VinceofOz

Which is better Bowande or Accucraft?

I had the pleasure of getting the side pipe work off to remove the body to install the chip. At least I found I did not have to cut the speedo cable! One thing I found was removing the rear boogie was a real pain: took me well over an hour to reattach. My question is that it came with fire irons: where were they stored and attached in the real loco?

The universal coupling was found in the smoke box section. I reinstated it and snapped the motor back into place. Ran it and it seems fine now. I suspect the outer packing box was dropped, without damaging the box the loco came in, and dislodged the motor. Fingers crossed

Fitted one of these to my 08 yesterday. Thing is, using Railmater, is that the idle sound does not stay on on Engine start, thus it fails to notch up/down. I read the instructions but l am a bit lost. Should I reset the dcc and scrub the loco from Railmaster and start all over again?

Last week my Hornby TTS equipped LN arrived from a major UK retailer that was advetised on special. Box and contents looked pristine on arrival. But wheels would not turn, even with manual manipulation. Only found this out when I tried to run it. The motor was spinning okay I could hear. No damage to the coupling rods. So took it apart and the motor was dislodged and there was no obvious connection from the motor to the worm gear. As if it was broken in the factory. Any other reports of issues with this loco? First time ever have I bought a loco with two fly wheels and I could not find a service sheet or strip down video on what I should be looking for.