--- In STMFC@..., Denny Anspach <danspach@...> wrote:
Replacing wheels in CV trucks is pretty straight forward, but perhaps not a straight forward as one might wish. I have replaced CV wheels with Reboxx and some ball bearing wheels in perhaps 30 or so truck pairs over the years. I have had a very few distintegrate as Jack Burgess describes, but to a surprisingly low number, given their age and composition. I suspect that he received his cache of trucks from a single bad batch.
Because of casting variations (or inherent variations in the casting patterns), the best wheel set pairs can vary, even within one single truck. The other "odd man out" is that George Hook, who founded CV had his own ideas about bearing holes, and they are of a steeper angle than the time honored industry standard of about 15ยบ. Nevertheless, replacing the wheels can be very rewarding, and you can end up with a fine running truck.
Now, regrettably, although I have converted a number of the CV archbars, for reasons mysterious to me, I have never recorded on THIS computer just what the ideal Reboxx replacements were, and how they performed. I believe that the data may be at home (I am at the moment fully sated with a heavenly Crayfish Etoufee dinner consumed in a slightly raffish Savannah, GA waterfront restaurant. Sorry, fellas).
Now, I am getting out my Speedo, my muscle shirts, and my stick-on tattoos so that I can arrive in style at Cocoa Beach tomorrow.
Denny
Denny S. Anspach MD Sacramento
Make sure nobody gets any pictures of Denny please! <G> I'd rather watch a last of it's kind steam era freight car (mandatory content) get torched than see any man in a speedo!
