Beattie well tank

This was delivered to me after a loooong journey from Engerland. I'm waiting for a couple of sound decoders to come back from repair at Zimo.

In the meantime, I took all other loco's off the layout, disconnected my Lenz system and connected the old H&M Clipper to run it in. I have to say that after half an hour in each direction plus turning it so that it got an equal amount of left and right hand curves, it runs really nicely. I was surprised how slowly I could get it to crawl.

It did me a favour as well; it found a faulty frog switch in a Tortoise point motor. Taken out and repaired, there's not a stutter at all from this lovely little loco.

Now looking forward to sound fitting.

peterm said

This was delivered to me after a loooong journey from Engerland. I'm waiting for a couple of sound decoders to come back from repair at Zimo.

In the meantime, I took all other loco's off the layout, disconnected my Lenz system and connected the old H&M Clipper to run it in. I have to say that after half an hour in each direction plus turning it so that it got an equal amount of left and right hand curves, it runs really nicely. I was surprised how slowly I could get it to crawl.

It did me a favour as well; it found a faulty frog switch in a Tortoise point motor. Taken out and repaired, there's not a stutter at all from this lovely little loco.

Now looking forward to sound fitting.

From “EFE OO guage”, 5th November 2023, 12:20 AM

Hi Peter,
I have no idea how a Beattie well tank looks like. Is it possible we can have a photo 📸?

Cheers,
Claus

Glad to hear it runs well Pete.

She's a small loco so do you intend to install one of the repaired Zimo sound decoders in her ?

Also interesting you send decoders back to Austria from Australia - postage costs must be eye-watering although sound decoder prices make everything water just now.  Do they have a fixed repair fee and do they cover one leg of the postage ?  Any customs duty and VAT payable ?

I'm trying to pluck up the courage to buy one of the new TMC/Bachmann Class G5 locos with factory installed sound - I have a feeling Bachmann use Zimo chips now so I could tweek it if necessary on my MXULFA.  Someone is going over to UK and would bring it back otherwise I'd face import fees which (from previous experience) makes shipping from UK to France virtually untenable.

Hi Peter,

Yes, the MS480 will go in it. The postage certainly is eye watering, but needs must. I think that if it's a faulty decoder then they cover return postage. I could send it back to Digitrains, but that still costs plenty and there's no telling how long it would be before them posting to Austria would be economically viable. Then I'd have to pay for it to be sent here. Rock and hard place springs to mind.

I'm pretty sure you're right about Bachmann using Zimo, but I don't know when that started, or if they're full function.

I have the MZULFA and MXTAPS. Both of which come in very handy.

Hi Claus,

Attaching a pic of the BTW in green, which is made by Bachmann under the EFE Rail name. I also have one of the original in black that was made for DJ Models which I also like, except for the fact that because of the way it was constructed, I had to cut the brake rigging offf to get inside to fit a decoder. Sad to say that the plating on the wheels is wearing through and I can't get new wheels easily. At a pinch, I can get wheels, but they'd have to be able to go onto the original axles as they are split chassis.

peterm said

Hi Claus,

Attaching a pic of the BTW in green, which is made by Bachmann under the EFE Rail name. I also have one of the original in black that was made for DJ Models which I also like, except for the fact that because of the way it was constructed, I had to cut the brake rigging offf to get inside to fit a decoder. Sad to say that the plating on the wheels is wearing through and I can't get new wheels easily. At a pinch, I can get wheels, but they'd have to be able to go onto the original axles as thay are split chassis.

From “Post #288,912”, 6th November 2023, 1:44 AM

Hi Peter,
Looks good!
Cheers,
Claus

the original in black that was made for DJ Models which I also like, except for the fact that because of the way it was constructed, I had to cut the brake rigging offf to get inside to fit a decoder.

As I recall the originals were built with a magnitic smokebox door which popped off and there was a 6-pin socket just inside.  I guess it depends which chip you wish to fit.  

Hi Rick,

I fitted sound and stay alive so I had to take it apart. The new one comes apart a lot easier.