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Good to see a couple of familiar faces and of course the layout brings back fond memories.
Love the Garrett.
Re: Sandstone & Termite
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2024 3:11 am
by gregh
Since I had the track all cleaned up from the day before, I decided to get both of my Garratts out for a double-head spectacular. The blue Garratt is seldom run - the last run was in January last year. And the LiPo battery was still fully charged.
When run together it's obvious that big blue only chuffs twice per wheel revolution, but Red does 4! That's because Blue uses the cams on the Bachmann motor blocks and there are only 2 contacts. I doubt I will go to the trouble of adding the 2 extra contacts on both motor blocks - it's just too hard to work on the monster.
Red has my own voltage driven chuff speed so is closer to 4 chuffs per revolution
So here is the video..
And while uploading to youtube I saw an old video I had made in 2013 of four Garratts running here ! Very low resolution in those days!
Re: Sandstone & Termite
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:37 am
by GAP
Great videos Greg, there is no such thing as too many Garrett videos.
Re: Sandstone & Termite
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:07 am
by FWLR
Love it Greg, 2 Garretts double heading..
Re: Sandstone & Termite
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2024 12:47 pm
by Andrew
Lovely stuff, thankyou - it's always a pleasure to see operations on your line...
Andrew.
Re: Sandstone & Termite
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:41 pm
by ge_rik
Great. I really liked the shot in the 2013 video with two Garratts - one above and one below
Rik
Re: Sandstone & Termite
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:18 am
by BertieB
Wow! Love it.
Re: Sandstone & Termite
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 2:03 pm
by Peter Butler
They are magnificent beasts... wondering now whether I have room for two Garratts ?
Re: Sandstone & Termite
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:32 pm
by gregh
Peter Butler wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 2:03 pm
They are magnificent beasts... wondering now whether I have room for two Garratts ?
Thanks Peter, and everyone else who replied.
There can be no doubt that you NEED two Garratts. Get to it! (ignore the question of room)
