Re: Restoring An American Flyer Engine
- From: "Len" <lwnieman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:13:17 -0500
"Abby" <abbybrown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: I am restoring my American Flyer 282 engine. Whatever that is in
: the coal car isn't responding. Voltage gets to it but nothing
The device in the tender is the reversing unit. The most common
problems with it are the mechanism that rotates the drum gets dirty
I polished the drum and fingers. The reverser now works.
The engine is missing the wires to the motor winding. (My nephew
had possession of the train for a while and reportedly tried to "fix"
it.) I found a wiring diagrams on the 'net but it isn't clear where
the wires connect to the winding. Where? It might be moot -
it looks like the winding is broken.
Gary
The winding connects to the two bottom jacks, and the motor brushes
connect to the two top jacks of the jack panel.
If the winding is completely shot you can get a Timko can motor
conversion kit for about $30.00 or so. You can check them out at:
http://www.portlines.com/canmotorconvkits.htm
Len
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