Garden Railway Forum

Sorry this post is years off the mark but please could anyone please explain the best way to go about making a gas tank such as the one shown here, its going to be for a Lady Owain as well, any help would be apricated. You dug deep to find that one...... You don't say what workshop equipment you ha...

Once more, the overwhelming number of readers are from Singapore. There's a song called 'City of Dreamers'................ 8) Singapore is like a chinese city, wall to wall hi-rise apartment buildings. Not many green bits and the only flat bit is the airport as far as I could tell. The readers are ...

Does anyone happen to know what chip this is? Hard to tell, since the manufacturer couldn't be bothered printing their name and a model no. on the pcb. The soldering is nothing to write home about, so it may be a DIY kit. It's a standard NMRA DCC 9 pin socket and the size looks like a fairly generi...

Presumably, the slightly taller similar locos don't have the dropped footplate? Sorry, I thought I'd checked the numbers before I hit the post button. The driving wheel dia. on Anita was 2' 4"...... :roll: Unlike some builders, if their catalogue is anything to go by, Hunslet don't seem to hav...

Graeme, does your book mention any key dimensions such as the diameter of the drivers? The book only quotes the driver dia. as 2' 3" and cylinders as 9.5" x 14", no other dimensions. Using the builders photo, the wheelbase scales out at just over 4', probably 4' 1.5". Height cal...

ge_rik wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 7:53 am Doing a bit of research and I'm assured the smaller Manning Wardles were similar to Hunslets .....

Well they both made small steam locos with the same no. of driving wheels........

About the same level of similarity as a Ford Escort and a Vauxhall Viva.

Graeme

I think it looks like a Manning Wardle F Class, although the dropped footplate under the cab is a bit odd. I thought it looked like a Manning Wardle as well, great minds think alike...... I found it listed in Fred Harman's book 'The Locomotives Built by Manning Wardle and Company, Volume 1, Narrow ...

Please forgive my lack of knowledge but what scale trucks should I be looking to buy for this engine. It runs on 32mm track, the trucks I currently have look way to big. If the original kit was made to scale, then it will be 7/8" to the foot scale (1:13.7). Using 1:13.7 scale on 32mm gauge is ...

Can anyone recognise this sweet little engine please? Quite a heavy powerful little beast running on a 9 volt battery , 32mm track. Thank you . Tony No idea of the manufacturer/builder of the model, but the prototype is Dot, built by Beyer Peacock and used on their 18" gauge internal works rai...

You'll get more 'bang for your buck' by reducing the the separation between magnet and reed switch, than by adding more magnets. Magnetic field strength follows an inverse square rule as the distance varies, halve the separation and the field strength quadruples. Apart from magnetic materials like s...

I've been occupied with re-arranging my workshop and installing a new lathe. The new lathe has been commissioned and I'm back to normal modelling again. 8) Something that hasn't been mentioned in this thread is that if you mix your own colours and use paint types/brands that don't come in spray cans...

It is a bit stiff and although a heavy steam loco would probably go through OK, I'm less convinced that the little locos I use would be able to push against a spring. Thanks, that's why I've never gotten around to building and testing spring loaded turnouts. I had definite doubts that a spring soft...

philipy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 10:49 am I'm afraid that the maths of mechanics is way beyond me ( like a lot of things ), but I understand what you are saying in principle. Soooo..

There are large chunks of mathematics that are now beyond my ken.......

I'm glad the theory worked out in practice.

Graeme

In Tom-tom-go's RWLR thread, on Page 9 he shows how he arranged the spring for his sprung points. I have it in mind to do something very similar but I'm struggling with what sort of spring to get, anyone got any suggestions? Making/designing springs is above my pay grade. Have you considered a fixe...

The separation force appears to be in the region of 250g. Slightly crude measuring regime of hanging the pair of couplings beneath a digital luggage scale and pulling vertically downwards until they separate. Did it half a dozen times with a result between 240g and 260g each time. So I guess your t...

It's winter hereabouts, but the long weekend has been a clear run between the cold fronts, so the backyard has dried out a little and a short test run was organised. I recently finished a short rake of unloaded log bogies to use up some surplus parts and the photo below shows them on a test run behi...

The reason for this post is we have built an N gauge layout in less than an evening on a 6ft x 2.5ft baseboard at work. Now with the 16mm stuff needing a bit of thought for a garden layout I'd like something similar that can be stored in a shed and pulled out to run trains. I'll try and add a photo...

I have no idea what that means, even with the picture :oops: :oops: Since the yanks don't speak english, they call a flangeless driving wheel on a loco a 'blind driver'......... :roll: The prototype NGG16 has flanges on all driving wheels and will go around a 2 chain curve, so unless you are using ...

Does anyone know if there is a business who supplies little brass handwheels, like the ones found on locomotives and in ships? I mean the kind upon which one of the spokes sticks out farther than the others. I'm not aware of any hand wheels that are available to directly fit RH gas valves, or other...

I'm intrigued by the diagonal timbers on top of each load. Are they used to tighten the straps, somehow? The period I model is the late 20's, when Aust. was in a building boom, just before the Yanks lost the plot as usual and dropped everyone into the great depression. No straps back then AFAIK, ju...