Mamod/mss wheels Repair or replace

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Mamod/mss wheels Repair or replace

Post by Sir Clothem Cap » Sun Nov 14, 2010 2:53 pm

I have had to replace the wheels on two of my SL1 mamods due to them comming loose on the axles and ruining the timing of the quartering.

1, Is there any way of beefing up the connection between the wheels and axle that will prevent loose wheel syndrome?

2, Is there away to reset the loose wheels on the axles so I can reuse them?

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Post by Sir Clothem Cap » Sun Nov 14, 2010 5:56 pm

Keith&Joanna wrote:1: quartering relates to the orientation of the two drivers on the axle...which have to be at 90 degree separation. The quartering allows one cylinder to be in expansion, providing tractive effort, while the other cylinder is ready to receive steam from the injector

2: loctite  ;)
Quartering on mamods is only about 45 degrees difference 90 would cause it to stall. Have a look at any mamod to see.

Sir haydn

Post by Sir haydn » Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:11 pm

my mamod is 90 degrees quartering
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Narrow Minded

Post by Narrow Minded » Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:13 pm

Mine are 90 degrees also :D

EDIT; RHS Leading.

DLRdan

Post by DLRdan » Sun Nov 14, 2010 7:34 pm

All Mamods and MSS have the quartering 90 degrees apart, hence the name. If you have the wheels out it is possible to drill and pin the wheels to the axels.

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Post by Sir Clothem Cap » Sun Nov 14, 2010 8:23 pm

Whoops you are all right, I was mistaking 45 degrees for 90 :oops:  

drilling and pining the axles seems to be the way forward
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Crackingjob

Post by Crackingjob » Mon Nov 15, 2010 5:15 pm

get new wheels and loctite the old ones and use on a truck

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Post by Sir Clothem Cap » Tue Nov 16, 2010 8:06 pm

Good plan I'll do that!

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Post by DLRdan » Tue Nov 16, 2010 8:55 pm

Or you could always use them for a certain forum loco.....

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Post by Sir Clothem Cap » Wed Nov 17, 2010 8:07 pm

DLRdan wrote:Or you could always use them for a certain forum loco.....

Which loco would that be?

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