1:35 EIMCO 401-216 "Whistling Pig"

[Bernhard]

The rear axle bearings are spring-loaded.

[finescalerr]

Impressive. -- Russ

[Bill Gill]

Bernhard, I did think you would probably install a sound decoder with all the detailed work you were doing to build the model. Partly the question was being silly. I could imagine you with a microphone leaning over a boiling tea kettle trying to record the whistle noise to upload into the decoder, and then taking a further flight of fancy, imagine the model really running on compressed air rather than an electric motor.

[Barney]

Very very impressive and to get so much inside the little critter its beyond me !
Barney

[Ray Dunakin]

Awesome!

[nalmeida]

Great work Bernhard

[Barney]

Bill - I presume it makes a "hissing sound"
Barney

[Bill Corser]

Lovely work, Bernhard. I built an Eimco loco in 1:22.5 scale some years ago - sold it on a while back, but still miss it!





Bill

[finescalerr]

I just signed Bill into the forum. -- Russ

[Marty J]

Really nice work Bernhard and Bill. 
In addition to Tim's plan, I also posted a manual on the locomotive that shows a number of useful details about the drive train.
The direct link to manual is http://www.narrowgaugechaos.com/RPC/Material/Locomotives/Eimco/EimcoIndex.htm
Regards
Marty

[Ray Dunakin]

I built an Eimco loco in 1:22.5 scale some years ago - sold it on a while back, but still miss it!

Awesome!!

[Bernhard]

Thanks all for your interest.

Lawton:
The compressed air whistle of the critter really sounds like the whistle of a woodchuck. We have these animals too, but they live in the mountains above the forest line.

Bill Gill:
I will remember the idea with the tea kettle perhaps for another project. In fact, I extracted the sound for the "Whistling Pig" from various videos. I will report about it later in more detail.

Barney:
Thanks for bringing me in here! And after seeing some of your posts I can only say: no false modesty.


Bill Corser:
During my internet research at the time I came across your post in the GnATTERbox forum. Great work! The new owner must be a happy man.



Marty:
This manual is really worth its weight in gold. Especially the spare parts catalogue, which shows many parts inside, which you don't see in other photos.
I wish there would be more such documents for my other projects.

[Bernhard]

And here we go again.

The trolley
The trolley consists of two parts, between which the gear is mounted. The gearwheels have a module of 0.3 mm.

[Bernhard]

The critter is driven by a Maxon motor (Swiss quality!) with a diameter of 12 mm.

[Bernhard]

The finished trolley with motor, flywheel and current collectors.