Dapol Pannier Fix and Run N gauge "The Railway Children"

[@iansngauge]

I really enjoy watching you mend these locos Rich, and find the process genuinely fascinating! Can't wait for the next one! Cheers, Ian.

[@ThisWayWorksTWW]

Thanks Ian, I quite like pulling them apart really, there's never one the same it would seem! Cheers for watching, Take Care, Rich

[@ngaugefouroaksstreetstatio6932]

Brilliant, just the sound is right, beautiful engine and beautifully engineered by Dapol. Most enjoyable, another workshop manual added to the library.

[@ThisWayWorksTWW]

I do like these Panniers, most Dapols are great in the details really 👍

[@petertownsend8276]

Thank you for a fascinating video. You have a lot of courage to do such a delicate job on video. Very informative. Pete

[@ThisWayWorksTWW]

Thanks Pete, it was a fiddely loco in this video thats for sure, a pair of tweezers i find helps me fix most locos, invaluable. Cheers Rich

[@56NeilWatson]

Thanks for that. I have stripped one down, but I added some wire pick ups to the wheels. I will definitely have a go at cleaning the bushes.

[@ThisWayWorksTWW]

Adding pickups would be great, theres a video i did a while back whereby i fitted a stay alive to one of these too, might negate the pickups if your on DCC 👍

[@studiomilo]

My first train set was a Hornby Railway Children set with carriages. The whole family sat mesmerized by it trundling round the oval. It came with smoke oil which sort of worked. The smell never left me and called me back as a later returner....

[@ThisWayWorksTWW]

They definitely did have a likeable smell to them thats for sure with the oil burning from them👍 i think nowadays its a bit of a fire risk, mind you there is a way to vaporise water for a similar effect, minus the rememberable smell though

[@kalnaren]

Just bought a pair of these and they run terribly. After seeing what’s involved for cleaning the pickups, I think I’m just going to return them. This is an insane amount of warranty-voiding work to do on a brand new loco. Very nice video though.

[@shteviemac8310]

Wow i just had one painted railway children colours !!

[@clivengauge]

Very good video don't think I could do that do like watching videos like this very informative thanks for sharing 👍

[@ThisWayWorksTWW]

Thanks Clive, if nothing else its always interesting to see whats inside different locos, i wouldn't really recommend to anyone to open one of these up TBH, way too many bits for the carpet monster to eat 👍😂

[@adrianrowland1902]

Brilliant - thanks very much for a great practical tutorial. I set the tablet up over the workbench then followed the whole process through on the loco I wanted to sort out. Just followed your clear instructions, paused and rewound (quite a bit😉) and just carried on the end. Just a great job - so thanks once again. One thing, I’d like to check with you, you didn’t actually illustrate where you applied any grease or oil internally before reassembling the chassis. Any chance you could address that for me (us) please?

[@ThisWayWorksTWW]

Hi im Humbled the video has been beneficial for you👍 . You could put a tiny ammount of grease on a gear and it will work around all of them. The problem is though the grease will eventually make its way to the bearings again which need to conduct electricity... Tiny ammount of grease on the teeth of the gears 👍

[@adrianrowland1902]

Thanks very much for reading my comment and replying helpfully. Respect!!! @@ThisWayWorksTWW

[@ThisWayWorksTWW]

@@adrianrowland1902 anytime 👍 if you get stuck just ask away 👍

[@BillySugger1965]

Amazing video of a tricky service, thank you! Just one comment on videography: using a pure white background causes your camera to underexpose the subject you are showing. Cameras typically set exposure such that the scene balance is 18% darker than white, so will expose to make that white look like 18% grey on screen. If you use a mid-grey background, then the camera will correctly expose and the black gears will not be lost in the shadows so much. 😊

[@ThisWayWorksTWW]

That is really helpful thank you 👍, i will give changing the background colour a go. I did find it odd the white background was worse then the green background of my workbench, thanks again 👍

[@BillySugger1965]

@@ThisWayWorksTWW Hope it’s helpful. You may want to try various shades of grey to optimise the exposure for your particular camera and lighting conditions. Nevertheless, it was an extremely helpful and informative video. While I don’t have that particular tank, I do have several used N gauge locos in need of a good service so your take on what to do is much appreciated - especially the point about not over-lubricating!

[@ThisWayWorksTWW]

@@BillySugger1965 Yep somehow the oil always finds its way into either a motor or the contacts degrading the running of most N gauge Locos. Most of the the time a bad runner is oil related 👍

[@joshslater2426]

Hopefully the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway will keep No. 5775 in its ochre livery when it’s retuned to service after the overhaul. It would be a crowd puller if they ran it with the old gentleman’s coach.

[@ThisWayWorksTWW]

Absolutely would be wonderful to see 👍

[@timstrainvideos142]

ive seen the real loco on display at the kwvr. it seems like a very difficult model to disassemble and maintain. not sure if it needed to be. it puts me off buying one though.

[@ThisWayWorksTWW]

Yeah its fairly complex to disassemble. That being said hopefully the video can help someone reassemble theirs 👍

[@Paul-ue3zy]

Excellent, informative, and absorbing video as usual. Nice to see you fettling a tricky steamer again. How's Crewe coming along?

[@ThisWayWorksTWW]

Thanks Paul, Crewe is coming along little by little. I should have a video together soon enough. The thing that im doing on Crewe atm is a taking much longer than anticipated 👍

[@thegrowler-blackwoodngauge]

Well I have exactly the same loco in NCB green. Never ran properly from day one - stuttering when it ran. So took mine to bits following you showing how. Caked in thick grease. Cleaned the cogs reassembled - took about 5 goes as the brass cog on the motor was running but not engaging the plastic cogs. After much swearing 😅 I discovered one of the plastic insulators between the two metal half's was in the wrong way around- hence the the body was just millimetres out of alignment which prevented the motor from engaging the flywheels. Fixed that and guess what - it runs flawlessly 😊😊😊😊

[@ThisWayWorksTWW]

Fantastic stuff👍 glad you persisted with it. Glad the video has helped 👍

[@pdoyle2]

Do you have a sellers link for ebay for items in the future Regards

[@ThisWayWorksTWW]

Hi, currently i have just some decals for sale at the moment but heres the link to the decals, if i do sell anything via ebay and its current i do put a link in the description of of the video, heres the link for the decals.... www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334844852070

[@Decrepit_biker]

So essentially Dapol used the same design as a diesel loco bogie. Makes sense I guess!

[@ThisWayWorksTWW]

good point 😁, i think its more reliable though vs expecting just the drive links to transfer the power across axles 👍

[@Hal-Zuzzu_Model_Railway]

I see what you mean about removing the body :)

[@ThisWayWorksTWW]

Im pretty sure theres a video on my channel of fitting the Stay alive and decoder Joe 👍

[@Hal-Zuzzu_Model_Railway]

@@ThisWayWorksTWW Watching it now :)

[@PeachyTT120]

You should be a detective

[@ThisWayWorksTWW]

😂 the N gauge detective... 🕵️