Removing Trucks From Trix H12-44

[peteski]

I checked it and it's a Mashima 9x16 motor.

Marc

Thanks Marc. If I have one of those I'll have to look at it closely. I don't recall the magnets looking like they do in those photos.

[Doug G.]

It's a real early Mashima from when they still patterned all of their motors after the Mehanos.



Doug

[peteski]

It's a real early Mashima from when they still patterned all of their motors after the Mehanos.


Doug

Interesting.  The only Mehano motors I've encountered had 2 magnets placed perpendicular to the motor shaft on one end of the motor.

[Doug G.]

Oh yeah. OK, how about mid seventies RoCos?



Doug

[peteski]

Oh yeah. OK, how about mid seventies RoCos?



Doug

Are you just fishing for a motor now Doug?   

I'll have to take your word for it as I don't think I have any of those models currently in my stash and I don't remember what the motor looked like.  I only have the Con-Cor/Roco RDCs and some European locos from the 80s and 90s. Those have different motors.

But with Mashima's reputation for excellence I am really surprised that they would be copying someone one else's design.  What that looks like to me is that the standard dark-colored ceramic magnets (with a curved surface) were replaced by a pair of small and flat rare-earth light color magnets.  That is why I was asking for some more details on the motor.  But since no magnet modifications were mentioned, maybe Mashima did make a strange looking motor like that one.

[Doug G.]

I'm just kidding around and my RoCo suggestion was just an attempted cover up for my embarrassing, temporary lapse concerning the construction of Mehano motors after having many years of experience with them and writing about them. I really wasn't seriously trying to imply that Mashima copied any other design.

OK, back to the subject of this thread: The handrails on this loco don't look as bad in real life, even on the bright orange Milwaukee unit, as they do in photographs.

Doug