Hey guys. It's sad to say, but one of my favorite and most beautiful engines has done away with himself: my bachmann climax. :'( Yes, I've had him for a year. I'd heard about the problem with the shays and hoped the problem wouldn't occur in my loco. WRONG. :-\ it did. what's happening is that the motor and lights work, but the motor will run and get slower and slower until it stops. i spent a lot of money for being 14 at the time and I'm not giving up. any help would be appreciated. thx
H-man
You did not say if this is the two truck or three truck. The cracked gears on the Shay and Climax are a well known issue, not only the HO scale one.
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Rich
Mine has not had a gear problem, nor my shay. My Climax has a valve gear problem. I can't get the rod offset piece back into the right position to get the rods from hanging up.
sorry for not specifying, it's a three truck climax.
Quote from: h-man on March 25, 2012, 04:46:38 PM
sorry for not specifying, it's a three truck climax.
This will be the first 3 truck I have heard about, are you positive it's a gear(s)? At any rate, send it to Bachmann for warranty replacement.
I have had mine almost a year, and use it quite often, no problems.
Sorry to hear you had a problem, please let us know what the problem is with it.
??? after giving it a good think over, it turns out that it's the motor. i remember turning the brass flywheel when i took it apart and the gears still turn. i will send it in, but not now. a 15 Year-old doesn't come across money very often.
Connect a 9 volt battery right to the motor leads and see if the motor runs.
Rich