Motor maintenance and DCC conversion guide for Bachmann / Airfix On30 4-4-0 Jupiter

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Hi all,

 

Hope this video will be useful to someone. I have converted my first (and only for now) On30 gauge loco, this lovely Jupiter 4-4-0 Airfix / Bachmann.

 

The trick with it was that it had been converted to DCC and for months it ran well, until it more or less decided not to run forwards any more. It could, but helped along and very choppy. I had not filmed the initial conversion to DCC, but since in orer to fix the issue the motor had to be fully stripped down, the tender, motor, decoder and every bit and bolt had to be taken off and put back together. There was a crazy amount of carbon dust clogging up everything, I'm pretty sure no amount of compressed air would have fixed it.

 

Let me know what you think