Mantua/Tyco Parts

Hello all...

Does anyone know where I can find vintage Mantua/Tyco parts?

I inherited some of my father's engines and rolling stock from the 50's and am trying to restore them, but i need to get parts.

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Loren Griffith
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Loren=A0Griffith wrote: Does anyone know where I can find vintage Mantua/Tyco parts? I inherited some of my father's engines and rolling stock from the 50's and am trying to restore them, but i need to get parts.

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Bill

Model Power bought (some of) the Tyco/Mantua dies, etc, but AFAIK, pretty well all the left over parts were trashed.

I think you'd be better off looking for people willing sell/trade their locos, etc, and hope you get usable parts off them. Unfortunately, the parts you want are almost certain to be the parts that broke easily, so the odds are against you - but it's always worth a try, eh? Try want-ad in MR and RMC classifieds for a few months, and see what you get. IIRC there is a Tyco/Mantua collectors' group on yahoo or aol, so take a look there, too (and google on "tyco mantua parts", too. I google everything nowadays - it's amazing the range of information people have put on their websites!)

You didn't say whether you want like-original state, aesthetic restoration only, or working locomotives and rolling stock. The 50s Mantua locos were good, average product at the time, but IMO need new motors to make them run as well as modern locos do, and they need a lot more detail. In fact, at the time enough people wanted to upgrade them (and similar locos from other mfrs) that a thriving after-market in motors, gears, and detail parts developed. Similar remarks apply to rolling stock.

I suggest your next post indicate what parts you're looking for. You never know what people have stashed in their srapboxes. :-)

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Wolf Kirchmeir

The early Manuta stuff (the locos with the seperate gearbox instead of the worm on the end of the motor shaft) were indeed more hobby orientated for that era. Those locos also ran a fair bit slower than the later locos did. One of the first things done to make them more toy train like was to regear them for higher speeds and this is marked by the Tyco motor and the worm on the end of the motor shaft.

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