Dennis Holler posted:Yes, you are correct, I was just looking at one of mine last night and noticed the same thing and thought of your comment, just hadn't posted yet. You beat me to the punch lol
Those screws are stupid small, I've lost several myself. I'm tempted to re-tap 2-56 or so on some of them and replace with steel or SS screws... or nylon if I need them insulated. And John is 100% correct, using the MTH 10 pin board in the loco will be a test as it definitely will not fit that location without some serious changes to either the frame or the cab floor. I've got some ideas but they are not plug and play.
You need to show some pictures
Sure, now that I've put it all back together! It's going to get opened back up for more work shortly, so I'll take some pics then. Really haven't done too much so far other than swap out the Williams reverse board for the ERR, and put in sound, and run the original 4 wires between tender and engine through shrinkwrap. Got a proto coupler coming in this weekend (grabbed several off ebay), hopefully adding it to the tender will be do-able without too much pain. That'll probably wait until I figure which way I want to go in terms of a replacement smoke unit.
Also have to replace the "lens" on the headlight. When I popped off the front of the boiler, it decided to take a hike. Finding what amounted to a 30 year old piece of cellophane on the kitchen floor proved impossible, so I'll have to make a new one. Headlight is now out too. It worked when it got here, still should unless the "new" 30 year old bulb decided to bite the dust. Wiring had a disconnect that didn't seem to be keyed or marked, but a light bulb shouldn't care about polarity. I'd replace it with an LED, but since they DO care about polarity, and the light is being fed from the motor leads, that becomes problematic unless I want to do the surgery to replace the tether so I can run the light off the ERR board in the tender.
Really impressed with how nicely she moves at slow speed even on conventional (she did even before my surgery)...
