I found this diagram on HO seeker:
https://hoseeker.net/assemblyexplosionbachmann/bachmanns060usraregulartenderpg2.jpg
It matches the model I have at home. Unless you have a saddletank or side-tank model (without a tender), I am pretty sure it would be similar to that one.
Simon
For whatever reason Simon, HOSeeker doesn’t let you link to diagrams, you just get a “welcome” page, telling all about HOSeeker.
BN will have to go there, look up Bachmann, and find the diagram.
Mike.
That started about three or four years ago.
I just went to the Bachmann site and all I could find were the 0-6-0 with the can motor.
If anyone wants to post a photo from HO Seeker, do a Screen shot. I just looked at Ho Seeker.
Convert it to a photo and upload it to say Photo Bucket. I use to do that before photo Bucket tried to charge me for up loading photos. Easy enough to do. I guess the OP has not even tried. Better to get a new loco.
I took all my photos back. and left them. Once bit, twice shy.
Rich
I have the exact opposite problem with a Bachmann 0-6-0 locomotive.
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I bought it for $5.00 out of the bargain bin at a train show. No tender, but I have a good junk tender to use with it. I bought it to paint and use a prop in photography and not run it.
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Well, imagine my surprise when I set it on the track, and it ran, and it ran really well. Without a tender! I looked at it, it has the pankcake motor, and it only picks up power on the rear driver on each rail. It will not cross a turnout without jerking or stalling because it only picks up on one wheel.
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I am trying to decide whether I should keep it as a runner. It looks bad, it needs help, but since it runs good, I don’t feel right about killing it and reducing it to prop-only status.
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-Kevin
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The older pancake motors run like coffee grinders.
The newer kind(I had 2…sold them) has a FK130 Mabuchi can motor. The motor with light use runs very quiet, however, if you run it at high voltages for a while, they start to develop noise(I ran my first train set till the engine died on me). The gears inside the engines are very nice, and are as quiet as an Athearn genesis diesel iirc.
Just be careful, a lot of these have cracked plastic axles!(They eventually changed to metal axles)
Charles
Ah, the flapjack era. Once Tyco was bought by a food conglomerate, I guess it was inevitable. [dinner]
The Bachmann pancakers were actually geared down quite a bit to achieve more torque from such a small armature. They were always among my slowest runners back in the 70’s.
I’ve restored a few of the Reading I-10 Consolidations, and it’s cheap to do because junkers are easy to come by at train shows. Inevitably the drivers have to be re-qartered and secured with CA. Properly lubricated, the cricket noise is tolerable, and at some point Bachmann even made an attempt at noise reduction with this version by giving the reduction gear a spiral center to reduce the resonance of it meshing with the pinion.
This definitely quiets it down a bit. But the earliest pancake motors were housed in a recess in one side of the Zamac frame, and these seem to be quieter than the plastic bodied motors. The Lionel branded Freedom Train GS4’s have that early motor, for e.g.
As others have mentioned, the 0-6-0’s were always at a disadvantage due to the traction tires on the main drivers. Electrical pickup was left to just the front and center drivers and the rear flanges. Hopefully they’ve gotten away from tires on their current versions. (And as Charles mentioned, the FK-130’s are nice motors, but bearing noise can become an issue with use. I’ve noticed that over time when using them for repowers.)
Still, those tires enabled my two pancake 0-6-0’s (I’d gotten them for a song when Two Guys went out of business) to pull over 30 not-so-free-rolling cars at low speed for hours at a time without even breaking breaking a sweat. I was impressed.
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Well, the decision was made. I killed the old Bachmann 0-6-0, I painted it up, and now I am using it as a prop for posed photographs.
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Please meet STRATTON AND GILLETTE #638.
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It still needs detail painting.
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-Kevin
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One fellow in the Bachmann forums has done maybe six of those and has them running. I believe the ones with can motors and dresses them up some.
My Bachmann PLymouth 0-6-0 has the pancake motor and runs with a Digitrax DZ125 decoder, just not very well. The pickups are lousy. I improved them but it was a lot of fiddeling. Still noisy even with good Labelle gear grease.
Rich