Garden Railway Forum

Rod,
I remember in years past, some people were using Meccano gears to form corrugations.
The parts can still be found in the usual auction sites.
Two standard rods in Meccano trunions with the gears nicely meshing.
May need several gears butted together, and a winding handle.

Tony,

A good tip, already aware!

I'll be in touch direct.

Tony, yes that's true, but...
I was hoping for tips.
OK, professional is better, but I understand you have a heavy workload.

Tom Tom, yes in UK, Merseyside.
BTW, loco is 32mm.

Hello All, Just back after lengthy absence. Of course, only because I have a question... Does anybody have experience of dismantling/fettling RH Taliesin inside valve gear? The loco had a problem in it's second year, repaired under warranty. RH said a locking pin had backed off the die block and jam...

[quote="-steves-:57143"][quote="anythingsdr:57141"]haha, Bordum is a killer for me... only working evenings.... leaves the whole day open to bordum[/quote]

Mine is the same, just in reverse, lol    :lol:  :lol:[/quote]

I'm retired... What's boredom?

I had exactly this problem with a second hand Edrig.
Bought a new valve from Chuffed2bits.
Then managed to pick out the muck with a needle.

This link is to a pic I posted on G Scale Central some while ago... One comment admired the sweep of the curves into the station, but if you study the rails closely, the slight kinks can be seen. The track is Peco flexi 32mm, radius is 2'6". http://www.gscalecentral.co.uk/f/download.axd?file=0;...

Keith, The jig - rail bender - is good practice. I've never used one, and have lots of slightly notchy curves, in my Peco 32mm track. With care you should be able to hand-bend your rail. It's good to slightly over-curve the rail, so that it can spring back a little. There's a natural tendency for th...

Keith, you really need to remove the rail from the sleeper base, and bend to the require radius, preferably with a bending jig, then slide the rails back into the sleeper base, and trim off the excess. You may need to cut away some of the sleeper webbing to get the base to curve properly. It's possi...

There's a good deal of discussion and advice on this matter on the G Scale Central forum.  Since electricity is involved, people seem to advise bonding or rail clamps.

[quote="Narrow Minded:49257"] [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GARDEN-RAILWAY-16mm-NARROW-GAUGE-MODELLERS-POLO-SHIRT-/300529484365?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item45f8f4024d[/url][/quote] Yes - these appear occasionally, one item at a time. My direct order a year or so ago was cancelled...

Looks distinctly like the IP Engineering "Jane", or a PPS variant "Jenny" or "Janet".
All styled after the original Mamod, but with improved engineering.

[quote="Narrow Minded:49251"]
He trades as dogs_dusty and sells 16mm association clothing
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They dropped the 16mm clothing quite a while ago.
How do I know???

[quote="Pendo Pilot:49201"]

...Think I will paint it though.... Can't decide on dark grey or red oxide yet though.

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I was told recently that metal bridges are usually painted light grey to reflect sunlight (what little we get!!), and minimize expansion.

[quote="coupe:48559"] Can anyone tell me where to buy those car mats that can be used to make moulds for brick walls like the ones on the Butterly garden railway? Thanks, Bob in Canada [/quote] Very hard to find now. My last pair came from UK supermarket chain "Morrison's" - a ca...

[quote="METHSSNIFFER:48496"]My railway wouldnt be complete without this man and he will be at its opening ceremony !
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I had the good fortune to meet Alan at Porthmadog two yrs ago, and subsequently renamed my RH Billy No 7 "Pegler" in his honour.

I'm assuming he means the power cunsumption was unchanged, still 4p/h, meaning no cost advantage in switching to LED's.

I'm willing to be corrected - please.

Narrow Minded:47568 wrote:

Just to be awkward, I'd prefer green.

I rather think the general idea of the kit would be to build it and paint it yourself - in which case it'd be any colour you want!

Well, I did sort of know that, just expressing an opinion.
Presumably a kit in MDF would be a muddy brown.

Narrow Minded wrote:I think this is what MRail was trying to post up?

Yes precisely, although my link was to the red version shown in the subsequent post.

Just to be awkward, I'd prefer green.