11-16-2009, 02:45 PM
Well now that I finally got back home and found some free time I was able to finish assembling # 1402. I was away in Cochrane then Toronto and had my camera with me as well as my laptop computer but no locomotive to work on. :cry: I have been itching to finally be able to get it finished for the last two weeks.
I did not take any pictures of the reassembly as I was so happy to get back to work on it I totally forgot about taking pictures. Reassembly went well. I have not ordered a tsunami sound decoder for it yet so for now it got a Digitrax DH163 decoder in the tender. I did install the speaker box with speaker under the coal load. Once I have the sound decoder I will just have to remove the tender shell and the Digitrax decoder then solder a few wire from the sound decoder in place. A 15 minute swap.
I reused the factory gearbox and can motor as they both were in great shape and the gearbox ran quietly. Other than that it was just a simple matter of screwing all the parts back in place. My bottle of Microscale Krystal clear was just about empty and dried up so the windows will be done when my new bottle shows up this week or next week.
I did not add any weathering yet but now that I have three locomotives to weather it will get done soon. All will be getting a light weathering. 
The side rods have been given a coat ot two of Neolube. It is a conductive graphite lubricant the gets painted on and dries to a finish that looks a lot like the unpainted rods on a steam locomotive.
It only took about 100 photos to get a few I was happy with. I really need to learn how to use my Canon digital Rebel XS better.That and get better lighting for taking photos.
Engineers side.
Firemans side.
Wayne Reid
I did not take any pictures of the reassembly as I was so happy to get back to work on it I totally forgot about taking pictures. Reassembly went well. I have not ordered a tsunami sound decoder for it yet so for now it got a Digitrax DH163 decoder in the tender. I did install the speaker box with speaker under the coal load. Once I have the sound decoder I will just have to remove the tender shell and the Digitrax decoder then solder a few wire from the sound decoder in place. A 15 minute swap.
I reused the factory gearbox and can motor as they both were in great shape and the gearbox ran quietly. Other than that it was just a simple matter of screwing all the parts back in place. My bottle of Microscale Krystal clear was just about empty and dried up so the windows will be done when my new bottle shows up this week or next week.
I did not add any weathering yet but now that I have three locomotives to weather it will get done soon. All will be getting a light weathering. The side rods have been given a coat ot two of Neolube. It is a conductive graphite lubricant the gets painted on and dries to a finish that looks a lot like the unpainted rods on a steam locomotive.
It only took about 100 photos to get a few I was happy with. I really need to learn how to use my Canon digital Rebel XS better.That and get better lighting for taking photos.
Engineers side.
Firemans side.
Wayne Reid