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ARTICLE: Putting a battery and R/c in a BACHMANN 2-4-2 Pt1

Ok, so start with removing the 6 screws to seperate the Boiler and Body from the Chassis. careful with a couple of delicates that need pulling out.

Remove the black and red wires carefully and all their attachments.  The only wires left should be the power to motor and feedback for the chuff Sync.

The area in the Water tanks needs to emptied of the steel weights and their lugs cutting off. I weighed them at 530gms.  Will see how much weight we add with batteries, and then see if there is any room for any added lead....

The boiler area needs clearing out of old lugs and I personally used my trusty Dremel with various cutters etc... just a bit time consuming that's all.

Part II

soonish

Ok all done the smokebox us excellent for the jack charging socket, and DPDP COff switch.

Just like of centre off, and then one way is 'recharge' and the other side is 'Run/On'

 

here are some more pictures

 

again thanks to Tony of RCS Australia and Peter of MyLocoSound

 

cheers

Andrew