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To get the line above snow level and to even out the line level have you considered making a raised line? Advantages; 1. All year running with battery R/C control 2. The line is level so no need for trestles etc. 3. Not as much bending and crawling round on the ground. It would be a slightly bigger ...

Great use of material just lying around the house. You will start to look at things differently from now on eg a butter container can be a hopper body. An example the bogies in here are scratchbuilt with styrene sheet for the side frames, clothes pegs springs and piece of mint tin for the suspension...

Wow!!! Just Wow!!!

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philipy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 6:28 am Fingers crossed for you

Seems to be working 2nd one of the run humming away nicely.

New rolls of Tecor arrived yesterday and I started the production run of my coal hopper bodies. After saying that it was better than the eSun filament I was served up a big slice of humble pie. I could not get good bed adhesion at all; I tried using hairspray for the first time and that improved thi...

An intriguing build; I'll be watching this, please provide updates of your progress and of course lots of pictures.

As a complete novice at programming I have been working my way through a course to learn python (all that I have looked at are aimed at Data Science students)as I want to make a train location indication board using a raspberry pi. The idea being train passes a detector and that is displayed on a sc...

OK
The Kookaburra is sitting on fence right above the railway and the ibis is right in from of it (brown posts in background).
I'll see if I can snap something else.

Couple of the local natives that visit from time to time.

An oldie from last Christmas Lawn grub control contractor, aka Ibis or "Bin Chicken" because they rummage through open rubbish bins.

Bit of thread drift for a moment. I have just downloaded Rik's program and will be evaluating (having a play) it. All part of the grand plan for the stage 6 enlargement of the layout. On another note I asked an electrical engineering student if he could mentor in learning Python and his reply "...

That looks great waiting for the next installment.

Greg,
Looks interesting.
Quick question what is the part number for the Pololu?

Latest developments on the railway Stage 6 has begun description of what is planned at the moment, subject to change of course. https://ringbalin-light-railway.blogspot.com/p/build-stage-1.html New workshop area completed and an area of 5.3M x 4M cleared for expansion, this is in the shed pictured i...

You can walk into your nearest Jaycar and buy tin/lead electronics solder under their Duratech label, although they also waste shelf space on the other crap. It comes in various size packs, but the catalog no. for the 200g pack of 1.0mm size is NS3010. As it happens, it's cheaper than the lead free...

I use 195 / 50 on one printer and 200 / 55 on the other, same filament as you guys. I did a heat test build and was very surprised what was actually came back as best. I would suggest doing one of these with all new filament brands. Do you use Octoprint? If so check that the hot end line isn't wobb...

Here you go Greg this should help https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/354976141144?hash=item52a63a0f58:g:VX4AAOSwWw5k19Ra&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwAsrQ1L9xPRz7xGwjWL5LX0H4HgbzVu6NreV4KyGRXV8QCiR6wJz97CdHM1pqnEGf3Agu%2BM5SuBQ1ZTNBT2Ia%2B8JI4l9XZPesruQnKl7moQ9kKUVkU%2F%2FZ55HL58Nt7ur3f2Pdpn9uwOoPkNilEAxucqp8...

so I have new lead on a better supplier. I've been using " eSun PLA+ " for the last few months and have no problems at all with that. Currently on my 5th reel in 4 different colours. I get it from Amazon here but I'm sure it must be available in Oz. eSun PLA+ is definitely available down ...

so I have new lead on a better supplier. I've been using " eSun PLA+ " for the last few months and have no problems at all with that. Currently on my 5th reel in 4 different colours. I get it from Amazon here but I'm sure it must be available in Oz. eSun PLA+ is definitely available down ...

Anybody tried or had good results with filament splicing? I found this and might give it a go, its the best one I have found so far.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVOy2CHf6_s&ab_channel=WhatIsMikeMakingNow I also found this and gave it a go and it worked well; the joint did end up bigger tha...