Marklin question

Hi Everyone, I've been lurking here for a while, but I've never needed to ask any questions untill now. I aquired a box of HO model railway bits and pieces today, which my late Dad bought on Ebay for my nephews. I knew this stuff was around, because we bought it together around 10 - 12 years ago. Anyway, I got the box home - nephews have absolutely no interest in anything other than video games- and had a look at my bounty. There's a whole heap of steel track, some quite rusty, a Lima diesel in light blue SNCF livery which runs quite well, and a Marklin 0-6-0 with 4 coaches. When I tried this loco, the controlles buzzes- if I leave the juice on, the thermal cut out turns it off. I took the body off and tried turning the gears by hand- everything's free.There's a lever on the side which comes through the running plate that seems to throw a set of contacts internally- what would this be for? Is there anything I can try to get this loco running, or is it destined for display only? I tried it on 2 differeny controllers, a Bachmann Spectrum, and a Hornby Power Mite. I'd really like to get this loco working again, as it seems to be a good quality unit. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Laurie in Melbourne.

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Laurie
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The majority of Marklin locos have AC motors and run on track with studs sticking up in the middle of each tie. Essentially they're

3-rail AC locos like Lionel, Williams, etc., running on smaller track. Some can be converted to 2-rail DC operation fairly simply, but I don't believe the 0-6-0 falls in that category.

Len

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Len

Lima = 2 rail operation. Marklin = center-rail pick-up, running rail return. The Marklin (loco), when placed on 2 rail track, will short out the transformer as it needs the proper Marklin track to operate. Under the Marklin loco you should see a sprung shiney metal strip between the wheels that is intended to collect current. It also is designed to run on AC power at 6-16 volts. It would run on

0-12 DC as supplied by your controllers, but only in one direction. The small lever sticking through the body is a manual reversing lever. This was discontinued on models made after about the mid-1960s.

You have two models which operate on different systems.

Regards, Greg.P.

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Greg Procter

I have converted one Ma 3000 0-6-0 to two rail, by installing plastic axle bushes on the non-geared side. The conversion also required sawing off the cylinder on that side and refitting it with a piece of plasticard between chassis and cylinder. (plus another insulator under the vg mounting) It needs plain tyred wheels to replace the two rear rubber tyred wheels so that reasonable current collection can be obtained. Add PC board current collector wipers, diodes or Hamo permanent magnet and it runs like something from an alternative high speed universe.

Regards, Greg.P.

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Greg Procter

Instead of installing a permanent magnet you may replace the inversing relay by 2 diodes, 1N4000 type. The field windings each are fed by a diode, that conducts in opposite polarity.

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wim van bemmel

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Laurie

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