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What was your silliest purchase ever?
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<p>You guys in HO are so lucky to get eerything with those 8 pin plugs! I recently got a Precision Craft E7B with those plugs just found they are the next best thing to plug--n-play decoders. BTW, I model in N. And I think you are right, I think the newer versions do have isolated motors. The problem with those older N Dash 8's is that the motor contact is actually the motor brush holder and in order to een solder the wires to the motor tabs, you need to take the tabs out of the motor and hence the whole brush and springs got to come out otherwise the motor mount will get melted and they also said in the conversion that the spring will fly out blah blah and I just can't be bothered anymore because you also got to modify the shell to accomondate the decoder blah blah. I think I rather spend the 3 hours required for a train operating session.</p><p>[quote user="Milwhiawatha"] </p><p>[quote user="Iceman_c27"]And then I was stupid enough to thought to Spectrum Dash 8-CW thinking they are 'DCC friendly' as it says on their website only to find that the motors aren't even insulated! D'oh! After some research on possible mods to convert to DCC, I decide to give up because there are too many mentions of milling machines and taking the brushes out of the motor itself.[/quote]</p><p>I have two bachmann Dash 8's that are DCC friendly tey even have the 8 pin plug in them. But I do have the same dash 8 you have that has the bulky frames an 4 screws keep it together with plastic screw holders on one side so they are dcc friendly. There is a website showing how to convert it for DCC but I dont remember the address. I would say run electrical tape over the side of the frame so they dont touch.</p>[/quote]
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