Athearn Locomotive Maintenance

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5 жыл бұрын

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@summerfield858 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for helping keep this hobby alive, I'm 49 and stared collecting again, building up a huge collection for retirement so I can play with trains for the rest of my life when I do retire. Great video also, I need to lube my Athearn's they are all from the 70's. Also Tyco's and Bachmann's....

@NortheasternRailPhotography 5 жыл бұрын

That locomotive is a Fairbanks-Morse H-24-66

@ReadingAreaRailfan 5 жыл бұрын

Railfan Center known by everyone as a train master

@atsfrailfan5367 4 жыл бұрын

i just bought one for 22$ in a N&W paint scheme

@sd90mac61 3 жыл бұрын

Young Man you are nothin but A PRO, I'm need you do this to all 19 locomotives I've got mostly Athearns but I've also got a few SD 80s, and 90s in katos, and a couple bachmans, THANKS FOR SHARING THIS WITH me ✌️😉👍 more please 😊

@michaellindsay6735 5 жыл бұрын

How the hell u know how to do stuff like this to a engine man u are really good at this great view

@DoubleSpikeProductions 5 жыл бұрын

Awsome restoration Video! I usually expect the plastic on my locomotives to be more brittle or weaker than I should. Always surprises me when I take off the shell in a weird way and nothing cracks. Definitely proves that you really do get what you pay for when buying locomotives.

@EthanOnThePW 5 жыл бұрын

Did u know throwing a locomotive hard onto a hard surface it can stay in one peice SMT you should try it P.S Its how you make the scrap yard

@christopherdelgaudio9484 5 ай бұрын

Wow u are a funny guy

@MozanaRN 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent and informative. Keep up the good work. Athearn Trainmasters are a favorite of which I have collected many over the years.

@iannarita9816 2 жыл бұрын

Athearn blue box locomotives both with and with out flywheels were relatively simple and durable drives. The one on the video is an early FM. It has zinc flywheels. Later production had brass flywheels. The bodies came in two styles. The one in the video is an SP version with train number boards and SP style Mars lite housing. The other body style was simpler. It should last a long time with little to no maintenance. I've had one for 40 years thereabouts. I think I purchased it around 1980.

@nathandelay 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome job Harrison you always have been doing a good job and I hope you have an awesome day

@christopherkingsland4604 5 жыл бұрын

Nice SP Trainmaster, the old Athearns were great.

@williamrathwell766 4 жыл бұрын

I find your maintenance and repair videos are very helpful.

@tylerbonser7686 4 жыл бұрын

Have been out of the hobby for several years and finally getting back into it. Have a couple Atherns of this vintage and just bought about 20 more. Im going to have a lot of maintenance to catch up on

@West_Cascade_Rail 5 жыл бұрын

Favorite KZfaqr. Keep up the good work!

@animalyze7120 9 ай бұрын

Always keep those Sintered wheel sets, they allow much more traction than the current Nickle silver sets at the cost of more cleaning. You get much more pulling power too with the old Sintered wheels. Save em if you replace them as they are sought after due to cracking easily when launched off tables lol.

@NJEsperantist Жыл бұрын

Well Harrison, here you are, working on a locomotive identical to the one that was in my original train set. Good job keeping it going!

@kevinjennerproductions2024 5 жыл бұрын

Part 4 of free lot cmon man ive been waiting all spring break

@crsrdash-840b5 5 жыл бұрын

Great idea to use alcohol to clean the commetator(?). With so many locomotives I have of Athearns with the brass motor and flywheel type, I Begun keeping a log of what I did to my engines. That way I can go back to see the time and date and decide if they need more help.

@michaelmckinnon7314 2 жыл бұрын

Comutator rather than commentator, just making sure you know.

@crsrdash-840b5 2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelmckinnon7314 thanks. I didn't know how to spell ir.

@jacjac5761 5 жыл бұрын

Great video thank you for sharing!

@ReadingAreaRailfan 5 жыл бұрын

SMT mailine nice find! Bought an alco S4 yesterday for $10!

@OttawaModelRailFan 5 жыл бұрын

Great video!

@flyboy2610 4 жыл бұрын

Those have to be some of the biggest flywheels I have ever seen on an HO locomotive!

@dirtydanstrains1414 5 жыл бұрын

Nice I like the video. I can’t use the info but a great video idea for beginners. I’ll let any beginners I know about this awesome vid. 👍

@northerncountryrailroad8939 5 жыл бұрын

Great video I will do this on my athearn locomotives

@andytycotrains1148 5 жыл бұрын

Hello- SMT Good Video Greetings from Argentina

@Form44208 4 жыл бұрын

Athearn has never returned any of the several e-mails I sent in the last month. I had questions for them about the first two locomotives I bought from them. One pulses at low speed, the other has a loud motor noise. One part had broken off and was not in the box. I wanted to get a replacement part. What terrible customer service!

@easternncrailfan7594 5 жыл бұрын

Just got back from that train show with some good stuff

@knightsj 2 жыл бұрын

Just seen this one pop up on my KZfaq list. How much younger you look!

@Petemonster62 5 жыл бұрын

SMT - I found a sewing pin works great to clean the slots between commutator plates. I was wondering about the brass bearings on either side of the worm gears; does the lube placed on a worm gear end up lubricating the brass bearing & drive shaft?

@michaelmckinnon7314 2 жыл бұрын

Nickel-Silver is another way of saying it's made from Bauxite (Aluminum), that said nice Fairbanks Morse Trainmaster.

@CONTAINERMAN68 5 жыл бұрын

I just need to grab one of my older, DC loco's that's hardly ever used, cleaning supplies, and watch your videos as I'm cleaning it! Then pop over to 2448toyman's channel and watch how he does a hard wire decoder and sound decoder and speaker install and just follow along! It might take me a few days or a week to do 1 loco, but it would be cheaper than mailing it to someone! RH

@SMTMainline 5 жыл бұрын

That's what makes the community fantastic, there is almost always someone who can help in any field in the hobby because they focus on that part. I've learned so much more in the two years on youtube then the other ten years I been in the hobby.

@tommyhaynes9157 3 ай бұрын

It sounds great . My Athearns are loud...guess they need servicing

@bradyrinard5550 5 жыл бұрын

I like the alcohol trick👍

@West_Cascade_Rail 5 жыл бұрын

I’ve been cleaning the Commutator for about an hour now and it’s still coming off on the paper towel as black as it was when I started. What should I do?

@bnsfmilepost10.19 5 жыл бұрын

Same

@bnsfile3382 5 жыл бұрын

Same thing is happening with me too.

@abunchofrandomcrap5421 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@northerncountryrailroad8939 2 жыл бұрын

Athearn never upgraded their trainmasters the kept making them in the old early 70s style

@pacoperezabella 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful video!, its possible proto 2000 maintenance? jaja. Regards from Argentina.

@mercuryoak2 5 жыл бұрын

i never seen an athearn having a motor like that. i know i have 1 f7 locomotive looks similar but the motor is totally different . must be vintage vs the one i have. but also mine is like 5 or so years old rarely run but when i have pulls great takes very little volts to move it vs the bachmann one and vintage tyco/manuta steamer. i heard you say put alcohol on the commutator and i was oh no fire yikes lol

@spproductions5103 5 жыл бұрын

Oooo southern Pacific me likey

@normamartinez7496 5 жыл бұрын

Nice

@MMRails 5 жыл бұрын

You should blindfold yourself and see if you can put a loco back together like the soldiers do with their guns. Maybe it’ll start trending as the SMT challenge.

@SMTMainline 5 жыл бұрын

I'd be interested to see if I could on an athearn.

@NSProductions-jt5sh 5 жыл бұрын

Did u know that atlas makes a cleaner for cleaning the comutator

@OldRadioMan 4 жыл бұрын

I just bought one exactly like this one today still on the box for $20...

@ryanwest4599 5 жыл бұрын

Are you going to see the Union Pacific Big Boy in Utah

@clubbingtracks 3 жыл бұрын

hello what european hitch i can install on athearn models thank you very much likes 👍

@michaelmckinnon7314 2 жыл бұрын

Depends on your preference, when I had a fairly decent model railroad, I found you could modify any model locomotive with any coupler.

@leroyducharme2477 Жыл бұрын

I replace the motor mounts to the hard plastic and screws.

@atsfrailfan5367 4 жыл бұрын

yure cool

@KingTrump2024 5 жыл бұрын

Should of removed the main brass power bar at the top and replaced it with a soldered wire from each truck to the motor. Those clips always fail on turns and stuff.

@SMTMainline 5 жыл бұрын

I've done that mod on some of my engines, I just thought it didn't make much of a difference in this case and it also makes it harder to open in the future.

@easternncrailfan7594 5 жыл бұрын

Im going to a train show today

@michaellindsay6735 5 жыл бұрын

When are u going to buy new o gauge Lionel engine for your train

@PapaMav 4 ай бұрын

Do you not have an NMRA (wheel) Gauge?

@SMTMainline 4 ай бұрын

I do now but I didn't when this video was made.

@rocklacombe-zf8rh Жыл бұрын

Hello my friend I like what you do, Can you tell me what grease that you use? Thank you 🚂😉🦜

@jejltrains4218 4 жыл бұрын

What type of loco is that

@atsfrailfan5367 4 жыл бұрын

a fairbanks morse train master

@stetsnw 5 жыл бұрын

Smt is it possible you can get on discord tonight

@ryancrooks2515 5 жыл бұрын

Fairbanks trainmaster

@PapaMav 4 ай бұрын

Frame looks bent.

@stetsnw 5 жыл бұрын

Smt locos break when hits floor my loco hits floor does nothing to it

@jamesblack449 Жыл бұрын

How big of a consitst can these locomotives pull without any problems?

@jamesblack449 Жыл бұрын

I hope you can help me I have 2 Athearn Bluebox Locomotives 1 is an FP45 and the other is an F45 when I took the 2 apart to clean and Lubricate them I cant get the Headlight mounts to stay on them anymore what can I do?

@PapaMav 4 ай бұрын

1) forget having a front headlight; 2) take the clip off at the front of the frame that holds lightbulb like Harrison did. Cut the section off that the buld currently secures to. Then make a new right angle 90 degree bend in the steel (just like it was before the cut) and drill a hole just big enough to slide the bulb in it from the center of the loco moving foward but small enough so it catches the "rim" at the botton of the bulb casing. Then while the clip is facing downward with the bulb sitting it in, solder two small points of the bulb to the clip at that rim. 1 on each side or 1 solder point up and 1 down. Put it back on the loco, pressing down the tabs on the front that old the clip to the frame and then solder a fine wire from the foot contact in the bottom center of the bulb to either the metal tab on the truck in the front or to the big spring clip that goes over the top of the motor. (I typically remove those big spring clips and save em in a box). Hope this help. Ask any questions that you need to.