Another successful conversion from truck mounted Rapido couplers to body mounted Microtrains [ATTACH]
I have a gold ALP-45. Decoder works great. Unit has some issues with the drive train that I haven't been able to get full resolved. The design...
So got some conducta lube to see if that helped. Also flipped the motor around because the circuit board had a cut out that seemed like it should...
Very nice. Did you find a place to fabricate the whole circuit or did have to solder it yourself? I started trying to create a GERBER file for a...
So I got the loco apart cleaned the motor with ACT-6006 and contact cleaner spray. Put it back together and it is not any better. I did have the...
So the ALP-45 is a pain to disassemble. The motor is blocked in by the circuit board. The circuit board is secured by two screws and white foam...
So Atlas just recommended a general cleaning and lubrication with conduct-a-lube. Figure if I am going to do that might as well do the more...
So I had mine repaired by Atlas. Went from hardly moving to being able to go at at what is maybe 1/3 of what a typical engine would do. Had not...
Finally got around to programming my atlas commuter car decoder for the ditch lights to function properly. It had a Next18 slot so I had gotten a...
Pricing the model the same as the 1:1 engine? $39,799 for an RS-2 [ATTACH]...
I found one post that recommended using Aurduino header pins. I might give that a try
I want to electrically connect my N scale lighted passenger cars together. The goal is to reduce flickering by having 32 wheel pickup instead of...
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I have a local shop near me that does DCC installs. I'll have to find out if they do lighting or just drop ins. Hope to see some photos once...
Is that the stock Kato DCC one or did you get it done somewhere else? I have been holding out for the Bachmann version because it had more light...
I appreciate hearing about it from everyone. Hard to get a sense of it from just reading about it on the site.
Also doesn't look good if a potential advertisers comes to the site and sees a bunch of negative comments about their brand.
So the National N Scale convention is in Bethehem PA which isn't that far from me. Has anyone gone to it in the past? What was your experience?...
Have a workbench / train table upgrade. I added two small desk grommets to my train table so that I can run wires from track on the inside to...
A very nice pair! I have the same ones.
