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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:57 pm
- Forum: Bachmann
- Topic: What no comment from Mountain
- Replies: 1
- Views: 61
What no comment from Mountain
Bachmann have announced their NG7 range or 0/16.5 or whatever system of narrow gauge nomenclature you care to use. I'm surprised to not have heard about it from our friend Mountain, perhaps he has yet to recover from the shock of getting trade support from his chosen scale. Truly everything comes to...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:35 am
- Forum: Hornby - including Lima, Rivarossi, Jouef, Electrotren
- Topic: r617 uncoupler
- Replies: 7
- Views: 174
Re: r617 uncoupler
What track are you fitting them to? I'd expect the tabs to fit between the sleepers of the current Hornby or Peco set track. They should also fit Peco code 100 flexi track but you may need to slightly adjust the sleeper positioning.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:40 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Wobbly wheels on split chasses - solutions?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 164
Re: Wobbly wheels on split chasses - solutions?
That assessment is made on the basis of the very good looking Replica B1 with a mechanism based very closely on Mainline's method, which went all to pieces inside four years Indeed many Replica chassies had the legend "Made by Bachman" Stamped into them, or had a blank panel where the Bac...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: Personal Layouts - Under Construction
- Topic: Birmingham New Street and Brettell Road in P4
- Replies: 1636
- Views: 377070
Re: Birmingham New Street and Brettell Road in P4
It came in brown livery and with a certificate saying it was a limited edition number 061 of 500. If this sort of thing matters to you and you have one you will be pleased to know that your model is now even more limited being 1 of 499 (You're welcome!). :D My own sentiments entirely, Unless the ma...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Best layout room lighting colour
- Replies: 9
- Views: 211
Re: Best layout room lighting colour
As for daylight fluorescent tubes I thought they had gone the way of the candescent bulbs. That will be the problem when these need replacing. When I first bought them they were only available mail order in packs of six. I put the second three in about four years ago. Who knows these may see me out...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Best layout room lighting colour
- Replies: 9
- Views: 211
Re: Best layout room lighting colour
That's why I use them - standard flourescents and incandescents make colour matching a nightmare. Some layouts at shows have odd coloured grass and various rolling stock liveries that are definitely "off" because they were built and maintained in a clubroom lit by standard flourescents. Th...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 8:27 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Best layout room lighting colour
- Replies: 9
- Views: 211
Re: Best layout room lighting colour
Mine is still lit by 3 x. 5ft florescent daylight white tubes as used in design studios for correct colouring. When they need replacing I'll have to investigate LED equivalents.
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:03 pm
- Forum: Welcome / Terms And Conditions / Guest Book
- Topic: All users Please Read ********Update 30 March
- Replies: 9
- Views: 630
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Gorilla Glue
- Replies: 7
- Views: 188
Re: Gorilla Glue
Araldite two part may be a bit more expensive than others, but if you use it as instructed, (and do the cleaning properly) it works!
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: The Workbench
- Topic: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works
- Replies: 1426
- Views: 210816
Re: Dad-1 - Workbench - West Bay Wagon Works
I'd be telling the curious that the Engineer's dept. got a discount on food supply for their crews by trading the suppliers advertising in exchange.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: Welcome / Terms And Conditions / Guest Book
- Topic: Lurker, but with a username
- Replies: 13
- Views: 524
Re: Lurker, but with a username
If you do find that the armature of the Ringfield motor is faulty, take a look at the kits for conversion to a "CD tray drive motor" It's a relatively simple swap and there's no end of YouTube videos showing what to do. If you've pushed a CD draw back in when it wants to come out you'll kn...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: Real World Railways
- Topic: We Could Have Told Them This Will Happen!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 168
Re: We Could Have Told Them This Will Happen!
The "Engineer" (driver) is probably that far away he can't see what's happening, and with two or three locos working together he's not very likely to feel it either. Propelling very long trains can be very dodgy. Good practise says that the train should be put in a loop except for the last...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: CDU Power Supply
- Replies: 2
- Views: 99
Re: CDU Power Supply
The answer is in your post, the plug in psu for the Combi does the job. Amazon have them in stock https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gaugemaster-GM-GMC-WM3-Supply-Mounted-Transformer/dp/B0196GBCHI/ref=asc_df_B0196GBCHI/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310786189177&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvr...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:02 am
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Peco 3 way point.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 311
Re: Peco 3 way point.
Many of the layouts I've seen which are DCC controlled still used wired switches to operate point motors. Apart from the builders personal preference the reason quoted is convenience. Unless your DCC is capable of setting up route switching, ie one command setting all the points for a route they hav...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: Electrical & Electronics
- Topic: Fiddle yard on off power switches
- Replies: 9
- Views: 364
Re: Fiddle yard on off power switches
Agreed, but if you are using DCC why do you need the switches?