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DougN wrote:Wow thats an amazing hammer it makes things pop back out...

I had some trouble editing the order of the pics.....

I noticed Tony’s method for droppers on Brimsdown Road. Here’s my latest experiment: Messrs Finley/Wesson/Mallard apparently soldered Cooper droppers to track rivets. They have held up for 20 years. Turns out 20ga copper wire fits snuggly into the bottom of a rivet. Here’s the principle 76E43F61-5B1...

It seems this pandemic is affecting us all. On my side, Manitoba has had low numbers of infections (you might say we are socially isolated all the time - considering our geographical position and weather). Nonetheless, the chaos has caused our hospital to change gears significantly. All my elective ...

To improve the flow of soft fruit to beleaguered supermarkets, I'm going to build banana vans. Specifically, LNWR D95 vans. I need a short train of these. Stage one is to make one prototype (engineering sense, I don't have room for a full-size replica when I'm stuck indoors :D ). Stage two is to mu...

She’s a Connoiseur kit I built a few years back. Has CSBs and a High Level gearbox and runs like a clock. Here she the build thread with a video of her on Mark and Dave’s setup at GBTS in Toronto. https://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1761 Having followed your link I now remember...

Have you had any issues with track going out of alignment at all? I glued about 4 feet of track down last week using a straight edge to keep everything in line but, having looked along the track yesterday, whilst I can still push a mint gauge along it, parts of the track have definitely moved out o...

CDGFife wrote:
Loving the G6!

Chris

She’s a Connoiseur kit I built a few years back. Has CSBs and a High Level gearbox and runs like a clock. Here she the build thread with a video of her on Mark and Dave’s setup at GBTS in Toronto.

viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1761

Hi David - somewhat - I keep the lid on when not actually in use. The bottle has a narrow neck and fat base to avoid spills. Aside form that the room is very airy - so I don’t actually smell it too much, although the pleasing wafts of “airplane glue” occasionally transport me back to the he 70’s!

Now for the dark art of tracklaying - soldering rail to rivets and glueing function chairs in place. I started by spraying the chairs a variety of rust colours. The Exactoscale chairs have the occasional issue of “flash” making threading a challenge. My wife was curious about the obscession with the...

Some further progress:

I ran some 14ga bus lines connected to Anderson Power Pole connectors. (Popular technique in these parts). Connected all up to the droppers.

Jim - the weathering is perfectly subtle. Nice work!

Some ballasting happening. A mixture of DCC Concepts light grey and Woodland Scenics Fine Grey with a touch of DCC Concepts Brown. I like the mix. Putting it down is a painstaking process....

Brightspark wrote:
Of course you do realise that the wire isn't supposed to go through the holes in the fence posts.

I think the wire passes through the tension posts, but not the intermediates.

Maybe I'm missing something but for me it made sense to drill the holes before I laid the track thus avoiding any potential damage to the rails from drills. It might make more sense from a work flow perspective to do it like that, as I found in situ soldering a bit of a fiddle. My first concern was...

I admire your choice of malts, though for sentimental reasons I try never to be without a Lagavulin. But the 21 year old!! Do you have a rich uncle?F Hi Allan - my whisky collection is one of my vices, many years of self indulgent extravagance! It’s a smashing collection at the moment - I have a li...

Hi David - the droppers are 18ga multicore (as far as I can recall - servo wire from the local RC store) the bus line is 14ga. They are the biggest gauge that will fit though the hole in the Palatine models etches. I’ve placed pairs of droppers every 48cm - usually adjacent sleepers - i.e at least 2...

Please confirm you had the haggis while listening to completely incomprehensible poetry.

.....The basic idea of the droppers is to get the job of making holes in the baseboard away from the rail heads. Numerous times I have drilled alongside the rail only to find the chuck hitting the top of the rail when breaking through the wood so these droppers were designed to reduce the risk of t...

For the medically minded they do look a little like an IUCD.....

Missing my haggis dinner tonight. I raided the cellar though and dug out a decent Islay to go with the task of dropper production:

The gangers were at work today.....

Have you got Mitchell and Smith's Middleton Press album "Branch Line to Swanage" over there Cheers, Steve Err.... C142C940-B4F8-46AE-87FA-C33F7BF4A8F5.jpeg Thanks for looking... I found your references, thank you. I would conclude it’s a single tongue. Actually the track layout is super i...

There goes Berrington again - digging up old topics. So - I am at the stage of planning the trap point at the headshunt of my model based on Swanage. The Templot plan I have, shows a single tongue trap point, and I am set to make one. However I am having second thoughts: 1.) Looking at Martin Finney...

Apologies for resurrecting an old topic. I’m at this stage of the layout, so was reading over this again. Faced with challenge of keeping the flow of track work, I have contemplated Howard’s method (below) of glueing the template onto the track bed as I begin laying timbers and sleepers through the ...