Message from @Plague Doctor Lawrence
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Luckily it still runs
Here’s the 1948... My grandpa who owned this passed away and I’m resorting it in honor of him.
The horn, E-unit, and second motor are out.
I have that one
Aww
Its smaller
And same actually
The light and first motor still work.
The electro coupler needs rewiring.
What about the other train
This is the Hornby the day I got it.
That is cool
Thanks.
I just looked it up
Its a crank up toy
I’m converting it to electric.
It would be cool if it was still original
This is how it pretty much looks now...
Do you know how to put it back together
The spring was completely gone and the gears were worn out.
Ok
The new gearing with the electric motor is pretty hard but the wiring is all sorted out.
One question
Okay, shoot.
How old are you
22...?
Oh
Im 14
Any classes you took to do stuff like that @Plague Doctor Lawrence
I kinda want to do stuff like that
The pickups were made from bits of the broken spring with cardboard to insulate them from the frame and hard wire to act as springs to keep them on the middle rail.
@um I’m taking some electronics classes online, but I’ve been kinda self taught since I was your age.
Cool
If you want help with it I’m here.
Have you ever tryed to fix something but instead make it worse
Oh yeah... I’ve done that...
Well you learn from experience
Yep.
Thats what i say
You can see I trimmed the frame for a bigger motor but the bigger motor wasn’t any good so I opted for a smaller one with reduction gearing.