Hard-wiring a DCC decoder in a Bachmann Collett Goods | Modelling a GWR branch line | Episode 10

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A new locomotive has been added to the fleet - a Bachmann 2251 Collett Goods 0-6-0 in GWR green. It's not DCC-ready, so I had to hard-wire a DCC decoder into it. I chose to use a Train-O-Matic Lokommander II Mini, which I installed in the tender.
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0:00 Introduction
0:17 Unboxing
3:59 Taking apart the engine
5:10 Taking apart the tender
5:54 Installing the DCC chip
9:11 First run
9:39 End result and running in

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30 июл 2024

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Комментарии : 12

@colinmeredith7114 7 месяцев назад

The Bachmann Class 2251 loco' & tender is a very old model and overdue for an upgrade!! I have nine of these models, one of which has just had a complete strip-down and rebuild. Several tips...Don't over oil especially where the oil can get into the motor via the rear axle. A lot of people think they have to add pick-ups to every axle and every wheel. With the class 2251 you can improve the running qualities greatly by running two wires and pick-ups to the rear-axle wheels only of the tender as this is all that is needed...it connects the two front loco' wheels with the rear-most wheels of the tender and increases the pick-up length. A continuity test between the front loco' wheels and the rear tender axle wheels on both sides to confirm.

@Deltic1951 23 дня назад

A very interesting, useful and informative video. Thank you.

@neilharbott8394 Год назад

Nice install - you even have the option of adding pickups to the tender wheels, with seemingly little grief.

@timpatton007 Год назад

Excellent video, I really enjoyed it and will have a go myself.

@rongoodwin4053 Год назад

Tidy little job, thanks for sharing.

@nicholasbishop3300 Год назад

Nice job Great outcome Nick Australia

@dannyvanstraelen3273 Год назад

If I'm not mistaken this Collett Goods model was taken over by Bachmann from Mainline. They did some retooling what the motor concerns but for the rest it seems the same. I made my Mainline DCC. I don't know how yours is constructed but with the mainline there is a screw on the underside of the boiler that loosens the wait that is in there. I took that our, and cut a slot in it with an iron saw and smoothen it with a file, so it fitted the decoder. Anyway good job done👍 I have not met a loco that I couldn't turn into DCC, the worst ones thou, are the old Bachmann ones, with the split big Blok chassis where the motor pickups are direct connected to the chassis. You need to machine the chassis block in order to isolate the motor from the block, but it can be done…

@FrontingtonandBackwoodsRailway Год назад

Yes, that weight is removable, but as I don't have the right tools to machine it down I had to come up with a different solution. It does also put the DCC chip in a better position to be able to install pickups in the tender one day, if I need to, and keeps the weight over the driving wheels. But yes, there's more than one way to do it!