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- Sun Feb 19, 2017 5:21 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Preowned windfalls
- Replies: 86
- Views: 11517
Re: Preowned windfalls
Yep, there are definitely one or two oddities there.
- Sat Feb 18, 2017 7:02 pm
- Forum: Personal Layouts - Under Construction
- Topic: Millsend Layout - OO Gauge Sixties Midland
- Replies: 840
- Views: 96063
Re: Millsend Layout - OO Gauge Sixties Midland
RailwayRobbo wrote:Ha ha ha ha ha.
Jim, when have the words 'model railway' and 'finished' ever appeared in the same sentence?
Pete (RailwayRobbo)
"My model railway finished off my marriage"?
- Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:29 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: Preowned windfalls
- Replies: 86
- Views: 11517
Re: Preowned windfalls
I'm waiting to see if Hattons reduces the class-128 DPU any further from the current £52.
- Thu Feb 16, 2017 10:42 pm
- Forum: Other Model Railway Manufacturers and Gauges
- Topic: DJ Models (Hattons) Class 14xx (image heavy)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3824
Re: DJ Models (Hattons) Class 14xx (image heavy)
An interesting point for me to note here is the warning that HF 'Track Cleaners' are not recommended with coreless motors, and may even cause damage. As I am running conventional DC with the Gaugemaster HF2, this is of some concern to me. Up to now, I have been purchasing some new locomotives, knowi...
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 7:55 pm
- Forum: General Model Railway Discussion / News
- Topic: bachmann loco
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2339
Re: bachmann loco
Similar advice from a similar era, but to solve a different problem : If your Amiga was having regular odd Guru Meditations, it could be one or more custom chips losing contact with their associated sockets. Too nervous to take it apart? Then hold it upside down and drop it onto your bed / some pill...
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 2:36 pm
- Forum: Personal Layouts - Under Construction
- Topic: Kerluk's layout
- Replies: 80
- Views: 8913
Re: Kerluk's layout
Bufferstop wrote:Be wary of cheap 0-6-0s many have traction tyres or reduced diameter centre wheels turning them effectively into long 0-4-0s.
Such as the Lima class-20.
Its traction tyres turn a Bo-Bo into an 0-4-0.
- Wed Feb 01, 2017 11:53 am
- Forum: Baseboard Design and Construction
- Topic: How to secure plywood top
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1774
Re: How to secure plywood top
My entire frame and baseboard uses screws for fixing, in case I need to disassemble it at a later date. That's fine for a permanent layout but if you have a portable one screws alone will not make it ridged enough but as soon as you glue it you will not be able to dismantle it! I've yet to reuse an...
- Wed Feb 01, 2017 8:42 am
- Forum: Hornby - including Lima, Rivarossi, Jouef, Electrotren
- Topic: Hornby R602 Power clip
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2776
Re: Hornby R602 Power clip
I bought a pack of the Peco track connector jumpers.
These have wires already attached that you can pass through small holes in your baseboard, and then use connection blocks for the power.
Obviously you can solder wire on yourself, but I didn't trust my soldering skills.
These have wires already attached that you can pass through small holes in your baseboard, and then use connection blocks for the power.
Obviously you can solder wire on yourself, but I didn't trust my soldering skills.
- Wed Feb 01, 2017 8:38 am
- Forum: Baseboard Design and Construction
- Topic: How to secure plywood top
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1774
Re: How to secure plywood top
My entire frame and baseboard uses screws for fixing, in case I need to disassemble it at a later date.
- Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:56 pm
- Forum: Welcome / Terms And Conditions / Guest Book
- Topic: howdo from colchester essex
- Replies: 6
- Views: 900
Re: howdo from colchester essex
My layout is ideally suited to shunters, DMUs, and small panniers.
Which is why I've managed to accrue a couple of Westerns, classes 58, 47, 37, a 9F, a full rake of Mk2 and 2b...
Not doing too well, am I
Which is why I've managed to accrue a couple of Westerns, classes 58, 47, 37, a 9F, a full rake of Mk2 and 2b...
Not doing too well, am I
- Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:48 pm
- Forum: Electronics
- Topic: controller advice please
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2446
Re: controller advice please
The only really small niggle I have with the Gaugemaster is the direction switch being marked F and R.
These directions are frequently swapped on my layout, being a single loop an' all, and I imagine for others, the labels seem arbitrary as well.
I'd prefer just arrows.
These directions are frequently swapped on my layout, being a single loop an' all, and I imagine for others, the labels seem arbitrary as well.
I'd prefer just arrows.
- Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:45 pm
- Forum: Heljan
- Topic: 1361 class
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4546
Re: 1361 class
Practice not just restricted to model railway sphere.
I see strappy heels at higher price than a decent pair of leather kneeboots.
Makes no sense. I always get the boots
I see strappy heels at higher price than a decent pair of leather kneeboots.
Makes no sense. I always get the boots

- Thu Jan 26, 2017 11:29 pm
- Forum: Welcome / Terms And Conditions / Guest Book
- Topic: Bonjour
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1175
Re: Bonjour
Konban-wa


- Thu Jan 26, 2017 11:11 pm
- Forum: Bachmann
- Topic: Tyne Dock/Consett 9F
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2031
Re: Tyne Dock/Consett 9F
I've always loved the 9F. Not sure why. It just looked a bit different from the majority of the other steamers. Perhaps a bit more utilitarian. I was always going to be having one on my layout, but was always disappointed it was a freight-only locomotive, but I needn't have worried as - toward the e...
- Thu Jan 26, 2017 11:01 pm
- Forum: Electronics
- Topic: controller advice please
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2446
Re: controller advice please
Those are the two manufacturers I looked at for a dual-track controller.
I plumped for the Gaugemaster, mostly because that's the one my model shop had, and it was a nice no-frills controller that looked bomb-proof.
I plumped for the Gaugemaster, mostly because that's the one my model shop had, and it was a nice no-frills controller that looked bomb-proof.