Dear Geoff,
Are you talking about the newer track powered JS passenger cars, or would the old “Golden Classics Limited Edition” cars (with battery powered interior lights) from the mid-1990’s do?
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik
Joe Satnik said:
Dear Geoff,Are you talking about the newer track powered JS passenger cars, or would the old “Golden Classics Limited Edition” cars (with battery powered interior lights) from the mid-1990’s do?
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik
Hi Joe.
Eather one would do. But they need to be the SPC ones. I belive they are a cream color car. I got a SPC 2-8-0 from Barry and love the colors so much I now have two more SPC that I am going to have him put drives in. I just need to come up with the SPC passinger cars now. My Yellow and Black D&RG will not work real well with the SPC colors on the loco and I’m not up for a repaint job.
Geoff,
I’m off to Christmas Eve & Day (Over the river and through the woods) I’ll get back to you on late Saturday with photos (by email?)
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik
Geoff,
Got a reply from J. Lynch; he will be scouring Bachmann to see if there are any cars there.
Send me a couple of your SPC loco pics, I can forward to him.
Barry - BBT
Barry Olsen said:
There are six complete drives and eight ready for the final assembly. Hopefully, I will have all of those ready for Monday. Of the 43 who listed with me28 of you have placed orders. Half will be shipped to on Monday. I will begin the next group for completion after that, that will mean all of the list will have been shipped in the next couple of weeks.
Barry - BBT
Barry,
Update please.
When can I expect mine?
Thanks,
jb
Barry is going to have a bussy winter. I just dropped off 4 Locos to him. Few morre years and the hole fleet will all be Annies with BBT drives.
Love having locos that run.
thanks Barry
The plans were not met, no Gearboxes shipped yesterday. Had commercial interruptions this last weekend.
Have to make up for it now. John, you will be in the batch after this one.
Barry - BBT
All:
Finished four GBs yesterday, one failed test. Shipped three this morning.
Cole, Doti and Konrad
Have to rebuild the fourth unit and finish four more over the weekend.
Barry - BBT
“Finished”, three gearboxes with motors yesterday. Amperage draw within tolerance, but too noisy. Have to work on them some more.
Finished another one today, all checked, will be on it’s way in the morning to Joe Hall.
Barry - BBT
Sounds like your staying very busy Barry.
Shipped this morning:
Bobbie Allen, Allen Pomeroy.
John Bouck, those items above are nos. 12 & 13, you are #24. You should be in the next batch, guess a couple of weeks, I will update that later.
Have two more “noisy boxes” to resolve.
Geoff, yes very busy. Have a bunch of “regular” business to do also (you included).
Barry - BBT
no rush on my stuff. not yet anyway. get the other guys there stuff and take some time to unwind. don’t get bruned out. But then again you did this to yourself by making something that works and works right.
thanks Barry
Geoff,
Thanks, I think.
Two more for tomorrow: Ted Nordin, and Randy Roderick.
This is the end of the first Production batch. The next batch will of 10 or 12 units and will start this weekend.
I have some “normal” business to finish.
I will keep you advised.
Barry - BBT
14 & 15 for tomorrow.
Only 8 more and then me!
Woo-hoo! 
John hold back that excitement!!! LOL
Hello,
have not heard of anyone having done an install yet, so i thought i would post my experiences. i have the smaller axle so i didnt have to do any extensive polishing. i did chuck the axle up in my lathe and remove the straight knurl on the axle. assemble with the gear centered between the two axle flats, followed by the bearings. one thing to do is mark the notes on the template on the part you cut out for the opening in the bottom of the boiler. somehow i managed to get it reversed and then had to cut out even more of the bottom of the boiler. doesn’t look bad thought. as you need to replace the rear weight, you might wish to source a pound or so of stick on wheel weights. i found them on ebay but were in larger lots than i wished to purchase, so i will check out the tire shops to see if they will sell me what i need. overall great instructions. the only improvements i see would be the template for the cutout, and for the novice a better explanation of the balancing process.
Allen,
Good comments. Allen also sent me an improved drawing for the cut out template. I will be updating the current drawing with Allen’s.
There will be more on the loco balancing as soon as we have enough experience with it, but it helped in the smaller scales, it should be a bigger help for us.
Check the Auto supply stores for the stick on weights, also.
Barry - BBT
Had a call from one of the kit recipients with a problem. I have not encountered the problem and have made corrections so it will not re-occur.
He was test running the converted chassis for some time when he noticed it was no longer running smoothly.
In his examination he noticed the lower short shaft had worked its way out of the gearbox bearing. We have exchanged e-mails and have talked about this
including some of my suggestions. It seems that the flat I put on the short shaft was actually tapered, not flat. So even as he tightened the set screw it wasn’t grabbing well enough
to stay in place. He corrected the flat and is now happy (so far).
I was working two batches of shafts today, both the short and the longer shaft. I have changed my technique in how the flats are ground. No longer tapered.
I would appreciate any observations on this topic.
Barry - BBT
I pulled the Connie I have to fit the gearbox into today from the pacakaging it came in.
Thats all so far.
This has to be one of the longest lived threads ever. Started Sept 28, 2008.