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D5572
31-03-2011, 10:39 PM
I have a lima class 33 dating from the 1980's, i have run it for many a year trouble free and have now progressed from analogue to digital
As far as i'm aware i cannot chip a lima locomotive(if i can it probably would be very growly) so i was wondering if anyone out there knows if the body from a lima class 33 will fit on the new hornby railroad version chassis which is DCC ready

As far as i'm aware this can be done for the lima class 40 of which i intend to purchase 2 DCC ready Hornby railroad versions and swap my 2 lima bodies..

Over to you.....
hairyhandedfool
01-04-2011, 09:14 AM
The Hornby re-issues of the former Lima models have a modified chassis to accomodate the new motor, but the vast majority of the rest of the model is the same. A new Hornby chassis should fit a Lima body.

You can 'chip' a lima loco (I have done a few) and it shouldn't affect the performance of the loco. You will need a soldering iron to do it, but as far as DCCing goes, it is straight forward.
D5572
01-04-2011, 11:25 AM
The Hornby re-issues of the former Lima models have a modified chassis to accomodate the new motor, but the vast majority of the rest of the model is the same. A new Hornby chassis should fit a Lima body.

You can 'chip' a lima loco (I have done a few) and it shouldn't affect the performance of the loco. You will need a soldering iron to do it, but as far as DCCing goes, it is straight forward.

That's interesting.. i thought that the motors wouldn't be up to it as they seem so basic really.

So if you don't mind me asking,how straight forward is it and i'll give it a try ?
hairyhandedfool
01-04-2011, 04:05 PM
Well, so long as the motor is good it'll be fine. My 156s and 31s were good runners though. Using an R8249 decoder......

Remove one wire from a terminal on the motor and solder it to the red wire from the decoder. Solder the decoder's orange wire to the motor terminal.

Remove the other wire from it's motor terminal and solder it to the black wire from the decoder. Attach the decoder's grey wire to the motor terminal.

It's that simple.