Today was spent off to see to a Garden railway where the owner is currently ill and not had chance to look at it for a while, there were a few problems and try and get it running. I was the DCC "expert" (in the land of the blind, the one eyed man with fuzzy vision is king...) on hand.
My aspect was soon sorted after some detective work, and I had along my own kit. I like to think of the car boot as the "pod" that Thunderbird 2 chooses....
The Massoth Transmitter was set for American frequency and trying to talk to a European receiver. There were a few other issues though - one loco appeared to have had its D changed, which was quickly sorted.
A shay posed other problems though. Again, by a process of elimination (Trying it on DCC, trying on DC) the decision was taken to open to it up and the teamwork came in here. Whilst the local organisor of the G scale society got to work with the soldering iron on some loose wires, I was back to probably my true place as track scrubber with the LGB track rubber. The Track had been given a fairly good clean, but I still think the LGB track rubbers are better than things like scotch pads etc...
Still, the rescue pod (i.e. car boot) had one more task to perform.... There was a effectively a tunnel (a space beneath some steps) that was a real problem to clean unless you had arms that were say seven feet long to be able to reach the middle.
Several passes with this (LGB Track cleaning loco) and the space was up and running on DCC. So, by the end all locos working, on wireless DCC, and all track available to be used.
A successful day....
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