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- Fri Sep 15, 2017 2:41 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Accucraft gas valve issue
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3362
Accucraft gas valve issue
Accucraft have just issued a Service Bulletin regarding the need to wait after filling their gas tanks to allow any surplus gas to dissipate. I believe that there may be more to this issue than the SB indicates. I have just bought a Decauville (as has a colleague) and a Mannin and all 3 locos burst ...
- Sun Feb 26, 2017 9:29 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Locomotive sound - marine tugboat
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5655
Another marine model sound unit
Following on from my previous topic I found another small diesel that may be used with Bulldogs and their type. The site is at Harbour Models. http://www.harbormodels.com/sounds.html Try: Small Diesel (HAR602) You may find the fog horn a little inappropriate but the bell is superb. But again the dim...
- Sun Feb 26, 2017 9:10 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Locomotive sound - marine tugboat
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5655
Locomotive sound - marine tugboat
Looking for an effective and inexpensive sound system for my locos, particularly the incoming Bulldog I came across this system meant for a small marine diesel. It sounds spot on to me. http://www.mtroniks.net/resources/SmallDieselTug.MP3 There is probably a marine peculiar give- away about it and d...
- Sat Feb 25, 2017 5:41 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Eliminate lettering on Accucraft wagon
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10862
Final mix of paints to touch up etc, Accucraft grey NG stock
Just for what it is worth I finally wiped out the remaining "smudges" of the lettering with the following paint combination. I can feel reasonably sure now that this would suit any Accucraft NG wagons if repairing and thus repainting is required. TAMIYA XF77 (IJN grey) TAMIYA XF 66 (Light ...
- Sun Feb 19, 2017 11:01 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Eliminate lettering on Accucraft wagon
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10862
Respraying would lose all of the delicate black iron work of which there is stacks. Masking the windows and that tiny superb builders plate would also be ultra tricky then there would be the loss of all the other lettering and numbering. The real solution is to buy the Accucraft data only version wh...
- Fri Feb 17, 2017 10:41 am
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Low cost couplers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3758
Low cost couplers
I think that the orginal concept was from David Pinniger and if they are in wide use then this topic is a waste but if there is any interest here they are. I use this design as a permanent coupler between my 2 Motor Mules. The ones in the pictures need cleaning up and rounded of not to mention paint...
- Fri Feb 17, 2017 9:55 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Eliminate lettering on Accucraft wagon
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10862
- Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:43 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Eliminate lettering on Accucraft wagon
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10862
The photos
The letters W plus & were not removed successfully with sandpaper - only 3 or 4 swipes additional but unecessary were sufficient to overdo it. However I will use sandpaper in future - with intense care. Does anyone know of a commercial hobby paint suitable for repairing the damage to the paintwo...
- Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:10 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Eliminate lettering on Accucraft wagon
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10862
Removing painted lettering from Accucraft rolling stock
*Scraping method: sharp knife, scalpel, razor - all out. *Solvents etc some may work but no definitive answer. *Don't do anything at all - normally this is my approach to most garden railway issues but in this case I am constantly confronted with this lettered wagon and it sticks out as being visu...
- Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:20 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Eliminate lettering on Accucraft wagon
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10862
Removing lettering from Accucraft wagon
So having Parkinsons might prove to be a little problematic! Nevertheless I have just used a razor blade ever so gently and the scraping technique will not work I don't think - it would just end up a mish mash of scratches - the lettering paint is on very hard. But thanks anyway - the use of a curve...
- Wed Feb 15, 2017 11:56 pm
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Eliminate lettering on Accucraft wagon
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10862
Eliminate lettering on Accucraft wagon
I have an Accucraft 4 wheel Guards van that is lettered in white - W & L - on a grey overall colour. Is there anyway of removing this lettering without there being a shadow left behind?
Thanks in anticipation.
Thanks in anticipation.
- Sun Feb 12, 2017 9:20 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Road vehicles on rail plus the last of the o/h wiring topic.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7720
- Sun Feb 12, 2017 2:10 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Road vehicles on rail plus the last of the o/h wiring topic.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7720
Road vehicles on rail plus the last of the o/h wiring topic.
A couple of road vehicles modified for rail. A commercial motorised rear axle would have some appeal I would imagine. Plus the last of the tram photos following on from previous tram topics. The cable car intrigues. The green restored tram is as the derelict, now burnt and lost forever version. ./my...
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 6:18 am
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Dogs and Garden Railways
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4987
Dogs and Garden Railways
Peter Butler in his response to my topic "Overhead wiring for garden railway trams" says that his dogs would tear my tramway to bits. Perhaps he should have Bulldogs whose only interest in garden railways are that they provide further opportunities to pose around showing off their strange ...
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 5:20 am
- Forum: Scenery
- Topic: In praise of Lonicera Nitada
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3931
In praise of Lonicera Nitada
./myff/2045809/PDVD_413.jpg Why don't we see more of this plant. It is so dense that it is like shaving when using a hedge clipper. I feel that it is a labour of love. The rather unformed part on the lower right has just been hacked down to provide greater access, otherwise it as formed to perfecti...
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 3:02 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Tram overhead wiring: Part Two
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2640
Tram overhead wiring: Part Two
The State of Victoria really had a liking for trams. In addition to the Gold Fields tramways of Bendigo and Ballarat there were other systems as well. Melbourne of course had the largest network and that commenced with cable cars. Later it adopted overhead wiring and built up a giant fleet of W cla...
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 9:47 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Tram overhead wiring: Part One
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5924
Tram overhead wiring: Part One
As a small boy in the Victorian gold field city Bendigo in the 1940s and 1950s I was accustomed to traveling on trams. Many (many!) years later I visited the tramway museum in Bendigo's twin city, Ballarat. Instantly half a century fell away and the same swaying, squeaking, grinding and whining memo...
- Mon Sep 05, 2016 2:48 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Some very small trains and their locomotives
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3702
Some very small trains and their locomotives
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- Sat Aug 13, 2016 5:06 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Motor Mule and some Ancient History
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7158
- Thu Aug 11, 2016 5:51 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Motor Mule and some Ancient History
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7158
BRANDBRIGHT PELDON
./myff/2004481/04-P1150413.jpg [ul] My all time favourite battery powered locomotive. Highly detailed and a good runner. It surely comes alive when the power is turned on what with the gear whine, the clattering of the panels and general rumbling and mumbling. It runs smoothly with all 4 wheels fir...