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I can only echo what Geoff (Dad-1) says, and add don't be in too much of a hurry to fix the layout plan, that's the beauty of set track. Try to concentrate the steel track to sidings as far as you can, and take any opportunity to replace some of it with nickel silver, running is much better. Make pa...

The European manufacturers, Vollmer, Kibri et.al. produce generic modern office blocks, but up until the 1960s there were as many designs of office blocks as there were companies and organisations occupying them. There was one notable style which is still around used for government departments, tele...

Geoff - I just wanted to cover the aspect of giving what might be dangerous instructions. I did consider a further extension (for all of 20 seconds) for a car park, the front row of cars being the signal and point controls, but I would have had to repaint them all in colours that match the tracks on...

They disintegrate real well, but it's a hell of a job rebuilding them round the end of the steel rod

On my layout thread and in other places I've given a method for taking the heads of plastic topped map/chart pins, and fixing them to 1-2mm steel rod. for manual point control. I've just started on a new (or never opened before) pack of pins they produce acrid smoke if overheated. Getting the heads ...

Just proves you can't keep a good engineer down!

John W
aka Bufferstop

I've excised a number of posts, and some chunks from others which lead to argument about a certain virus.
Please think before mentioning contentious subjects.
You've seen what happens when you don't

OK folks carry on.
John W
aka Bufferstop.

You are right 4472 but for **** sake why hasn't someone pressed the ! It lights up admin screens in pink to draw our attention to the report. I'll take out the posts back to where the fake news diversion came in. As the rest of the thread is ok.

If it's polythene you it won't heat weld, I'm hoping (against all logic) that in the fifty years since the PO (BT) gave up and went for mechanical joints on poly cables that some miraculous new adhesive has been found! I've already crossed Flo-Plast of the list, due to its ferocious solvent and gooe...

Do I know about the rubberised covering that goes sticky! I spent a whole day cleaning the damned stuff of a PDA (the 2000 predecessor of the tablet) as it still had its uses, only for it to fry its processor a couple of days later!. I guess the sleepers are polythene, never did get my head around p...

Has anyone had any success sticking the sleepers of Peco streamline to anything else, themselves included. Over the years I've used most available adhesives and glues to try to stick them to other things and all are less than perfect welds. They are either polythene or polyurethane which are renown ...

I bought "Laser cutting and 3D Printing for Railway Modellers, Co authored by David Renshaw who is a member "El Davo" here. It Easy to follow uses items relevant to railway modellers and covers the various bits of software needed to produce the 3D Virtual Model, what you can get wrong...

Toy's mine maybe, but then at the bottom of the page is my motto which ends ".....Growing up, Forget it!"

It's a shame that the panels were installed in windowless boxes, as your handiwork could then have been enjoyed to the full without taking the roof off!

Yes the way they have brought out the connections leads to the assumption that the centre frog will at some point be opposite to the preceding one, and just to confound the issue there's one blade which in one position does nowt due to the asymmetric geometry. Had my first case of poor construction ...