Bill: I am sure Rich Gortowski told you to send it back. Wrong color nose stripes! LOL! Dennis Popish > On Feb 7, 2023, at 6:50 PM, William Hirt <whirt@fastmail.com> wrote: > > I received my new Rapido CB&Q E8A 9942A on Sunday. This is an excellent (a > friend when he saw it said stunning) model. BRHS folks Dave Lotz and Bryan > Howell are acknowledged in the accompanying manual for the unit and did great > job getting us a fantastic Q E unit. > > Fellow BRHS member Rich Gortowski was here visiting and was happy to run the > unit around my layout to help break it in. > > The sound on the unit is very good. One setting change is that the > Gyrolight/Mars light is on Function 14 on the DCC setting. I moved it to F6 > which Rapido has defaulted to Ditch Lights (this is also in the default ESU > E8 sound file). The sound is recorded from an actual E8, so you can not do > much better than that. > > Another plus was the sound level out of the box was such I did not need to > change it. Most new sound units have the volume so loud that it screams for > adjustment. > > A few minor repairs were needed when it came out of the box. The front > coupler did not make the trip very well and needed replacement. One of the > bearing caps on the front truck on the engineer's side needed to placed back > on. And the steam generator hatch needed to be properly seated on the top > side on the rear of the unit. Nothing out of the ordinary. > > I very happy with my purchase. > > I've attached an image of it idling on my layout. > > Bill Hirt > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#65018): https://groups.io/g/CBQ/message/65018 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/96820923/703214 Group Owner: CBQ+owner@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/CBQ/leave/1544929/703214/691670059/xyzzy [archives@nauer.org] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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