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Les
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 Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 11:41 am Post subject: Meccano wind up motors and booklet. |
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I won a Bowman M175 off ebay and also included with were these.
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 11:51 am Post subject: |
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It also had this nice little tin full of nuts and bolts and some small clips and other parts. 
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Les
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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The surprise in the box was this booklet which was never even mentioned in the listing.
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| Nice items! Did you get the key to wind up the No.1 (the big one)? If so, does it make loud clicks when you wind it, or is it the 'silent wind' type? Either way it's a nice motor! |
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Les
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| Steve_S wrote: | | Nice items! Did you get the key to wind up the No.1 (the big one)? If so, does it make loud clicks when you wind it, or is it the 'silent wind' type? Either way it's a nice motor! |
Sorry but there was not a key with it so I am not even sure it works properly, but I tried winding by hand and found out it would reverse as well as go forwards.
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if you ever want to get rid of 1 of them clockwork motors let me know as Im quite interested in building an engine around 1.
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Steve_S
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Les Marsh wrote: | | ... but I tried winding by hand and found out it would reverse as well as go forwards. |
Yes, the post war No.1 has a reversing lever. The previous model No.1 didn't reverse, but the 1A and 2 did. The only thing that can go wrong with them, apart from worn cogs, is that the end of the main spring sometimes snaps off. That's fixable though, I've done it a couple of times. |
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I used to have a bunch of Marx Locomotives and that spring trick was a common and fairly easy repair. I bought a lot of them cheap because the clockwork was "broken" only to do a quick and easy repair. There are all kinds of items that one can use in place of a key, it just takes some imagination.
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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Just go to your next clockmaker.
They always have a bunch of wind up keys.
You can get one very cheap, and if you take the motor with you he can give you one that will fit exactly.
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Les
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| Steve_S wrote: | | Nice items! Did you get the key to wind up the No.1 (the big one)? If so, does it make loud clicks when you wind it, or is it the 'silent wind' type? Either way it's a nice motor! |
I managed to get a key and it winds up with loud clicks. And the motor works in both forwards and reverse.
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| That's good. The loud-clicky type is more common than the silent-wind version. It's a good motor and quite powerful... they sometimes get used for garden railway locomotives. |
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