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- Sun Nov 22, 2020 11:01 am
- Forum: Personal Layouts - Under Construction
- Topic: Beaglington-On-Sea 00 gauge in 6ft by 4ft
- Replies: 196
- Views: 16765
Re: Beaglington-On-Sea 00 gauge in 6ft by 4ft
What a lot you get in a small space well done like the layout
- Mon Sep 21, 2020 7:26 pm
- Forum: DCC Forum
- Topic: cv adjustment
- Replies: 2
- Views: 232
Re: cv adjustment
Forgot to say put a CD type motor in it as well gets rid of the growl and better running easy enough to do and even easier if you can solder makes a good model for not too much money
- Mon Sep 21, 2020 4:21 pm
- Forum: DCC Forum
- Topic: cv adjustment
- Replies: 2
- Views: 232
cv adjustment
Tearing my hair out on this one Lima 37 fitted tts in the loco but was so jerky so did a web search and found the answer adjusted CV 150 to 1/CV153 to 215/CV154 to 0 that did the job runs like a dream best of it is i have done it many times but just for got moral of this keep a small note book with ...
- Fri Aug 07, 2020 8:11 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Surprise from Hornby!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 526
Re: Surprise from Hornby!
Waiting on mine buying direct means i have cut out the profit takers and also supporting Hornby so money in there till and hope it helps a little bit in these hard times
- Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:14 pm
- Forum: Hornby - including Lima, Rivarossi, Jouef, Electrotren
- Topic: Lima class 40 motor upgrade
- Replies: 7
- Views: 759
Re: Lima class 40 motor upgrade
Done a few of my Lima motors easy to do a lot better running does not seam to be any loss of power to loco so if you have a poor runner why not give it a go as i use DCC motor voltage no problem you can get a voltage dropper kit as well a google search will find what you want so you get your loco ba...
- Tue Dec 24, 2019 11:35 pm
- Forum: Personal Layouts - Under Construction
- Topic: Beaglington-On-Sea 00 gauge in 6ft by 4ft
- Replies: 196
- Views: 16765
Re: Beaglington-On-Sea 00 gauge in 6ft by 4ft
What a good start like it and keep up the good work
Re: Lima loco
Got the motor changed now runs 100% better even slow running .so from what would have been a scarp model i have a serviceable loco 

Re: Lima loco
Goggle is your friend for this job(a lot of videos to show you how) also supply of motors as well one firm even does a complete kit for you also found on the bay .I use a good quality super glue to fix mine .if you can strip a motor down to clean then a replacement is straight forward .I think the c...
Lima loco
Not going to service Lima motors any more just going to change them for the CD type cheap enough on the bay and takes about the same amount of time, plus side you get a far better running loco,only have a end to end layout so good running is important to me
- Sat May 18, 2019 3:46 pm
- Forum: DCC Forum
- Topic: 66 TTS speaker upgrade
- Replies: 5
- Views: 852
Re: 66 TTS speaker upgrade
The one that is fitted to the 66 decoder is not a round one mine was not and is not too bad fitted in the body may want sealing in the case it comes in i always give them a try before thinking about a change.I always wind up or sound person at the model railway club by telling him you need a 15 inch...
- Fri Oct 19, 2018 8:42 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: The Great Model Railway Challenge
- Replies: 161
- Views: 19776
Re: The Great Model Railway Challenge
Either i am getting use to it or it is improving enjoyed this weeks steampunk layout a lot of fun and why not
kevin sharpe
kevin sharpe
- Sun Oct 07, 2018 7:34 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: The Great Model Railway Challenge
- Replies: 161
- Views: 19776
Re: The Great Model Railway Challenge
Just got round to watching the show reminded me of a lot of clubs fair amount of skill shown and the right layout won on the day .Could you build a layout in 3 days take me a month to do the base board.At least it is opening our great hobby to the general public.
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 8:35 pm
- Forum: DCC Forum
- Topic: Hornby TTS Sound, any good?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2808
Re: Hornby TTS Sound, any good?
Not bad value for money a good tip for them is to change the speaker i like them and i can have more than one sound loco
Sound
I have used the TTS sound decoder in a 31 not bad for the money some say that they are not very good but i like it got a zimo in another one and to my ears there is very little in sound between the two only thing changed is the speaker so one happy chap and can 3 hornby ones to 1 dear one 

- Thu Sep 21, 2017 3:31 pm
- Forum: DCC Forum
- Topic: keep it simple
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1046
Re: keep it simple
If i need to adjust c.v. i take loco up to the railway club but so far happy a good entry level sstem that does not hurt my brain as the layout stands max of 7 locos on layout so plenty to go at