Scalefour Forum

You know I suppose its a sign of my advancing years but I can't recall quite who I've spoken to about the disposal of Sentinel Street at S4um. I do recall a group of three or four gentlemen who showed an interest in buying the layout - if you are till interested and you offer still stands, please ge...

Flymo748 wrote:

Brian Harrap wrote:Dunno how I ever get anything to run. B

Those of us who have seen you, and your splendid layouts, in action would suggest it is an arcane combination of mystical incantations, sacrificed goats and a gurt big file...

Cheers
Flymo

................and a sprinkling of fairy dust. B

Dunno how I ever get anything to run. B

Admiral?

Another action packed evening at the Holcombe village hall again last night. I didn't count but I reckon there must have been a pretty well full turn out of local members. The test track had all sorts of trains roaring around in all directions, many steam types I couldn't identify, diesels on freigh...

Quite a hive of activity at DRAG last night. Not seen so much going on since that gang of web challenged spiders ran amok amongst the catenary on QUAI:87 (which, incidentally, had a good last outing at Nailsea at the weekend). Back at DRAG we had Balcombe viaduct assembled in all its (long) glory, r...

Does anyone ever enter anything on here?

Horsetan wrote:

Re6/6 wrote:Not this time Tim I'm afraid.

He'll be in Poland!

....probably with his lathe.....

Poles need their wheels turning too. Baron.

We will miss you and I think that will mean that this will be the first time for 6 years that no only you will miss but where you have not been an exhibitor. Quite an achievement. :) Terry Bendall[/quote] Thank you Terry, save me an (smallish) exhibitor space (someplace [nowhere is too difficult for...

Has anyone suggested S4um takes place every other year? Would this halve the cost and negate the losses? And give more time for some new inavative layouts to be built? Am I being an old grouch? By the way, due to other commitments I shall not be able to attend in 2015 but will arrange to buy a ticke...

Excellent trackwork as ever, Jim.
Regarding French chaired track, Simon, I've come across quite a bit of that, almost got used to it.
For my own (model) track I've taken to burying it under cobbles.
Brian

Hi all Part of my plan for my little side project is to model a rationalised double slip, where the straight on route from one direction is fixed. It's effectively a double slip converted back into a normal point. Would something like this just have the switch at one end locked down or would some r...

I wish there was more stuff about railway modelling and exhibiting on here and a lot less about navigating the vagaries of the motorway/rail systems. Just a thought. B

Can you bring your lathe again?[/quote]
You should have asked at the show Ivan, it was in the van. B

I'd just like to say a thank you to all those who were kind enough to stop by at my Axalp layout for a chat, some of you I knew, some I didn't. Anyway it was much appreciated by me that so many showed an interest in something which is just a little 'off the wall' and certainly not P4. It was also ni...

Five members dragged their lathes along to DRAG last night and there was much wheel reprofiling and brass turning going on. Great fun, I wish I'd taken a picture of it all. Brian

dal-t wrote:At least that has something of the zei(s)tgeist about it ... O.K, I'll get my coat -

Pleased you've been paying attention all these years, Brian.

I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours

We had the ole Unimat out again last night in the darkest depths of old Holcombe. Again several Dragsters, many of whom had never even touched a lathe before, tried their hand at wheel reprofiling. Quite succesfully too as the duly done wheelsets were seen to be given a trundle around TT2 without an...

Not quite like John L suggests, but you get the idea, Brian.

I shall be converting some tinplate wheels to Proto on my Unimat 3 at Holcombe on Monday next (12th), Brian.

This is one of Brian's installation in a P87 Roco Dutch 08 which is sublime to drive. 1, That big flywheel makes all the difference 2, OTOH, Dave Haswell's Class 37 had a Brimalm clutch and the largest of John Lythgoe's flywheels, and was great fun - you had to put the motor into reverse to stop th...

Has anyone ever contemplated gearing up a flywheel -- say by 1:3? This would have the same effect, in theory, as a flywheel 3 times heavier. There would, no doubt, be practical problems, but in a larger locomotive I'd have thought these could be overcome. Allan F I did try this Alan. Firstly the mo...

Anyone who hasn't driven a loco with a Dynadrive clutch (other clutches are available) and a LARGE flywheel, as in Petri's example, has a rare treat in store if they ever get the chance to try it, Brian.

Thank you for that, Danny. Did you notice that I went and forgot to bring the bulb along? - the lack of which would have made it more difficult for the rivet counters - do we still have them? see you at the AGM. Brian