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Page 2: ... to open your APT E then I m afraid that most of us at Rapido are probably pushing up the daisies Should you have an issue with your train you can try contacting our grandkids but they will either laugh at you or call the police Actually Rapido Dan s probably still alive You can reach him at Shady Maples Nursing Home in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan He s the 90 something guy dozing by the entrance drooli...

Page 3: ...n routes for the APT E during operating sessions and exhibitions have enough clearance for its stupendous snout Your APT E warranty does not cover contact with foreign objects such as platform edges None of the APT E models has been delivered from the factory with long gouges or scrapes along the sides at platform height So please don t tell us it came that way IF YOU ARE ALREADY UPSET WITH US Des...

Page 4: ... E APT P painting in the centre spread as much as we do We commissioned it from well known British railway artist John Wigston We re considering releasing it as a limited edition print Please get in touch to let us know if you are interested trains rapidotrains com If you ve bought your model on eBay for silly money and there is no fancy schmancy APT E book inside you might want to give that selle...

Page 5: ...by removing the bottom lid of the bogie with a small Phillips screwdriver The wheelset can be regauged by grabbing each wheel and giving it a bit of a twist Keep going until you have managed to make the wheelset fit the gauge Reverse the steps to replace the wheelset and ensure the bogie cover is properly fitted in position before placing the train on the track Assembling your APT E It is strongly...

Page 6: ...ween each carriage If the complainers have a better method that can achieve all of this be affordable to mass produce and is more fool proof than what we have designed they can start in our design office next week When you ve managed to couple up PC 1 and TC 1 repeat the process for TC 2 and PC 2 The computer banks on TC 2 should be towards the rear of the train Snap on the joint modules by just p...

Page 7: ...ges are not com ing apart pull a bit harder Remember you have to unsnap the plastic connection that you previously snapped together It may help if you wiggle it a little RUNNING IN Every locomotive needs what we North Americans call a break in period This has caused all kinds of confusion in the past Some of our more dedicated customers took us literally and broke in to their friends homes to stea...

Page 8: ...thing pops off while you are removing the shell our starship s transporters will automatically lock on to the little part and beam it directly into the heart of the sun Don t bother looking for it It s gone You might hear the transporter effect as the part is beamed away We know it would have been more useful for us to beam the part back onto your workbench but someone s been fiddling with our tra...

Page 9: ...e is no English translation But you probably understand what we mean Buy more Rapido products and you ll eventually learn the entire Yiddish slang dictionary Just remove the blind plug plug in the recommended decoder in the same orientation and you have DCC ESU has made an APT E function mapping which can be downloaded into their non sound de coder 54615 so that the function buttons and motor cont...

Page 10: ...if you do program the APT E on the main and you have any other locomo tives on your layout assigned to address 3 the normal default address for new locomotives that ALL of them will likely also be changed to your new address Also be aware that if you give your locomotive a four digit address it will not work at all if you try to run it on a friend s DC layout Please keep in mind that some DCC syst...

Page 11: ...eloped with the assistance of Kit Spackman other wise known as Mr Tilt a member of the original APT E project team Some sounds are from origi nal recordings of the prototype some are from common components used in other trains some are generic and some had to be completely synthesised where no alternatives were available Auxiliary power for various systems on the train came from a Dale diesel gene...

Page 12: ... until a short time after the speed stabilises F5 can be left on all the time or turned only when required so that the throttle can be coasted without braking sounds The same type of hydro kinetic braking fan was used on the APT P train Playable high and low horn tones are on F3 and F4 respectively press on press off in each case There is also a two tone horn on F2 Press F2 and hold it down for as...

Page 13: ...de if your DCC system supports programming on the main We strongly recommend that you keep notes on which settings you have changed and which values were used If you ever need to do a reset on the decoder see Factory Reset below then having good notes will allow you to easily re enter any changes that you might want to keep VERY IMPORTANT Before you change any of the volume control CVs with the ex...

Page 14: ...u ever have to reset your locomotive you can do the automatic adjustment again it just takes a few seconds If you didn t check and your APT E is now in 119 pieces have fun putting it back together We ll be right behind you cheering you on 5000 miles behind you MORE INFORMATION While addressing the features that most modellers will need for normal operation these instruc tions have covered just a s...

Page 15: ... by trips to the exhibition floor running your APT E at 152 MPH around a 2 radius curve wearing your APT E power cars as a cosy pair of slippers baking the APT E at 325 degrees Fahrenheit until golden brown attempting to power your APT E with real diesel fuel or any other damage caused by you that we haven t been able to cover here is not covered by the warranty However if catastrophe does strike ...

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