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Scalefour North 2020 will be on Saturday and Sunday, 28th and 29th March , at the now traditional venue of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Wakefield . As usual, the Bring and Buy will be operating, providing an opportunity for members to pass on surplus stock (in return for a modest commission to...

As a Committee response, the one thing that we are strongly against is decline! However there are demographic and other external trends that mean it may inevitably have to be a managed decline, and perhaps a transition to a different type of exhibition. Firstly, the Committee has been aware of fewe...

Webmaster John will be adding links from other pages on the website in the next few days ....and for those who want to sell their surplus models, tools and whatever, the traditional Bring and Buy (with its recent makeover) will be operating, under the capable stewardship of some Princes Risborough ...

RobM wrote:Howard was continuing making switches for a 2322 lever frame.

I thought Howard's 75-lever frame was enough masochism for one lifetime!

Regards
Chris

At 4.30 this afternoon, the hall was empty apart from the crowd that had assembled to watch the final (public) trains on Clutton. The occasion was marked with headboards on both trains. Is this "last" as in "Frank Sinatra's last tour" or last as in "positively absolutely ne...

I see that Howard's website states: "Locking Etches for 5 levers cost £34 and are available from the Scalefour Society on-line shop - there is no requirement to be a Society Member". However, earlier in this thread it states that they are available only to members, and they are not in the...

Admittedly, the wiring of the tandem turnout did present a challenge because the wiring diagram (John Shelley, available at: http://www.finescale.org.uk/pdfs/3way.pdf), showed the plan view from above whereas I had to reverse the diagram in my head to wire from underneath! Try printing out your PDF...

We have some of this on DLR as well, the concrete slab forming the track bed is supported clear of the tunnel invert on large coil springs. This does give a little resilience/movement but the intent is to decouple the vibration in the rails from the tunnel lining and hence the ground in areas with ...

There is (at least last I went) a good shop opposite their shop that sells tools at very good prices. I've dealt with them for my jewellery hobby a few times. I think Kelly might mean Walsh's , just around the corner from Cooksongold, behind Warstone Lane police station. I've had lots of stuff from...

To answer the original question, that looks suspiciously like it belongs to member 1840. Sorry I don't know his name. I do know his name (but can't put it here for Data Protection reasons) - I'll be in contact with him in the near future, I'll let him know provided Paul tells me what he's done with...

Hi all Just a quick puff for the Sutton Coldfield Railway Society's annual exhibition, coming up at Bishop Walsh school on the 22nd and 23rd of April - full details here . This is a popular family show, with diverse models on show from N right up to 5 inch gauge.....but this year we're breaking with...

Despite living in GER?BE(E) territory we are a bit short on knowledge of track construction, sleeper lengths, number of chair bolts, etc. but should have that resolved for the next meeting. Hi Jol There is some information about GER plain track in one of our very own Digests - 23.5.5.04 which shows...

.... and then work out a good way of fixing down the roof - double sided tape perhaps? I don't want to permanently fix it in place as the chassis is attached by two screws from within the cabin - I must change this round next time. Solder a strip of brass (scrap etch?) across the top of the sides, ...

In the 1950's I remember days out at Monsal Head. As a young 'un never took much notice of the steam locos, they always appeared dirty, stained, rusty and noisy, ...but if they'd run proper (ie Gresley) engines, turned out as Tim's finish, you'd have noticed them.... But I agree about Monsal - the ...

Hi all Apologies for lack of news, but Treasurer stuff keeps me busy at this time of the year..... ....I've written to all those who expressed an interest to me, and told them of the change of date, but in case anyone else wants to join in, the proposed meeting will now be on Tuesday 25th October at...

Scalefour Society – West Midlands Area Group Members will be aware that this group has not been functioning for some time now, ever since our eviction from Fradley Hall coinciding with Les Bird's illness. Ian Hunter and I would like to try and revive this group – so we are convening a meeting in Oct...

How do you go about fixing these? A box van is straightforward enough but if one is glazing or wants to add detail after painting, then the roof needs to be attached later. In some cases, it is desirable that the roof is removable. I would be interested to know the preferred methods people employ, ...

As a quick check does anyone know how long a cross over is based on B6/7 Paul Hi Paul Assuming the track is straight - the fen country was dead flat and even the rivers were largely artificial and so also straight, so there was no reason to build it anything else - and assuming the "six-foot&q...

Philip Hall wrote:It was nice to see the little Scalefour 40th anniversary presence as well, with Paul Willis watching over the Society stand and trying to convert at least one chap to P4.

Nicer still, successfully converting two! Well done Paul
Chris

I have always printed from templot onto 80gsm A4 paper and used a lot of magic sellotape but this week's high humidity changing to hot and dry has played havoc with paper distortion so alignment errors exceed 1mm in a few places. For this purpose of checking everything fits and baseboard joint inte...

Hi all Re Dal-T's question, this was my answer some years ago - http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=425&p=3062#p3062 I don't know if ths is "received wisdom" or not, but FWIW I haven't made much progress on the trackwork for Stowe Fen since then (having been insane ...

Having converted it to imperial and then down to 4mm, I *think* that we're talking about a minimum radius of 20.63 inches... I'm going to rattle something up in Templot using that radius and see what it looks like :-) Now to find some time to doodle some dockside industrial layouts... Cheers Flymo ...

although they're not quite such a tight fit on the rail.DT The chairs shouldn't be too tight a fit on the rail anyway, otherwise you'll have expansion problems in hot weather if they can't slide longitudinally. For the same reason, don't forget to include expansion gaps at intervals in your track -...

Accuracy is a strange thing, with a fictional location the best that can be done is prototypically plausible. - Nigel Hi Nigel But that's the strength of fictional lines - you can always argue, as I do with my Stowe Fen (or will if it ever makes significant progress) that it's a 100% accurate repli...

I've a signalling problem, and I've not been able to solve it, so does anyone know enough about prototype to be able to help ? Hi Nigel - I'm not a signal engineer but I do have some knowledge of Great Eastern practice (I assume Coldfair Green is GER - it certainly was last time I saw it) - doubtle...