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What a great experience. Nearly as good as driving No 6 on the Talyllyn two weeks ago.

I had a sunny visit to the BGRA open day yesterday. Managed to run my Vincent and Stanley. Sorry no video of the Stanley as I was too busy with the R/C.

https://youtu.be/I-aZS2oInxA

With 00 rail and copper wire use 60/40 resin cored solder. Should only need a 25 watt iron. 100 watt is far too much heat.

Regarding R/C there may be a trim switch on the regulator lever. Roundouse recommend adjusting this to compensate for the regulator not closing fully. But they do say that in the end the adjustment is not enough and the arm on the regulator shaft should be adjusted to get the regulator to fully close.

I ordered one about 3 years ago and if I hadn't cancelled the order I would be still waiting Accucraft just push the delivery date back by 6 months twice each year.

I put some heat shrink sleeving on the controls of my Regner engines. Seems to work or
my finger tips are getting heat resistant.

Another Works Outing this weekend. This time to Bala for the Model Railway Show --- And a trip
on the Bala Lake Railway.

This may be a strange question considering all the superb machinery you have modelled.
??? How do you keep the Sawdust in place. I cant even keep gravel ballast from spiriting
itself away.

Great run Rik. I am always amazed with the run time I get from my battery electric locos ( no sound card though)
even with NiMh batteries, although I am a fan of li-ion.on

That picture would make a good Jig Saw Puzzle .

We had a Works Outing yesterday to sunny Doncaster for a visit to the Roundhouse factory. The Roundhouse Team excelled themselves making everyone welcome and provided a superb Buffet. Staff were Brilliant answering questions and showing how they manufacture the parts and assemble the engines. There ...

FWLR wrote: ↑Sat May 19, 2018 6:23 am Very nice logging train there Graham.

All I have to do now is to work out a way of securing the logs that looks prototypical.

Just testing video links with you tube


Got It!!

I had some friends from the local Model Railway Club round for a running session yesterday. I managed
to persuade one of them to drive the live steam R/C Locos so that I could take some video. Here is
the result.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuLp4HLOC2A[/video]

Agree with Tom. R/C all day for me. :thumbright: My Decauville will run very well on manual only, with fine control over speed. The problem with them is the lack of room to install RC, hence Gralyn's tender. With practice I could get the loco to run quite slowly. It required different adjustments f...

Another fine running afternoon on the OVLR. plenty of chuff noise from the Decauville 0-4-0

https://youtu.be/rzwOA6oXrMg

IanC wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 11:04 am I enjoyed seeing your railway. Sun and trains. a great recepie for a good time.

May I ask what make are the coaches in the video?

Ian

Mainly variants of the Timpdon Kits.

Yesterday was a good afternoon for running trains. So I did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Px4-MYny_Y

LNR wrote: ↑Thu May 10, 2018 12:58 am I'm in the same boat as Rik, don't know how I missed this. But then I'm finding a lot missing now. Watching the video, do I see some pieces of hand laid track in the new spur?
Grant.

Yes I bought some already made up on Ebay.