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Somewhere or other I have acquired the idea that gradient measurement quoted in % is the fraction (vertical distance travelled)/(road distance travelled) - the denominator being the hypotenuse of the right-angled triangle with the other two side being horizontal and vertical distances travelled. It ...

Sounds like the approach to the "you need to put your computer into remote operation mode so that we can install urgent security updates (i.e. our malware)" scam. I use TPS and calling number display. I only personally answer calls where I recognise the caller's number and am prepared to t...

Forgot to say, if you find a way of making paint stick to the red plastic wheels do let me know!!! Has anyone tried a black plastic dye? Several years ago when I was into building up the 70's 4.5v and 12v lego classic locos, I found there was a massive oversupply of red wheels whereas the black whe...

Rough base-plate sizes (excluding buffers and couplings) are Faller 7mm 3764 loco base 15.8 x 5.6cm Same base but with pt77 12mm?? E/play-train wide-cab top 16 x 7.3cm Mamod 20 x 8 cm Hunslike kit 20 x 10cm So 80% would seem to be about right. With courier costs the package from Germany actually exc...

Kit arrived yesterday - it's almost as big as a Mamod! I'd forgotten how big true 16mm is, as the Mamod scale seems rather smaller and the Faller Play/E-train scale is even smaller yet. The Faller chassis will be completely dwarfed - I think I might scan the sheets and reduce to 80% or so, which wou...

Definitely a Ted Glen job.

... makes use of those cheapo remote controls which you can pick up on ebay for around £5-£10. Rik I bought a pair (2x receiver, 2x xmitter) from China for less than £2 all in just before Christmas - just about the postage in the UK. But I have currently lost my bottle over building another control...

Sometimes I wonder if the 0.5A charge limit you have noted is a consequence of the temperature-sensor having been cropped (if you have) - perhaps that falsely signals to the board the batteries are running hot, so it opts for safety?

Very successful project, however.

Suspect there may be some Microsoftisms in the html for your web site - but I made it work much better today and have ordered a green Hunslet (the flat running-plate will be easier to adapt to the flat Faller one than the stepped Corris). The killing move to getting the item into the basket was find...

Quite interested in the Hunslet and/or Corris loco tops to graft onto a Faller 0 gauge battery chassis - but I can't get your web-site to work with my Firefox browser under linux. If I zoom out far enough I eventually get an 'add to basket' button which clicks, but it doesn't ... ? Also wondering wh...

If the adjective tight springs to mind it is probably too tight. You want to insert the wick so there are no significant air-holes in it, but still plenty of fine space for the meths to pull itself through. The definition is functional. If the capillary action is working, it's OK. Any sort of tampin...

Enginehouse:109288 wrote: What technical questions. I don't actually have any.

The thread founder appears to have some.

This subject is currently/ historically and exhaustively discussed on http://modelsteam.myfreeforum.org under various 'Locomotives & Railways' threads - as I'm sure many readers here know. If you are actually going to renovate a Mamod, that's probably the place to be asking the technical questio...

Sounds like the feed-tube is blocked between the rear wick and the front two. When reviving elderly Bowman-300 burners (5 wicks, not just three) I start by playing with water rather than meths to see what's going on (any residual water will be cleared by the meths, when you come to burn some, as the...

... In effect, if it drops below 100% then the batteries are about to die... Rik I eye-balled the discharge/voltage/current curves for these batteries available on the 'web. If the charge-lights on your board are simply measuring battery voltage, the charge results they report will vary wildly with...

I've mentioned this before and I thought I'd share it - a few years ago I was interested in cheap r/c for lego trains (not lego prices, not the price 2.4G was then) with small antennae, so having electronics and software skills decided to make my own around the cheap (now even cheaper) 433MHz transm...

No, there is a new legotrain standard now. The wheels that Rebelego uses in this thread are different from the new train, and as I mentioned, my 32mm. wagons can run on the lego track, but the legowheels kind of slip in between of my 32mm. Peco track. Thanks for putting me right - living in the pas...

A lego block is 8x8x9.6mm and the rail-centre to rail-centre width of the passive clip-together track (such as illustrated on the 7722 box) is therefore 40mm - take off 4mm or so for a rail width (I suppose I could get one out and measure it...) and you get 36mm between rail inner-edges. I have neve...

Found it!! Fits perfectly so must be the right one. Just went back to where I purchased it and asked if they had any box of bits and there it was! 👍 Would that be the SV? If not, you could take an impression of the SV fitting thread in plasticene or similar, measure up and see if it mat...

I have no idea if the ESC has over current protection. It is one of these... http://www.deltang.co.uk/rx65b-22-v611.htm I will email Deltang and find out. As it says the stall-current of the motor at 100% output should not exceed the controller current rating, it looks like there is no protection (...