tape covering the wire troughs running up the sides of the loco
or the trucks in place.
Position the speaker leads up the right front trough and hold
them in place with a bit of blue tape. Hint: you don’t need to
hold the motor wires down the same trough now – the Kapton
on top of the loco is holding the motor wires in place.
9.0 Wire trucks
I like really flexible wire to connect the trucks to the decoder.
At Litchfield Station we sold a product that has 51 strands of
very small wire to get up to 29 AWG. It had very flexible rub-
ber insulation. We called it Wire-2951. When I first stocked it, it
was available through Northwest Short Line. When they were
transitioning owners, it went out of stock. I believed so strongly
in it that I found an alternate supplier, even though I had to
buy thousands of feet of it. Northwest Short Line has a similar,
but possibly less flexible wire now. It is 44 strands, making up
28-gauge (part number 10010-9).
Soldering wire directly to the trucks helps in many ways. It
isolates the frame from the rails. It also eliminates several
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23:
Railmaster
DS1425-8
speaker
mounted
in the fuel
tank relief.
DCC Impulses column - 14
MRH-Jan 2013
