Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago

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Part 1 of the challenge to fix, upgrade and renumber an old Dapol Pug.

I picked up a damaged non-running Dapol Pug during the Rails of Sheffield sale with the plan of not only fixing it up and getting it running again, but also making some big upgrades and converting it into 11221 which was in use at the Michell and Butler's Cape Hill Brewery.

In this video I hope to design a new motor mount, install a coreless motor and add in a tiny DCC decoder. But will it work? Or should this kind of thing be left to the manufacturers?

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00:00 Introduction
01:48 The Plan
02:45 Dismantle
05:15 The New Components
07:17 Motor Mount Design
08:11 Test Fit
09:56 Motor Mount Modifications
10:32 Motor Install
14:42 Analogue Test
16:32 Wiring for DCC
19:31 DCC Test