The truck could not swing anymore

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Drive shaft cut. Now it can swing freely. It has no effect on the dia curve. Like the shay the shaft does not pull out of sleeve very much.

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The next step is putting the boiler together and mounting it. Below are the parts required

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Great pics there, Shawn. I’m really looking forward to seeing it in action on YT. The price here in yUK put me off, I’m sorry to say, else we’d be in a race to 'get ‘er done’.

tac

Ottawa Valley GRS

[I’m sure I posted this earlier today - maybe Bob went back to a prior saved backup?* *Come to think of it - someone posted a comment about the 2 supervisors and 1 worker. I did post it earlier and they got ‘lost’]

Shawn,

Great thread. I take it the gearbox works - looks like there is a lever to change gear? How about a close-up to show us how?

I’ve been thinking of getting a Class A Climax for a long time. . .

Thanks guys.

Pete I didnt even know that you can change the gear ratio on the motor until I took the motor out of the box. I didnt see anything in the specs either. I think its a really cool feature to have. and be neat to see what the difference will be. Ill try to get a picture later tonight or tomorrow morning.