doug22150

I've fitted Zimo MX 616s into all of my Union Mills locos and only one of them required work to increase spece on top of the motor. I'm now adding Stay-Alive but this requires removal of the "coal" from the top of the tender. Running with Zimos is superb, with no tinkering with CVs. I like to achieve very slow running and because some of my track is slightly uneven have opted to add stay alive. Locos. thus fitted with crawl almost imperceptibly without faltering.

I recently has problems with a Dapol A4 which ran perfectly on DC power but which, after conversion to DCC, shorted-out on curves whenever run backwards! I found that the motor brush wires were shorting-out to the 3rd set of tender wheels because the brush-capacitor wires were too close to the wheels. Once I had spotted this, I carefully bent the wires well clear of the wheels and the problem was completely solved! Doug