Hi Dave my name is Paul Montgomery I just found your channel and subscribe you seem to be very knowledgeable about American flyer. I didn't know if you did repairs or not. I broke a wire on my silver streak armature while cleaning. I thought a gentleman was just going to reconnect the wire. But he put a used armature in it.. now if I have it jacked up in the air it runs and cycles fine but soon as there is wait on the wheels it wants to bind up and not go so well. I've been messing with it and just can't get it right. Didn't know where you were located or if you might be able to help. It ran just fine. Until I broke the little wire. Not really happy with myself. Thank you I subscribed to your channel look forward to your videos. Have a great night..
Hello Paul, thank you for watching. When you say “silver streak” is reference to 405 Alco PA diesel or is reference to Silver Bullet Pacific locomotive, or Silver Flash PA Alco. If it was a disassembled then the root cause of problem could be anything and everything between, only way to diagnose is have it in hand and disassemble. If you email davesaftrains (gmail) I will be glad to send you terms and conditions for an engagement to diagnose, recommend, repair, rebuild. Thanks, Dave
Dave, thanks for sharing this. You mentioned that if after pressing the wheel on to correct gauge with the vise, the wheel wobbles it can be corrected, How do you go about correcting a wobbly wheel? I've run into the wobbly wheel problem myself and haven't figured out how to correct it without removing the wheel and starting over, which doesn't always work for me. Thanks again for sharing your techniques.
Great question and thank you for watching. I stabilize the chassis usually in the vice to keep it steady and at right angles to my view. I rotate the axle and watch the wheel I just installed. I detect wobble with the eye test, one side of the wobble wheel with be “away” from the chassis and the other side “near.” I hold the axle in place and use a Sharpie to place a small dot on the rim at the away location. Remove chassis from vice and put only the edge of the wheel nearest the dot in the vice then rotate vice 1/4 turn. Repeat the process until no wobble is detected. I continue this and always check gauge with dime, be patient and use trial and error until corrected. I’ve always used this with satisfactory results. I confirm by pushing chassis-axle-wheel assembly around layout, and apply rotary tool brush to one wheel to check at high RPM.
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Hi Dave my name is Paul Montgomery I just found your channel and subscribe you seem to be very knowledgeable about American flyer. I didn't know if you did repairs or not. I broke a wire on my silver streak armature while cleaning. I thought a gentleman was just going to reconnect the wire. But he put a used armature in it.. now if I have it jacked up in the air it runs and cycles fine but soon as there is wait on the wheels it wants to bind up and not go so well. I've been messing with it and just can't get it right. Didn't know where you were located or if you might be able to help. It ran just fine. Until I broke the little wire. Not really happy with myself. Thank you I subscribed to your channel look forward to your videos. Have a great night..
Hello Paul, thank you for watching. When you say “silver streak” is reference to 405 Alco PA diesel or is reference to Silver Bullet Pacific locomotive, or Silver Flash PA Alco. If it was a disassembled then the root cause of problem could be anything and everything between, only way to diagnose is have it in hand and disassemble. If you email davesaftrains (gmail) I will be glad to send you terms and conditions for an engagement to diagnose, recommend, repair, rebuild. Thanks, Dave
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Dave, thanks for sharing this. You mentioned that if after pressing the wheel on to correct gauge with the vise, the wheel wobbles it can be corrected, How do you go about correcting a wobbly wheel? I've run into the wobbly wheel problem myself and haven't figured out how to correct it without removing the wheel and starting over, which doesn't always work for me. Thanks again for sharing your techniques.
Great question and thank you for watching. I stabilize the chassis usually in the vice to keep it steady and at right angles to my view. I rotate the axle and watch the wheel I just installed. I detect wobble with the eye test, one side of the wobble wheel with be “away” from the chassis and the other side “near.” I hold the axle in place and use a Sharpie to place a small dot on the rim at the away location. Remove chassis from vice and put only the edge of the wheel nearest the dot in the vice then rotate vice 1/4 turn. Repeat the process until no wobble is detected. I continue this and always check gauge with dime, be patient and use trial and error until corrected. I’ve always used this with satisfactory results. I confirm by pushing chassis-axle-wheel assembly around layout, and apply rotary tool brush to one wheel to check at high RPM.