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Eric, that is wonderful. I am looking forward to seeing the video.

Rob

I have also bought a MFA Motor to use but my searches for suitable bevel gears was not a success. I have bought one too and had worked out that the only way to do it was with the motor off centre driving a lay-shaft out side the wheel base with power to the wheels via chain and sprocket. So far I h...

Depends on the size but stealing the RC gear from a cheap RC car at about 10 quid would be the cheapest. This would only work for the smaller motors though. Yes it works, but many of these only give you full forward or full reverse. No in between speed. Usually need at least 6v supply too, which me...

This is the first time I have read this one Rob and I would of been very tempted from the start to do something with the track and that swimming pool of yours ;) The track looks dead level as your Bertie puffs along very steadily! Yes it is indeed very level and ignores the potential of the area ar...

When I stopped posting on this thread 3 years ago, I was about to go on a trip to the UK. The line was laid to the extent that can be seen here and was intended to be a temporary affair to last a couple of years. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/408/20009043460_2e96ceb645_z.jpg FT_Phase1 The track ran...

Oh WOW! That really looks good. All that and the smell of castor oil too! Beautiful work.

Rob

I do believe I saw the sun in some of your pics send some our way its been quite dull and miserable here  8) Jim Thanks for the kind words. It is winter here and has been a bit rainy this week. Temps between 15 at night and 20 in the day! It will be sunny again this weekend with a range more like 1...

Well I am somewhat surprised to find that it is nearly 3 years since I last posted on this Thread. Some things have happened on the Fredericktown Tramway (FT) during that time. The railway was originally intended to be a testing place for ideas to put into place in my retirement, which should have h...

Some great pictures there Will. Can you tell us anything about "Columbo"? Looks to have a Baldwin ancestry. Is it a one of?

Rob

Rik

Thanks for doing that - you are a star!

It is certainly audible at 5m, and as you say a horn may be more noticeable, the loco blends very nicely into the background, lovely rural effect

I shall order one of the ones you have and experiment!

Thanks for doing that

Rob

Rik

This sounds great.

I had a fiddle with one of these a while ago intending to make it a horn with rc control , but was troubled by the every low volume. Perhaps I should try your source. Is it audible at say 10metres?

Rob

Apologies all, for the tardy acknowledgement of all the advice. Andy, thanks for the kind offer but I don't think I will take it up. I have decided to try and build a lighting unit based a bit on what dewintondave did using the end of a torch, but connected to some rechargeable button cells. Once I ...

Hi, following a rather disastrous attempt at night running with my grandson, I am keen to fit some sort of headlamp to my RH Bertie. Since we are a colonial line, it can be a bit ,well, colonial in outline, which includes of course USA. I had hoped that I could find something sold as a spare in the ...

These seem to be the Newqida stuff. I bought a box of 4 coaches and reqauged them to 32mm. I used Binnie wheels on 3mm steel rod axles. It is probably better to replace the wheels even if you leave them at 45mm. The wheels they come with are rather brittle plastic with coarse treads. The quality of ...

I reqauged some using Binnie wheels and 3mm rod.

The wheels provided have quite a course tread so it is with replacing them. Also be aware that the plastic bogies are not as forgiving as LGB ones, They are rather brittle as I discovered the hard way!!

Rob

That is absolutely amazing work! Is the little electronics package
a combined receiver and esc? or just an esc?

Looks very good. Interested to see that you brush paint with Humbrol "tinlets". Better finish that I seem to get with spray! Did you prime the wood first or just use multiple coats of the final finish.

Looks really good! I tried plastic angle as corner plates but the stuff I was using had a greater than 90 degree angle on the inside which was not good. What brand did you use?

Rob

Inspired by the article in the recent Garden Rail, I ordered a quartet of Newqida coaches from Hammonds in the US in order to convert them to 32mm gauge They arrived today, jolly prompt service in fact so I had a look at them in company with the article. Now, the article suggests moving the centre b...

Hi You can get a copy of the Binnie engineering catalogue at http://www.summerlands-chuffer.co.uk/binnie-engineering/4577586364 Contact details are on the catalogue. I have always found that Peter Binnie is happy to take email orders from Australia, so I would expect that you could ask him to post s...