Mainline British Rail Class 03
The week end
has arrived once again and yesterday our friendly postman delivered two brown
paper parcels I bid on EBay for a Mainline British Rail
Class 03 and a Bachmann British Rail Class 08 much to my surprise I won both items
for £24 and £41 respectively.
I have stripped the 03 and formulated a plan to fit a
Guagemaster DCC26 chip, the loco has a split chassis popular in the early ‘80s.
First off was to remove the body and workout what to do. I thought the best
action was to actually remove the motor
and snip off the tags from the
terminals which originally are trapped each side of the chassis
next two small tags are made to fit under the terminals
a couple more were made to
fit under the motor fixing screws one on the left and the other on the right
next the 4 wires from the decoder need to be soldered to the 4 tags that
have already been fitted as an aid I have dabbed the correct colour paint near
to the respective terminals
the red wire will pass through the hole at
the top and attach to the right side of the chassis
This site has been very helpful to me and is well worth a look...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bromsgrovemodels.co.uk/decoderinstallation4mm.htm
Just read on the Bromsgrove site Quote” The Mainline Class 03 is a famously poor runner and a decoder can't be expected to magically cure mechanical or electrical problems” in any case my conversion was on similar lines to theirs. Thanks for the info.
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