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 Posted - November 27 2016 : 2:37:18 PM
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Is it pretty easy to swap bodies on the Tyco/Mantua lighted caboose, or are any of the electrical parts connected to the inside of the body?
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Posted - November 27 2016 : 3:30:18 PM
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| they are connected to the wheels which make the caboose to light up
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Posted - November 27 2016 : 4:06:35 PM
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quote:they are connected to the wheels which make the caboose to light up
Originally posted by microbusss - November 27 2016 : 3:30:18 PM
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Thanks. I understand that, but I have other lighted cars in which parts that house the wiring are connected in part to the shell. I wanted to make sure this is easy to switch. It sounds like it is.
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Posted - November 27 2016 : 7:06:01 PM
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While the caboose bodies look the same, some have different size locking tabs that hold them to the underframes. I'm sure it's related to the relative age of the model. You may have to do a little trimming.
Also some do not have ladder notches in the roof, I've had to notch them with an x-cato knife before.
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Posted - November 30 2016 : 11:40:21 PM
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quote:While the caboose bodies look the same, some have different size locking tabs that hold them to the underframes. I'm sure it's related to the relative age of the model. You may have to do a little trimming.
Also some do not have ladder notches in the roof, I've had to notch them with an x-cato knife before.
Originally posted by time warp - November 27 2016 : 7:06:01 PM
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That is helpful, thank you!
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Posted - December 01 2016 : 09:25:08 AM
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| Easy as pie!!!
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Posted - December 02 2016 : 08:56:11 AM
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quote:Easy as pie!!!
Originally posted by GG-1 Guy - December 01 2016 : 09:25:08 AM
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Time Warp was right. I looked closely at both cars. The lighted caboose is from the metal Mantua era, and the unlighted one is from the 70s shiny plastic era. The locking tabs are indeed different.
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Posted - December 02 2016 : 7:11:05 PM
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| I'd like to find a lighted one, haven't seen one in a long time. They go back a while I think.
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Posted - December 04 2016 : 11:18:03 AM
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If you want a lighted caboose, instead of using the older, hard to find Mantua metal frame, buy a searchlight car, and you can swap any of the later era Tyco bodies to it. I've done it myself to create a lighted caboose, to see if I could do it. The underframes are pretty much the same, just the shorty caboose body is different. I took a red and yellow searchlight car, and put a Rocky Mountian caboose body on it, with little difficulty. Got to run the wiring inside differently but it's fairly simple.
Jerry, train repair tech
" When life throws you bananas...it's easy to slip up"
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