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Well....I went ahead and busted the Stainz open, and installed a decoder. All I can say is that LGB needs to take a lesson from the Bachmann G scale 0-4-0 Porter on designing for ease of assembly. The Porter only requires you to remove two screws, slide the boiler forward a fraction of an inch and lift up. Everything is exposed. The Stainz was "almost" the worst I've run into. The Bachmann On30 Porters were worse to install decoders in. The Stainz is a painz. I had a MRC Ho steam sound decoder laying round, so I put it in. Didn't last long, but it worked for awhile. <br />Isolating the motor was easy, once I finally got the blasted thing apart. Two brass strips with dangley down pieces that contact the motor contacts. Just bent them double to clear the contacts and soldered wires on. A couple more wires from the brass strips for the power pickup. I put the decoder in the cab with wires long enough to pull the decoder completely out of the cab. Glad I did, since it soon burned up. (I figured it would when put it in.) <br />I can only say, that loco is a real painz. At least now I can replace the docoder without having to go through taking the blasted thing apart again, and then getting it back together again.
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