old Rivarossi engines and large flanges

[NW Modeling List]

Gentlemen
Thanks for the replies and information.
I did find the older MRR articles online.
useful data.
Eric Raitch
Gainesville, Va

On 2020-08-21 10:44, NW Modeling List wrote:
> Rick,
> There was an article in MR back in the day about this.
> 
> Jimmy Lisle
> 
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> Subject: Re: old Rivarossi engines and large flanges
> 
> I have seen this done by replacing the drivers on the Y6b with the
> next
> largest diameter Rivarossi drivers which I think were from the B&O
> 2-10-2.
> The replacement drivers had their flanges turned down. Because the
> Rivarossi drivers were undersized in diameter (due to oversize
> flanges), the
> diameter of the replaced drivers looked right. This was done by
> Courtney
> Bennington of Winchester, VA. He had the tooling and the skills to do
> it.
> Downside was that the Y6b sat too high above the rails, especially
> looking
> at the pilot. This was in the 1970's when you could buy all the driver
> 
> assemblies you needed for not much money. I remember Gilbert's in
> Gettysburg having a large stock of Rivarossi AHM parts.
> 
> --Rick Morrison
> 
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>> Gentlemen:
>> 
>> Has anyone attempted to change out the Large Flange Drives on old
>> Rivarossi engines like the 70's Y6b or Berkshire?
>> Eric Raitch
>> Gainesville, Va
>> 
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