Broken brocante bargain brought back to life
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Ай бұрынA yard shunter for the Vliegenvangers & Malta Railway, bought at a brocante as a 'non-runner', repaired with Hornby Dublo brushes and guesswork.
@RustyGlovebox Ай бұрын
It looks like a push me pull you. Great work repairing the motor with a set of other brushes. 😁👍
@harryfaber Ай бұрын
I need to spend some time and work out what it is, certainly a yard shunter. You would have coped with the motor, very basic thing, but guessing the length for the brushes and then doing some trial and error was a bit of a fiddle.
@Mr_CMH Ай бұрын
Very nice little item. Very satisfying to repair such a thing.
@harryfaber Ай бұрын
It was 'intellectually' simply but mechanically fiddly, small parts attacked by big fingers, but I got there. Yes, very satisfying.
@Twirlover Ай бұрын
Amazing little thing 😀 Love it 😊
@harryfaber Ай бұрын
It is rather fun!
@TheShadeTreeFixitMan Ай бұрын
Maybe a little track cleaning is in order?
@harryfaber Ай бұрын
And some adjustment to alignment.
@TheShadman47 Ай бұрын
That's a Lima HO diesel. I did a Google Lens on my phone of your loco on my tablet and the result was Lima.
@harryfaber Ай бұрын
Yes, I dug that up too, although it seems to be in effect a 'fake'. The model was originally of an electric loco, a German one with a pantograph, I can find no record of them being used by SNCF, I suspect they made these for the toy train set market. It was fun getting it to work.
@shedbythetracks Ай бұрын
You bought model train bits off the internet? Yep.. the world is going to hell in a hand basket. I don't know what to believe now.
@harryfaber Ай бұрын
Without the help of a 14 year old! It is easier to learn how to program a Babbage computer than to explain to a 14 year old what carbon brushes are.
@shedbythetracks Ай бұрын
@@harryfaber My sympathies. :D
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