Well Batmen riddle me this.
@bmoran4 I serviced the motor. The brushes were dirty and had even wear. Brushes had plenty of length with good springs. Cleaned the brushes and holder tubes. Commutator was dirty and was cleaned and polished and slots verified to be open.
Impeller was tight on the shaft. The bottom end armature shaft cup/bearing had some dry lube in it and that was cleaned out and lubed. Everything spins freely.
Bottom cover gasket was in place and plate on tight.
One question is that the brush plate oil well doesn’t have any wick material in it. Thought about a little cotton or a piece of a sponge. Cotten will probably bet wrapped around shaft and bind. Any thoughts on what a replacement material should be? Looked at a few part sites for replacement but didn’t see any.
@Dch112 I didn’t fix it at this point.
The 1st video is the unit working without the housing. Sounds promising.
The 2nd video is with the station enclosure around the whistle. Starting to get concerned.
The 3rd video is with the roof on and slid off. Now I’m puzzled.
If I cannot improve this performance my initial thoughts is to place it in the back of the table by the 120 tunnel without the enclosure out of sight. Possibly place it inside the 125 station. Again, without the enclosure however, I still would need to verify how it sounds. Each would require me to wire out a remote switch.
Any additional thoughts? This shouldn’t be this difficult so its a little frustrating.
