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I'd go with Pritt stick. poke the spigot end of the whistle into the Pritt then push it into the hole.
If the finish is shiny PVA may not hold well, if it's matt you may end up with a shiny patch around the plaque

CCTs are the grandchildren of the trucks provided in the early days for the nobility to have their personal horsedrawn carriages loaded onto the end of a train. Once they had been persuaded by the provision of more luxurious special saloons to get out of their buggies and enter the train the origina...

It looks to me as though the motor is struggling to produce enough power to push the loco around. It turns the wheels continuously on the rollers but struggles to move the loco. you say it came from Beatties that makes it very old, if it has had long periods of no usage it's likely the magnet is sho...

I've had experience of six wheelers that run OK, with and without being Cleminson. And I really wouldn't judge all RTR 6 wheelers by the standards of the unfortunate Hornby magazine example - which, I should point out, was made by Dapol, not the mag; do you need to guess who was involved in its des...

Just spotted the neodymium magnets. Too powerfull! The motor may overheat trying to turn fast enough to generate sufficient back emf. Look for an alnico block magnet as originally fitted and get it re magnetised. You can't just increase the field strength by a huge amount and not do something about ...

Is this one of the. "classic" Hornby Dublo mechanisms with a vertical armature. If it is you may need to adjust the top bearing to prevent the armature moving vertically between forward and reverse, the armature should be centred vertically between the pole pieces, Anne the brushes should ...

I notice that the blurb says six wheelers will have a sliding centre axle to accommodate tighter curves and it will be easily removable. So they are obviously thinking about the possible problems.

Re - the air gap for the insulation, I'd put up a layer of Tyvek breathable roof membrane. It's the green stuff that goes on the roof rafters before the tiling battens. The builders left behind an almost complete roll so I put it down in our garden cabin outside face up. I hadn't got around to trimm...

You've certainly squeezed your quart and a bit into the pint pot, with small locos and short trains there's plenty of operating potential. The only improvement I would suggest at this stage is a one inch thick batten fastened to the two long edges, to prevent any suicidal leaps by wayward rolling st...

It's usually because the transformer laminations are loose. Probably someone's dropped it, or they occasionally come like that. As Roger says get used to it. Whatever you do do not try to cure it by clamping the transformer, it risks creating a "short circuit turn" which is the basis of th...

I downloaded a plan to make an applicator using an electric fly swatter, which looks like it could work. Trouble is, I can't find an electric fly swatter! :? Try the Pound Shop. Got swatter and pack of three strainers from there so mine cost £2 and I still have two strainers for hand sieving scatter.

Much the same as mine works, but not on the layout scale. At the moment I have part finished or "in development" motor bogies, various small locos which although running need various improvements (rebuilds) before I'll call them finished, a set of drawings,and trial 3D prints of small comp...

That's just the one in his garage! He has another in the loft and one that's so big he has to hire a hall to put it all together!

If it was at Burnside (just up the Windermere line from Carnforth) it would have been on the internal lines a James Croppers paper works. There have been a couple of PO wagons produced in the Cropper livery.

I haven't looked at Ratio 2mm scale signals, but knowing Ratio they will have tried hard to make them true to scale. I think building a working semaphore of approximately the right size but strong enough to operate while still "looking" right should be doable. The fact that the arms move s...