Trains.com

Subscriber & Member Login

Login, or register today to interact in our online community, comment on articles, receive our newsletter, manage your account online and more!

Fixing up an old Fleischmann electric!

905 views
2 replies
1 rating 2 rating 3 rating 4 rating 5 rating
  • Member since
    March 2002
  • From: Milwaukee WI (Fox Point)
  • 11,439 posts
Posted by dknelson on Sunday, October 11, 2020 12:05 PM

Heh - the sound of that motor reminds me of my old Norelco (floating heads)  electric shaver.  

One good reason to video yourself taking it apart, aside from entertaining us viewers, is that now you will always know how to put it back together.  It is rare for me to finish a project like this at a single sitting and often I find by the time I return to it, I no longer have a reliable recollection of what goes where and how.  Assuming I can still find the screws that is!

Someone offered me a Fleischmann Baldwin switcher painted in C&NW knowing that was my prototype but upon seeing the huge flanges and the not very American looking trucks that they put under the model, I passed.  

Dave Nelson

  • Member since
    July 2006
  • From: Bradford, Ontario
  • 15,797 posts
Posted by hon30critter on Sunday, October 11, 2020 12:17 AM

Hi Darth,

Interesting video. 

Thanks,

Dave

I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!

  • Member since
    June 2005
  • 4,368 posts
Fixing up an old Fleischmann electric!
Posted by Darth Santa Fe on Saturday, October 10, 2020 10:20 PM

I actually recorded this video months ago, but wanted to finish the Arbour Models kit before putting it up.Smile

I got one of Fleischmann's German E44 electrics from the original 1952 production, and thought I'd make a video showing how to get these things repaired and tuned up.  It's my first time working on one of these, and they had some intersting ideas on how to put them together back then!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3BCBeb40Bg

_________________________________________________________________

Subscriber & Member Login

Login, or register today to interact in our online community, comment on articles, receive our newsletter, manage your account online and more!

Users Online

There are no community member online

Search the Community

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Model Railroader Newsletter See all
Sign up for our FREE e-newsletter and get model railroad news in your inbox!