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- Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: Rolling Stock
- Topic: Gladstone Coach to Bush Tram Carriage
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1321
Re: Gladstone Coach to Bush Tram Carriage
If you want "eccentric", maybe just stick some seats in that cattle van?!! I'll call it "In-Laws Class". :lol: :lol: Not far from the truth, though. The local Moreton/Mapleton tramways were known to add longitudinal bench seats to cane trucks and flat wagons, for special excursi...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 8:43 am
- Forum: Rolling Stock
- Topic: Gladstone Coach to Bush Tram Carriage
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1321
Re: Gladstone Coach to Bush Tram Carriage
25/09/19 The 1mm styrene sheet from the kit was cut to length, and scribed as needed. A bulb mount (I believe salvaged from a car instrument panel many yeas ago) was fitted with a 3V bulb. Superglue and a ruler made for a tidy visible wiring run, though I did get carried away - the wires need only g...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 7:16 am
- Forum: Rolling Stock
- Topic: Gladstone Coach to Bush Tram Carriage
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1321
Gladstone Coach to Bush Tram Carriage
A "little" :lol: project from my defunct blog, that I've been meaning to contribute to the forum for quite a while.. Back in early 2019... I wanted an end-platform carriage, reminiscent of the various carriages found on the 2ft gauge sugar tramways of Queensland. Several of these were buil...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 6:54 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Stuart's occasional loco thread - Boot Lane Works 'Lilibet'
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7356
Re: Stuart's occasional loco thread - Boot Lane Works 'Lilibet'
I'll second the suggestion of the pin vice. I love mine.
Looking forward to seeing the new loco come together, always nice to see a new build.
Looking forward to seeing the new loco come together, always nice to see a new build.
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 5:59 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Llewellyn Loco Works #1
- Replies: 917
- Views: 345037
Re: Llewellyn Loco Works #1
I'd be up for that. When are you leaving?Hydrostatic Dazza wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:49 pm Thankyou. You will have to come around for a afternoon and evening session on the POR before we go to Wales. [/color][/b]
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 10:28 am
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Wallingford Industrial Railway Ltd - 4 January 2024 - Inside storage shed
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3880
Re: Wallingford Industrial Railway Ltd - 4 January 2024 - Inside storage shed
Nice and practical, love the coffee shelf. I'd like to put something similar under a workbench one day, so storage yards like yours are always worth reading.
Suitably tiny yet grunty shunter for such a tight space, too.
Suitably tiny yet grunty shunter for such a tight space, too.
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 12:04 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Llewellyn Loco Works #1
- Replies: 917
- Views: 345037
Re: Llewellyn Loco Works #1
Masterpiece as always, Darrell.
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 11:47 pm
- Forum: Quarterly Garden Railway Gallery
- Topic: March 2024 Gallery CLOSING DATE 1st MARCH
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8071
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Camera Vehicle
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2483
Re: Camera Vehicle
I wonder if a bit of soft (spongy foam) padding might absorb the vibrations.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 2:52 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
- Replies: 272
- Views: 124300
Re: Semi-scale BR: The Modernisation Plan
A set of clacks straddling the boiler top, along with suitable firebox-top pipework and stubby boiler fittings, might lend a little further "BR-Standardism" to it, but I'm really grasping at straws - you've made a fine job already.
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 6:57 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Next overhaul project....
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8186
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 12:53 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Little Wonder
- Replies: 64
- Views: 19934
Re: Little Wonder
Suitably fiddly.
They're really packed in there, between those axleboxes.
They're really packed in there, between those axleboxes.
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 10:24 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Simplex Yard Shunter
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3985
Re: Simplex Yard Shunter
29/12/23 A bit (very) slow in writing this up, but it is what it is. The bonnet sections were glued together and reinforced with thin plastic strip from behind. A coat of etch primer was applied before slapping Squadron putty on it, followed by sanding. I've left a few divots and marks in the castin...
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 11:28 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Next overhaul project....
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8186
Re: Next overhaul project....
Always good to get another job ticked off. Hope it clears up soon.
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 11:43 am
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: #workshopwednesday - a rolling road for the FeckHallBahn. Bach Chorale accompaniment
- Replies: 3
- Views: 927
Re: #workshopwednesday - a rolling road for the FeckHallBahn. Bach Chorale accompaniment
Aye, rolling roads aren't worth the price, IMO. One of these days I'll make my own from aluminium angle and cheap bearings - but I seem to keep getting away with blocks of wood. :scratch: Yours is certainly a standard to aim for. Fully-adjustable, self-contained on a board, with a storage box to boo...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 1:34 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The WWLR Layout Begins
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5291
Re: The WWLR Layout Begins
I've done that with a machine vice too. Nice conversion - You've clearly put more effort into it than I did.
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:40 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
- Replies: 3350
- Views: 1080949
Re: Time to build a railway...but where?
So do I.Peter Butler wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 11:42 am I still need to refer to Rik's 'idiot's guide' every time.....
Never easy to conceal wiring without compromising functionality. I'd hate to attempt wiring up a Garratt. Nice work.
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:25 am
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Biting the bullet - wholesale conversion from 45mm to SM32
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9155
Re: Biting the bullet - wholesale conversion from 45mm to SM32
I hope I'm not coming off as pushy, one way or the other - just thinking out loud. :) And that's very kind of you to offer! My first layout used SV rail, bought through an Australian dealer - nailed to home-cut wooden sleepers. I still have a few lengths, which will need plastic sleepers to reuse, s...
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:10 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Capacitor for motor RF suppression?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2708
Re: Capacitor for motor RF suppression?
Aha! Thanks fellas. Just picked up two lifetimes' supply of caps for a tenner. Forgot I even mentioned the RH chassis, had to look back through my own posts to find it. :scratch: :scratch: The Baguley's fine as an "out of the box" cane loco - just paint it yellow. But as a prototype, it ne...
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 12:09 am
- Forum: Rolling Stock
- Topic: Sweet Miscellany
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3470
Re: Sweet Miscellany
Surely you have more wheelsets somewhere, Greg.. What's one more van? Dewit.jpg Funny you say that Graeme, I do have a blog , for the same reason as you. I used to post there, then copy/paste text and images to the forum. But this takes hours to do, and I found that blogger had an infuriating tenden...