Wtf is youre problem

@@spamtongspamton97 nothing, wtf is yours?

silicone tubing is dirt cheap and more flexible

Thanks for the tip. Worked like a charm!

No I’m dirty dan

thats what happened to mine, and that's what brought me from praising life-like to absolutely despising it. Ho scale pancake motors are the worst. I'd take this one over that just cause it's not a pancake. And it's still not that great because the couplers are truck mounted and you can't get knuckle couplers for it.

Lot of personal experience helps, with locomotives, gears, wiring and electrical motors. Too bad yelp didn’t exist in the 70’s to 90’s era locomotives. As a kid you wanted a locomotive and better have the money to buy it if your parents didn’t want to. Luckily my Dad was into model trains.. But Tyco, Bachmann were cheaper. Life Like was barely getting into the market. Hobby stores was Russian roulette and selections sucked. Mind you this was in El Paso TX in the late 1970’s-80’s. There was only mail order catalogs and maybe two hobby stores in a big city.. Model railroading wasn’t popular.. Yet I’m grateful for SMT’s agility in servicing these classic locomotives. I drove to my storage unit to bring home my Tyco Diesel and did my first motor autopsy in over 35 years! I’ll be 50 next year.. I don’t know if I’ll bring my train board out but that’s ok. SMT might think about monetize his collection or auction off or swap with other model railroad collectors. Create a locomotive swap shop, or have an endurance test layout of favorite model scene spots in Canada that his fleet looks great in. Just a crazy idea..

@@lawnmowermanTX I also think that you bring it on yourself. I haven't seen or heard anybody say anything negative on your comment either I have no idea what the hell you're talkin about not trying to be disrespectful but just saying

@@mercuryoak2 You are on to something... But that's Ok.. I thought we all have differences of opinion, or points of view, some find offensive, some go to far, some just have no understanding.. We place too much value in electronic platforms, instead of human to human communication.. Yet, if I bring things on myself, and without good feed back, then critique our points of views.. I might not understand... I deleted the 'offensive' comment... Yet that's Ok.. I put too much faith, confidence and value on an electronic platform instead of building real relationships locally. That's my fault. I apologize for hurting anyone else's feelings.

@@strike9716 theyre horrible in n scale, too. the only hobby pancakes i ever liked were in the aurora thunderjet 500 slot cars- plus they were kid-friendly. oh, i miss the aroma of that 'special racing oil'.....

he's the motor man from can-do!

Good for you but who the actual fuck asked

really? i do motor work at an n/z scale club and i can tell you my fellow members get pissed when the old plastic life-likes run better and more reliably then their beloved, failure-prone, and over-priced proto units. apparently, their motor maker didn't believe in conducting lubricant, either. too bad- it would have saved them a grip in warranty coverage. and its a lot easier to install decoders in the plastic units, as well.

One of the few redeeming features of modern HO starter sets is they usually come with some sort of plastic "ballasted" track. Does a good job of preventing the gearing from getting all tangled up over time.

@@trainzguy2472 Yea, but those of us who received/bought train sets bak in the late 70's, there wasn't that "pre-ballasted" track.

It is, I wish they made the rest like that.

That’s not at all true the grease does absolutely nothing to the gears. The gears are made of a certain and very thin kind of plastic which leads to splitting

I watched a youtuber who used to be on tsg multimedia. Daniel Cortopassi who has his own channel now but he put a coreless motor in one of his rivarrossi locomotives and it ran quiet. So i would say yes it wouldrun quiet and fast.

It's probably possible, the only challenge would be powering it since most brushless motors are AC. System they use to power drones would probably work since most drones use brushless motors for the added power.

@@SMTMainline thats one thing id love to have is a drone. when I was younger kid i remember an Rd car magazine that had motors that would push limits of locomotives i mean heck tiny rails at high rate of speed against the wheels would be way to fast. I have 2 of my diesels the lifelike and the Athearn if i was to put at full throttle the 18 inch radius is too tight ive seen it lean the loco as an experiment. Never again go that fast lol. The cars handle it but locomotive not so much lol

Sometimes the nylon fails to hold onto the metal shaft. A bit of crazy glue will usually fix it but you have to be super careful because if it gets into the teeth of the gears the whole thing will be messed up.

What about the amount of the radiator fans

Idk I'm not a professional

Definitely not an efficient type of motor, 40 year old magnets don't help.

Post-pancake.

So I was technically right its a proto 500 😆

@@pieseasmyseas that’s incorrect it is pre pancake

First they used something similar to what Varney made last, then this, followed by the pancake motor.

nope its a GP38-2

It was just for their Santa Fe GP38-2’s with the low nose. The high-hood Santa Fe GP38-2’s were numbered 3560.

Haha, brilliant!