Can Someone Fix This?

What is wrong with it? Do you have any photos?

It doesn't run.  The first repairman said he thought that the motor windings were bad. No pictures available - email is about all I do.

Thanks

I have resurrected many early prewar locos. Unless the armature is in pieces, I probably could get it running again.

Chuck

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If they diagnosed a bad armature, which is simple to do, they could have shipped the motor to the motor doctor and had it rebuilt.

Gandy

Send it to CHUCK,,,,,,bet it returns running

Rod

Chuck probably could 

Don't put a new chassis under it unless you have no alternative. Anytime I run across anything old, I go down the checklist: is anything obviously loose? Are the wheels clean? Is there so much rust that something could be shorted? Is there zinc pest on anything important? (That would be the one circumstance in which I'd put a new chassis under it without debate.)

Gabe just suggested that you check the brushes and brush plates (and the springs if it has them.) If you have a voltmeter, it'll tell you whether or not the armature is any good. If not, that can be fixed too.

Based on our experiences with old tinplate, most of the time it's dusty or rusted. Clean it up and shake the rust loose (gently) and it'll probably go.

--Becky

If you're close to Henning's Trains, we do extensive tinplate repairs.  A ton of pre-war parts in stock as well.

Marvin Moyer in Orwigsburg has resurrected several prewar steam locos for me, he can rewind armatures, make field wiring whole again, and just has a great touch with prewar, and he likes working on them. If I have a problem with postwar, he will work on it when it's turn comes up, but give him a prewar loco, like my 262, and he will work it into his schedule. He is located in east central PA, and is listed in the TCA members guide, if you want a phone number and/or email, LMK. 

Hi like john said we have manny parts and do repairs.

 we should have that armature in stock or get that one rewound.

 we have verry good repair men working for us.will fix all lionel from 1900 to today.

look us up.

If it is the field windings , I have found it to be broken within the first several windings around .  I have shortened up this winding wire with much success in my # 33 and # 38 locos with first style motors.  

Use an ohm meter set to continuity , put one lead to the one end of the winding wire and the other at its other end.  It should make the meter tone out .  If not the wire has a break someware. 

Glenn

Dean at Brausser's. I gtried to get Dad's 6110 fixed at the local shop. Said it wasn't worth bothering with. Well...that might be to him, but it was Dad's. Dad was living in Michigan at the time, and took to Brausser;s. Dean not only fixed it, it looked like new.