@Secarider posted:My son paid so much money for it, I did not want to be responsible to work on it. I ended up buying it from him. I was going to remove the cover, and use Labelle 106 grease on it. These JLC locomotives are nice. But the detail is so fragile, its hard to handle it and work on it without breaking something. I would try to get help handling it, and turning it upside down. Pay attention to detail, and use folded dish towels on solid areas of the boiler to keep weight off fragile areas. If you remove the body do it very carefully and slowly. Unplug things as you go along. Do not stress and break the antenna wire especially. Do not grab the sides of the boiler or you will surely start breaking plastic mounts for the pipe detail. One inside welcome to my nightmare. Very difficult to remove all the wire and electronics to get to the drive shafts and gear box. I worked on a used one,and our spare parts one. Mine new one is buried in the closet. Let me know how you make out. Also if the tender chains are not already broken,do not turn the wheel trucks very far. They were made for O72 or larger curves, the chains will snap. Good luck
Thanks for the advice. Watching it operate at 1mph in forward I can clearly see the front gearbox hop up and down and it is clearly designed the way Norm states above. I think I’ll try it with a lid first and then maybe come up with a way to cushion or dampen the gearbox. Nothing appears to be “broken”, it just looks like excess slop.
