Tuning up a super rare Lindsay 8-wheel drive Globe F7 chassis
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Here's one I've never seen before! Sent to me for some tune-up work is this Globe F7 with a Lindsay power chassis. Unlike the more common kit with a single motor truck and rear weight block, this is a complete chassis with a large central motor, flywheel and 8-wheel drive system! The overall quality is above anything else I've seen from the mid-50's too! I wonder just how rare these are?
That is a rare Lindsay model. It was made in limited production for coin operated layouts in amusement stores in the late 40's. I have a collection of every engine he produced.
You were smart, not to take apart that motor. It has small pressed in ball bearings in the end castings and with out the proper tools the end castings could brake. The instructions that come with the motors say they will run hot but not to exceed 2 amps. I hope this is helpful to you.
Thanks! That does explain why I couldn’t find it in any of the old catalogs!
Wow!
What do you mean coin operated layouts?? That people would deposit coins to see a layout run for a minute or two ???wondering what that means.
@@gacj2010 That’s exactly it. I’ve heard of a few department stores having them back in the day.
@@gacj2010 Yup, you put in a coin and the layout starts up! I actually ran across one of those a few years ago in Deadwood, SD. Put in a dollar and the layout with all its trains and other accessories powers up for 10 minutes!
The 50'S the way they used to make them! here in the U.S.A. with pride!
Yeah, not many of them left around here!
@@DarthSantaFe Thanks for answering my reply.
Is a new one to me too. That apparent cooling fan at the flywheel is a thing I had thought about one time way back when but never expected anyone would actually do that.
Never heard of that name ...... Looks like a lot of engineering went into this design ..
Only Darth could figure this one out
They haven't been around for over 50 years now, but they were one of the most innovative manufacturers of their day. I used a pair of smaller Lindsay power trucks in my bullet train project a couple years back.
Super. What a chassis. I love that fan. If you had a metal body and some extra weight, you could pull a mile long train with no issues. 💙 T.E.N.
I only recently discovered the Lindsay coil spring universal. I picked up a Barr-Nixon H10-44 that had a Lindsay drive with that spring universal on it. Like everyone else, I've never seen the drive you worked on before. Fascinating!
That is cool. I've not seen that Lindsay chassis either. I've got a couple of the 6 axle alcos with Lindsay drives. Lindsay drives are cool and very nice for the time they were made. Great video I enjoy your videos.
You get some really fun projects to play with. That's definitely a mechanism I've not seen before. For that era it's pretty advanced. The fan and flywheel are a nice touch. When's the last time you saw a cooling fan on a model train motor?
Those truck gearboxes look very familiar, I think I actually have a brand new pair of those that came in an estate sale box of vintage mechanism parts. They're extremely nice especially if they're as old as the model you just tuned up.
I have a box of Lindsay/Kemtron parts and some unstarted kits in TT and Hon3, mostly the TT Docksider and Hon3 Teakettle 0-4-0. The little seven pole motors are pretty interesting. They do draw a lot of current as you indicate.
Great video, love to see it when folks can get theses old mechanisms running again. 💗
Thank you for sharing.👍
Lindsay on their way to make the most jacked buff tank of an f7 for no reason:
Another great video - thanks
More good work on an interesting model. No rubber bands for Lindsay! I would guess the cost of this quality of chassis made the models expensive and, so, rare.
That motor looks like it belongs in a power drill.
You could draw a rectangular reference frame on your desktop to keep you within the camera’s field of vision.
Great Work.
Great you got it running right - that shell needs to hit the junk pile though.
Good thing there are a million of those shells out there! That’s up to the model’s owner though.
OH man , you got that baby running...
It needs a complete refurbishment, it's historical.
Most of the chassis parts are fortunately original and not modified, so that’ll help with retaining some value!
Need a video on you fixing up the body on this train.
If I'm not mistaken, the crew details actually predate that of Bachmann Spectrum locomotives
Also, the drawbar is for a B-unit the locomotive would've been paired with
@@Benthetrainkid That is possible! I'd forgotten that Globe also had the B unit at the same time. Crew details have been around for much longer than Bachmann's line of trains, so I wouldn't be surprised if they're nearly as old as the rest of the model.
That is a first-generation Russian nuclear submarine drive 1/87 scale. Great power output. High Danger.
That motor i could use in my athearn GP7/9.
[thank, you for youre video]👍
Very nice chassis! any idea how many were produced? Cheers and thanks for the video.
I wish I knew! Even their most common motors are rare items, so one like this could be in the range of only dozens.
1) Were the twin lights both headlights or a headlight and a signal (Mars/Gyra) lights?
2) Uncle John's passenger F's were geared for 102 mph
The shell was definitely a single headlight version which had a second “headlight” drilled below it. Since it’s an ATSF unit, my guess would be gyra light on top and a steady light below.
What year did Athearn take over Lindsay?
Athearn didn’t take over Lindsay, but Kemtron did some time in the mid 50’s. When Kemtron closed down, the Lindsay tooling mostly went to Precision Scale, and the diecast bodies went to Hobbytown. The motors and gears haven’t been made in 50 years, but most of the other parts are still in production.
@@DarthSantaFe Thank you for your reply.
Looks like something made in the former Soviet Union during The Cold War....