Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

[Charlie B]

I didn't get a reply back from Rapido, but in the meantime, I joined the user's group where Charlie found the "M420 Derail" messages - canmodeltrains and started looking at all of the messages regarding the M420.  There were two of those that perked my ears up - one in which someone had their retailer send his model back to Rapido and they made changes to his worm gear clips that both hold the worm gear in place and rest the trucks in the chassis.  The clips were altered to allow more side to side movement of the trucks...

In the second, one of the respondents was describing how to do this yourself.  Sent him a message and he sent me a guide from Rapido on how to alter the clips about an hour after I sent him a message.  I will try making that change tomorrow night.  Too bad I didn't find this a month ago.  Se la vie, Eh?

Todd, 
     I was trying to figure how you could get some more freeplay in those trucks but that is so simple it never crossed my mind. Those clips are common on many locomotives and it happens I have a couple that this could help with their performance. Now I have to remember which ones they are.  Thanks for the update.  I hope Rapido is making this modification to all that are in production.
Charlie