Garden Railway Forum

Oh, sorry Philip, my mistake.
How did you mount it and how did it work out in your model, successful I hope?

Dave

Oooh, I couldn't find one with long shafts! That might well do the job. There is a chat in the states, one Charlie Lix, who has used them for years on his 7/8th loco's with apparent great success. I agree, I wouldn't want to be putting them to too much stress, say a six bogie coach train, but most o...

Good evening folks I finally got round to assembling the gearbox etc as supplied. To be honest, it is a bit rubbish in my honest opinion. Has anyone ever used the range of N20 motor/gearbox combo's. I can see that they have a range of available ratios and motor voltages so something will match my ne...

Thanks a million gents, you have given me plenty to consider.
It did occur to me that James Hilton build one of these so I may ask him what he did.

More pondering any way
Cheers
Dave

Since my original post I have discovered that the wheels 'may' be Sierra Valley items as they certainly look like them plus they have, what appear to be, the same plastic centres. Wether that has any bearing on the choice of axle size in this case is unclear as that specified now is entirely differe...

Good evening folks. I have hit a snag which I am hopeful can be assisted/sorted by some (or one) the great minds here. I am planning to attend the gathering of 7/8th modellers at the W&L later this year. To which end, I am working towards have at least working loco to be able to pull my meagre, ...

A brief update gents.
Thus far all seems well.
The GVT brake van side worked a treat and was somewhat tricky to extracte from the bed. I take that as a 'sticking very well' win.
I am printing the floor now so we shall see how that goes.

Regards

Dave

Thanks a million gentlemen. You have all given me a lot to consider. I am literally just trying the first prink having cleaned the bed thoroughly with 'rubbing alcohol' and I have 'dusted' the bed with 3D LAC. The question of the change of filament roll may actually be contributary. I had changed fr...

Hi gents and thank you for the replies. I did try acetone but it didn't seem to work. I was told that IPA was favourite and that surned out to be surgical spirit by another name anyway. To be honest ,neither seemed to work that well to my mind. If coating the glass to cause adhesion (yes it has a so...

May I ask what is probably a rooky question of the hive mind please. I have ahd a small disaster with a couple of prints recently which I managed to abort thankfully. My daughter has printed a number of identical items over the last few days, quite successfully, until last night when I also managed ...

Thank you all for your replies and welcomes to this novice.
I will order up some IPA (and maybe some beer too, why not) and give that a go.
I have an autoleveling gadget built into my machine btw, and very clever it is too haha.

Many thanks indeed.
Dave

Thanks for the reply.
Hang on, did you mean IPA, as in beer?
Acetone I have and will try that first at least.

Regards

Dave

Well, removing the film from the bed (I am not sure what it is made of but it appears to be glass of some kind) made quite a difference in so far as things seem (so far) to stick better to it plus I don't have the bubbles on the inside/underside of the prints. Now all I need to do is work out how be...

Thank you for that Rik.
I am currently prinking the GVT mineral wagon and will try the next part without the film.

Regards

I was gifted an Ender 3 Neo by my lovely family last xmas and have enjoyed starting in this fascinating field. However, I have what is probably a complete rookie question for the collective mind here, if I may. In spite of my best efforts in attempting to find out from the internet, or the makers (n...