3D Printed Gears Didn't Work! I Found A Technique That DOES!
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- čas přidán 18. 12. 2023
- Customer Repair of a Gen 2 Bachmann GS-4 Southern Pacific. 3D gears kept breaking because they are too brittle. I found a way to fix these for dirt cheap. Also how to identify Gen 1's from Gen 2's
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I'd like to address some concerns regarding the 3D printed parts that Ron experienced issues with bought from eBay. Over the past 2-3 years, I've successfully sold around 300 of these parts, and it's worth noting that Ron's case is one of the very few - possibly only three - where problems have arisen. To assure Ron's community, I have already issued him a refund for the costs.
In response to this incident, I'm planning to implement minor modifications to enhance the durability and functionality of these parts. Interestingly, after incorporating the brass fittings, the measurement was precisely 2.14mm, aligning with the original design specifications. Moving forward, I intend to add a subtle taper to each axle. This adjustment aims to ensure a tighter fit for the wheelbase.
I encourage Ron and others who have faced similar issues to give the updated version a try once I get that completed, in the future. I'm committed to continual improvement and customer satisfaction. The whole reason my 3d printed parts exist is because I ran into the same scenario where I had all axels cracked on all sides. tried the shapeway version and instantly cracked. Please also keep in mind mfg. Torrences as we have seen they verry a lot.
Hello Dave, I'm going to pin this at the top of all the comments. I respect you and your open communication with all of this and I know you will build an excellent replacement part (s)
Happy holidays to you and yours, Ron. Thank you for sharing such a great repair with us. Sometimes ya gotta think outside the box. Ron
@@ronaldjoyce7374 M.C. to you and yours as well Ron!
Press fit plastic gears can be tricky, gear/room temp can be important. Usually made from Nylon which actually absorbs water. Boiling the Nylon in water makes them less brittle, a trick I used for Nylon model airplane propellers. Got some new Anycubic Tough resin which seems to act a bit like Nylon to try. The Brass Ferrules are a great idea, common on Wood Chisel etc to stop the wood from splitting. Lots of useful tips from this vid.
@@babbagebrassworks4278that's what I actually use the anycubic tough resin for most prints I have found a new resin that I'm going to try from sunlu pa-like resin aka nylon like and will be giving that a go to see how it holds up. To give a bit of spring to it
I enjoyed this video immensely. "The patience of a craftsman" should, you know, be a thing! Personally, I run O gauge trains, but after watching you at work, I will never again complain about working on O gauge again. I have subscribed, and I will be a regular viewer from now on! Again, great video!
Thank you for the new Sub and kind words :-)
What a ride. This video is nice and thorough, love to see locomotives that are labeled as dnr/parts being fixed back to working order
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great...ABSOLUTELY GREAT Video showing the great lengths we go through not to spend high dollars on manufacturing locomotives that only last about 4 years. I myself have completely gutted and rebuilding an MTH DCC GP38. It lasted only 4yrs, and MTH is OUT OF BUSINESS... When I'm done... New Motor, New DCC board, iPhone 4 speaker and LEDs to add for step and truck lights... But YES!
This video shows everyone what we do... And OMG, I have a few broken Bachmann Steamers from the 80s of eVile Bay..., I'm not gonna touch now...WOW what a headache to go through 😮
It was a lot, but in the end it's going to work for quite some time now. Sounds like you have a lot into your GP-38. Hope she pulls real good for ya :-)
I have a 30 year old Bachmann 0-6-0. I went through what you through with the gears and axles. All cracked plastic. I fixed it with a lot of creative work with hard plastic tubing. Thanks. Great job.
Thanks Mike
PLAIN & SIMPLE ....This video should be required watching for the Brass @ Bachmann, and anyone applying to work for them. Granted, their newer products have improved, but there are far more of their old steamers floating around in the condition Ron got these in... they become shelf queens, or parts locos, or just thrown out. Crazy impressive the determination he has to repair and complete these. It could not be more entertaining, and I've been inspired over the last year to dig into some of the old locos that I have to bring them back to life.
Happy Holidays to you Ron, and to the nearly 10,000 of my fellow veiwers.
Greetings, I suppose the brass would say "that's not our companies product. That was the owners before us and there legacy". or something like that. NOW....If someone would come to the plate and make the gear sets like they did on these and sell them as legacy parts. We can all wish for miracles. M.C. to you and yours as well :-)
I've got a 44 tonner and doodlebug (with dcc built-in) that can grind out the miles on the club's T-trak layout at shows.
This is the kinda stuff I like to do. Being raised on the farm, you have to make due with what you have. Repair things with what you have. That engine from what comes through on the video sounds really smooth and quiet. Merry Christmas Ron to you and your family. I hope you have a great holiday!
It was very quiet. I was shocked. Farmers can certainly "engineer" there way out of a lot of broken issues. M.C. to you and yours as well Sir!!
Good evening Ron, a nice shout out to your Bachmann cracked gear fix tonight on SMT Mainline channel. Take care, Jeff
Thanks Jeff for the heads up. I headed over to his channel and found the video. heard it and Gave him a thanks!!!
You are incredible your talents have no boundaries
Thanks Brent :-)
When I was able to do things a year ago before my strokes, I made a silicone mold to remake Athearn gears and spacers for the 0-6-0 steam engines from the 1960s. I made about a dozen of each for my brother in law to repair his engines. The looked and performed well once assembled in the engines. I used Smooth on products for the mold and the resin casting. I think the resin I used was Task 9 by name.
Well that's pretty cool to be resin casting stuff. A process I have no knowledge in. I should do some research :-)
@@classicmodeltrains I was lucky enough to be trained by a master model caster with a full shop of everything needed to be successful.
Curious, what material did you use for the gear material ?
@@dogbreath312 I think it was smooth on brand and maybe Task 8 product?
@@dogbreath312 the original Bachmann broken gear
That was amazing. Spectacular repair and one of the best videos I have watched on any model train video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm an O gauge guy Ron but really enjoy watching all your videos. Like to watch people who problem solve. Watched your Bachmann gen 1 gen 2 twice. Never know if I will have to make something for an O gauge item. Thanks
Thank you for your support Leon! I hope I get some more O stuff to work on.
That was an amazing piece of work fabricating the parts you needed and PATIENCE! Keep up the good work.
Thanks Richard :-)
In my opinion to this date this to me is probably one of the most valuable restoration videos that you've done repairing these bachman in cracking gears and drives on these locomotives I think it's incredible how you figured out to do this and I will one day be trying to repair a bachman that I've had sitting on the shelf as a display for a long time that just haven't been able to get it going and hopefully this brass sleeve will fix the problem Great video One of my favorites thank you Ron never settle find a way get er done
Thank you Lawrence!!
Thanks Ron you are like me, you never give, you find a way to overcome the problem. I've been doing the same thing myself for over 60 years so far. Keep pressing on. Thanks again my friend.😊
Thank you Chris!
Brilliant solution to the Bachmann curse. Thanks for sharing and have a great Christmas!
Thanks Paul, M.C. to you as well
What an amazing job and uncommon patience!
Thanks Alan. I really wanted to find a solution for these dang things :-)
Congratulations Ron for your very well done work! Your skills - as I already said before - are really amazing! You have transformed a very crappy model into a decent one, surpassing many extremely irritating difficulties (at least for me). I bow to you my friend!
Thank you Regis!
Fantastic job Ron on rebuilding those axles! Love your comedy!👍🚂💯🎄😊
Thank you T McG! trying to keep it interesting :-)
You are my savior
I have gone through 3 of these things with their gears cracked!
Glad to help out :-)
This is the by far the best repair channel on youtube. An absolutely incredible job. Love your channel, keep up the tremendous work. A very happy new year to you, from Ireland.
Very Kind of you!! Thank you from over here in Montana, USA. Happy new year to you as well :-)
This is In Time for me. My Botchmann GS4 broke the gear first run I used it. Now I know how you fix. Thanks!
Glad I could help Terrence :-)
This is Great! It is good to see a way to repair the cracked gears!!
Hope it saves a few out there David :-)
Nice fix brother !!!!! .I really like the tube stretch method to get what you need . Made in freaking China/Tiawan /Korea .Rebuilt right in the USA MAN!!! The makers of the junk replacement parts needs to be called out big time or the old fashioned way .Well you know. .Almost seems they made them and never took the time to actually test to see if they actually worked .. Thanks Man !
Thanks Adam. The second set I received, I was able to phone call and visit with the creator of the piece. Says he's sold over 500 of them and not had the problems I encountered. He was at a loss as to why I could not get his gears to fit on my axles. Merry Christmas to you and yours Sir!!
I do a lot of 3D printing and you have to use the right resins for the right job. Sometimes even mixing resins. And then you need to stress test the parts so you can be reasonably sure they will not fail. It's not as simple as just designing the part, printing it and then here you go. This is why I will not make these types of parts for sale. But I will take a loco and custom make parts. Fit them, test them and only if I'm successful, do I bill the person. And because this all takes time, I only do it for club members, friends and maybe... friends of friends.
I really enjoyed watching you tackle this job. Well done. But most important I think is for the people who ask others to do these repairs to watch these videos so they can see how difficult it can be. Maybe then they won't complain about the cost.
Thanks Roy. I like the way you think!!
I had to do something of the same with some MTH turbines. I replaced the gears with Athearn gears after I drilled them out and did sleeves like you did. They all work great now, just takes time to build the parts
Yup, Lots of time to make custom one offs. I'm surprised MTH didnt offer replacement parts
Mind blown Ron you're not a quitter! Sharp looking train and tender If I get my hands on one of these I know where to send it. Excellent video
Thank you! They are nice looking models for sure
I am glad that You managed to find out the solution. Nice trick with the brass tubing. :)
Thanks Tony :-)
Yes! Finally! Other people who make their own sleeves for Bachmann gears. Thank you!
Have you done this as well?
@@classicmodeltrains Oh yes, both N and HO models. I'm sure a lot of people independently had the same idea too. But for some reason I never seen to actually hear of anyone else doing it. Also works with those early Proto 2000 HO units that had similar cracked gear issues.
Another fantastic video Ron. I am always amazed by your fabrication skills. Thanks again for your videos. Between your channel and one other that I follow I have been able to maintain my fleet of Athearn Blue Box, Tyco, Mantua, Bachman, and Atlas. Most of which I would have never purchased if I had not learned how to maintain them. All are diesel and per your channel and the other I have been convinced I do not want to mess with steam engines 😊
Thank you. Glad to be able to help you out getting your fleet serviced and running well. Dont be afraid of steamers. There pretty much the same to work on just stay out of the valve gears and rods. Those can be a pain
Wow Ron you are awesome and did an amazing job on that locomotive and I know you got that thing running better than it ever did even brand new straight out of the box 👍
Thank you very much!
Love this guy,he's funny.keep up the good work.
thank you Daniel
Inventive use of sproooz! I have used them for repairs too. Could really feel your frustration - and impressed to no end by your perseverance and inventiveness. Thanks for all the tips on techniques and tools that help us all our repairs!
THANK YOU once again! Your are very kind!!
33%er here, 100% of the time! Great videos! Keep’em coming. 🚂💨
Thank you so much for your support Eric!!
Ron…Awesome video. Thanks for sharing! Happy Holidays and New Year 🎉
Thanks Chris!
Wow what a chore! If Bachmann had done that extra bit of reinforcement back when they were building these new they might have kept a good reputation. But the Bean Counters had to get involved I suspect and make more profits at the cost of many unhappy customers. Too bad. I have a version of that engine which is later gen2 or maybe Gen 3. It still works good, although it's spent most of it's life in a box. My Uncle has the Gen 2 version which all the spacers cracked, causing the frame to short out. He thought it was the motor so he threw it away. Now I have to find a motor, gear and probably spacers to fix for him. The smoke units worked pretty good before they burn out, a nice stream of smoke at speed. Also apparently that giant brass gear was supposed to act as a flywheel too. Thanks for another helpful video and Merry Christmas!
The bean counters can really "F" up what the engineers designed that's for sure. Thanks for watching and M.C. to you and yours as well :-)
After owning a Bachmann NYC Niagara back in the 90's, I'll never own another. But i love watching your videos just got you. The "juiceses" and all the other ways you make it fun, yet informative, keeps me watching. Keep up being you brother!
Thank you Danny :-)
Wow, from Canada also. And I have 2 of these in series 1. I have pulled out my last hair working on these, lol. I was so glad you made a video on your repair and fix...going to have to give this a try! Just became a 33% er about a month ago. Been playing catch up on your videos. Love them and learning from them. Keep up the good work and have a Merry Christmas.
Thank you for your Support of my channel. Hope you get a few new idea's along the way of watching the video's. M.C. to you and yours as well Sir!!
Ron, you are the engine that can. What perseverance! Well done and Merry Christmas to you too,.
Thanks Rick and M.C. to you as well :-)
Go Ron go....your ingenuity never ceases to amaze...
Thanks for the great comparison of the gen 1 and gen 2 locos...
It's a good observation that they changed the loco numbers from the gen 1 #4454 to the gen 2 #4446
Not to confuse things...but a quick search on the ebay showed that there is also a #4449 out there...
my GS4's are both gen1..1 still works fine...the other has zinc rot on the center set of drivers...least I know which used ones to keep an eye out for now...
Keep up the great vids...
Hope you and yours have a grand holiday and a Merry Christmas....
Rich...
Greetings Rich, Glad you enjoyed my video. M.C. to you and yours as well :-)
I just did the same repair on a Bachmann 44 tonner a couple of weeks ago. I still have one gear giving me fits. That might be a two beer project to get the last gear to work correctly. Have a merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you as well!!
Great video Ron love the brass fix
Thanks John 👍
The guy who offered those first set of gears through shapeways also offers gears for N scale bachmann trolleys. I was fixing a friends, he ordered the gears- same thing happened to me, I tried inserting a gear and it broke the instant I pressed it onto the axle. Axle holes weren't big enough! I figured if one gear broke, the others would probably break too, so instead I widened the holes in the gears until the axles slid into em, and then used a dab of CA to hold them in, which seemed to work out. They should really offer a buyer beware on those 3D printed gears!
It's always fun trying to make up something because you can't get the part you need. Used some K&S metal tubing, thin sheet brass, and some ball bearings salvaged from an old busted VCR to fix up an O gauge Lionel engine of mine that never ran because the bearings were shot. Runs like it's brand new now! It's an early MPC job where the bearings are just plastic, molded into the bottom of the motor truck and the brushplate on top, so there's no real seperate bearing to replace. Had to open the holes up and make my own!
If I would have started with that little file set I bought for this job I suppose I could have done the same thing and made it work. I just thought if the gears are this brittle will they break if I set the loco down bit rough? Sounds like you came up with a pretty good solution for that MPC. Quite the fabricator you are!!
Another job well done Ron! Wishing you and yours a merry Christmas and a happy new year!
Thank you Bob! Same for You and Yours as well :-)
Wow. I am really impressed. Great job. Merry Christmas
Thank you. M.C. too you as well!
That turned out really nice. Thanks for sharing. And Merry Christmas!
Thanks for watching and commenting John! M.C. to you as well :-)
Great video....Your sense of humor is so entertaining. You are a great craftsman.....
Steve...
Thank you Steve. Trying to bring some humor to the Model RR community ;-)
Great job on those, it is terrible that a company will not supply proper parts for the items they sell. Happy Holidays to your and yours!
Thank you! M.C. to you and yours as well :-)
Really enjoyed your vid Ron, thanks for the info on these locomotives, Merry Christmas 🎁🎄🎅🏻& a Happy New Year🎆🎇🥂
Glad you enjoyed it Jeff. M.C. to you as well :-)
This video just skyrocketed to the top of my favorite list!!
A video that gives ya somethin’ ta sink ya teeth into.
Glad you enjoyed it Jeb!
That you for making this video I was considering purchasing replacement gears from that person. Now I know what to actually do!
Thank for watching Alex :-)
I've never seen anyone fix a split frame Bachmann. That is the very reason I will never buy another Bachmann engine. Their rolling stock is okay but engines, they're a no go for me. Everyone says that Bachmann engines are good, but I've had to throw too many in the scrap bin after only 1 year of use. You thought through the problem and came up with a really good fix for split gears. I think that now it will last for a very long time. Brilliant idea using sleeves around the plastic. Maybe Bachmann needs to adopt your idea. Cheers from eastern TN & Merry Christmas
I won't buy them either.
Great video. You give me hope that I may be able to fix the gears on my Rapido Turbo Train. I will never buy another Rapido engine... I paid a lot for that when I purchase it only to have gears that split and when I contacted them i was told they have no replacement gears for it. So I figured all I had was an exspensive paper weight.
I hope Larry that you might be able to resurrect the ol gal. Too many paperweights in this hobby :-)
Enjoyed your video! Merry Christmas!
Thank you David! M.C. to you as well :-)
Merry Christmas! You are very talented.
Thank you and M.C. to you as well :-)
Great video Ron! Loved it! Maybe you remember, but I mentioned to you in one of my postings that I had a Lionel GS4. I was surprised just how cheap it was when I took a good look at it with the shell off. I didn't like the way it ran, and it look cheaply made. I figured I was buying quality Lionel. I didn't know it was actually a Bachmann. I was able to sell it though. I got rid of it and glad I did after watching your video. Love the way you fabricate and find ways to overcome with broken parts. Brass sleeves were brilliant. Even melting the sprues to fabricate those pins. Learned a lot! Thanks for the work you do to help us MRR'ers. Especially newbs like me. Merry Christmas!
Thank you Gary, M.C. to you also :-)
Great repair job Ron. Merry Christmas buddy.
Thanks, M.C. to you and yours as well :-)
Wow Ron. Excellent work and patience. I was starting to think it would be easier to find a less complicated motor assembly to put those (what I consider beautiful) engine shells on. But then again, keeping things original also has its benefits though
they may be a bit of a challenge.
Thank you Norm.
Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas Ron and Family🎄⛄🎄🍺🍻🎄🎅🎄🍻🍺🎄⛄🎄
Thanks for watching and M.C. to you and your as well :-)
thanks for your entertaining videos, you make them both fun and interesting! Merry Christmas to you! Warm Regards, Bob. 🎄🎅🎄
Thanks Bob, M.C. to you and Yours as well :-)
Wow! You really went all in on this one Ron! Great job thinking out of the box.Two thumbs up 👍👍 to you Sir! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Thank you Jason, yes I had to get the old brain cells working overtime on this fix. Merry Christmas to you and yours as well Sir :-)
Another excellent video! I have a few of these engines and I dread the day I have to do this major overhaul. It will be some time before I run any trains since we moved into a new house, but I will tag this video in my “saved” list. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Thanks SF Bob. Hope your new house has lots of room for the NEW LAYOUT WHOOP WHOOP!!
@@classicmodeltrains Thank you. The basement is the footprint of the whole house. 38 ft x 33 ft. I would love to fill every square inch with trains, but there will be a section for a sofa and TV so I can have people over.
Yeah I got fed up with trying to use parts designed and made by other people… never fit! I just do it myself now and have had great results with resin gears/mechanisms! I even managed to build an entire chassis and gear train out of resin. It’s great but resin doesn’t flex… so if the dimensions are off, the parts are no good! Great work coming up with another solution that works!
Thanks Sam! I really enjoy the work you do on your channel as well. I hope one day to have as many subs and views as you do Sir! Merry Christmas from over here in Montana, USA :-)
That was an excellent video Ron! You’re too funny trying to keep it clean. I was helping you fill in the gaps on my end. LOL Merry Christmas to You, and your Family. Enjoy your holiday! Tom
Thank you Tom! M.C. to you and yours as well :-)
Cool! Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas to you as well!
Great work Ron…amazing video, love the fabrication using the brass…without anyone to ‘engineer’ the repairs, the pieces would end up in a junk pile…well done…
Thank you!
Great video Ron and Merry Christmas Ron
Thanks William, M.C. to you as well :-)
Merry Christmas Ron! Freaking Awesome job on the G4!! All the best and happy new year too!
Thanks Erick!
Superb job, have a great x-mas
Thanks, you too David!
Wow Ron. I do a lot of repairs to some of my stuff, and funny that it seems to be just Bachman.They used that split chasis design on nearly all their stuff ,steam & deisel, back then.The steamers did not need the phospher bronze wipers to pick up current.They did change that around mid 2000s I think.to the wiper system. I was blown away with your determination, & thought process, to get the perfect results, especially wth this one. I thought, at the time, I hopng those drivers dont end up with a wobble, but NOT ON YOUR NELLY. Perfect just spot on.Wishing you all the best over the xmas period. Michael NZ
Thanks Michael!
I'm speechless. Bravo! Bully! Bully my good man! This video is a treasure of knowledge. Thank you!
I just love engineering things by the seat of my pants!
By the way, I have a Lionel GS4. It runs. But sounds like a rock tumbler.
Thank you so much. Here! Here! I need to get into one of those Gen ones and root around a bit.
"Merry Christmas Ron"
Hope you have a Great Holiday.
Enjoy your videos
Thanks B.G. and merry Christmas to you as well :-)
I enjoy watching you fix model trains. Thanks for making your videos. Many years ago Bowser-Trains used to make a rebuild kits for Bachmann trains. I remember they made a specific kit for repowering Bachmann Daylights. Perhaps you could find one on the secondary market, i.e. train shows, estate sales, e-bay. The bowser kits were made of mostly die-cast metal parts.
A few Fellers have mentioned this upgraded kit and it's rarity. Would be nice to score one or two :-)
Merry Christmas Ron!
New subscriber here! Fantastic vid! You were truely against all odds, yet your diligence paid off!!! Great job getting that steamer runnin' again! 👍👍
Hello Frank! Thank you for your kind words and another Sub!! I really appreciate it :-)
Beautiful job
Thanks Ed!
Thank you for this information. I really appreciate it. I have two Bachmanns one is the N&W 611. I'm putting a Bowser rebuild under that one. The other is the 806 Union Pacific which I'm going to try your fix on. I'm hoping that the brass will work the same on Gen 1 as they do on Gen 2. Happy Holidays Ron and wishing you the best.
You are welcome James, I hope you get your Gen 1 running again :-)
Great job Ron ! Have a Merry Christmas.
Thank you Albert, and M.C. to you as well :-)
@@classicmodeltrains by the way, I have the Niagara hidden somewhere in my collection, I remember it having something wrong with the steam chest or something, had to be glued. I might get it out and look at it sometime.
Impressive "Fab-it-U-Self" work !
Thank you
That was fantastic work. Good for you and your diligence to stick with the problem until solved. Hope you enjoyed your beers. Merry Xmas.
Thanks Jimbo! 4 more to go before im "out" (of beers that is) :-)
I've been doing 3D printed replacement aristocraft gears for a while.
it was a long process because I had to find the right resin for the job.
i HIGHLY recommend the Siraya Tech blu nylon-like resin. and then a little extra post-print curing than what you'd normally do.
Thanks for the good information on resin's Greg!
Rob as always I love your videos 😆
Thank you Frank!
Awesome job Ron! This is one reason I don't buy Bachmann steam locomotives (ironically, I haven't had much trouble from the few diesels I have from them), or I guess I should say, steam locomotives in general regardless of manufacturer. All that being said, I do have a GS-4 (early 2000s era) that apparently has suffered the same fate yours did, I might try that trick at some point and see if I can resurrect it, happy holidays!
Thanks Randall. M.C. to you as well :-)
Wish I had this kinda time and patience. My Bachmann 611 did the exact same thing and is now a static display.
If its a Gen 2 its worth it
Great video Ron I love your videos and Merry Christmas to you you're a patient man working with all that little stuff like that Merry Christmas young man
Thank you James! M.C. to you as well Sir!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
same to you as well :-)
Hi Ron, new subscriber. As someone who has worked for a while in a machine shop your skills are impressive. We can cut the gears to reset the teeth in a wood lathe, yep they do wear out after a while. In general we don't work on things as small as you do and you are obviously a very skilled person. By the way, a local hobby store had a now retired clerk who used to say that Bachmann would send out free replacements for any cracked gears. Strangely enough I have found messing that much with their older stuff to be worth the hassle. I tend to stick to lines that don't have cracked gears. Still, if I was going to get one would have to refer to your solution. Sheer genius. Cheers.
Thanks for the kind words and welcome aboard!! Sure the Brand "bachmann" has lifetime warranties that last only as long as the particular parent company owns the name Bachmann. Its been bought and sold so much in the last 40 years the warranties aren't worth the paper there printed on. P.S. Ive been a heavy truck and equipment mechanic for many years and always looked up to machine shop Fellers. You guys fix the stuff we broke while trying to fix it :-)
@@classicmodeltrainsYeah, I'm always amazed by how those things go. The gent I was mentioning was an employee as recently as a year ago he mentioned that with regard to the newer models. Personally I'll just stick with better brands, Kato being on of my favorites along with Atlas and a few others. I've had very good luck with Rivarossi equipment. Anyway, thanks for the welcome and I think have watched about 10 of your videos, please keep up the good work.
RGM
Great video and Merry Christmas
Thanks Joe!
that was great! fixing other people's mistakes and making a video all at once,take a break and Merry Christmas!
Thanks. I........HAVE......TO.......KEEP.....FEEDING....THE....ALGORITHM.......OVerloard.....no..rest..for me............ Merry christmas to you and yours as well :-)
Great job again
Thank you!!
Hey Ron, I have a Gen 1 Chessie 4-8-4 that I had bought replacement parts from a fellow named Otto back in 2015-16. They worked....for a bit. Now, that loco is back to being a shelf Queen because the gears broke. Imagine that. I must say the idea if "sleeving" the gears never crossed my mind. This repair ranks up there with the one I did on my Walther 90ft turntable. I bought bearings to carry the electric to the track instead of the crappy wiper/brass sleeves Walthers had
Hello Ray! Yes its unfortunate the lack of engineering that takes place with some of the stuff in this here hobby.
Good to know about this. Resin 3d printing is great for precise things, and there's various resins that behave differently. It seems both were too hard, which would be fine for models or detail parts. There are ABS like resins out there which would be softer.
I will keep your repair in mind as I'm the fix-it guy for my club and we have a Bachmann Niagara which the mechanism seems familiar to the gen 2.
I agree, if it was printed with something different it would be just fine :-)
Props bro, I’ve had to replace the motor/gear/flywheel and belt on my Spectrum Consolidation and I’ll bet I’ve had it apart probably 10 times to get it sorta together correct and now the headlight doesn’t work 🤦 . But honestly I like the engineering and completely understand why others don’t! I really want a Daylight FEF and cars.
Thanks Rick. I wouldn't mind a Daylight with cars, just another manufacturers offering.
Merry Christmas in advance Ron. Excellent video! All my Bachmann Steamers are Shelf Queens. I think you should market the brass sleeves idea for split gears as this is a common problem for not only cruddy Bachmann wheel arrangements but also Proto 2000 and unfortunately sometimes even Athearn gears. Carry on and keep up the good work.
Thank you and M.C. to you as well :-)
Well done on the repair ron great job merry Xmas and a prosperous new year to you and your family from uk
Thank you Peter. Same for you and yours :-)
Merry Christmas Ron
Same to you Sir!!
Thank You Ron
Thanks William for watching :-)
Ron you are a genius with model trains you know how to fix them like ment condition
Thanks Bnsfrailroader :-)
@@classicmodeltrains marry Christmas Ron
Thanks for the idea. I have a Lionel version type one that I tried the printed gears from the same guy you used the second time and had the same problem. I will try the brass rings with the old split gears and hopefully will get it working again. Great video!
Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!
Glad to help out Paul! M.C. to you as well :-)
@@classicmodeltrains Thank you and a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you also!!
Wow... Well, I'm pushing buttons and clicking a mouse to support your channel. The time you spent reengineering those axle gears... Wow... I'd like to win the fight some day... and then sell the action. Priceless effort on your part. Good job, sir. John
Thanks for your support John :-)
Ron, you are a true craftsman. Re-Built from scratch... You should be selling those gear kits you designed, instead of the fellows hawking the garbage resin ones produced by those 3rd party 3D printing companies that left you holding the bag!👜! 🌟🌟🌟Merry Christmas to you and the little lady! 🎄🎄🎄
Thanks Frank, Merry Christmas to you as well :-)