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Hello all,

The cardboard chassis and the £1.17p Motor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfRjo-NQcZw
Slippage? Certainly not!

Cheers - Jim

What controller are you using? Hello 21C1, In the video it's a modified GM UF just made on some matrix board to see if it's any different from the original version. You can see the three circuits here: https://www.scottpages.net/ReviewOfControllers.html Also a 'taster' here: https://ogaugemicro.blo...

Hello all, I use a blunt Carpenters pencil the lead in these is oblong and quite hard. Model railway rail is extruded nickel silver, the extrusion dies can be made in two ways, spark eroding or wire eroding, The nature of machine tools being dependent on lead or ball screws and electric motors means...

Hello all, I recently made this little screen cast video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm1KaCCC8Go Showing how and where to obtain the software, the links are under the the video on YT. Very easy to use the main program is Artweaver which works like a very simplified version of the early offerings...

Mountain wrote:The one that I have which is about half built now was supposed to be a quick project but I got carried away in experimenting etc.

Lol. As one does. I do the same just started another layout and have digressed into making a new (to me) programmable DC controller.
Such is life.

Cheers - Jim

Mountain wrote:It is interesting. Mine is not micro but it is relatively small.

Well! looking through your thread, with your skills, you'd soon be able to make one

Cheers - Jim

Hello all, https://i.ibb.co/v481m6j/398221780-Screenshot2021-05-21at9-49-49-PM-png-0177b256c3621d2e3195c5f0d586b6a0.png Preview issue number zero https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ophuj2uvq82uj3y/AAAxyOu9VECNQk71Ll3j2zGka?dl=0 Issue number one https://www.dropbox.com/s/n9h9p11mauzsduf/Dispatch%201%20final....

Hello all, Anyone can call their layout a 'Micro' even if it's 8 ft long and of course they are quite entitled to do so. BUT A micro layout is 3 to 4 Square Feet or less with a reason for being, with operating potential and regardless of scale. Anything over that is a 'Small' layout up to 24 Square ...

Hello all,

Carl's original site in his format is here;
https://lone.net/trains/carendt.morphoist.com/index.html

Cheers - Jim

Hello DR,

Thanks for the message good of you glad you find the PDF's useful.
I have made a Y8 loco and am going to make a small diesel loco for my new layout.
The one above has been sold and I have another one, Moxley for sale at the moment.

Cheers - Jim

Raboliot wrote::mrgreen:

But sadly you have removed the link and the image you posted.

Ah well such is life.

Cheers - Jim

Dear Raboliot,

I would be very grateful if you would be kind enough to read the post again and get the attribution correct. I'm sure Mr Hutnick would also be grateful.

Cheers and thanks - Jim

Raboliot wrote:Very interesting project. I saw it somewhere else...HERE

Hello Rabiliot,

Many thanks for posting the link, I do hope hope NRM members will take the opportunity you have provided for them to follow my progress.

Kindest regards - Jim

Hello all, I doodle track plans and then do a scale drawing with a dolls house rule when I've got something that I think is worth doing. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50562604441_136acd74ff_c.jpg Having done that one I kept thinking about Colin French's Foxbile layout in 29" https://live....

Hello, I make micro layouts and always start by doodling plans on odd bits of paper. I then work out the movements in my head and if I can work them out straightaway then it will be boring to operate, I like shunting. Once I find something where I can't immediately imagine all the movements then I k...