Hi all. The last time before last night I was having some intermittent pantograph and sound control. Yesterday no pantographs and the sound seemed like it was operating in convention. Couplers, drive, direction, and smoke and lighting seems to be functioning as it should. I want to open it up and at least see what might be happening. Does anyone have to board layouts? Is there a common board to these 2 issues? I did try a reset.
Thanks as always
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Sounds like a serial data issue. Could be a simple connector issue. I've been in a couple of them, but only to fix stuff I knew were to look. However, the pans and sound both use serial data.
Thanks. Any suggestions for opening it up without damaging the Pantos? I was planning on cutting one of my foam cradles side to side to let the main body sit in it and the Panto section hang.
If the pans don't go down, that's probably a good way to deal with it. If they're down, I just lay it in the cradle being careful not to snag the foam with one of the pans when I take it out.
@gunrunnerjohn posted:If the pans don't go down, that's probably a good way to deal with it. If they're down, I just lay it in the cradle being careful not to snag the foam with one of the pans when I take it out.
Fortunately they are both down.
I wouldn't chop up my foam cradle for that, just be careful when you take it out. 
When I repaired my JLC GG-1. I laid it on its side on top of a soft cloth. That gave full access to all the screws. I then carefully put it back up and removed the shell. I would be cautious about resting it upside down to remove the screws. That sounds like a really easy way to mess up the pans.
Well interestingly enough, without doing a thing it started working fine so I suspect it more of a connector issue. When I get time I'll open it up and re-seat everything. I intend on doing the cross cradle method.
@Joe Fermani posted:When I repaired my JLC GG-1. I laid it on its side on top of a soft cloth. That gave full access to all the screws. I then carefully put it back up and removed the shell. I would be cautious about resting it upside down to remove the screws. That sounds like a really easy way to mess up the pans.
I've worked on a lot of the JLC models as well as a bunch of the MTH models. I just set them gently in the cradle on the pans, never had any issue that way. You do have to make sure that the Lionel models have the pans down, the MTH pans are spring loaded and you can just push them down and latch them.
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