As many of you will know
ebay mike
put a Lyn up for sale, and there was a lot of adverse comments. So today with the assistance of parts supplied by
M
Michael
I decided to strip the loco and investigate the working, with the goal being to understand the loco for making battery R/C.
The loco has to be at least 15 years old as it has been out of production quite a while, and obviously it has been apart a number of time during its life. The first thing I noticed was that at least one of the owners did not know how to strip the loco and a number of areas had been forced, and that that last owner to do a complete re-built didn't know how to assembly the loco. Though Michael had supplied a drawing, the stripping order was not obvious, however the parts Michael supplied provided lots of insight.
The main pick-ups are via brass strips, and these "interface" with the motor and protrude out of the motor block, so this whole pick-up assembly will need to be removed and wire connected to the motor direct. The wheels push on to the nylon gears, with a square drive, but also a shroud that should prevent accidental damage to the gears, though what was most surprising was the bolts holding the connecting rods on are actually plastic push inserts.
One of the main connects was the gap in the motor block, however as the gear sits on the inside, and the wheels push on from the outside this was not the issue, but "carp2 inside from damaged parts preventing the block coming together. with some gentle engineering persuasion the block is back together correctly.
I am now just missing a 1-64 ANC nut, took a long time to identify, and foolishly it is not 1-72 ANF as I suspected.
Before and after photo of the correctly assemble motor block, the slight splay at each end is due to the plastic being deformed due to the previous incorrect assemble:
BEFORE
AFTER
ebay mike
put a Lyn up for sale, and there was a lot of adverse comments. So today with the assistance of parts supplied by
M
Michael
I decided to strip the loco and investigate the working, with the goal being to understand the loco for making battery R/C.The loco has to be at least 15 years old as it has been out of production quite a while, and obviously it has been apart a number of time during its life. The first thing I noticed was that at least one of the owners did not know how to strip the loco and a number of areas had been forced, and that that last owner to do a complete re-built didn't know how to assembly the loco. Though Michael had supplied a drawing, the stripping order was not obvious, however the parts Michael supplied provided lots of insight.
The main pick-ups are via brass strips, and these "interface" with the motor and protrude out of the motor block, so this whole pick-up assembly will need to be removed and wire connected to the motor direct. The wheels push on to the nylon gears, with a square drive, but also a shroud that should prevent accidental damage to the gears, though what was most surprising was the bolts holding the connecting rods on are actually plastic push inserts.
One of the main connects was the gap in the motor block, however as the gear sits on the inside, and the wheels push on from the outside this was not the issue, but "carp2 inside from damaged parts preventing the block coming together. with some gentle engineering persuasion the block is back together correctly.
I am now just missing a 1-64 ANC nut, took a long time to identify, and foolishly it is not 1-72 ANF as I suspected.
Before and after photo of the correctly assemble motor block, the slight splay at each end is due to the plastic being deformed due to the previous incorrect assemble:
BEFORE
AFTER
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