2 Way's To Fix Them Cracked Gear Problems!!

Hey there! While listening to your 'all videos' playlist, I was watching this one for like the 10th time, and just caught your comment 'remember what we used to call the diagonal cutters?". Wow that was funny. I sure do! A little story, the first dikes I ever got were little Weller-Xcelite for electronics in 1977 for six dollars. A friend said they were the best. Wow I thought, that was a rip off. But he was right. They still work today, and the spring still works. Can't say that about MANY others I got. Thanks for the funny!!

You're like a mad scientist trying to labor over something the rest of us would have given up on. Always a pleasure watching you work to save those special locomotives Ron.

I am so glad I'm not the only one that spent Super Bowl Sunday in the train room

ron its locos like this is the reason alot of people stayed away from ho trains

These are tough to repair…unless you have a video like this one to refer to! Thanks for selecting this motor overhaul! 🚂

The hardest part.do not lose the springs u won't find them!Great Vid Ron u are the man!!

I had so many of those go bad on me over the years, even after proper maintenance . I couldn't find the right gears to replace and got fed up. I ended up going to Northwest Shortline and re-powered them all with their Stanton self motorized trucks. They work great now, so no more problems.

I love listening to you talk, the white classic drop mat makes it easier to see you operating on hard to work on models much better than a dark mat like I've seen

I took you a year to produce, and me two days to watch it in entirety. Excellent fix!

Great video Ron. Mara Corday. 1957 movie the black scorpion

I have a Bachmann GP40, same motor, same cracked gears. Was wondering about how to go about fixing it. You gave me a couple ideas. Thanks so much… Good show by the way…

Greetings Ron. I really hate these pancake engines. For the most part, I change all mechanics or convert to dummy locos. Another great video. Congratulations.

I have so far fixed 3 Kenmore vintage sewing machines with cracked gears using 2 part epoxy,and as I get back into N gauge Im sure Ill get more cracked gears,especially from stuff bought on Ebay.............

Thanks for all your great work, working with these Bachmann pancake Motor units! One year ago, I unpacked 16, 1990s era trolleys, with pancake motors. This with the idea of powering, my 50 year old subway cars Through the long hideous, miserable process, with slipping gears, and then trying to convert them to DCC by insulating the metal motor housings. I re powered about 12 subway cars. Leaving a few Bachmann spare pancake motors. New good news though... Tenshendo makes powered trucks of various sizes, very similar to NWSL, but much cheaper. I'll be using, and modifying them, to replace the pancake drives. Thanks again for your excellent video!

Cool repair! I’m not sure when it happened. But I heard Bachmann and lifelike came out of the same factory in China. That might explain why the motors look so similar. I unfortunately watched the FB game. Cause there wasn’t a new model train repair video for Sunday.

Holy crap!!! Who knew??? Great video and happy birthday a year ago, at some point😂 Hey, I dated Mara Corday at a USO thingy years ago, NOT 😂 You real are great, gotta love this stuff. Thanks, Ron

Great video Ron. I like how you thought about the next guy (glue). Thank You

Great video and insight as always. I’ve learned a lot from watching your videos over the last few months. I only got back into the hobby in November. Thanks for sharing your ingenuity.

The first HO train set that I got when I was 7 years old came with a Bachman F7 with the pancake motor. I usually dislike Bachmann pancake motors, and usually convert engines that are equipped with them into static scenery items or dummy units, but by some stroke of luck, that engine ran smoothly for my entire childhood, and I believe the chassis and motor are still in my parts bin, with the motor still functional.

The best thing these pancake systems are good for is kit-bashing two of them together to make one all-wheel pickup lighted dummy. Works in DC and DCC, and as a bonus, I sometimes have used them as converters with a horn-hook coupler on one side and a knuckle couple on the other side. (edited to include that it's a "lighted" dummy)