Heljan Mogul comes to Llanidris - settling in slowly!
After various struggles with decoder settings and the realisation that I should never use the momentum button on my NCE Powercab as it over-writes decoder settings, my new Mogul is running pretty well now, though I'm still trying to get to the bottom of the occasional jerky movement, some of which you might see in this video. When it first arrived with me there was a loose buffer, an under-gauge front pony truck (both easily sorted) and a definite clash in the crosshead and crankpin area, which I think I've stopped with a little gentle outward pressure on the slide bars on one side, so that they are parallel with the loco. One or two jerks have been due to less than perfect pickup, but a good track cleaning session seems to have solved that. It's a shame there are no pickups on the loco, although, as others have said, the wheelbase of the tender is at least as long as a lot of tank engines.
It's all ok, but I would like it to be as good as possible - the loco looks great and it would be nice to have that same feeling about the running qualities. I might be a bit spoiled by some of my other locos.
Edited by Stringfingerling
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