Lightening the Merkur combined luggage passenger coach

The green passenger coach 9330 and restaurant coach 9331 were already lit. So only the combined luggage passenger coach 9751 still had to be equipped with some internal lights.

Merkur sells two types of interiors for 42 cm (17 inch) long coaches.The 8961 for regular coaches and the 8962 for dining cars. The latter comes with grey tables. Only the 8962 is suitable, but needs a small modification. Two seats need to cut of, to avoid them of obstructing the sliding doors.

After all the screws were loosened to allow the side panel to tilt, the seats would fit in.

Then all the screws and nuts could be tightened again.

The LED strips of Hufing Tronic were glued to the roof and the leads were soldered.

Two blue paper strips were attached with sticky tape to the blue roof line to create a ridge to avoid light shining under the roof slit.The self-made electrical pick-ups were connected and soldered on and then we could let it run.

These passenger coaches are great and just make me happy to see them shine.