Good grief Sam, all you needed to do is bridge pins 1 to 8 and 4 to 5 on the socket with a bit of single core wire or even a bit of paper clip that fits in the socket holes.
Good video Sam! I had exactly the same issue as you as I bought a Oxford Radial extremely cheap that was completely dead but by bypassing the circuit board it was brought back to life and still works great to this day!
Great show again Sam, and perfectly timed after supper with a coffee here. A DCC socket blanking plate causing a short. How interesting an odd at the same time... Can't remember ever having seen that. How could that be happening 🤔 Anyway, another one saved. Cheerio.
I probably would have used jumpers in the 8-pin plug instead of stretching the motor wires to the pickups personally, but well done nevertheless. It would have been a shame if this one couldn't be salvaged considering how good it looked aesthetically to begin with.
Wow Sam, great to see another salvage or scrap episode! I also wanted to say that when I was looking in a local WHSmiths I found the latest railway modeller magazine, with your incredible 3d printed Gladstone! Really well done Sam!
Very nice video. Thank you for more excellent information. I have an Oxford Adams Radial in my Hattons trunk. They are such beautiful models that I bought one anyway, knowing they can be trouble and hoping that the troubleshooting and repairs on your channel will help me through any hiccups. Now for the broken record part: please stop using the time limit as it does not add anything useful for those of us who want to see all the repair steps and details.
While I admit I’m not really into British/European styled locomotives, this is a rather handsome little steamer. I’m glad you got it working again, though I have to say that I’ve never seen the DCC adapter plug go bad before. Not that it’s safe from the scrapper’s torch, maybe you can go back and fix it so it is DCC ready. 😊
Sam I try to save as many locomotives and rolling stock as possible I received a 1856 revell electric model train locomotive and the motor was bad I couldn't buy just the pack motor because revell went out of business in the 70s I had an old. Bachman alco locomotive I got for parts low and behold the motor were almost the same thing I just changed the motor out the only. Problem I ran into how the new motor had to be mounted. On the frame I drilled two new mounting holes and it running on the layout today this was 12 years ago
It's great to see you dealing with a recent engine with a well-known issue (and a model I had bought myself too, before changing it for the Hornby model via Hattons' !). And you have a tough one with this one, on a electrical point of view, but with a simple solution ! and suspense too ! Lesson of the day : don't put your model engines in a deep fryer !
For a second, I thought it would be kinda funny to put a perfectly functional loco in one of these videos. I suppose it wouldn't be all that entertaining, but imagine ya apply power and "Oh... well, I guess that's job done! Thanks for watching!"
Not really surprised to see an Oxford product on this series, to be honest you could get a whole series out of just trying to restore their poor products especially the locomotives, good to see it this restored though Sam although to be honest it still looks like it has problems when it was running at the end.
i swear one day Sam is going to get a loco he brought off the ebay site that doesnt run yet when he opens it up the reason is that the motor was removed!
An Oxford Radial with a reasonable motor. That is fairly unusual although not unheard of. The problem with the blanking plate was most revealing. Well done.
Great Rescue of a lovely loco Sam. I wonder though, have you since done your magic by adjusting the front pony and rear bogie springs so that there is more weight pressing the driving wheels down on the track? I made those adjustments myself, to my own Adams radial Tank engine and although it isn't a massive puller of rolling stock it did approve its pulling power significantly.
I think its quite sad that oxford made these lovery models but used terrible motors on then, I wish they woul do something like they id with their dean goods, re release it with an actually decent mechanism. I doubt that will happen tho, as hornby already has a adams radial and they are oxford's parent company. Anyway, great video Sam!
Yes more salvage and scrap transformation let's go. I'm still jealous of ur talent to fix trains. Anyway keep being awesome my friend my train arrived and I'll make that video for u
Thank you!! haha that's very kind of you - I bet you could do this too with practice! That's awesome - I'd love to see it :D Thanks for watching, Sam :)
Amazing video Sam I love this series. How do you clean your locos bodies? My locos have been out of action for a while now, and their bodies are quite dusty.
I have a challenge for you. A model diesel engine has stalled halfway up the incline. Nothing you do will make the diesel move. Can you solve the problem with sneeze power? Sneeze as hard as you can, and see if it makes the box on wheels move. If a real sneeze doesn't come, fake it.
@@SamsTrains Could have then bought another blanking plate for the other loco later - they're peanuts. As it is, the Radial now needs serious work to be right.
As you have discovered the problem is not the motor. And there's a reason the DCC banking plug burns out and gets hot. It's the ridiculous brass/sprung plungers. They arc, overheat and fail. WD40 should be sprayed liberally into them before you run it. Spares seem to be unavailable. Utter shite. Unfortunately your fix means that you only have power from the driving wheels.
Ah yes, the tragic case of the Oxford Adams Radial. Gorgeous model plagued with the worst motors and lubricant I've had to deal with Is there any way you can release the 3d printer files for the motor bracket you designed a while back? I'd love to be able to fix up my model.
@@SamsTrains there's a file on your thingiverse for an Oxford Dean Goods bracket, but it isn't stated whether it fits on the Adams or not. I also believe that in the last video you did with 2 Adams Radials you said you needed a 2nd bracket of a slightly different size, and that one definitely hasn't been released
@@GelatoTaco I can confidently say it won't work with the Radial. I'm actually in the process of developing an upgrade kit for them using the same 1020 coreless motor found in the OR76DG002 and newer models.
It would be a great shame to see such a lovely model go to the scrap man and all because of a DCC blanking plate short, I am really pleased that you managed to get it sorted out in your time limit. Personally I don’t care how long it would take it would not go in my scrap bin ! 👍🚂😃
This week, on Salvage or Scrap, Sam has a certain amount of time to restore an Oxford Rail Adams Radial Tank! Can he do it, or will the engine be fed to the *SCRAP MAN*? Find out this week, on yet another exciting episode of Salvage Or Scrap!
I appreciate the concept, but chafe at the time limit. Your parameter should be base unit quality and value. A plastic'y garbage power unit should merit a trip to the tip. A quality engine should take as long as needed. There is nothing more pride inducing than going all in on a deserving fix. Instant sentimentality.
The 6 and 8 pin sockets are easily fixed without one you just need to connect the correct pairs of holes with a single core wire or a piece off small paper clip that fit the holes. Other more modern sockets are not so easy as they use fine pin plugs that can’t be bridged with such basic methods. In this loco it would have been pins 1 to 8 at one end of the socket and pins 4 to 5 at the other.
