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Union Pacific 4-12-2 Class 9000 pulling a string of PFE reefers. Testing BLI model after fixed by me

This is a typical love and hate relationship when you buy a BLI, Broadway Limited Imports products. I like the its Brass Hybrid line. This model and specifically the brass shell of boiler and tender is well made. However, still suffers of (completely?) lack of quality control during manufacture and very spotty electronics. I got this model some time ago. It made all the sound noises BUT chuffing ones. I put in storage for a long time do lack of time due to busy work load. A couple of months ago, I contact BLI repair dept and they offered to fix it for the flat fee of $129. I went back and investigated the issue again. Finally, I saw the cause of problem. The reed sensor PCB was completely misaligned with the travel path of little magnet embedded in the flywheel. The reed sensor PCB sits over the holding clip of gearbox. it was misaligned by 1.5 mm. A very silly problem or either design or simply no quality control. It was an easy fix. I just filed a bit of 2 holding nooks where the reed switch PCB for proper alignment. But, this was not the end of chuff issues. I do not like the chuff sounds of this model. First, being a 3 cylinder, it should make 6 chuffs per one revolution, but actually makes 8 with sounds of 2 cylinder locomotive. Next, I don't like the sound transitions thru various speed. They just sound disjointed. Low to cruise to high speed. It also missed chuffs when transitioning speed. Really terrible sound decoder for this model. I will very likely, replace the sound decoder for ESU Loksound in the future. For time being, I replaced the cheap and low quality BLI speakers for a TB module.