19 Apr 2013
Class 128
Despite frequent resolutions to not buy any more stock - I am sucker for some things. I loved the new Heljan 128 Diesel Parcels Unit in green with speed whiskers.
It is a lovely heavy model, unfortunately Heljan have cost reduced their packaging from their lovely strong boxes to the same sort of system used by Bachmann and Hornby - you can see the result here -
I could have sent it back back; but it appears that I was far from alone in having this problem and would probably have just received a replacement with similar problems. Therefore out with the glue and some careful gluing got most of the pieces back on.
Taking it apart meant removing four small bolts and prising the body off - it would be easy to damage the fittings in the cab ends getting the body on and off.
I used a TCSEU621 decoder which seemed to fit in easily into the 21 pin socket.
18 Apr 2013
Panel Testing
The panel works (mostly) but there are some gremlins to get out, not all of which I think are my making...
The green LEDs show position of points, the blue LEDs show section occupancy.
There are also red and yellow leds to show if computer or human has control of a track - but these are not lit in this test.
