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Scale or Brand Specific Model Train Talk => Marklin => Topic started by: capeklr on May 28, 2017, 05:02:45 PM

Title: How not to convert a Loco to Digital.
Post by: capeklr on May 28, 2017, 05:02:45 PM

Hi everybody,
this Märklin Loco came to me with a digital decoder already fitted.
Client asked me to connect the cab lights and change the code of the decoder.
I opened it and kind of wished I had not.
This is what greeted me.

Yes those are metal filings. In the gearbox and all around the motor.

Title: Re: How not to convert a Loco to Digital.
Post by: ColWer on May 28, 2017, 05:56:36 PM

Oh dear.   :o :o  Do you have an ultrasonic cleaner?

W

Title: Re: How not to convert a Loco to Digital.
Post by: LooVille on May 29, 2017, 06:59:53 AM

Ai, Ai.....

Why will people do this to the trains ??  >:(
What is all the white powdery stuff ?

Title: Re: How not to convert a Loco to Digital.
Post by: capeklr on May 29, 2017, 09:24:15 AM

Quote from: LooVille on May 29, 2017, 06:59:53 AM

What is all the white powdery stuff ?

Metal fillings.

Title: Re: How not to convert a Loco to Digital.
Post by: BigEd on May 29, 2017, 11:00:08 AM

I would have closed it up and returned it with a message - good luck!