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Yes, it was a challenge to fit it all in to the available height. Whether you could get a long enough spring beam within the available space could also be an issue?

Hi Pete, I'd say it looks promising. This is the leading truck from my 1Co bogie, done as a radial truck (the real thing has a set of levers to make it rotate around some kind of virtual centre). Suspension-wise it seems to be along the lines of what you're suggesting. The radial top and bottom are ...

Oops, yes it's the cheap ones which stay coiled up (even when you unwind the ends out of the coil). I tried some as they were half the price - perhaps they're fine for guitars! You also have (in theory!), for a simple wire spring between two knife edge supports... (L)ength vs d is a third power rela...

The D'Addario strings are fine as a substitute for Ernie Ball, e.g. I use PL019 "High Carbon Steel Custom Singles" for 19thou (a size that EB don't make). (There are some cheaper ones that don't work so well for our purposes - a diagnostic is that they stay coiled up when you take them out...

Hi Terry. Thanks for flagging this up again. It would be a great shame to lose these wheels. The 14mm ones are my 'goto' solution for 3'7" diesel conversions (but see below for a caveat), and a 'true' 3'6" coach wheel for MkIs too. There is the side issue of insulated vs live (I understand...

Hi Julian,
The trick is that you're using half of a switched diamond crossing to represent the turnout.
HTH

Hi Julian, Apologies if you've already looked at the link that Martin gave, but I was in exactly the same situation a couple of months back and found all the information I needed there. I am a bit more experienced with Templot so might have been able to make conceptual links that you're not, but I t...

How was the foam fixed to the ply base and the MDF to the foam? All the MDF parts were sealed with builders' PVA diluted 1 water : 5 PVA. The ply was sealed with a coat of exterior grade varnish. Then the same PVA mix used to bond the foam each side. I did worry about the ends of the MDF base tendi...

I note that there is no area group covering South Oxfordshire Hi Gareth. There is such a group, it's the North Bucks, coordinated by Mike 'Masokits' Clark. Understandable that you missed us - we really ought to get something done about the name, all those resident in North Bucks having abandoned us...

Philip Hall wrote:Ian, is the track bed on the ‘quiet’ section cork, rubber or plain baseboard?

The trackbed is as per the photo in my post of 23rd Jan throughout ('noisy' and 'quiet'), except there's no superelevation packing under the top 3mm MDF strip as it's a straight section.

but also a layer of foam between the main MDF and the MDF on which the track is laid I wanted to avoid having any deformable material there to allow precise control over the amount of superelevation. As has been noted in this thread, and elsewhere, it often all comes to naught anyway once the track...

Didcot is a famous railway town with Didcot Parkway Railway Station being within walking distance of the Civic Hall. Even in March, for a weekend break the area has much to offer railway enthusiasts, Didcot Railway Centre is within walking distance while Pendon Museum at Long Wittenham is only a co...

Hi bordercollie - re. your thoughts, like this perhaps?... IMG_2138.jpg 6.5mm ply base, 3mm closed cell foam, 6.5mm MDF then 3mm MDF ballast strips. In yard areas, where no ballast shoulders or cant required, 3mm MDF over the 3mm foam will do. The oldest parts of this were done in 2007 and haven't g...

Terry Bendall wrote:Mousa Models

Phoenix Precision Paints

and me (I know, you did say include...)

The 1":40' Water Plans show the tank sizes, e.g. at the west end of Bodmin Road, 20' x 12' x 8' (Capacity @ 7'6", 11250 gall).

Terry Bendall wrote:or perhaps they won't

They will

There also appears to be a copy of an 1877 plan available from the Network Rail Media Storehouse (https://nr.mediastorehouse.com/) Jeremy Jeremy, thanks for that link. I've captured the drawing showing some sections of the building at Bodmin Road, which I'd not seen in previous searches. Seems it's...

Hello Keith.
Have a look at the Wiltshire County archive in Chippenham library. A lot of GW stuff from Paddington and Swindon has ended up there.
Good hunting!

If, as we are told, the train with the odd coach is entering Bodmin Road from the branch... Chris, I'd suggest that it is not. I've long had a problem with that caption (in GWRJ 65). It states that the photo shows the approach to the station with the southern end of the viaduct over the River Fowey...

Miffed to have to miss it again this year. A Great Day Out.

Thanks Russ, Doug. I did wonder about the cardboard, but it has proved an instructive and worthwhile exercise even at this early stage in the project (only thirteen years into the construction phase :) ). One consequence is that the heavy civils will be moving back in, to lower the branch and loop r...

jim s-w wrote:Gibson does 14.6. Suitable for 45s, 47s, 58s, 86 etc.

Pete,
I've used these quite successfully on some of my sprung diesels.

There are 60 of them (and four 12mm ones) rolling in close formation here.

Regards

Some shots of the sprung 'Peak' running on the circuit at home, with some unsprung Mk1s rattling along behind. Gibson wheels throughout; those in the coaches date way back to when Alan still had the business. Two sections of track, roughly from the underbridge to the green bus, formed the centre of ...

Now on sale from PenBits, sprung bogie kits for the Bachmann Class 66. These have presented a real problem for 'drop in' rigid EM/P4 conversions, tending to rock about their centre axles. The long overall wheelbase has also led to the bogie frames catching on the underside of the loco over vertical ...

Chapter and verse on Mike's RTR pinpoint units courtesy of Keith at http://www.norgrove.me.uk/masokit3.htm . Width always an issue - the Bradwells manage to steal another thickness of brass each side. If you have something that can deal with cases where the floor is moulded to the depth, or partial ...