Trying To Sort Out The Poor Running Tri-ang Hornby X04 Motor From The Maroon R.871 Coronation Loco 

Followed this to sort the X04 in my Britannia. Train runs very well now, thanks for the video. very helpful.

Thanks for sharing, I'm having trouble with an X04 motor, this video will help me, hopefully a fix, J

Very interesting and insightful. Your knowledge and skill demonstrated in the video, helps keep these motors in the hands of others performing.

Fantastic result Mr S. shows what the X.04 is capable of following maintenance in the right hands: silent and pulling 200mA

It is so nice to see some proper servicing on a motor.. With such good results too? Thanks for sharing

Another excellent and informative video, the deep clean and re soldering, worked a treat and a really impressive loco

If it’s been over oiled for a long time it’s also worth changing the isolating sleeve on the brush spring as they degrade with time and oil.

Absolutely wonderful outcome, great episode

Great improvement to the X04. The increased resistance must be down to the carbon contamination between the commutator segments being cleaned out and would have caused excess current draw as you were experiencing before. Nice neat soldering! Look forward to seeing 31337; I was given the Dublo 2 rail version of that last year from a loft clear out; it was in a terrible mess; a broken wire between winding and commutator was a devil to fix and I sacrificed a turn on the winding to sort it but it is now a great runner. A pleasure to watch this video as always. Best wishes.

It's amazing what a service can do for performance on a 50 or 60 year old motor, I was guilty of over oiling in the past. Looking forward to seeing the wren 060 next week looks like it was made yesterday, all the best.

Nice work. A good clean is always nice to refresh these old motors. She really does run well now. My not so perfect R.871 version arrived last week and looks good running on the Series 3 layout. They look quite the Pair the R.864 and R.871 together. Lovely to see yours rejuvenated and back in tip top condition. Stay safe. Mon

So all it needed was a bit of TLC, fantastic to see the locomotive running well and quite with its original motor.

Snooze, Enjoyed that, as usual. Perhaps worth replacing the brushes on the off-chance years of soaking in oil infiltrating their structure. If so the motor will soil quickly. Just wondering. Pete.

Superb, runs like a new engine.

Great video, Could i please just ask what pins have you used in your point motors. They dont look original on the video and im looking for an alternative as i find the original ones a bit clumpy. Cheers

Great results there! I've re-soldered commutators on a couple of locomotive X04 motors. Although eventually successful I had difficulty getting the solder to stay on the copper. Took a few careful attempts! Did you use a flux paste? Leaded or unleaded solder? Thanks

If it had a short what would be the solution?

Hi, just curious, by flattened off the carbons, do you mean you sanded the metal parts soldered to the brass flat? (Sorry, not familiar with proper lingo) Is it advisable for an older triang motor to have flattened these parts? A few of mine are really ground down into a "U" shape. Great video though :)