Who to go to for Lima Motor changes?

[Tallpaul70]

Hi All,

I have around 20 Lima 00 diesels which would seem to be candidates for sale unless I can get their motors changed as I am going DCC and Sound.
Unfortunately I am at the age where I do not have nimble enough fingers or good enough eyesight to do this myself.

So I am looking for experiences/ recommendations on who is out there and can do this work?

I would prefer to go to someone who can do the motors and install chips so that when I get a loco back that doesn't work I am not caught between the "its your motor install" and "its your chip install" shouting match!

Many thanks
Cheers
Paul

[brian1951]

The cost of the job would be my may concern these days, plenty on the internet about the subject and CD motors to suit are cheap enough, https://www.strathpefferjunction.com/pr ... 0mm-co-co/ IMHO you maybe better off selling the limas and buy some more modern locos.

[Tallpaul70]

Thanks Brian,
That is the decision I am trying to make!

However, the cost of modern locos being what it is, replacing the 20 Limas will cost c£3000!

Cheers
Paul

[Walkingthedog]

Paul I have used something similar to this in the past.

https://www.strathpefferjunction.com/pr ... 0mm-co-co/

[brian1951]

Why on earth would you want 20 sound locos ?

[Tallpaul70]

Why do I need 20 locos? (Actually that is just the Lima tally.)

Because my main interest is in operation, and I will be operating a mainline and branch junction to a realistic timetable which you cannot do with just a few locos!

I am afraid the small three trains a day branch line is of no interest to me.

But as I said earlier, each to their own!

Cheers
Paul

[Steve M]

Why on earth would you want 20 sound locos ?

I’m getting close.

[Walkingthedog]

Glad I’m not converting my 100 and something locos.

[brian1951]

You may not have got the answer you were looking for Paul, but at least you got some answers unlike RMweb.

[Tallpaul70]

True,
However I find that sometimes I get the best response here, sometimes on platform1 and sometimes on RMWeb.

There are other Forums, which on the whole I find a waste of time.

So I shall probably continue to post on all three sites, it is not much more work than posting on one, just copying and pasting, and it is a better insurance that someone will respond!

Many thanks
Paul