Monday, August 3, 2009
Loco Digi and more Pierina
Thursday and Friday where train work days. And I forgot to put up the photos. Oops!
Well, first of all I digitalized the Roco V200 of FP. I found and interesting quote in the little manual that accompanies the loco (freely translated):
After 30 years of trustfully work the V200 series locos where to be decommissioned, useful only as spare parts. So they where brought from the italian FP to be put on regular service.
And then one wonders why local train service quality is err… questionable.
Well., on to the digi process! This loco is yery easy to open, but internally contains no space at all. Nothing. Nada!I decided firstly to remove the internal PCB, but then I realized it is part of the structure (!) so I decided to cut a hole in te pcb, which will not be used:
This is with the decoder in place:
I tried to wire everything in an orderly fashion:
And this is the loc almost finished:
The decoder is wrapped up in insulating tape, since it will be enclosed in metal:
This is the decoder closed in it’s enclosure:
Saturday was Pierina day. This time nothing special, just drilled some holes and made new handles (which where destroyed by me - oops!)
And these are two of them mounted:
I added some missing pipes:
