Hornby Tornado retro fitting TTS in boiler?

[70E]

A friend of mine has bought his son a Hornby Tornado (not sure which version) but the decoder socket is in the boiler. Thinking the new separate decoder and speaker would fit only to find that it doesn't .

 

Before I offer to have a go has anyone retro fitted a TTS decoder in a Hornby Tornado boiler? Does the decoder fit and what size speaker did you use (I assume sugar cube)?

 

Thanks

[RAF96]

I fitted a mocro-cube onto the chassis step just ahead of the decoder socket in a DCC Ready Merchant Navy which has a very similar chassis to Tornado.

 

I had to trim the boiler weight to get the TTS decoder in under the funnel and I took a wee bit of the body lower inner edges to clear the speaker.

 

Others have reported stuffing the (cube) speaker under the funnel and parking the decoder over the socket.

Rob

[Stormbringer]

I put both speaker (sugarcube) and decoder in the smokebox on my railroad Tornado. Works nicely too.

 

Pete