Help with non-working RC Locos

[tahra]

Be careful the wheels are driven by a worm and if you spin them you may strip the drive wheel in the loco.

Uhm... .... uhm? 

I am sorry, I have no idea what you mean 

Try to move them GENTLY, right?

[Tiermann]

If it's too stuck you can break off the teeth on the gears, and then it won't turn the wheels even when the motor is running.

[tahra]

If it's too stuck you can break off the teeth on the gears, and then it won't turn the wheels even when the motor is running.

Ah!  Right - so, just try gently, not really forcing it...

Sorry, I know nothing of trains

[tahra]

(1) Try to make the wheels spin (turn, birl?) by hand. They (a) spin freely; (b) can be moved with slight efford; (c) they can hardly be moved at all...
=> (a) the motor's missing (quite unlikely but I do have an engine here sent to me to find the reason why it's not working - and it simply lacks a motor... someone must have extricated it)
=> (b) that's fine, keep looking for another reason...
=> (c) motor might have seized up. Carefully try to make wheels move/turn/spin/birl... by hand.

As I suspected, it's (b) - they can be moved with some effort (I was being careful)...

[tahra]

And... are there instructions for dummies to remove the motor blocks? I am kinda afraid to break something.. 

And.. part 2 - if they can't be made to work, is there a way to "release" the wheels, so that at least I can pus/pull the thing along the tracks? 

[tahra]

Well, the Nostalgie just worked, and the Xmas one started to work when I pushed it along some, as per instructions from someone on THAT site...

I will get  those new battery cases, I think maybe the batteries were not strong enough? They are ancient..

[playmofire]

As the locos haven't been used for a long time, the grease in them may have hardened but getting the loco to run will help loosen this. 

[Junker Jörg]

Apologies for not having come back here sooner. "New post" mails must have slipped my attention. Hope all trains are running fine now?

jj:

[tahra]

As reported, with a suggestion from someone on THAT site, they are all working. The ICE will still have that issue with the battery being lose, but.. will try figure out a more elegant solution when I need it..

My dad replaced the batteries on one of the xmas train AKUs (bought used, it came with two of them, both dead), and case, Justin Case, I got the battery cases from ds. I'm set

[Junker Jörg]

The ICE will still have that issue with the battery being lose, but..

Nicht elegant aber effektiv: Einen Streichholzsplitter mit reinklemmen - not really  elegant but quite effecitve: push a wee splinter at one side next to the power box.

jj: