oil bunker for Bachmann's HO 4-6-0

[tirebiter3]

Does Bachmann or some other manufacturer make an oil bunker for Bachmann's 4-6-0?

[Atlantic Central]

You can put the medium oil vandy tender from Bachmann behind your 4-6-0, but you will need to make the following modifications - this is a copy of info I post way back.

Tender Swap – Bachmann medium Vanderbilt oil tender (Item #89905) with 63" driver 10 wheeler (Item #82307)

Initial test using jumpers provided with the tender – dead short, no operation.

Original plan – move 10 wheeler circuit board into new tender. This proved unworkable for several reasons, 10 wheeler circuit board too large and wires too short to fit into Vanderbilt tender without major modifications to both the tender and the circuit board.

New plan – can existing circuit board from Vanderbilt tender be rewired to work with 10 wheeler. A simple examination of both circuit boards revealed that while different, they both have the same basic connections, so the problem must lie in pin assignments in the connectors.

Tracing wires and a few simple checks revealed that the two wire connector simply brings the loco pickups to the circuit board. Reversing the wires on one end of the two wire jumper corrected this. Now the loco runs but in the wrong direction.

Two of the wires on the four wire plug are the motor leads. Reversing them gave us correct operational direction.

This only left the front headlight. The circuit board in the Vanderbilt tender is for the 2-8-0 which has 12 volt lamps for lighting. The 10 wheeler uses LED's, this is the main reason the circuit board is different. Rather than trying to modify the circuit, I simply replaced the loco headlight LED with a 12 volt lamp.

Additionally I added weight to the Vanderbilt tender bringing it weight to about 5 oz. and replaced all couplers with genuine Kadee #148 on both the loco front and tender.

Result – loco now converted, runs well with original 10 wheeler draw bar and looks great. 


Sheldon

[rich1998]

couple possibilities in the link below. he also sells some nice crewman.

http://www.yardbirdtrains.com/YBDetailParts.htm

lex

[Pacific Northern]

Does Bachmann or some other manufacturer make an oil bunker for Bachmann's 4-6-0?

Are you referring to the 4-6-0 with the 63" or the 52" driver set? 

The  4-6-0 with the 52" drivers comes with the same small tender as the 4-4-0. The 4-4-0 comes with both the wood and oil tender conversion pieces.

If the 4-6-0 you are referring to is the small driver engine then you could contact the Bachmann parts department and arrange to purchase the necessary pieces.