I really love the simplicity and ease of servicing ringfield motors. Certainly don't make it as easy to service locomotives these days. One thing I'd recommend when servicing ringfields, take out the wheels that connect to the gears on the motor and spray some contact cleaner down the holes the axles go through and give them a clean with a pipe cleaner or something similar. Cheers
Pleased to see you got it working. Great work. Another Class 47 to see running around on the next live session. Glad to see the McVities Bread Van runs well too.
Thanks Tim! Haha yes, although I don’t think this one stands up very well against the new Bachmann one. I couldn’t resist the opportunity to the McVities Van though! Thanks for watching 😃
Now aged 52 I serviced all of my Hornby trains from my childhood last year.All of them are now running perfectly after replacing motors and brushes.As you said the key is clean contacts and that Is what you don't know about when your a child.I remember trying to fix them ! Good video , keep them all coming.RRD
Enjoyable video. Thanks! I'm guessing a cross-connected wire from the pick-ups on the non powered bogie causing a short circuit was the key issue preventing running. Disconnecting those wires and applying power direct to the connections on the motor is the best way to tell, if you don't have a meter.
No it literally just needed a really good clean all over. It was showing brief signs of life initially but just not enough to get it running. If it had been a short circuit the controller would have cut out and in some ways it would have been an easier problem to diagnose. Thanks for watching 😃
Enjoyed seeing you bring this one back to life well done. Yes please enjoy watching locomotives getting fixed always learn from this kind of video. Look forward to seeing this one many times. GOD BLESS 🚂💖🚂💖🚂💖
Glad you enjoyed it Lois, yeah it’s very satisfying to get a loco working again. I’ll have to have a look at repairing some more old locos in the future. Thanks for watching😃
Repair videos are very much of interest, the problem with some of them is the way things are described/spoken one in particular puts my little boy to sleep but yours was very different and the way you present your videos is better than most too
That's really great to hear Nick! I do try to keep my videos entertaining even when it's less flashy topic like this. I figure that people are more likely to enjoy and understand it when the video is more engaging. Thanks for watching 😃
I don’t think so otherwise it would have shorted out the controller. I think it was all just really dirty having been sat in a box for several years. Thanks for watching 😃
It’s a beauty for nothing more than the Colour which simply Hornby can not come close to recreating. What I did and briefly mentioned on my channel was TUT TUT nabbed the headhsell and slipped it onto a new chassis. Mmm yes captain Dremmel had to make a few modifications but on a 70’s series Hornby we can be safe in thinking the warranty may have expired. I’m not a big one on weathering the locos I love seeing them straight out of the Hornby 1980 catalogue as I frequently keep cross referencing in my vids. Always well produced content keep it going.
Cool, yeah I think one of the good things about these older models is that they are great for projects where you want to do something drastic. Cutting up a brand new super detail mode on the other hand takes a bit more nerve 😆 Thanks for watching 👍
Well, that proved to be a worthwhile exercise! 😎 I did wonder if maybe the intermittent twitching was something to do with the magnets not being full strength but twitching tends to be where a connection is momentarily lost rather than a consistent under powering 🤔 Might be worth just testing the motor directly with power just to make sure it’s not a family with the flow of electricity between the wire and the brush 🤷🏻♂️ Lovely old model though. Glad to see it running 🤓👍🍀🍻
It's amazing how much of a difference giving everything a very quick clean and service can make and in this instance it's got a non-working loco running again. I'm sure if I wanted to go really in-depth with it there's all sorts of things I could do to get it working even better but I figured giving it a quick service was nice and simple. Thanks for watching 😃
Yes that’s what I thought too. It’s tempting to do because you want the wheels to turn freely but I think you’re right in that the oil would act as an insulator. It may well be that’s why this loco wasn’t working in the first place because it had been over oiled. Thanks for watching 😃
I've seen some of his videos and it's great the way he's able to service and repair locos. I didn't want anything specifically before making this video though, I just took the Class 47 apart and had a go at cleaning things up. Thanks for watching 😃
