Replacement parts and technical info
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You have asked a question that most likely you won't like the answer.
Lionel says they will make an announcement. You just have to wait until that happens, hopefully in our lifetime.
Pete
@SnowmanJohn posted:Replacement parts and technical info
Like Pete says, wait for the other shoe to drop. Nobody here has any idea what Lionel did with the parts, or what the future holds. My Crystal Ball is out for repair, I'm hoping to get it back soon. 
@gunrunnerjohn posted:Like Pete says, wait for the other shoe to drop. Nobody here has any idea what Lionel did with the parts, or what the future holds. My Crystal Ball is out for repair, I'm hoping to get it back soon.
Hopefully you didn't send your Crystal Ball out to Lionel to repair it. You might have a long wait. They'll probably say no boards in stock to fix that either.
@gunrunnerjohn posted:My Crystal Ball is out for repair, I'm hoping to get it back soon.
Does it have a sticker on it that says "No User Serviceable Parts Inside"?
Mike
It would be great if Lionel would make 3D printable files available for parts they no longer stock.
@AlanRail posted:It would be great if Lionel would make 3D printable files available for parts they no longer stock.
I know they have a file for a USRA Heavy Mikado body.
Pete
@Mellow Hudson Mike posted:Does it have a sticker on it that says "No User Serviceable Parts Inside"?
Yep, and right under that it says Made In China.
And not beating a dead horse. Two options - don’t worry about it. Or, spend your time and money hoarding parts. Simply offset the cost by not purchasing new Lionel….
Start hoarding bridge rectifiers maybe? 
@Doug W. posted:Start hoarding bridge rectifiers maybe?
Lol -
@AlanRail posted:It would be great if Lionel would make 3D printable files available for parts they no longer stock.
That would be very useful. Has anyone asked Lionel that question?
@shawn posted:... Simply offset the cost by not purchasing new Lionel….
Since Lionel has now become (by default) the most reliable supplier among the major manufacturers, this means I won't be buying any new trains - after all of the quality and parts issues, I'm OK with that.
@AlanRail posted:It would be great if Lionel would make 3D printable files available for parts they no longer stock.
Alan, most of the parts in question are electronic boards, hard to 3D print those successfully. 
John I see that too.
But there's more to just having the electronics work; they need to look good too.
@AlanRail posted:John I see that too.
But there's more to just having the electronics work; they need to look good too.
Oddly Alan, most of the mechanical parts for the same products are still available, at least the ones that weren't already out of stock.
@gunrunnerjohn posted:Like Pete says, wait for the other shoe to drop. Nobody here has any idea what Lionel did with the parts, or what the future holds. My Crystal Ball is out for repair, I'm hoping to get it back soon.
Just curious, since your signature says that you're an ERR dealer - how, if at all, is the availability of ERR components affected by this?
@Mallard4468 posted:Just curious, since your signature says that you're an ERR dealer - how, if at all, is the availability of ERR components affected by this?
Scott posted a fairly long post recently in the R2LC/R2LC Boards Are No Longer Available, What Do I Do? thread, he has stock of all his products for the near future. Obviously, that can change when he goes back to the well to do another production run.
@gunrunnerjohn posted:Scott posted a fairly long post recently in the R2LC/R2LC Boards Are No Longer Available, What Do I Do? thread, he has stock of all his products for the near future. Obviously, that can change when he goes back to the well to do another production run.
Just some information from Microchip Regarding the 16F648 PIC, the newer device available is the 16F18444. Know that the PIC16F648 is coded as an MPASM and the PIC16F18444 is coded as an MPIDE X. That means it is not a drop in part. The ASM has to be migrated over the IDE X. This can be a daunting task. It also requires a PICkit 4 for programming.
So let's see what the Big L solution turns out to be.
Lou N
Has Lionel announced they are cancelling TMCC parts production or something?
I ported the ERR Sound Converter code from MPASM to MPLAB X, that turned out not to be as big a deal as I imagined. However, there were a couple bumps along the road, and with a larger code base, it might be a more significant effort.
@StevefromPA posted:Has Lionel announced they are cancelling TMCC parts production or something?
