Just brought this home from my LHS today. Lionel 1931460, 2019 catalog. It was displayed on the shelf but never run. On the track and after setting the ID and engine info, everything fired up as it should, except for sounds. All lights, throttle control, direction change, electrocoupler, smoke, whistle steam and water scoop effects just fine. But no chuffing except for the odd time a few consecutive chuffs, then nothing - no pattern and not switch related. No whistle sound (even though the whistle steam effect was instantly triggered and was impressive), no crew talk, bell or other sounds.
I read on another post over the weekend, a suggestion from RickO, to try conductive oil. A tiny drop on both sides of the two tender pick-up rollers and, to my surprise, all sounds started up and had no problem for over an hour of continuous running afterwards.
First question - could such a simple drop of oil make that big a difference? The second question pertains to a background static hum from the tender. It is not very noticeable while running at speed, but at a crawl or stopped, it is annoying. Could there be a similarly simple fix for this?
With thanks for any advice, Bob.
