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I run a 45mm gauge track as at least one of my other locos is 45mm only. So I am in the process of re-gauging the Mamod and fitting a silver soldered boiler whilst I am at it. I acquired a tender which was obviously designed to be re-gaugeable by just unclipping two little rubber bands holding the b...

Used to happen to us, Eventually we caught a hedgehog in the act.

Dwayne wrote: ↑Sun Jul 09, 2017 2:43 pm I've noticed that if one <right clicks> on the Photobucket 3rd Party message image and selects <open image in new tab> you're still able to view the photo at the Photobucket site itself.

Even that ability has disappeared now.

This is the way that a lot of RC is going for small drones and cars. Of course being the silly boy that I am I bought a windows phone and no one does apps for window phones. :( I am much more interested in making (live steam) locos run autonomously, so that they obey signals, and know what speed to ...

And the great photobucket blackmail strikes.

I have a desire to build a working water tower and water crane that I can actually fill the locos from. I think it's going to be fun to make. Sounds interesting. Will the water have to be pressurised in some way? Rik I was kinda hoping gravity would work. Wont fill through a Goodall valve obviously.

I have a desire to build a working water tower and water crane that I can actually fill the locos from. I think it's going to be fun to make.

I was always confused by the school's art department's espresso machine did not have or seem to need a boiler certificate despite being way over the 3Bar litre limit.

Or the bouncy castle we hired for a birthday party.

Poundshop superglue in bottles, If it goes solid on me, I ain't going to cry over £1. If I want the thick stuff though I have to go to a model shop.

Thanks, I'll buy some reduced head 9BA tomorrow then.

I use titebond PVA for wood bits as it is stronger and dries quicker than standard PVA, comes in waterproof too. Else I use various grades of cyanoacrylate, thick or thin with zapper. With epoxy I mix very small amounts on a tin lid, warmed over a flame, it makes it runnier, so easier to mix and it ...

Are you sure? I have just had a 9BA thread gauge on the thread of one of the countersunk screws and it almost fits, but a M2 bolt held alongside the screw fits exactly, so I was tending towards it being M2. Certainly not 8BA as they are way too big to fit the threads. All I want to do is make a new ...

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What size and thread are the current standard Roundhouse cylinder cover screws? The countersunk ones. I thought they were 8BA but they are smaller.

Keep in mind that the pressure of a big tank could be a bit higher than in a tin. At work we have pressurised gas in cylinders over 200bar. I doubt that the little gascontainers in a roundhouse can handle such pressure.. I presume your butane cylinder isn't at that pressure, but maybe a pressure re...

Thanks. Looks like I will have to make one.

Permanent magnet motors (and parallel wound motors.) when fed at constant voltage, are in the ideal condition a constant speed device, they will draw whatever current needed to try to maintain that speed. Two similar motors ganged together, electrically and mechanically, will load share automaticall...

I have a great big tank full of really cheap butane and yet here I am buying camping stuff at over a fiver a tin. So the obvious question is; how do I get the calor gas into the loco?

Using electric central locking motors is a tempting idea. The old ones were solenoids, nowadays they have little geared motors in them. They are tempting because they are powerful, have about the right throw and work off 12V. The inside of a car door is not a dry environment so although they are not...

Just a short video of my Cheddar Samson.

tom_tom_go wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:18 pm Nice rake of coaches there, I like the colour scheme.

Thanks, picked up cheap at Peterborough. They need a coat of varnish.