One of these days I'm going to remember to take pictures when I've got the thing ripped apart! Opened her up again tonight after work to replace the headlight with an LED. Of course, it's never that easy. Had to drill out the hole at the back of the headlight to accommodate the shrink wrapped LED leads. I probably could have avoided this if I'd just cut them really short and soldered the original wires on to them, but then if I had to work on it a few years down the line, I'd never remember which lead was positive and which wasn't.
As with the back of the headlight, the hole on top of the boiler for the wires needed enlarged too, which of course knocked off the generator. Soldered and shrink wrapped the LED wires to the bridge rectifier, soldered the other rectifier legs to wires attached to the original tiny board screwed below the smoke unit (which will remain a project for another day), carefully managed to put everything back where I found it (at the moment the rectifier, since it has no exposed wiring, is just tossed in on the other side of the boiler from the smoke unit's electronics), and crazy glued the generator back on (had thoughts of re-soldering it, but the glue was so much easier).
Once I clear off the test track (it's got the new Blue Comet pacific and the camelback which came in Saturday sitting on it at the moment), I'll fire it up and get some pics. Still have to get some sort of electro-coupler for it too. Speaking of which, I needed to replace the rear coupler on the Blue Comet, which is a proto-1, and the MTH site says to use a DD-0000032, which is a proto-2 coupler "(this PS2 coupler may be used on PS1 (but CANNOT use PS1 on PS2)". So MTH proto-1 equipment will fire a proto-2 coupler, but the EER boards will only fire a proto-1?
