swsjames Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 The replacement for my failed Manning Wardle “Yeo” arrived on Saturday. The pony trucks have been redesigned with hair springs to centre them after a curve. Sadly, the running is even worse than the first version on my layout, which is based on Peco 12” pointwork. It shorts on encountering every point, even my one 18” radius point. Makes a lovely item in a static diorama but any movement is precluded. It looks as if my L&B layout will have to continue to be powered by my Bachmann 4-6-0 Baldwin, which runs perfectly over all my track work. Have any others got the new version MWs to run on Peco pointwork? My concern is that I had to remove the pony trucks to install the DCC chip (turned out to be a pig of a job) and I worry I might have reassembled the loco incorrectly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted December 20, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 20, 2018 Whole topic on it here http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/68054-lynton-barnstaple-oo9-loco-from-Heljan/?fromsearch=1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevelewis Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 The replacement for my failed Manning Wardle “Yeo” arrived on Saturday. The pony trucks have been redesigned with hair springs to centre them after a curve. Sadly, the running is even worse than the first version on my layout, which is based on Peco 12” pointwork. It shorts on encountering every point, even my one 18” radius point. Makes a lovely item in a static diorama but any movement is precluded. It looks as if my L&B layout will have to continue to be powered by my Bachmann 4-6-0 Baldwin, which runs perfectly over all my track work. Have any others got the new version MWs to run on Peco pointwork? My concern is that I had to remove the pony trucks to install the DCC chip (turned out to be a pig of a job) and I worry I might have reassembled the loco incorrectly. If you refer to the 'other forum' posts re the 'New' MW you will find loads of recent info I had one delivered last week Coupling rod became detached which was a change from valve gear failure on my Three mark one examples. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayfield Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 No experience with the latest RTR models but ran both 009, H0m and 0-16.5 stock two weekends ago and must say was quite disappointed with the 009 items along with 0-16.5 on cheap 00 chassis, Those 0-16.5 on decent chassis with quality motors are in a different class. The H0m ran faultlessly until the chip failed, which is now removed and again is a silky smooth operator I do have a coreless motor upgrade for a Roco loco, which I bought s/h and had connectivity issues between the pickups and motor. but I have a feeling using such small wheelsets in tiny chassis has drawbacks, unless the chassis are properly engineered Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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