The Bachmann Class 2251 loco' & tender is a very old model and overdue for an upgrade!! I have nine of these models, one of which has just had a complete strip-down and rebuild. Several tips...Don't over oil especially where the oil can get into the motor via the rear axle. A lot of people think they have to add pick-ups to every axle and every wheel. With the class 2251 you can improve the running qualities greatly by running two wires and pick-ups to the rear-axle wheels only of the tender as this is all that is needed...it connects the two front loco' wheels with the rear-most wheels of the tender and increases the pick-up length. A continuity test between the front loco' wheels and the rear tender axle wheels on both sides to confirm.
If I'm not mistaken this Collett Goods model was taken over by Bachmann from Mainline. They did some retooling what the motor concerns but for the rest it seems the same. I made my Mainline DCC. I don't know how yours is constructed but with the mainline there is a screw on the underside of the boiler that loosens the wait that is in there. I took that our, and cut a slot in it with an iron saw and smoothen it with a file, so it fitted the decoder. Anyway good job done👍 I have not met a loco that I couldn't turn into DCC, the worst ones thou, are the old Bachmann ones, with the split big Blok chassis where the motor pickups are direct connected to the chassis. You need to machine the chassis block in order to isolate the motor from the block, but it can be done…
Yes, that weight is removable, but as I don't have the right tools to machine it down I had to come up with a different solution. It does also put the DCC chip in a better position to be able to install pickups in the tender one day, if I need to, and keeps the weight over the driving wheels. But yes, there's more than one way to do it!
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The Bachmann Class 2251 loco' & tender is a very old model and overdue for an upgrade!! I have nine of these models, one of which has just had a complete strip-down and rebuild. Several tips...Don't over oil especially where the oil can get into the motor via the rear axle. A lot of people think they have to add pick-ups to every axle and every wheel. With the class 2251 you can improve the running qualities greatly by running two wires and pick-ups to the rear-axle wheels only of the tender as this is all that is needed...it connects the two front loco' wheels with the rear-most wheels of the tender and increases the pick-up length. A continuity test between the front loco' wheels and the rear tender axle wheels on both sides to confirm.
Nice install - you even have the option of adding pickups to the tender wheels, with seemingly little grief.
A very interesting, useful and informative video. Thank you.
Excellent video, I really enjoyed it and will have a go myself.
Tidy little job, thanks for sharing.
Nice job
Great outcome
Nick Australia
If I'm not mistaken this Collett Goods model was taken over by Bachmann from Mainline.
They did some retooling what the motor concerns but for the rest it seems the same.
I made my Mainline DCC.
I don't know how yours is constructed but with the mainline there is a screw on the underside of the boiler that loosens the wait that is in there.
I took that our, and cut a slot in it with an iron saw and smoothen it with a file, so it fitted the decoder.
Anyway good job done👍
I have not met a loco that I couldn't turn into DCC, the worst ones thou, are the old Bachmann ones, with the split big Blok chassis where the motor pickups are direct connected to the chassis.
You need to machine the chassis block in order to isolate the motor from the block, but it can be done…
Yes, that weight is removable, but as I don't have the right tools to machine it down I had to come up with a different solution. It does also put the DCC chip in a better position to be able to install pickups in the tender one day, if I need to, and keeps the weight over the driving wheels. But yes, there's more than one way to do it!
Is that Egdon Heath the loco is running through at 10:30 ?
More like Eggbox Heath! Unsightly at the moment, but useful for planning out where the landscape will eventually go.
Are the redundant wires on the chip for a speaker? I would have installed one if so as there’s bags of room in the tender.
No, they'd be for lights, if you had them, which I don't. I think a sound enabled chip would be larger.