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- Sun Sep 27, 2020 7:21 am
- Forum: Virtual Scaleforum
- Topic: How do I get to see the videos please?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1114
How do I get to see the videos please?
How do I get to see the videos please, Brian
- Sat Oct 05, 2019 3:14 pm
- Forum: Exhibitions
- Topic: Scaleforum 2019
- Replies: 249
- Views: 54173
Re: Scaleforum 2019
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...
- Mon May 15, 2017 10:34 pm
- Forum: Track and Turnouts
- Topic: Re: Track and Wheel Standards
- Replies: 35
- Views: 13446
Re: Track and Wheel Standards
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
- Thu May 11, 2017 4:52 pm
- Forum: Track and Turnouts
- Topic: Re: Track and Wheel Standards
- Replies: 35
- Views: 13446
Re: Track and Wheel Standards
Dunno how I ever get anything to run. B
- Wed Nov 30, 2016 10:23 am
- Forum: Devon Riviera (DRAG)
- Topic: Back to a circuit of 'O' gauge on the floor!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7025
- Tue Apr 12, 2016 6:48 pm
- Forum: Devon Riviera (DRAG)
- Topic: Does anyone ever enter anything on here?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3897
Re: Does anyone ever enter anything on here?
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...
- Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:31 am
- Forum: Devon Riviera (DRAG)
- Topic: Does anyone ever enter anything on here?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3897
Re: Does anyone ever enter anything on here?
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...
- Mon Oct 19, 2015 7:58 pm
- Forum: Devon Riviera (DRAG)
- Topic: Does anyone ever enter anything on here?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3897
Does anyone ever enter anything on here?
Does anyone ever enter anything on here?
- Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:24 pm
- Forum: Exhibitions
- Topic: RAILEX 2015 23rd & 24th May
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7498
Re: RAILEX 2015 23rd & 24th May
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.
- Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:03 am
- Forum: Exhibitions
- Topic: Scaleforum Attendance and Location
- Replies: 180
- Views: 41851
Re: Scaleforum 2015
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...
- Mon Feb 23, 2015 12:21 pm
- Forum: Exhibitions
- Topic: Scaleforum Attendance and Location
- Replies: 180
- Views: 41851
Re: Scaleforum 2015
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...
- Tue Dec 16, 2014 8:17 pm
- Forum: Track and Turnouts
- Topic: Rationalised double slip
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4449
Re: Rationalised double slip
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
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
- Sat Dec 13, 2014 12:41 pm
- Forum: Track and Turnouts
- Topic: Rationalised double slip
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4449
Re: Rationalised double slip
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...
- Wed Oct 01, 2014 1:38 pm
- Forum: Exhibitions
- Topic: Scaleforum 2014
- Replies: 197
- Views: 61291
Re: Scaleforum 2014
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
- Tue Sep 30, 2014 5:26 pm
- Forum: Exhibitions
- Topic: Scaleforum 2014
- Replies: 197
- Views: 61291
Re: Scaleforum 2014
Can you bring your lathe again?[/quote]
You should have asked at the show Ivan, it was in the van. B
You should have asked at the show Ivan, it was in the van. B
- Tue Sep 30, 2014 5:14 pm
- Forum: Exhibitions
- Topic: Scaleforum 2014
- Replies: 197
- Views: 61291
Re: Scaleforum 2014
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...
- Tue Oct 15, 2013 8:47 am
- Forum: Devon Riviera (DRAG)
- Topic: Turning wheels - wheel turning
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8330
Re: Turning wheels - wheel turning
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
- Sat Oct 12, 2013 8:20 am
- Forum: Exhibitions
- Topic: Scaleforum 2013
- Replies: 476
- Views: 138807
Re: Scaleforum 2013
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.
- Wed Oct 09, 2013 7:03 pm
- Forum: Exhibitions
- Topic: Scaleforum 2013
- Replies: 476
- Views: 138807
Re: Scaleforum 2013
I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours
- Tue Aug 27, 2013 10:50 am
- Forum: Devon Riviera (DRAG)
- Topic: Turning wheels - wheel turning
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8330
Re: Turning wheels - wheel turning
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...
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 3:53 pm
- Forum: Devon Riviera (DRAG)
- Topic: Turning wheels - wheel turning
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8330
Re: Turning wheels - wheel turning
Not quite like John L suggests, but you get the idea, Brian.
- Thu Aug 08, 2013 1:34 pm
- Forum: Devon Riviera (DRAG)
- Topic: Turning wheels - wheel turning
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8330
Turning wheels - wheel turning
I shall be converting some tinplate wheels to Proto on my Unimat 3 at Holcombe on Monday next (12th), Brian.
- Sat May 11, 2013 6:53 am
- Forum: Chassis and Suspensions
- Topic: Flywheels
- Replies: 48
- Views: 20230
Re: Flywheels
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...
- Thu May 09, 2013 1:28 pm
- Forum: Chassis and Suspensions
- Topic: Flywheels
- Replies: 48
- Views: 20230
Re: Flywheels
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...
- Thu May 09, 2013 11:06 am
- Forum: Chassis and Suspensions
- Topic: Flywheels
- Replies: 48
- Views: 20230
Re: Flywheels
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.