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Spavo wrote:I know using LAN cable might be a big no no for some people but I can assure you it's working fine for me.

Category 5 network cable is the business. Are you using solid core or stranded stuff? Most of mine's solid, although a couple of stranded patch cables were turned into controller leads.

50035 Ark Royal wrote:No you are wrong

I meant two versions of the kit, not the roof! Sorry, could have been clearer.

egroeg93 wrote:It took me an hour to paint just a single hornby straight with a brush. But you can get atleast a dozen done in that time using those tools!!

An hour! I did my whole layout in two, both rail webs and sleepers. Photos are in my thread; perhaps I did a bad job?

If I was modelling sound, I'd not want any locos that didn't have it. Not in the long run.

If you're putting sound on your layout, of course you'd want your shunters to be included. It might not be your highest priority, but you'd want them making sounds eventually, otherwise they'd be the stealthy shunters, and look out of place.

I brush-painted the lot. Rails first, visible side then back side, then sleepers. The chairs got painted the same colour as rails, and I painted around them as best I could when doing the sleepers. My rails are grimy grey-brown (slightly greyer than the chocolate you see in real life, but I wanted a...

It does seem to work OK using the function outputs of a DCC decoder as its primary power input, but when it switches from track voltage to capacitor, it flickers. How have you wired it up? The function output from the decoder is there to switch flicker free on and off only and the green wire is not...

I bought a triple pack of Flicker Free 2s last week. They perform very poorly on a Hornby Select. When track power is applied to the inputs, the output voltage drops away to a level barely large enough to light the LEDs. When connected to a DC source, it's fine. It does seem to work OK using the fun...

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SRman wrote:Sorry - second posting as I can't seem to find an edit button!

What happens to the 'edit' function ? Sometimes it's there, at others not [hence my spelling errors.....].

It's disabled in the Hornby forum. I don't know why.

Instead of a brush, I'd be tempted to make the shape of a bow spring out of one solid copper core, and have it not hanging low enough to touch trackwork. The springy shape it forms should allow it to pass over a contact in both directions.

DB Regio are now operating Tyne & Wear Metro. They've only made slight alterations to the branding on the uniforms and posters, dropping the former Nexus logo. No livery changes. Of course, Nexus still own everything.

I have other rectifiers, and they spit out 14-15V for the most part, although one of them (a big mains-rated monster) managed to give me 18V somehow. OK, assuming you could get 14-15V using another decoder, what difference would that make to the required capacitors? You would not require capacitors...

It sounds like the 27V output you were having to work with is a function of the cheap and nasty standard decoder. Unless that decoder for some inexplicable reason has an on-board charge pump arrangement, it is difficult to see how it could, of itself, produce 27V. All it does is rectify whatever vo...

a GW loco in red just looks wrong Highly subjective, that. It looks like any other steam loco to me, for example. I can't tell one company's locos from another, with the exception of the A4s and the Coronations, which are fairly easy to tell apart. In fact, my only childhood exposure to steam locom...

The suppression capacitors probably need to go as close to the armature as they can. Anyway, this particular topic has been covered extensively, and in depth, on this forum before. It's also slightly out of the scope of my own capacitor hack. I've fitted my switch. I went to Maplin and paid through ...