ip engineering gear box

[Big Jim]

I have just acquired an ip Jessica kit. It is lacking it's motor and wheels.

I see ip still do a motor and gearbox set but I am rather tempted to go down the route of bevel gears and an elliptical gear box and motor combo. What are peoples thoughts on the matter before I spend the wife's housekeeping money?

[MDLR]

Don't buy the IP Engineering one - words like "chocolate" and "teapot" come to mind! There is a motor/gearbox unit (whose name escapes me) which comes highly recommended for this use.............

[ge_rik]

I have just acquired an ip Jessica kit. It is lacking it's motor and wheels.

I see ip still do a motor and gearbox set but I am rather tempted to go down the route of bevel gears and an elliptical gear box and motor combo. What are peoples thoughts on the matter before I spend the wife's housekeeping money?

Hi Big Jim
I'm not familiar with the Jessica kit but I have built a Jessie (no longer available). Now it might be because I make excessive demands on my rolling stock but I got through two IP Engineering gearboxes and a tailor-made gearbox (which also failed) before eventually sitting everything on a USA Trains motor block. I assume this latter option is not available to you if you are modelling in SM32 v SM45.

There's an account of my build of Jessie + my trials and tribulations with her gearbox(es) on my blog
http://riksrailway.blogspot.co.uk/2014/ ... my-ip.html

I've also used an MFA motor/gearbox and bevel gear combination to replace another failed IP Engineering gearbox on my kitbashed railbus - see the tail-end of this posting
http://riksrailway.blogspot.co.uk/2012/ ... m-two.html

Hope there's something helpful in these

Rik

[MDLR]

The Coma motor / gearbox combination was what I was talking about!

[Big Jim]

Thanks every one. I think the coma motor is the way to go. With a decent sized battery pack.

The next thing to do is work out how to assemble the body without screws all over the place. I am quite temped to weld the majority together. The steel is quite thick and I have a decent mig that should be gentle enough.