QUOTE (neil_s_wood @ 8 Nov 2007, 21:16)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>They must have improved it then. See Dougs review for the older model which was a hassle
Flying Scotsman review
I tried the same with the White Knight and had to put the decoder in the tender because of the lack of space. If they have sorted the lack of space problem I might get another one.
Mine are exactly as the reviewed item internally, and were very quick and easy to do with Lenz Gold. Just plug it in, dress and strap down the wires with insulating tape, so that the decoder is hanging loose and somewhat slack at the front end of the chassis. Invert the loco body, drop the decoder into the body opening, and help it toward the smoke box, then offer the rear of chassis to the locator, and get the chassis home. The decoder just sits loose in the smokebox. (I don't want it in the firebox, as this and the boiler sides are lined with shaped lead sheet for extra weight, and this is the optimum position for extra ballast to keep the loco balanced in the centre of the coupled wheelbase.)
I agree that it would be yet easier if the chassis had a screw each end, and just dropped in. Which is the way most of the world including Bach do it - don't Hornby do any competitor product evaluations?