Bachman Locomotive Noise Issues

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I can tell you, but you're really not going to like it.

The noise is basically an incurable part of the motor design. Nearly every pancake motor like those make horrible noises, run spotty, and don't pull well. If you get one with fresh rubber traction tires, it will pull a little better, but the traction tires will also add to the noise as they get old and deteriorate.
 
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Why not pack the gear cavity with some of this?
Also, adding a bit of an adult beverage to yourself takes the edge of noisy locomotives. :)
 


Actually sounds like it is completely derailed with half the gear teeth missing. worse than they normally sound. Those ar the white gears. one or more could be cracked causing it
 
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MQ-Michael said:
Absolutely, but the syrup may gum up the gears, any suggestion for a non-stick syrup? Just a question, are you from the UK, only you spell like you are.
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Siri handled the voice to text. I’ve changed the nationality to Australian, American Siri does strange and not wonderful things at times.
 
Sounds more like the wheels are running on the track ties and not the rail, what code rail are you using ?

If it is the motor then replacing it with a can motor would be a solution.
 
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Returning to the original question. Unless you wish to refurbish that engine to gain experience, it would be much less time and expense to find a more reliable version and purchase that. You can then spend time and effort improving its appearance and operation, rather than working to simply make the one you have function less poorly. If you do go in that direction, look for one without traction tires, and all wheel drive.
 


Rail codes refer to the height of the rail, code 83 being the most prototypical in height and tie spacing for model rail.
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Atlas track if I remember correctly track with black ties are code100 brown ties are code 83.

MQ-Michael said:
Since you are from the UK, it might interest you to know I love your steamers. I bought the Mallard and the Royal Train, both Hornby sets. I bought the Flying Scotsman, but it was not well packed and was badly damaged when it got here. Don't know if you are a Royalist, but sad to hear about the King and Princess. I am praying for them, even though I am a Yank.
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I am a Royalist, and although I'm not impressed with our current monarch, I think William will be more like his Grandmother and be a more popular monarch with the "common" people, his brother Harry just seems to making an idiot of himself as he stood down from his royal duties due to the amount of negative press his wife received (I have no opinion for or against his wife) and wanted a quiet life away from the press but seems to be doing all he can stay in the headlines, making him a hypocrite, although from what we are hearing here, the US is less than enamoured with his theatrics.

Flying Scotsman and Mallard are two of my favourite LNER steamers as I was lucky enough to work on both in my (much) younger days, I qualified as a Fireman on Mallard.

I hope that you returned Scotsman to the vendor if it was damaged, Hornby did have serious problems with the packaging on several locos mainly because they were packed by a third party in a warehouse in the south of England, probably the worst was their 4-6-4 W1 "Hush Hush" locomotive, by all reports, 65% were received damaged.

Chris.
 
I would suggest inspecting the gears very carefully with a magnifying glass first looking for missing teeth or cracks. If you find none I would put a dab of Labelle's 206 grease on each gear and run it again. That should quiet it up alot.
 
A lot of people feel Charles betrayed Diana, why marry one woman when your in love with another, although Diana learnt very quickly the power of the press and how to use it, which she did very effectively, how can you forget the picture of her sitting on her own in front of the Taj Mahal.

My biggest gripe about Charles is that he's made Camilla Queen, heaven knows why, his father remained a Prince for his entire life and he really was Royalty, Camilla is a divorced commoner, I don't see how or why she's better than his father was.

There is a lot of speculation regarding Meghan, everything from wanting the attention of being a Royal and being treated like a princess to somehow boosting her Hollywood career to get bigger roles and box office standing, you know the sort of thing "Featuring HRH Princess Meghan, Duchess of Sussex" along with the sort of money she could demand.

HM Elizabeth worked very hard at her role, Heads of state, Presidents and anyone who was anyone would listen to her "suggestions" in private conversations, she pretty much has kept the British Commonwealth together, even countries that left, have later rejoined and some members that were never part of the British Empire have joined.

HM Elizabeth had a wicked sense of humour, here's a couple of video's to show what I mean.


 
MQ-Michael said:
I love the one with Paddington Bear. I can understand how Brits feel ab out the relationship between Charles and Diana and Camilla. I seem to remember that HM did not want Camilla to be called Queen, but Queen consort. Charles nixed that almost as soon as Lilibit died. (I love Lilibet, no disrespect meant.) But as I said, Charles' life was not his own. Really it's hard to say exactly what happened, since we were not there and there are so many liars writing about them. What they did with Diana in The Crown after she had died was disgusting, I thought. Mostly I feel bad for the lot of them. What can I say about Meghan, I think she is beautiful, but she seems to have some kind of chip on her shoulder or an inferiorrity complex. Again, do we really know what is going on? Even if she or Harry say something, does not make it true. Media and publicity are what they seem to crave. Without a hook to reel people in, or make them click, they are not relavent. So say something contraversial or absurd and everyone will talk about you. Remember what Oscar Wilde said, "the only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about." (I wonder, is this still a train forum? Somehow we drifted well off course. Oh well, I like talking abut something else now and again.)
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Yeah we do seem to have gone astray somewhere, we must have missed that last stop signal.
 
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