Bag of nails or harmonious sounds? Well to move on from yesterdays post and cut a long story short it all worked out and the Bachmann Class 37 is back to sounding like it should! What is more, is that the WMD Film Crew were on hand to record the process and that is now on YouTube.

Sounds like a bag of nails!

 This is my Bachmann Class 37 with DCC sound and very nice it is.

Up until a few days ago it sounded as good as it looks but then it started to rattle and soon sounded like a bag of nails! I had a feeling it was the speaker rather than anything else as the 'bag of nails' noise stopped if you turned the sound off. Never having had this issue before I thought that I would need a new speaker but decided to investigate further by dismantling the loco and seeing if there was something mechanically wrong with the speaker.

It took a bit of time to get into the loco's innards but eventually the speaker was out and taken apart. That copper coloured ring had come away from the rubber diaphragm under it as evidenced by the strip of loose silicon that I found inside the casing. The use of some UHU general purpose glue seemed a good way to go reattach the copper ring so a bead was run around the edge with a cocktail stick and the ring was pushed into the diaphragm. I decided to leave it over night to dry so tomorrow will be crunch day to see if harmonious sounds have been restored or that bag of nails is still there!

I had a blue day today!

I had a blue day today! Not that I am feeling blue as in 'under he weather' or feeling out of sorts but a day, well only an hour, (just in case Mrs. Woody is reading this) Playing operating My Last Great Project Layout. Blue, because, during a tidy up, I rediscovered this Class 37 loco in British Rail corporate blue livery.

Coupled up to a rake of Mk2 Br coaches it looked very smart.

Adding a few other BR blue bits made it into a 'Blue day'!

There is the Class 37, a Class 25 and the Class 101 DMU. 

It is probably about 40 years since you could see a sight like this on the real railway but on a layout you can take that Time Machine back to those times. I like this Blue Day!

You just have to love the sound of a Class 37!

With all that has been going on at WMD HQ just recently I have not had the chance to have a closer look at the Bachmann BR blue Class 37 that arrived some time ago. Well I did get a few minutes today to get it out of the packaging and put it on the track for a closer look and quick run. It looked good in the box but looks even better on the track!

I was particularly impressed by the roof fan detail which is exquisite!

Equally the cab interiors look very detailed too.

However, turning up the power on DC rather than DCC surprised me with the loco coming to life with engine noise! A quick video clip should illustrate this.

You just have to love the sound of a Class 37! Well I do anyway!