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… etc, etc show nearly everyone soldering fish plates to rails! Getting ready for a flood of answers stating that under no circumstances do it. However I admit it, I do. My last two layouts (only four foot micro layouts) have been fully soldered. Obviously I have the skill to produce a nice neat jo...

I am not sure that there is a definitive answer here. I don’t use gaps, but I am in a room in the house so don’t have the variations in temperature that a loft would experience for example. Your boards are going to expand and contract too and to a degree that will depend on the material and construc...

OOLiveSteam wrote: ↑Mon Dec 11, 2023 6:17 pm Mike. I hope you are well and still monitoring this thread.

Adrian Campbell

Adrian, Mike has not logged onto the site this year. On his main website page at the top right there is a contact link. I would suggest that this would be the best way to contact him.

Dave

Welcome aboard Si, looking forward to your contributions.

GeraldH wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:51 pm The repair is quite robust and once the track is ballasted and weathered no-one will ever know.

We will now

The serious question though, is was it successful in improving the performance on the gradient?

Welcome aboard Martin

Welcome aboard

Good to see you back

Welcome aboard

Please ignore

Bufferstop wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2023 4:41 pm My guess something to do with the age of our version of phpBB, but don't fix it 'till it's broke was probably…

I believe that we are now up to date John, so we are probably okay for a while now.

I was beginning to think that it was terminal

Welcome aboard Frank

Big Al wrote:Many thanks to Dave-00.

He has very kindly reinstated me with my original log in details.

You are welcome, I look forward to a new layout starting its journey in the near future.

You don’t have to go there, and to be honest the vast majority of us on here are not interested in the goings on on there.

Have a nice day.