I have two of these and one runs relatively quietly, the other is quite noisy. Enough so that it can be heard over the sound of the sound decoder.
I've pulled the bottom cover off and applied a small touch of plastic-compatible gear lube, Labelle 106, to all three gears, with no reduction in the noise. It has had very little run time, probably less than an hour, but as loud as it is, I can't see that more break-in time is going to change things.
Short of sending it to Bachmann to repair, is there anything more that I can do? I am very hesitant to return it as I have cut off the Forney coal bunker and removed the trailing truck, added an after-market tender, hard-wired the sound decoder after removing the Bachmann supplemental boards, and hard-wired the tender to the loco.
Any help will be appreciated.
Scott Groff
I've pulled the bottom cover off and applied a small touch of plastic-compatible gear lube, Labelle 106, to all three gears, with no reduction in the noise. It has had very little run time, probably less than an hour, but as loud as it is, I can't see that more break-in time is going to change things.
Short of sending it to Bachmann to repair, is there anything more that I can do? I am very hesitant to return it as I have cut off the Forney coal bunker and removed the trailing truck, added an after-market tender, hard-wired the sound decoder after removing the Bachmann supplemental boards, and hard-wired the tender to the loco.
Any help will be appreciated.
Scott Groff