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Kisatchie

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Bonehead Kiz Strikes Again...
« on: February 22, 2016, 08:30:30 PM »
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Aw man, I ordered a Kato NW2 switcher because it's DCC ready. Except I didn't read the whole description at Brooklyn Locomotive Works and wound up ordering the only roadname they had that isn't DCC ready. Rats.

Gotta return it for a different engine.


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with Kiz's mistakes all
the time...

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Re: Bonehead Kiz Strikes Again...
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2016, 08:31:41 PM »
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Wait, what? Aren't they all the same mechanism?
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Re: Bonehead Kiz Strikes Again...
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2016, 08:34:33 PM »
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According to BLW, the CB&Q isn't but Kato's site doesn't say that,

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Re: Bonehead Kiz Strikes Again...
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2016, 08:37:39 PM »
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Pretty sure they're all the same mech and all DCC-ready like all recent Kato releases.
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Re: Bonehead Kiz Strikes Again...
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2016, 09:03:38 PM »
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Quote from: Dave Vollmer on February 22, 2016, 08:37:39 PM
Pretty sure they're all the same mech and all DCC-ready like all recent Kato releases.

Well that's a relief! Thanks for the encouragement.


Hmm... woo hoo, Kiz saves
$6.80 on postage. Now
maybe he can buy me
some termites...

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Two scientists create a teleportation ray, and they try it out on a cricket. They put the cricket on one of the two teleportation pads in the room, and they turn the ray on.
The cricket jumps across the room onto the other pad.
"It works! It works!"

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Re: Bonehead Kiz Strikes Again...
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2016, 09:47:38 PM »
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Out of curiosity, I went to Kato's webpage and found this:

http://www.katousa.com/N/NW2/

It says "All new motor and mechanism design
Locomotives is DCC friendly, able to take drop in decoders..."

That made me wonder, did Kato just recently come out with an all new motor and mechanism design, meaning there was an older non dcc friendly design?

The doubt is back... sigh. Wait! I know, I'll take the shell off and look at the guts...

Okay, while I had the shell off, a brass contact strip fell out, and the nose headlight popped off. Also, I think something like a screw fell out of the engine, but I don't see anything missing. I checked all over the floor, but no luck. Well, there was some luck (that's when I found the brass contact strip just lying there). Oh, and the trucks popped loose from the frame... just held on by those doohickey narrow rod-like things. Whatever.

I got everything (?) back together finally, thinking this is all gonna happen again when I strip the paint off the shell later this year.

Dee, fix me a banana daiquiri!!!


Hmm... it'll cost you
$6.80...

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Two scientists create a teleportation ray, and they try it out on a cricket. They put the cricket on one of the two teleportation pads in the room, and they turn the ray on.
The cricket jumps across the room onto the other pad.
"It works! It works!"

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Re: Bonehead Kiz Strikes Again...
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2016, 11:32:24 PM »
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Kiz,
you aren't having much lick with your hobby lately.   :( Maybe you should get Md. Dee to work on your N scale locomotives.  Apes are very proficient with tools.

I also did not realize that there were different versions of the NW2 mechanism. These locos seemed to fly under the radar. Nobody really seems to have talked about them (other than the infamous slipping gear).  Or at least I didn't notice much fanfare about them.
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Re: Bonehead Kiz Strikes Again...
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2016, 11:54:55 PM »
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I'm no Kato expert, but check out Spookshow's write up:

http://www.spookshow.net/katonw2.html

Seeing as how the model was introduced in 2007 as DCC drop-in ready, I'm guessing there never was a non-DCC ready version.
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Re: Bonehead Kiz Strikes Again...
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2016, 10:06:29 AM »
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Quote from: Dave Vollmer on February 22, 2016, 11:54:55 PM
I'm no Kato expert, but check out Spookshow's write up:

http://www.spookshow.net/katonw2.html

Well, if Spookshow says it's DCC ready, that's good enough for me. I'm just hoping I didn't mortally wound my NW2 when I took the shell off. It'll probably explode when I finally apply power to it... shrapnel flying everywhere, blood... oh, the horror.


Hmm... I'll be down in
my fallout shelter...

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Re: Bonehead Kiz Strikes Again...
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2016, 12:04:22 PM »
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Quote from: Dave Vollmer on February 22, 2016, 11:54:55 PM
I'm no Kato expert, but check out Spookshow's write up:

http://www.spookshow.net/katonw2.html

Seeing as how the model was introduced in 2007 as DCC drop-in ready, I'm guessing there never was a non-DCC ready version.

Yep, based upon Spookshow's site, it sounds like there was a change, but that only meant that you didn't get DCC Equipped (the newest mechanism) and got DCC Ready (what you wanted).

Good luck putting it back together.

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Re: Bonehead Kiz Strikes Again...
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2016, 01:44:53 PM »
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Quote from: davefoxx on February 23, 2016, 12:04:22 PM
Yep, based upon Spookshow's site, it sounds like there was a change, but that only meant that you didn't get DCC Equipped (the newest mechanism) and got DCC Ready (what you wanted).

Good luck putting it back together.

DFF

I bought mine in 2007 and dropped in my decoder.
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Re: Bonehead Kiz Strikes Again...
« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2016, 06:23:41 AM »
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I put decoders in both of my CB&Q NW 2's with no problems at all.  Nothing coming apart or falling off.  The best part is they run like champs!
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Re: Bonehead Kiz Strikes Again...
« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2016, 09:26:47 AM »
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I drop my decoders all the time, but they never land in the right place on the mechanism.
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Re: Bonehead Kiz Strikes Again...
« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2016, 03:08:28 PM »
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Quote from: basementcalling on February 27, 2016, 09:26:47 AM
I drop my decoders all the time, but they never land in the right place on the mechanism.

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Re: Bonehead Kiz Strikes Again...
« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2016, 10:01:47 AM »
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The only un-fun thing about installing DCC in the first-run NW2s is that you have to save the fancy motor tabs from the Kato light-board. But it's not really that hard. All I used to install the decoder in my NW2 was my Swiss Army Knife.
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