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- Thu Feb 01, 2024 4:10 am
- Forum: Mamods & MSS
- Topic: tinplate wheels for a mamod
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1470
Re: tinplate wheels for a mamod
If you have the original diecast Mamod wheels with those useless tiny square-shaped flanges, you can get aftermarket machined wheels with proper flanges. I haven't owned a Mamod in almost a decade, but suppliers like DreamSteam and Roy Wood come to mind. Alternatively, you could find someone to re-m...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 4:01 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: Identifying source of loco
- Replies: 7
- Views: 751
Re: Identifying source of loco
I've never seen anything like it. The build quality approaches something commercially-available, but the differing screws between bonnet and roof, and what I can make of the chassis, screams "home-built".
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:50 am
- Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
- Topic: LGB rail attachment
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1840
Re: LGB rail attachment
I handlaid a lot of track using panel nails as spikes. I ground the round head to a half-moon shape to improve the appearance. Cheap, effective and looks okay. My track was assembled on the bench (or concrete floor!) but with some care, you could install your new timbers in-situ. I'd get the sleeper...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:39 am
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: shunting on the SAR
- Replies: 1
- Views: 506
Re: shunting on the SAR
I see your point re: shunting speeds. Surprisingly quick. Beats pushing 5 minutes doing a scale run around at a crawl.
I wouldn't be game to stand between wagons to couple up at any speed, never mind putting appendages anywhere near it!
I wouldn't be game to stand between wagons to couple up at any speed, never mind putting appendages anywhere near it!
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:43 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Simplex Yard Shunter
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3985
Re: Simplex Yard Shunter
Cheers gents! Some pictures of one made by F C Hibberd in 1959 that's in Bundaberg as a loco shunter that may help with painting ideas. Funny that, just about the livery I was planning on. 8) Speaking of Bundaberg, I'm up to Maryborough in September, and plan on visiting ASCR while I'm around. Will ...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 9:28 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Simplex Yard Shunter
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3985
Re: Simplex Yard Shunter
28/01/24 Over the past few weeks, a mostly-welded mill workshop cab has slowly come together. Still deciding on adding sliding windows.. Radiator hoses were added to the whitemetal pipe castings by way of heat shrink. Tiny slivers of the stuff were then cut with a razor blade, and shrunk in place to...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 7:41 am
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: The "Bad Old Days" - Anzac Creek Tramway Mk.I, 2014 - 2018 (IMAGE-HEAVY)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7435
Re: The "Bad Old Days" - Anzac Creek Tramway Mk.I, 2014 - 2018 (IMAGE-HEAVY)
No worries Grant, got your message. I'd highly recommend using a flat bar, (preferably aluminium so it doesn't rust away) as a "spine" down the length of both the moving stub and it's fixed diverting section. The real problem I had with these, (besides the superglue and lack of experience)...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 7:52 am
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Shunting on the wrong track!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1164
Re: Shunting on the wrong track!
I'dve thought pole shunting in such a small scale would be too fiddly to work. Fastening the pole to the loco though, never thought of that one.
They used to do something similar in the canefields, only pulling, with rope. Dangerous, and I'm told, illegal nowadays.
They used to do something similar in the canefields, only pulling, with rope. Dangerous, and I'm told, illegal nowadays.
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 8:34 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Little Wonder
- Replies: 64
- Views: 19902
Re: Little Wonder
Hell of a process. Always a pleasure to see how you do it.
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 12:04 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Building an 0-4-0 outside frame tank loco
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3097
Re: Building an 0-4-0 outside frame tank loco
I tried the baking soda on my Simplex a while back, to similar effect. Not for me.
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 3:38 pm
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Building an 0-4-0 outside frame tank loco
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3097
Re: Building an 0-4-0 outside frame tank loco
You sure know how to pick an interesting prototype. Looking forward to the result, in time.
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: N&BLR Ongoing Projects thread
- Replies: 47
- Views: 16009
Re: N&BLR Ongoing Projects thread
My ignorance of the prototype doesn't stop me seeing the craftsmanship you're putting into this.
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 3:26 pm
- Forum: General Garden Railways
- Topic: Faller Hit Train, Play Train and the like
- Replies: 3
- Views: 754
Re: Faller Hit Train, Play Train and the like
I'd heard of these, but never seen one until now. Yours seems very well-looked-after for it's age.
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 3:55 pm
- Forum: Railways & Layouts
- Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
- Replies: 3350
- Views: 1080297
Re: Time to build a railway...but where?
That's what I like to see.
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 9:48 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Kerr Stuart diesel
- Replies: 56
- Views: 25155
Re: Kerr Stuart diesel
Work of art, them!
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: Rolling Stock
- Topic: Gladstone Coach to Bush Tram Carriage
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1321
Re: Gladstone Coach to Bush Tram Carriage
If you want "eccentric", maybe just stick some seats in that cattle van?!! I'll call it "In-Laws Class". :lol: :lol: Not far from the truth, though. The local Moreton/Mapleton tramways were known to add longitudinal bench seats to cane trucks and flat wagons, for special excursi...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 8:43 am
- Forum: Rolling Stock
- Topic: Gladstone Coach to Bush Tram Carriage
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1321
Re: Gladstone Coach to Bush Tram Carriage
25/09/19 The 1mm styrene sheet from the kit was cut to length, and scribed as needed. A bulb mount (I believe salvaged from a car instrument panel many yeas ago) was fitted with a 3V bulb. Superglue and a ruler made for a tidy visible wiring run, though I did get carried away - the wires need only g...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 7:16 am
- Forum: Rolling Stock
- Topic: Gladstone Coach to Bush Tram Carriage
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1321
Gladstone Coach to Bush Tram Carriage
A "little" :lol: project from my defunct blog, that I've been meaning to contribute to the forum for quite a while.. Back in early 2019... I wanted an end-platform carriage, reminiscent of the various carriages found on the 2ft gauge sugar tramways of Queensland. Several of these were buil...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 6:54 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Electric
- Topic: Stuart's occasional loco thread - Boot Lane Works 'Lilibet'
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7344
Re: Stuart's occasional loco thread - Boot Lane Works 'Lilibet'
I'll second the suggestion of the pin vice. I love mine.
Looking forward to seeing the new loco come together, always nice to see a new build.
Looking forward to seeing the new loco come together, always nice to see a new build.
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 5:59 am
- Forum: Locomotives - Live Steam
- Topic: Llewellyn Loco Works #1
- Replies: 917
- Views: 344785
Re: Llewellyn Loco Works #1
I'd be up for that. When are you leaving?Hydrostatic Dazza wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:49 pm Thankyou. You will have to come around for a afternoon and evening session on the POR before we go to Wales. [/color][/b]