Alright, I've got the MTH worms and I'm almost done mechanically. Had to buy another 4mm spacer and a couple shims to properly set the forward worm, should have those in a couple days. Rear worm fits like a glove.
Also needed to get a second 15/32 dog bone from Lionel since MTH is out of stock. But it's looking good from that end.
So now moving to thinking about electrical. Thanks to a forum member, I've got a set of MUX boards. It was easy enough to find where the MUX mounts in the tender, there was already a bracket installed waiting for it. And I can see the mount locations in the boiler for the mux and tether boards. Piece of cake. But something about the tender is bugging me. I don't understand what the second 10-pin tether socket connects to. I feel like maybe I'm missing a cable that is supposed to connect that socket to the MUX board?
Also, the smoke unit that was included, although it has the correct funnel, seems like the mounting legs are the "short" instead of "long" legs that I need. Fortunately, I have a spare PS2 smoker, but I'm not sure it's compatible. Can this one be used with the 3V and MUX configuration? (Proposed substitute on right, engine shipped with one on left). I'm also thinking it's possible that the short leg unit is correct, but I'm missing a mount bracket that raises the unit up. Because it doesn't look like the mount screws are accessible from below, and the holes are tapped in the chassis leading me to think I should be looking to make a bracket.
Then all I gotta do is figure out how to rig up the encoder to the motor mount since I'm not using the original motor and encoder mount ring. I'm thinking of just some epoxy and burying the back of the encoder PCB into the adhesive and letting it set up with a 1mm spacer between it and the flywheel.
Thanks for all the help guys!
