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Hi, Back in my younger days i had a rake of Hornby mk2 coaches with a class 37 as one of my first train sets. I alway remember the coaches had thier window frames finished in bright chrome. 40 years later, and im building a rake of 7mm ones, I'm wondering if any did actually have chrome /silver window frames, or was it just a Hornby thing??

Fantastic, thanks, this is just what i needed! from memory I seemed to remember the red and white were different but most photos don't show it!

Hi you knowledgeable lot!! Im about to paint my 7mm scale mk2's into executive livery but before I do, I'm undecided on the dimensions of the red and white bands!!!! Does anyone know the width of these, either full size, or in 7mm scale??? Thanks!!

That's good enough for me, time to order some paint!!!......

Hi everyone! Im currently building a collection of 7mm mk2a's all built from Triang big big train coaches. So far ive done 4 SO's and a single BFK. I remember the colourful late 80's and would love to build another BFK, but in intercity livery ( easier to paint than blue and grey!!) My question is, how many mk2a's were painted in intercity? And were there any SO's too??

@ hamburger, Your trick worked!! Why on earth CV3 isn't set like other manufacturers, or is that high in the first instance, i have no idea! Had you not told us about it, I'd still be tweaking gains etc all to no avail. Thank you!

What did steve from southwest recommend, out of interest???

As i suspected, ive always used MX645 but for some reason i cant get one for love or money, so went ESU instead. My job is setting up industrial motor drives, but this v5 is really taking the mickey!!

Hi all, I am desperately (and almost losing the will to live) trying to get my 0 gauge brassworks 08 to run smoothly with a loksound v5 chip. Ive fitted loads of decoders in the past, but just cannot get this to stop jerking!!!! The loco is perfect, ive even stripped it down to a bare chassis and still cant get it to run without 'kangarooing' at low and medium speeds. The best i can do is to set the PWM frequency as high as possible and reduce the Bemf value to about 100, though this has the effect of next to zero torque on the wheels, ie, wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding! Has anyone done this before with any, or lack of success??

Brilliant! Thanks for the replies. I was beginning to wonder if my browser wasn't compatible! It gives me a phone number, I'll call him monday. Regards Simon

Hi, Might be a daft question, and i hope it is! Does anyone know how to go about ordering from easybuild? Are they still going? The website has a destinct lack of contact details and ordering information and I'm really confused!? Thanks everyone?

Hi Nigel, many thanks for the reply, i have tried manually selecting the correct t decoder id, but when i try to read the decoder for its function table contents, although the loco is 'twerking' the table boxes remain blank. It still takes ages to read ages lines (as normal) but the result is a blank box!!??

Evening, ( or rather morning!) all, Ive been using decoder pro for some time now, but recently i've been given a loksound V5 to fit. For some reason i cant get the decoder to identify as a V5xl. i've tried paged and direct bit, and the responses i get are that it identifies as a Roco 10745, an ESU switchpilot and ESU Lokpilot, but not as what it should be! the decoder is brand new, and it works ( default address etc..). I've even tried a factory reset, all to no avail. i've even installed JMRI onto a newer PC and the latest version on windows 10 ( just in case the decoder descriptions were a bit screwy on my old XP machine!) Hoping someone can tell me whats going on!!! All i want to do is edit the funtion table and turn the volume down ! many thanks.

Hi ! only just found this, so forgive me for being late. i have successfully repaired ESU and Zimo decoders in the past ! ...when you say 'the power transistor', do you mean there is no output to the motor? ( I only ask as the transistors are normally an array contained in an 8-pin chip ) regards

Thanks for the answers, jist in case anyone was wondering...... I fixed it for the grand cost of 28p!!