Bachmann Lyn
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I've got an article in an old Garden Rail about converting Lyn to battery power, so it is certainly possible. It's a conversion I'd actually quite like to try myself, but I expect it's one of those things I'll never get around to I gather people have also converted examples to 32mm as well, but I'm not sure how you'd go about doing it.
I've got an article in an old Garden Rail about converting Lyn to battery power, so it is certainly possible. It's a conversion I'd actually quite like to try myself, but I expect it's one of those things I'll never get around to I gather people have also converted examples to 32mm as well, but I'm not sure how you'd go about doing it.
Hmmm, I may have to look out for one thenMuzTrem wrote:Nice
I've got an article in an old Garden Rail about converting Lyn to battery power, so it is certainly possible. It's a conversion I'd actually quite like to try myself, but I expect it's one of those things I'll never get around to I gather people have also converted examples to 32mm as well, but I'm not sure how you'd go about doing it.
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Hi all - first post on here.
I've just done a Bachmann Lyn conversion to battery. All the difficult bits aredescribed in pictures in my posts on GScaleMad at http://www.gscalemad.co.uk/forum/index. ... opic=11388
Hope you find it useful.
There's also a video of Lyn in action on my railway at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djg1XGg_1bU
It was earlier this winter and the track was still in its winter state (washed out ballast, etc) so don't be too hard on me!
I've just done a Bachmann Lyn conversion to battery. All the difficult bits aredescribed in pictures in my posts on GScaleMad at http://www.gscalemad.co.uk/forum/index. ... opic=11388
Hope you find it useful.
There's also a video of Lyn in action on my railway at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djg1XGg_1bU
It was earlier this winter and the track was still in its winter state (washed out ballast, etc) so don't be too hard on me!
Graham
Evensford and Midland Railway
British narrow gauge 45mm in the garden
Evensford and Midland Railway
British narrow gauge 45mm in the garden
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I agree - it would be a major rebuild. When I was looking for one and asking round, it became clear that the early Bachmann chassis used to strip gears due to some hot melt glue coming unstuck (mine doesn't have this rather strange method of holding the motor in place ).
Therefore you might just possibly find one as a box of bits as a project. The body is not bad at all, even if a bit flimsy in parts.
Therefore you might just possibly find one as a box of bits as a project. The body is not bad at all, even if a bit flimsy in parts.
Graham
Evensford and Midland Railway
British narrow gauge 45mm in the garden
Evensford and Midland Railway
British narrow gauge 45mm in the garden
But, while they are not the most reliable runners, it might be easy enough to put one of the many dead ones on a 32mm chassis.mhlr wrote:Ah, looks like there's no way of changing to 32 unless you get a new chassis... :(
The only question then should be are they to "scale" or did Bachmann follow LGB and stretch it here and there for 45mm gauge operation? Remember the G in G-Scale in german stands for "Gummi" afterall!
Garrett
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Good point.Spule 4 wrote:But, while they are not the most reliable runners, it might be easy enough to put one of the many dead ones on a 32mm chassis.mhlr wrote:Ah, looks like there's no way of changing to 32 unless you get a new chassis... :(
The only question then should be are they to "scale" or did Bachmann follow LGB and stretch it here and there for 45mm gauge operation? Remember the G in G-Scale in german stands for "Gummi" afterall!
For me, it only needs to "look right" on my railway but for others, it would matter a lot. A quick measure up from the 4mm drawing in Chris Leigh's L&B book shows Lyn was about 23' 6" over the buffer beams. My Bachmann Lyn is 320mm long, which looks like about 1:22.5. For 16mm scale, that would make it 376mm, so it's about 56mm short. Quite a bit too small if you want a scale train of L&B carriages.
Still looks a great little engine though
Graham
Evensford and Midland Railway
British narrow gauge 45mm in the garden
Evensford and Midland Railway
British narrow gauge 45mm in the garden
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