De Snitzlton - Part 1 :

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De Snitzlton - Part 1 : I've been working on a small 0:4:0 shunting locomotive for Fun Town's market stall's. I decided early on to design a new locomotive drawing inspiration from the transverse cylinder engine "Albion" and a small shunting loco De Winton. To make things even more interesting, the loco would be operated with DCC and include a DCC uncoupler with an animated  operator and also, other as yet undetermined animations to be added as the project progressed. The project starts with a  compensating chassis machined from solid brass featuring the same flexichas system as developed for the Flexichas Motor Bogies blog.  Work then turns to body and reasonable progress is made before switching to the steam assisted uncoupler gearbox. The gearbox has been a real challenge for me and there are major issues yet to be resolved. To speed things along, I searched  the bay for small motor's / gearbox solutions, chose a candidate and then purchased 6 units. First off was to determine  whether the motor / gearbox unit was useful for model railways and then determine whether the gears were of any use for the  'steam assisted uncoupler' gearbox.

During this project, I was reminded numerous times by JFK's famous moon speech : We choose to make these gears, not  because they are easy, but because they were hard. 

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