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Thanks, I'll look forward to seeing that.

I use one, it works ok, it throws pairs of motors linked together, but is noticeably slow recharging compared to my Gaugemaster one which recharges quicker than I can operate the switch. Both supplied from the same transformer.

Not always. I have never wired two (even three) motors in any other way and they have never failed to switch.

"Yeah No" is being used a lot to start a reply.

Another loco I bought new in 1978 and had only been test run. Having a load of used decoders from my sound conversions I have been using them up on some split chassis Mainline locos and thought I would try a tender drive model. A simple conversion, as all it needs is the wires removed from the motor and connected to the decoder, and the decoder wires to the motor. This decoder is an old Bachmann one that only had short addressing. The tender gears were regreased and motor shaft bearing oiled. I was quite pleased with the result for a 45 year old loco costing £16.95. And here it is running...

What did you do to make you think that?

The posh hearea.

Check that the bogies aren't catching on the solebar trusses.

Just looked through the rest, 4, and they are ok. The botched ones were Royal Scot and Scots Guardsman which I think may have been the first releases and were the top of my pile. It shouldn't be hard to put mounting points in, though I don't know what it is inside that is keeping the other one unopenable.

I have a few boxed Mainline Jubilee and Royal Scot locos bought new when first released. I had no proper layout at the time so they have only had occasional test runs and are suffering non of the known problems associated with split chassis locos (yet). A while back I converted a Jubilee with Fowler tender for dcc by wiring a 4 pin jst lead into the tender which was successful. Having a load of spare decoders after fitting sound to a lot of my locos I thought I would convert some more Mainline locos and chose one with a Stanier tender. On removing the two fixing screws in the tender chassis I found I could not remove the body. It appeared to be glued in, so running a scalpel blade around it released it and I was surprised to find there had never been mounting points for the screws in the body, and a piece of polystyrene most probably used as a spacer until the glue dried. I examined another Stanier tender and found that to be similar, although after breaking the glue bond the body will still not come off. It also felt heavier than the previous one. Looking through the fireman's tool tunnel I could see some hard resin like material which must be bonding it all together. Were these tenders a botch up job?

Is this on both the program track and the main?

My Prodigy Advance power supply is labelled 15vDC 3.5A. Track voltage measured on same MM is 14.6V

I recognised the profile picture.

I am only on nodding terms with my neighbours, I have only lived here 39 years.