mickoo
Western Thunderer
Steph,Mick,
Those motors look like the old Maerklin HO motor. There are ways round the problem and I'm tempted to suggest looking to see what those nice people at SBModellbau can do in terms of a drop-in. I've got a couple of HO-scale locos with SB motor kits and they run superbly.
In principle though, yes; it's crying out for a more 'scale' drive system. I'm far from certain, but are the bits and pieces I do any help in that regard?
Steph
Yes, your bits are exactly what I have in mind for an authentic V100, V160, V200 drive system, they'd certainly fit the more modern drive trains seen in recent models of the V100, as seen in this Marklin upgrade Umbau Märklin V 100.10 und V 100.20 in Etappen - Spur 1 Eigenbau - Spur 1 Gemeinschaftsforum and I thought that was what I was going to get to be honest
I'll be looking at 3/16" axles with roller bearings and new wheels set up, but it'll be the transfer box between the tanks that takes the drive up through the body that will need some thinking about when I get there.
To fit your gear in here will require whole new inner bogies and some serious metal work between the fuel tanks to make it all work. I'm happy to do all that with the etched project as I can build it up to suit that drive. The time taken to convert this model would be better spent on the art work for the etch project, at worse I can simply shift over the current engine body onto my more 'engineered' frame and bogies. There's a lot of water to pass under that bridge once the W1 is on it's way .
Thanks for the tip off on SBM'bau I'll give them a look, they could be HO motors, they're small enough to fit in a HO model....just.