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Howdy Train Folk!
It’s Eli from Flint Rock Valley.

I have been repairing & rebuilding my Postwar Lionel Trains for quite sometime now. After a long hiatus & working on my Control Panel & finishing touches on my layout I can now get back to my Service Yard/ Desk. Not one single engine, rolling stock, or otherwise gets put on the layout without a thorough going through. Whether it be a simple cleaning, & or an entire breakdown & rebuild. And from this point forward I shall document the process to share w/ you.

Due to the lengths of my clips you’ll have to view them via my channel. Hopefully they will be of some help to those in need.
As always I welcome any & all comments & questions.

Hope Y’all enjoy the view...

& Thanks so much for “Tuning” in!

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Flint Rock Valley posted:

To begin with, here’s one on Lionel’s Postwar 624 Diesel Switcher. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fxJZTncAw0

Eli, great videos. Very thorough job, it’s probably running better than new! Amazing to see the old gears and commutator shine up like a new penny.

FYI - You can embed the YouTube url and it will show in the post. You have to click the insert media button shown below. Then copy and paste the YouTube url into the blank text field. 

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JD2035RR posted:
Flint Rock Valley posted:

To begin with, here’s one on Lionel’s Postwar 624 Diesel Switcher. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fxJZTncAw0

Eli, great videos. Very thorough job, it’s probably running better than new! Amazing to see the old gears and commutator shine up like a new penny.

FYI - You can embed the YouTube url and it will show in the post. You have to click the insert media button shown below. Then copy and paste the YouTube url into the blank text field. 

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Thank You so much for the compliments JD2035RR! 
Also thanks for the hint about embedded the links. Looks as if I’ll have to do that from the pc though, as I can’t find an option available via mobile phone. 
Glad you enjoyed the vids, Sir! 

Though I am not an active PW guy... I was at one time until eventually my roots in HO won out.

Having said that, I note that there's just something relaxing and appealing about PW to me. Not for sure why, but I think it's because I like the heft, their simplistic and solidly-built nature, their smells (both sitting and running), their sounds they produce... and likely all of this is enhanced by their history and legacy.

I will say that it was great using actual screw drivers and tools to work on them! (You ought to see the tiny tools, drills, files, and such, I used to work in HO!)

So, I think a personal appreciation of PW is likely going to be with me the rest of my life, for its been with me for a long time. Perhaps "one of these days" I'll have another PW set... but I honestly don't know where I would put it! In a perfect world, I would have several buildings, each filled with a layout that caters to a specific interest!

Andre

Flint Rock Valley posted:

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...3#138963676826204573

Carl, the “date” is already on the topic reply... 

Doing as you suggest would make it appear as I’d shared all on this thread that same day/ date. 
Thanks for your input though, Sir! 

You missed the point, FRV.  By editing the thread's title to include the date of the newly added material, you alert readers, like me, that you have added new material.  Without the edited title, your thread may have appeared because someone replied to it and not because YOU added something new.

Do as you like, but no one is going to think that by adding a date for the update that your thread is only one day old, especially is you add something like:  "(Updated 3/21/2020)".

You seem to be a fairly good job on your repairs. I do dis-agree with one thing you did with the switcher. Instead of using that goop that you used to repair the wire with the bad insulation it would make a much more professional job if you had just replaced the wire with a new piece of super flex wire. If the wire insulation cracked it was probably getting brittle and will only get worse. I don't know anything about the product you used but have done work on engines that used some form of liquid tape that never really hardened and left quite a mess to be cleaned for proper repair. Not trying to be critical of your work. Just giving you my point of view on that particular part of it. Have fun with what you are doing. Thank you for your post. There are many here that will benefit from them.

Forest

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