Trying to Fix a Bachmann Deltic Class 55 Locomotive

Lets see if this deltic is fixable live

[@davidnewby6095]

there was 22 of them built 1961/1962 and where used on east coast expresses and where retired in 1980-1982, each loco had 2x Napier Deltic D18-25, × 2 power plants, also used in royal navy minesweepers, a common cause of the issue you have is that the drive shafts are often fitted the wrong way round at the factory

[@artdodd2932]

Harrison, great Job on that Bachman fix last night. I would never had been able to focus with a LIVE STREAM, comments, and tips for your channel at the same time. Again great job great patience. Art New Jersey

[@JerseyBill-x9r]

I cannot believe how that locomotive is constructed. I don't know what they cost new, but they are still listed for over a $100.00 used. Your bull-headed fearlessness accompanied by patience carried you to completion. Woo who! Great video.

[@SMTMainline]

My thoughts exactly, I have no idea what the designers were thinking on this one. I'm just glad it all worked out.

[@keepamericayisraelgreat5708]

WOW!!! Missed the Livestream but it is still as mind-blowing as it were, makes one rethink everything when it comes to DCC ....Thanks SMT for a video well done.

[@SMTMainline]

I was surprised by the design. I haven't seen one this complicated before.

[@Devilninja333]

Too bad I missed the live stream, but that cab forward that I got recently was completely seized and thanks to your video. I was able to make it a runner again.

[@SMTMainline]

Glad I could help

[@gabemiller4882]

Awesome job 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️ , Harrison in fixing this bachman locomotive !! I like the color of the locomotive and the sound effect ! Keep up the great work 👍👍👍❤️❤️!! Love your videos !!! I knew you could do it to get it around the track !! 👍👍👍

[@cameronpatterson1045]

Hi from Glasgow Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 we'll Dun you It with the Deltic the sound is great enjoy the Model

[@frankblasio8178]

Greetings from Dublin Ireland love your feeds

[@SMTMainline]

Hey, thanks!

[@cjdavis2684]

Congratulations Harrison, I had no doubt in my mind you would get it running.... Sorry I had to leave the live stream before seeing you getting it going until the storm we had here let up but with my house being on the top of the hill and the lightning was flashing all around and I didn't want to risk having my computer short out. But I'm really glad to see you got it running I knew you would well done!

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks, this was a tricky one.

[@cjdavis2684]

​@@SMTMainlineI had no doubt in my mind you'd get it running Harrison, I'll come to the conclusion if a train came in with only one wheel and only half a wire on it, you would get it running again. I was also wondering did you get the screensaver I emailed you yesterday? Would be interested to know what you think of it.

[@sophiamadams]

I'm glad to see the soldering iron works well, I was a little skeptical of mine but it's good that yours works, hopefully it'll hold true for me

[@SMTMainline]

It works better than the other 30watt Irons I've had

[@HO_Train_Guy]

Awesome job Harrison!

[@class_31clag]

What's amazing is that I'm a British modeller and I've had one if these bachmann deltics apart in 6 mins and hornby class 31s like instantly. Now American locos.... not so much. Ig it just comes to familiarity. Also, bachmann branchline diesel locos haven't changed since they were designed.

[@SMTMainline]

This isn't a good design due to the double chassis. Does Hornby make them the same way?

[@class_31clag]

@SMTMainline not in the same way, there an open top chassis with 4 holes for the motor mounts [rubber] but over time the rubber is very hard and doesn't like going in and out of the 4 holes which stops the motor cover going on top. Also since 2003 till bout 2007 they had Zink pest. So easier to dismantle but also have tendency to dismantle itself XD Tho despite this the hornby class 31, 56, 50, and 60 are probably some of the best running locomotives by far. There 5 pole motor ,6 piece driveshafts, all wheel drive, heavy chassis make them a perfect bit of kit from high speed right down to the crawl. Would recommend if you see one for a decent price, 100% grab one. Good video BTW, keep at it ;D

[@SMTMainline]

@@class_31clag Sounds like a much better design.

[@chrisdaniell2990]

Quintessential SMT content... top notch.

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks for sticking around for this one, it was tricky 😂

[@stephendollahan425]

Harrison, you have that nice rake of British wagons, now you need to get a Brake van (the British version of a caboose), to finish up the set, for a nice looking british freight train.

[@SMTMainline]

I think I got a couple break vans in that lot of British rolling stock I bought a couple months ago.

[@derektempleton3152]

Hi i like the older trains better then new trians cool vid

[@Steve-vf7se]

I love trains, so cool. Biggest to strongest, I know. I've been on a train before, a subway train. Even on a museum train too, those old time fashioned trains. I love trains no matter what🚂🚃🚃🚃

[@johnkelley2468]

Good job! You earned that one.

[@animalyze7120]

When I come across these types of Trains I carefully remove all traces of the DCC crap, set it up for DC operations and enjoy. I have 50 year old Athearns that still run just fine today and take a few minutes to break down, clean and close up. These newer trains are nightmare, they are not hard to work on, just a complete pain in the backside. Not worth the time or effort dealing with these for stupid noises that seem real but aren't, just recorded sounds that add $200 for no good reason. Bring them back to basic, they will run forever and are so much easier to maintain with even fewer failure points. Great video, a very good representation for what I am talking about here lol.

[@SMTMainline]

I agree with that. I've done a few DCC bypasses on locomotives with bad circuit boards.

[@yambo59]

Congrats on getting it running again-!!

[@SMTMainline]

Thank you, I was starting to have my doubts on this one lol

[@roxiewood8310]

Always a good day when harrison post keep it up

[@Tauraco00]

This is a lovely Loco

[@williamsquires3070]

Red and black, power from the track. Orange and gray, power to the motor; hooray!

[@theodoreparfitt8942]

Hey harrison! Excellent job on that locomotive! WHEN I set up my platform (layout) I will send you a KZbin "live stream" link. Won't be for a little while yet. BUT I will. My layout will be viewed from a video surveillance system with (audio and video)

[@1999Valkyrie]

If you wonder just how cool those Deltic locos are, find a KZbin channel featuring locomotive "cold starts", these things belch fire and bang like nothing else!

[@SMTMainline]

I've seen a couple of the videos you're referring to, it looks like they're waking a sleeping dragon.

[@booksandtrains]

i love your videos i hope you good luck and i might have a train for repair for you. its a Burlington northern f unit

[@normancoreyBuildingTrains]

Great job Harrison

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks

[@jamestown57]

I just recently met another of your fans. Sold him a NS F7

[@SMTMainline]

That's cool, where were they from?

[@OldcampRanch]

Well done 👍🏻

[@brooklyngraham1151]

I know this is late, and very much after the fact, but the frames pop off the bogeys, enabling them to slip through the lower frame. This allows you to assemble the drive train and then slip the bogeys back through the lower frame. Sorry I’m late.

[@SMTMainline]

That's good to know going forward.

[@NormanStanleyNew]

Best ask for tweezers for Christmas!!

[@SMTMainline]

I have some, I just didn't have them near by.

[@RichardHume-l4r]

Good luck trying to fix it.

[@EdisonRailfanner]

Hi SMT!! Love the videos!! Keep up the great work!!! I just have one question. My n scale locomotives are starting to get dusty, and I was wondering, what do you use to get all the dust off of your locomotives? Again, keep up the great work!!!

[@SMTMainline]

I find a soft paint brush works best to remove dust from easily breakable details.

[@EdisonRailfanner]

@@SMTMainline Alright! What do you think about using "Air in a Can"?

[@petert9749]

Sometimes one of the Marklin traction tyres work. Worth a try.

[@SMTMainline]

I'll keep that in mind, thanks for the tip.

[@JohnBachofer]

This was surprising to see. I didn’t think Bachmann did UK models… besides the Thomas stuff.

[@FrankTedesco]

wayyyy to fussy for me. You have great stamina, Harriso.

[@SMTMainline]

It was a complicated one, I'm glad it worked out.

[@sampaul4090]

Good to see it running again . hope you didn't pull out to much of your hair. Hahaha.

[@alfiewenn9440]

its easier if you unclip the bogie frames then desolder from the pick ups have fixed a lot of these drive shaft issue 30 to 45 minutes

[@4everdc302]

Working on a Deltic, dont for you spanners&mole grips😅 🇬🇧Addition to the British chapter of the SMT manual🚂🇨🇦

[@SMTMainline]

The "don't ever open again" chapter of the manual lol

[@4everdc302]

🤣

[@investing2000]

I would never have the patience for these old ones.

[@X-153-LRP]

KZbin hi

[@RobloxgaminRoblox-lz5cm]

You now know how to fix Ho scales and many more better than me 😅

[@SMTMainline]

It takes time to learn, just like I still am.

[@jesikebiking]

Throw in the towel Harrison= throw in the towel my good man

[@Johnnyhaotrains]

I'm a junior firefighter I just got back from a fire call I get back home on the couch I see this just about to end I click on the live stream and it ends the second I click on it free video SMT but I'm going to have to watch it later it's 11:00 at night and I got to go to sleep

[@SMTMainline]

I'll be sure to do more live repairs in the near future.

[@stevenchambers6174]

hi Harrision for the Tassie crew

[@spencercorby4571]

Harrison, you should build a layout just for the OO British stuff, it'd be cool. Buildings, cars, etc. considering how much rolling stock and power you'd have for it. Just a thought

[@SMTMainline]

That's a neat idea, I've never tried that before.

[@spencercorby4571]

@@SMTMainline so that way the flanges on the OO stuff don't catch on the ho crossings and switches, I seem to remember you having a problem with that, at least with older tri ang type stuff. It'd be a fun video series like the other layout construction series.

[@SMTMainline]

@@spencercorby4571 I haven't had that issue ever since adding Peco switches to the layout :)

[@spencercorby4571]

@@SMTMainline nice, I think hornby has some videos about how to build a layout, now obviously you have experience with that but you could take inspiration from the way it's set up, and maybe review a hornby starter set or two. It'd be fun. Even better is if you got your grandma to be involved in some way, since she is from England after all👍😀

[@3rdTrickGang]

Doesn't suprise me, I'm not sure I would ever buy a Bachman engine again, years ago I bought 3 SD-45s from Bachman DCC versions almost $300 a piece biggest pieces of junk I own. Never could get them to run right. I have engines from the 80s at more than half the price that still run amazing. But anyway great video!

[@SMTMainline]

They have improved the design in some ways but also made it much more complicated. I'd rather work on an 80s model any day of the week.

[@stephenhudson8739]

You need to set up those surgical clamps.I guess they Call them forceps

[@SMTMainline]

I have some tweezers but I always misplace them.

[@plesniak1939]

❤

[@DennisLora2001]

Amazing stream 0:05

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks

[@DennisLora2001]

@@SMTMainline Any time

[@theodoreparfitt8942]

On that locomotive! Since both ends are the same! Just put one (knuckle coupler) on one end like a conversion car. Then youll be able to run all your freight cars.

[@theodoreparfitt8942]

Thank you! I saw your difficulty on that locomotive. That's the main reason I switched to the (o gauge) size. Larger sized parts.

[@theodoreparfitt8942]

Right now I am making a (touchscreen) control console for my Lion-chief sets. All of them are (WiFi/bluetooth) equipped

[@jacobvoracek2349]

When’s your next Ho Scale running trains Livestream?

[@plesniak1939]

Hi Philip from Chico

[@jsb13echo]

Harrison, you needed about six hands to work on this one.

[@booksandtrains]

be careful you can break the shell.

[@user-MotoTrains1974]

Cool

[@jesikebiking]

Found On Road Dead= or Fix Or Repair Daily======I had 2 FORDS in my life (66 Ford wagon. 72 Mustang ) and both were problems

[@SMTMainline]

I've heard mixed things about Ford. Some say they're tough as nails, others like yourself not so much. I guess it depends on what day of the week it was made

[@NJBamforth67]

Be great if you could twin with Sam Trains in UK .He be a great support for you for UK trains and same for him with you with USA trains

[@SMTMainline]

I dunno if he watches these videos.

[@jeremyoverby8971]

That loco sucks but it's bachmann. So no surprise there. That window being popped out was hilarious at the end. I keep going. Nooooo. Dont put the shell on

[@SMTMainline]

Yeah, that was a surprise at the end lol

[@NormanStanleyNew]

Glad its not one of my locos!!

[@kennethruge4081]

Kenneth from NC hello

[@shelleycogswell2162]

It may be funny but Bachmann quality reminds me of a Yugo.

[@SMTMainline]

The only different being Yugos were actually affordable

[@plesniak1939]

Good morning

[@SMTMainline]

Mornin'

[@plesniak1939]

How the weather down in Canada

[@SMTMainline]

Sunny and warm

[@GabrielRazo-t2y]

It was the same problems you have like the one I have from 1970s bachman

[@thomaswashburn3396]

I "think" the fuel tank was suppose to slide forward and off to get to the motor and drive shafts.

[@plesniak1939]

How is nurf cat is doing

[@SMTMainline]

He's well

[@booksandtrains]

I didn't see it full either.

[@Trainlife47]

Im From the uk and they are quite expensive.

[@carltesh9612]

Check the top of the engine to see if there's screws

[@shelleycogswell2162]

Did the engineering team at Bachmann see the way these models had to be assembled in the factory and think it was good??

[@SMTMainline]

I'd put more blame on the designers than the souls who had to put these things together

[@mikeV2848]

I sent you a pdf hope it helps try a little grease on the shaft ends should help hold in better

[@SMTMainline]

Thank you for that.

[@arrow1414]

You need to use proper tweezers for manipulating small parts and those drive shafts.

[@SMTMainline]

I have some around but I don't always remember to use them.

[@plesniak1939]

From Chico

[@sus_chanel1]

do not worry i did the math so you don't have to and it's 262 canadian dollar

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks.

[@jesikebiking]

looks like they did not make it easy for you ==at all

[@SMTMainline]

For sure.

[@Scorp-tw8xd]

Huh,your mic is popping slightly

[@micaelaposey5329]

How why

[@kennethruge4081]

How old r u

[@SMTMainline]

23

[@RELIABLE·GT3]

hi man how are you

[@SMTMainline]

Good, how are you?

[@booksandtrains]

open the clips

[@mistymountain2223]

you need a hemostat

[@SMTMainline]

I've got something similar.

[@karenpatter]

Hi

[@plesniak1939]

How is your girlfriend

[@SMTMainline]

She's doing well

[@neilcunningham6282]

Needle nose pliers?

[@terrytraina6080]

Defiantly very poor design !! Good job , I say athearn ,atlas , the best ! Good job harry !! Keep up the great videos !!

[@davidstrains4910]

It can’t really be considered a poor design when practically every manufacturer of either American, British or European diesel locomotives today uses a setup like this one here can it, for years now diesel locomotives have featured a centrally mounted motor with twin flywheels which then connect to two driveshafts that then drive both bogies, the problem that SMT had here was that one of the driveshafts had come adrift which happens from time to time especially reassembled properly, notice how I say reassembled which means it’s not an issue from the factory and most likely if this model was second hand before being given to SMT it most likely had been worked on before but not reassembled properly but the previous owner, if we’re talking about the problem SMT had with putting the driveshaft back into place I’m afraid that’s down to the method he used to do that, I’m drawing on my own experience of servicing locos like this one SMT was doing doing this and from what I have seen, the general method and how SMT should have done it to make it easier for himself was he should have unsolderd the wires going to the bogie electrical pickups or the PCB but that can be difficult sometimes then he would have been able to remove the whole bogie assembly bringing with it the driveshaft, then to refit you guide the driveshaft into its slot on the flywheel and then when that is done you can slot in the bogie pivot then screw the bogie back into place.

[@SMTMainline]

I've worked on other modern locomotives by Kato, Athearn, Proto and even other Bachmann locomotives can I can confirm this is a bad design. You're not wrong about my method of getting the trucks in being tricky but most locomotives have a single chassis which makes live a lot easier.

[@terrytraina6080]

@@davidstrains4910 thanks for the info ! And the reply !

[@neilcunningham6282]

Hook drive shaft to motor first then each truck

[@PWaco-yq7wr]

My friend Jon C got a thing about track cleaning some thing I been use sing WD40 CONTACT CLEANER it does work but when run a over the tracks gets dirty right away the next day, any thing we do does not work at all, ALCOHOL 91 does not work they said, I try that as well it's a NO, ACETONE is a big NO NO, the club thinks it works, It kills my work I do on the track it sucks, N scale try every thing, NO-OX even nothing one the layout are big and over size they said, , I try booth ALCOHOL and WD-40 CONTACT CLEANER at same time, next day dirty again, have 2 or 1 other person to help you run your train in your live, even your sister or girlfriend or booth

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks Peter