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  1. Thanks smokebox. I pulled off some wire from the inductor coil, drilled out the solder from the terminal and soldered it back in place. Now runs.
  2. Thanks Nik. I took the photo from Bachmann 's website, I am using a sound decoder. I take it the inductors are soldered in place? Will need to order a replacement PCB from Bachmann.
  3. As the title says, on a Bachmann 3MT 2-6-2. There are 2 spring like components on the PCB (arrowed on photo) and one of them has come away from the PCB at one end, is this the reason?
  4. Try building Ratio signals and getting them to work! I did, eventually, but what a struggle.
  5. Anyone managed to unplug the tender from the loco? I've got the extraction tool, but it wont budge! If I use anymore force something is going to break.
  6. Just read the review of the Bachmann 4-CEP EMU. Very nice looking model, you'll get 5p change from £550!
  7. Happy New Year everyone. Had this loco a few years and it's now started shorting as soon as it's placed on the track. It's not being caused by the wheels on the sprung axle (4th) contacting the chassis, (common problem apparently) I fixed this when I first got it. I'm looking for suggestions to start the process of elimination, electrics is not my strong point. I've tried a few things to try and find the cause ie. uncoupled the tender, unplugged the decoder, placed the loco on the track with front wheels only contacting the rails and then with rear wheels only contacting the rails, and it is still shorting. Any suggestions please?
  8. Spoke to Hattons yesterday, they are expecting them in the New Year. Seems odd that some "smaller" retailers have already received them before one of the biggest retailers in the UK.
  9. Have pre ordered a Class 37, and will need to convert it to EM. I know there are drop in wheel sets available but wondered if the existing wheels can be pulled further off the axles to give 16.5 mm B2B, are the axles long enough and are they 3mm dia.? Only ever converted one diesel before, a Heljan Class 23 and did this using the existing wheels and axles.
  10. I have pre ordered the unlined green 78000 version from Hattons. This has been available direct from Hornby since the 18th I think, but have not heard anything from Hattons yet. Anyone have any info re. this?
  11. What's the best way with out cutting into the actual wire? This is decoder speaker wire 0.5mm dia. I'm using a scalpel blade to remove the insulation for a soldered joint, but keep cutting into the wire and it's getting shorter and shorter with each attempt.
  12. I'm looking to change the sugar cube speakers in some of my steam locos with something that has more bass. The volume is not the issue, there just seems to be no depth to the sound. I have several ESU 25 x 16 x 7 mm 4 ohm speakers that came with the ESU V4 micro decoders. Do these have a decent bass sound? or would I be better with something like a Megabass speaker 25 x 25 x 7. or a 27 x 27 x 13? The locos have tenders with the decoders fitted in the loco body, so will fit the speakers in the tender, using a 2 pin plug/socket from decoder wires to speaker wires. The advice I've seen, use the "biggest" speaker that will fit the available space, which is best, a speaker that is say, 13mm deep but smaller L x W, than one that is 7mm deep? Any advice please.
  13. Nigel, Managed to sort it out. Row 10 did have sound slot 14 in it, controlled by F8. All the sound slots were from row 4 to row 25, with the F keys in sequence with the rows ie. F2 (row 4), F3 (row 5) an so on, to F23 (row 25). I just went along each row noting the values of each CV, took me just over an hour, Thank you for your help. Phil.
  14. No, not confirmed the mapping line, just that F4 = sound slot 11, I was just going off the manual, that F4 was on mapping row 10. I checked Control B for mapping row 10 cv402 and it reads 000, so not F4? I will investigate further tomorrow. It's obviously not as straight forward as the V4.
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