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I give in, what does NFF mean?

Don't waste money on far eastern plywood, this was flat as a pancake when I brought it home 24hrs earlier...

I wasted money on two sheets of this when I could have bought one sheet of Baltic Birch.

On my 16x8 shed I ended up removing the windows and installing extra studs and boarded them over after many times trying to stop water ingress. They were blanked out anyway to stop the sunlight. I also removed the feeble double doors and installed a single frame and more robust door with mortise loc...

Remember to remove the bonding links to the V rails. My plan was to leave these in place, cut isolating breaks in the closure rails the other side and use a separate polarity switch for the live frog. So the whole point is fully converted into electrofrog. Ah yes, cutting the turnout in half did th...

I've been looking into this as I may need to use a setrack Y point as well as a double slip to make my MPD work. How about simply grinding out the plastic part, then cutting and filing a triangular section of brass/nickel-silver/steel to fit the gap and soldering it in place? Seems simpler than pul...

I think he we was referring to this tunnel mouth....

Did you put in new "hinges" on the cut line.

The layout is a permanent fixture in a 16x8 shed but the board ends are dowelled and bolted together. I am making it so they can easily be removed on my demise in case it can hopefully be found a new home.

Needing to install a turnout across a baseboard join and never having done it before I didn't want to ruin a new one so decided to try it on an old insulfrog one I had. Before installing it I made a new crossing nose with a small piece of rail filed to an arrow head, cut away most of the plastic nos...

I can't see the point into trying conversions like this, just buy the electrofrog in the first place, or, if buying secondhand, wait until s/h electrofrog ones come up for sale! But if there is no electrofrog option available it has to be done. I did this with my Peco code 100 single and double sli...

Paul-H wrote:Have a look at Halfords Camo Brown, looks quite a good colour for track sleepers.

Paul

I used this before ballasting and was happy with the result.

Ironduke wrote:

Roger (RJ) wrote:

Free_at_last wrote:Avoid Hornby passing contact switches and go for Peco, they are far superior.

Especially if you use a CDU.

Why? Not arguing, I'd really like to know. Do they not handle high currents well?

The Hornby one switches both ways on every throw, the Peco only one.

Avoid Hornby passing contact switches and go for Peco, they are far superior.

Never thought I would be seeing on a model railway forum, a mention of the best and much missed Blues/Rock band this country (or any other) as ever produced, I am of course talking about FREE....Hornchurch and Free at Last, greetings from a fellow fan. Indisputably . I have every album they made. A...

Black Desert Sand from Aquaria outlets.

Looking at a Hattons advert for Nov 2007 Bachmann 47s were £55 - £56. Various other months during 2018 show the same prices. Not sure what the point of this post is other than misrepresentation generally? Your're right in that after the financial crash of 2007, using Hattons' prices as a reference ...