Garden Railway Forum

Well, they look mighty fine to me.

Rik

Lonsdaler wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 03, 2017 9:20 am

What a good idea - filed for future use!

Ditto (ie Wot he sed)

Rik
PS Blimey, just seen the original was posted in October - must have missed this one

Looks pretty damn good to me, Rod. Like me, you can probably only see the flaws in your modelling, but to me it looks really effective. I like the way you've incorporated a light; an idea I may borrow if that's ok with you.

Rik

Very nice! Looks a very workmanlike loco.

Rik

I am afraid that when anyone mentions 'LiLo' batteries my mind goes to the usually unseen character of Lilo Lil off 'Bread' - the late 80s early 90s (IIRC) British Sitcom. Funnily enough I was ordained priest at a church in Toxteth, not so far from where the series was set. Cheers, Peter in Va Is t...

Very nice. But this it the finish, or is it really just the start (he asked philosophically)?

Rik

Very nice. Thanks for the info about the spectacles. I assume you put the drill on a slow speed? Do you drill from both sides and meet in the middle?

Rik

Just out of interest, Peter. Did you drill the circular windows, use a circle cutter or file them? They look flawless.

Rik

........ Today I drilled into the pavers and bashed in rawl plugs ( don’t know what they are called over in the UK ) ........ I call them rawl plugs. A bit like the way we call all vacuum cleaners Hoovers regardless of who makes them. :? Rik PS I don't think we've turned rawl plug into a verb (eg r...

The abuse a garden railway loco puts on a LiPo battery is nothing compared to what the drone and R/C car guys do to them. I just bought a charger capable of charging on two separate channels at 15A. It's not uncommon for guys to charge 2S LiPos at up to 40A to deliberate heat the cells so as to low...

Blimey, you don't hang about, Peter. Already looking like a lovely little ng diesel. Be interested to see how it develops.

Rik

I don't have as much experience as Greg with lipos, but I have been using them for nearly 5 years. I have a couple of locos equipped with the poly bag type lipos and the rest have cylindrical li-ion cells. I have had one lipo go puffy, which I've now replaced with cylindrical li-ions and I had one o...

Brilliant!
Rik

Looking good so far, Steve.
I've always fancied making one of the Walker diesels which ran on the West Clare. Not sure I can justify running it though as they were from the 1950s and my railway is set in the 1930s.

Rik

Hi Bob
Sounds clever. My sort of modelling. Have you managed to figure out how to upload a picture? Would love to see it.
Rik