Tim123

As long as the speaker’s resistance is a minimum of 8 ohms it will be fine. Any less and the amplifier on the decoder will at best get very hot, worst case it could burn out.

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6 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Winter flu or WInter poo?

Hi, like the earlier City of Leicester the loco mechanism and entire tender is from the standard plastic bodied range. The main difference is the metal loco body and the packaging. I'm sure the latest MN chassis has flywheel drive, it's a very smooth runner.

Hornby use an 8 pin decoder socket in the tender, and there's provision for sound should you wish to fit it.

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3 minutes ago, grahame said:

If you're a NGS member check in the Handbook you'd have been supplied with when joining. There's a very good section about split gears, including identifying and dealing with them.

 

Thanks. Joining the NGS will more than likely happen once I receive the locos and decide if N is for me. Been modelling in OO since Santa delivered my first trainset at Christmas 1970 so I'll need to get used to things being smaller.

I am about to inherit some Farish Poole diesel locos which have been in storage for a while. They have been tested recently, and they either clicked when running or the motors hummed with no movement. From the descriptions given they are class 20, 25, 33, 37, 47 and a central motored HST, all have black plastic gears and 5 pole motors.

Until I see the locos I'm having to assume that some of the gears on the drive wheels have failed, and possibly also the intermediate gears. I'm comfortable dismantling mechanisms and changing gears and would prefer to do the work myself.

So are all the gears within the bogies available as spares? I've looked at Farish N Spares website, but I can't find any online exploded diagrams of the bogies for any class of loco. Are any particular gears no longer available? Also can the drive wheel sets be easily dis-assembled and replacement gears fitted? if so what size / how many teeth for a typical diesel loco?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363497467396

Maybe a smaller speaker would help? 

29 minutes ago, Mike Harvey said:

@Tim123 The five car unit is 87.5cm long.

Thanks

Could someone measure the set  when fully assembled please. I'm planning on revisiting N gauge and would like to know for platform lengths and hidden sidings.

Thanks.

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Found this on Peter's Spares, as the TTS Mk1 sound model is listed as a spare part. I'm assuming they're in the order of F1, F2 etc. If not I'm sure you can match them up!

Air Spanner

Cockerel

Crowd

Dawn Chorus

Dog

Guards Whistle

Rake Boiler

Riveter

Slam Doors

Slow Workshop

Stable

Steam Train

Passing Wagons

The first few batches of this loco were not DCC ready. 32-502 went on sale in 2002, but from 2005 onwards the loco had an 8 pin decoder socket located in front of the motor. As its not a "split frame" construction there will be room for a decoder up front, possibly in the smokebox. However fitting the decoder will require sole soldering. Hope this helps.