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Soldering the LED leads to the small connector board on a Decoder Buddy
I’ve posted the routing of LED leads in the “Whats On Your Workbench?” as snipits. This is slightly more involved so I’ll post it separately.
The first step was to solder a lead to the positive side of the small connector board. Just like the decoder the hot wire goes to all the LEDs.
Care and Feeding of your Air Eraser
At the beginning of the year, I picked up an Air Eraser to fix up a botched renumbering job after reading comments in another thread. It worked great at removing the factory lettering on an Athearn Blue Box locomotive using baking soda, until it didn't...
I put it aside until recently when I wanted to remove the lettering from some Walthers Superliner cars. It worked a bit, then it didn't. I searched the forum and internet for any helpful tips, and got it to work great, and then it stopped working altogether.
Gadget alert
I've been contemplating some staging / storage tracks, which due to their location in the room layout would be obstructed from view. I've noted the efforts of others to put cameras in place to see these tracks, usually with automobile backup camera kits.
2 evenings - rebuild Heljan roundhouse
I found an unpainted built-up model of the Heljan roundhouse at a railroad club tag sale. I wiped some mortar into one panel of painted bricks, dusted it with weathering powder, and it looked really good, so I decided to break it down and give it a 2-evening makeover with simple stuff I can get from a craft or hobby store, using only moderate building skills. It would be even easier starting with anew, unbuilt model.
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