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 Posted - December 24 2009 : 11:57:35 AM
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Hey guys! Well, today I got a trainset for an early Christmas present. It's a Thomas Kinkade Christmas train set, made by Bachmann.
Anyway, the locomotive is not working. The headlight comes on, so I know it's getting power, but I can't get anything out of the motor. There's no sound, so I know it's not the gears or linkages. I have a hunch that I need to re-solder a joint somewhere.
I'm quite confident I can fix this myself, but there's one problem:
How in the heck do you take this thing apart?!   
    
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 Posted - December 24 2009 : 12:20:25 PM
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Here is a break down of the loco.
http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/dwg/dwgs/25249.pdf
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Posted - December 24 2009 : 3:42:14 PM
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Posted - December 24 2009 : 3:46:06 PM
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| takes a bit of time to load if you have xp ok with vista ken
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Posted - December 24 2009 : 3:55:53 PM
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Posted - December 24 2009 : 4:36:17 PM
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Hey guys:
loads most Ricky-Tick in Linux!
Flee from MicroSloth WinDoze: Satan Inside!
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Posted - December 24 2009 : 5:54:40 PM
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Might help if this new computer had Adobe installed too!
I think I'm getting somewhere with it...it uses tabs at either end instead of a "main screw" sorta deal like on most steam locomotives.
I'll keep fiddling with it anyway. Dunno if I'll be able to fit it under the tree yet! 
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Posted - December 25 2009 : 12:30:54 PM
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Congrats on the train! I got an early present before we left - my mother-in-law gave me a Woodland Scenics stone tunnel end that she had no idea that I had my eye on, but it looks like things around Kenova, and she did know I want things like that.
Hopefully you'll be able to get it running soon - if not it sounds like it's new so you should be able to get a replacement from the factory.
Merry Christmas!
Rus
Starting my Tyco and other favorites collection over again after 37 years.
My still in progress list of inventory and wantlist: tyconut.com
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Posted - December 26 2009 : 12:32:06 PM
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Thanks guys. It's going now, but the headlight decided to go out once I got the motor running!
I'll just leave it for now.
My hunch was wrong...all the connections were good and the contacts clean. It was an incredibly dirty armature. I was kinda surprised to see a fairly new loco so gunked up inside, especially since everything else was quite clean.
I think I'll set it up around the tree later today. 
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Posted - December 26 2009 : 2:24:39 PM
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| hehe to prevent more headlight outages use a LED btw? Are thes On30s expensive? I know at one time there was a trolley for these ceramic villiges & it went back & forth when it came to the ends of track
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