Eveannessant

I've altered the speakers and their location is now underneath the PCB, between the flywheels and drive towers. I've also changed the speakers for 8mm deep Ice Cubes, again from You Choos. These produce a much better sound than the 5mm deep Sugar Cubes. Next I managed to get hold of "The Royal Naval Reserve" body in blue, and ransacked the cab and directional lighting boards for my green D800 Sir Brian Robertson, which in turn has been given a new identity as D832 Onslaught, transfers and etched plates from Fox Transfers. Both D809 and D832 now have identical sound eqt.. Photo shows speaker location on the underside of the PCB, however speaker wires have since been lengthened and run on top of the PCB to avoid any slight possibility of being damaged by the flywheels. Speakers attached with 'black tack".

Dear Bob, If it isn't too much trouble after 3.5 years has elapsed since the last posting on this thread, could you also send a scanned copy to me please, I've searched all places on the web without any success. Kind Regards, Eve

Does anybody have a definitive list of the models that had lighting or without lighting, and ride height variations, this would aid buying of items from flea-bay.

Wow, this is a very informatve & helpful posting by Silver Sidelines. I have two of the later Class 42 Warship chassis, one bought complete as D809 Champion, it's been a real pain to fit sound, however by attaching the speaker wires to the feet of the 21 pin decoder adapter (two pins immediately next to the blank indexing space) I have got sound working using a You Choos supplied Zimo MX64 decoder and two 5mm deep sugar cube speakers, quiet at first but altering the volume to 85% is acceptable. The other chassis was a blue one bought complete 5-6 years ago, this was to replace an old Mainline chassis. I painted the visible part of the chassis green to match my mainline body and it worked fine, in fact for 5 years the body was held in place by slightly wet paint. Previously, I too had removed the mainline motor and ran it as a dummy with the other Bachmann Warship. Six years later I'm wanting lights & sound in most of my models. To this end I purchased a Bachmann body from e-bay, thinking of proper attachment to chassis and lights. It was D800 Sir Brian Robertson, I was a little put out by the fact that it wasn't the same internally as my Maroon D809. Ho hum, I suppose I'll have to resort to hard wiring, strip board and LEDs with resistors. I wish I'd found this most informative posting previously..................it'd have saved my purchasing a body that's little better that the Mainline one.