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I'm also not sure what's wrong with the motor mount but that was one piece I kind of rushed and meant to come back to later... I guess it's later now :oops: I had a kind of revelation an hour or so ago and I think I may have found a better answer. I know your motor is 25mm diameter but how long is ...

BTW I cannot access the gearedsteam website as it gives me a great big red warning that I have (somehow) infringed their copyright. No idea about that one, it's not an error message I've ever seen online. I used the site heavily and downloaded photos when I was researching prototype info for the Cl...

First question is what is that vertical thing inside the cab? I’m guessing it is the steam dome. Then what is the long ‘chimney’ on top? UScdesigners rarely used inside cylinders on steam locos., mostly on early ones copied from UK practice. In later years, the yanks preferred the working parts of ...

I lamented my bad luck and replaced the dead Deltang RX65 with the only spare I had, a micron MR603B. As it turns out this motor controller seems to have braking as a built in feature, the speed remains very steady in varying load conditions including while running down hill. Some sort of friction ...

That’s the one I’ve just bought - they said their ‘tech team’ said it was impossible to regauge to 45mm. The Accucraft link says otherwise, as do my eyes when looking at the underside view. Hopefully it’s not been welded up or anything… Rails of Sheffield mostly deal in OO and N trains if their web...

Is the Accucraft Caradoc dual gauge or only 32mm? If you poke around in the Accucraft UK website, several levels down in the drop-down menus, you'll find all their discontinued models are listed. Along with the instructions, if the model ever came with any......... https://www.accucraft.uk.com/prod...

Can anyone advise on Tamiya putty please? Unless they've also changed the formula recently, Tamiya grey putty works fine. The only problem I've ever had with it over the years is that once the tube is opened it dries hard before you can use all of it. Tamiya sells several putty versions. I bought a...

ge_rik wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2023 7:37 am Out of interest, are the bogies actually driven by the prop shafts?

Yes, it has a fully working geared drive. It's even got the correct skew bevel gears on the driving axles.

Unlike the Bachmann Climax, which has motors in the bogies and the shafts just go along for the ride.

Graeme

The TVT engineer has lately been doing a bit of moonlighting for one of the local timber companies........ The Mt. Deception Hardwood Co. recently bought a s/h Climax steam loco., which was no oil painting, to be charitable. This company is a newer customer of the TVT and its line runs to the east o...

Factory paint. (Chinese ? ) Accucraft paintwork quality has improved considerably since their association with Aster. I assume the paintwork is done in China, as the factories that make Hornby, etc. have been doing excellent paintwork on model trains since the '80s. Satin paintwork with pad printed...

Hydrostatic Dazza wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 11:17 pm What is this ?

An R/C servo mount. I assume the bit of K&S channel sticking out the front is to hide the servo wiring.......

Graeme

There are small electromagnetic clutches available, which could be set up to work as a brake. If it was driven with an ESC you could likely get variable braking force out of it. It would probably have to be fitted in an unpowered bogie under a trailer, or driving trailer, as it's about the size of a...

That's a nice looking model of a 2 car Doggie set. To be prototypical, Doggies and Taits only had Westinghouse automatic air brakes. The Butterboxes, being locos, had the addition of straight air brakes for the loco only. The first use of regen brakes on the VR electric fleet was the L class I think...

It does seem to be speed dependant though, too fast and it sails straight over the magnet without stopping, but I guess that makes sense. I may try experimenting with two sets of magnets in parallel, to see if that allows it to 'bite' for longer. That was what I found with my HO speedometer car, as...

Sorry this post is years off the mark but please could anyone please explain the best way to go about making a gas tank such as the one shown here, its going to be for a Lady Owain as well, any help would be apricated. You dug deep to find that one...... You don't say what workshop equipment you ha...

Once more, the overwhelming number of readers are from Singapore. There's a song called 'City of Dreamers'................ 8) Singapore is like a chinese city, wall to wall hi-rise apartment buildings. Not many green bits and the only flat bit is the airport as far as I could tell. The readers are ...

Does anyone happen to know what chip this is? Hard to tell, since the manufacturer couldn't be bothered printing their name and a model no. on the pcb. The soldering is nothing to write home about, so it may be a DIY kit. It's a standard NMRA DCC 9 pin socket and the size looks like a fairly generi...

Presumably, the slightly taller similar locos don't have the dropped footplate? Sorry, I thought I'd checked the numbers before I hit the post button. The driving wheel dia. on Anita was 2' 4"...... :roll: Unlike some builders, if their catalogue is anything to go by, Hunslet don't seem to hav...

Graeme, does your book mention any key dimensions such as the diameter of the drivers? The book only quotes the driver dia. as 2' 3" and cylinders as 9.5" x 14", no other dimensions. Using the builders photo, the wheelbase scales out at just over 4', probably 4' 1.5". Height cal...

ge_rik wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 7:53 am Doing a bit of research and I'm assured the smaller Manning Wardles were similar to Hunslets .....

Well they both made small steam locos with the same no. of driving wheels........

About the same level of similarity as a Ford Escort and a Vauxhall Viva.

Graeme