DCC UR92's installed.
Put one in the spare corner room and other in the opposite corner.
The 50' long cables went from the center UR92 to the spare room and from there to the opposite corner UR92.
Couldn't hook the last one up to power: will have to get some extension cords, tomorrow.
Wish I would have bought this soldering station decades ago. Really nice and the brass shaving for cleaning the tip is 100 times better than a wet sponge.
The tip hardly oxidizes and, when some occurs, just push it into the brass shavings.
Looks like about 650 degrees is good to solder the small connectors.
I cranked it up to 850 degrees and it had no problem soldering a wire to the engine frame.
GN Q-1 decoder assembly.
As usual, connect the needed wires to test engine and sound.
Another case where the motor and gear are so efficient that some resistance against the drivers were needed to get some chuffing.
With the compact can motor, I figure I might as well add a back head.
Painted it first and then used the resistance soldering to secure it to the frame.
The heat and me holding the backhead in place with a band aid for heat protection, the pre-painted back head will need a little 'touch up'.
I cut a lot of wire that was protruding into the cab and fire box area for a clean alignment. A paper template was made to make sure the back head would fit.
No pictures but tender is assembled.
The engine has three harnesses that were made: 8 pin to tender, 2 pin to motor and a 4 pin to the boiler. The running lights, cab light, headlight in engine and tender and fire box are all good. I burned out the marker lights and will have to replace them..grrrrrr. I tested with the ground but can only do that momentarily and, for some reason, I left the ground on hoping it was not a short.
The soldering station made easy work of the harnesses. I used the old soldering iron to heat the shrink tubing.
