Well, I just did a duplicate thing, but retroactively. I have an MTH PS1 Camelback (New Jersey. Central) that intermittently would just stop running. The lights and sounds would stay on but it just wouldn’t move. I had taken it to my local hobby shop to be repaired, but they fail to do so.
So I started thinking about Upgrading it to PS3 or ERR. My LHS said it would be a $350 conversion. I got to looking on eBay to see if I could find a somewhat inexpensive one that I could buy to try to swap out parts. I found one that had some small cosmetic problems and wasn’t selling for too much. However, it was advertised as running beautifully. So, I got it. PS 1 engines do run beautifully so I didn’t mind sticking with that system. The newer systems are better, but for my purposes PS1 in this camelback would be quite sufficient
Well, when I got it it did run beautifully. After messing around with it and my engine I found that I simply needed to change the tender and my engine ran perfectly. I will simply swap out the tender shells as mine is in beautiful condition. So now I have a beautiful engine that runs perfectly by retroactively buying a duplicate.
I will sell the leftover engine and tender on eBay, and of course being truthful about the operational challenge. It just probably needs a new board in the tender. Even though I won’t get that much for the operationally challenged engine it will help offset the cost of fixing my old one by retroactively buying a duplicate.
Alan
