Trev520

Well I have given the loco a lot more light engine running, and just loosened the drawbar a tad. It seems to have settled down and is handling my normal loads O.K. I have managed to lose the chimney top 3 times now so it has Benin fixed solid! Thanks for the various comments. Trev

I have just got my 4705 and generally like the look of it. It runs ok but it does seem to slip on my incline, I do have quite sharp inclines but most of my locos cope with 6 coaches without slipping. The 47xx struggles and even seems to struggle light engine. Most of the reviews suggest it has good haulage capacity -certainly has weight. Just wondered if anyone else had similar issues or ideas? I did wonder if the tender drawbar might be causing the chassis to not be sitting on its drivers fully.

Thanks Ian. I had not heard of that one I will investigate. trevor

I have been using Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 for some years to organise my photographs. It has a major benefit to me of allowing you to view photographs in a date view and also allowing you to add text to the day. This lets me record details of trips etc which is really useful. Having upgraded my PC the program is not working well so I am looking to replace. I already have Adobe Photoshop Elements 14 which has lost this feature replacing it with "events ". Has anyone got any suggestions for software to use. For info I have about 60,000 images covering 60 years to organise. Any ideas welcome Trevor

Thanks for the reply Kev, unfortunatley no back up as the iPhone failed to link properly! Oh well not the end of the world.

Whilst using an iPhone 4s to run Touchcab all of my loco list disappeared! I use it with a Lenz 100 where the stack is still present. Has anyone else had similar prob? Bit of a pain as I had input names and sound functions for a significant number of locomotive. Trev

Something that I had not thought of, I will check the loco b to b in the morning. Thanks for your thoughts. trev

Thanks for the suggestion, I will look at that as an option. Trev

Had another look at the manuals, thanks for the links. In the end I reset the control unit, 25 presses of f4! This cleared the command stack but I still have some loco's on the LH100 handsets which do not want to clear? The good news seems to be that the loco's on my iPhone Touchcab "stack" are all still there so I have not lost the additional data for sound, names etc that Touchcab allows. I reckon I have cleared at least 100 addresses so a good result. Thanks for the responses Trev

I keep getting the Err31 code which tells me the stack is full on the Lenz command station. I can delete locomotives from the handset stack but is there anyway of scrolling through the command station stack, and deleting them? I use Touchcab but this does not seem to let you delete from the command station list. Any help appreciated. Thanks

I seem to have lost one of the crank pins on my model. Has anyone had a similar problem? Is there an alternative or are spares available?

Steve, I dropped you a pm

I had another look through my box of couplings and found some alternative stepped couplings. Not sure of the origin but they do seem to create a better match with the stock. Hopefully be able to test them on the layout tomorrow.

Well finally found the problem. I managed to isolate the track section where the short was occurring. I could find nothing on the actual track, using eyeball & magnet as suggested. I use Peco switches attached to the PL10 point motors to change Frog polarity, I started checking these and found that one of the terminal contacts had got bent and was shorting. I must have caught it with my jumper sleeve. Bent them apart and I was back in business! Thanks for all of the suggestions. Trevor

I have managed to lose one of the brushes & spring for the motor on my Bachmann OW10. I have tried Bachmann but the model has been updated with a new model so spares are not available. The motor is a small open frame type, the brushes being much smaller than Hornby Ringfield type. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can resurrect this Motor? Thanks