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Remind me not to walk on the carpets in your house with bare feet!

Love the idea of a narrow gauge Flying Banana! Do keep us posted with build updates, please.

Hi and welcome. I can't help directly with any of your queries I'm afraid. However for converting LGB loco's you should get a some pointers from Rik's 'Peckforton' Blog since he frequently uses LGB motor blocks under his own bodies and uses battery power exclusively. https://riksrailway.blogspot.com...

It has crossed my mind to print at an angle, but I suspect that will create even more problems. I don't know if you have seen my build thread on this project,( https://gardenrails.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=14104&hilit=DeWinton&start=20 ) but for info I am trying to print the whole body in one g...

Thanks for your suggestions. I hadn't tried looking layer by layer in Chitubox previously but I have now and it shows nothing. The file shows as having no problems in everything I have: Sketchup, Chitubox, Cura 5.2, Flashprint, Repetier Host, MS 3D Viewer ( don't have 3dBuilder). I've done layer che...

Suggestions, advice or even remedies, more than welcome. :roll: I'm having a problem with resin printing the DeWinton. The Sketchup drawing is fine. The Chitubox import shows no problems ( and I've also put it through Repetier Host). When it prints, it produces what I can only describe as looking li...

Just came across this item on the Beeb:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65727190

Interesting, thanks for sharing.
Those couplings look very neat.

BTW, there is a better way of posting Youtube video's to the forum. Take a look at the "How to" section and specifically, viewtopic.php?f=62&t=9208

3 minutes of fame wrote: ↑

Mon May 22, 2023 12:42 pm

Apologies for the rough running, I didn't realise my wife had remove a small but vital piece of wood that levels up that section of track!

Definite grounds for divorce!

Nice smooth runnng otherwise though.
What servos are you using?

Presumably thats a system invented by Boudica, before she found out how to attach the sythe blades?

Really lovely Graeme, thats very much the kind of effect I was talking about at the beginning of the thread. As for the stream in the foreground, well, clearly it can't be seen where it runs parallel to the track on the other side of the long grass. Of course with that much water about, shouldn't th...

Yes, I agree with Aaron, get a battery electric loco for starters/track testing - diesel/electric/steam outline makes no real difference, it's down to your own preferences. Mamod/MSS are relatively cheap but notoriously difficult to get to run well and are a hobby in themselves.

This roll had previously been left on the printer for quite a while (about 3 weeks) and when it started printing I began experiencing adhesion problems, curling of parts and some parts of the print becoming a conglomerated mess which caught on the print nozzle and dragged some parts of the print ou...

ge_rik wrote: ↑

Sat May 13, 2023 7:14 am

That looks like a neat solution.

Rik

Agreed...and a ready made need for a curved bridge!

At the risk of being a "Me too"...Me too!

Interesting list, thanks for posting it. My mention on there is somewhat out of date though. I removed all of my files from Thingiverse a couple of years ago, after I discovered that somebody had downloaded one of my files and was printing and selling the models on ebay. That is partly what prompted...

Gerald, DVT Dweller last signed in here in 2016 and Tag Gorton in 2017, so I think it highly unlikely that either would see a PM, I'm afraid, although it's worth a try in case they look at the forum without signing in. Tag retired as editor of Garden Rail some years ago as well, so probably not much...

GTB wrote: ↑

Fri May 12, 2023 9:27 am

In Oz you can get it from the big green shed as Diggers brand and labelled as Isopropyl Alcohol. No idea where you'd get it in the UK.

I get 99% pure IPA from ebay in 5 litre bottles.

I was told that IPA was favourite and that surned out to be surgical spirit by another name anyway. Not necessarily true. In the UK, Surgical Spirit can be either IPA or denatured alcohol, i.e Ethanol, and both have some Methyl Salicylate in as well, which accounts for it's "Antiseptic" smell. Thea...