Scalefour Forum

Hi, Just come across this thread. If you have been following the 00-SF/0-MF threads on the Templot Club, you'll know that to set the check rail, it should really be gauged from the opposite rail. I'm not sure that such a gauge exists for Irish P4. Obviously you could use the flangeway gauge at a pus...

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The inks were originally available from Exactoscale, but that was quite some time ago, I'm afraid.

Is the lamp and post one casting? If not is the lamp solid or hollow?

Hi, I personally prefer the grain o'rice bulbs where possible, sometimes it isn't and I have to use fibre-optic. For Grain O'Rice, where possible, use the post for one path and the ladder (suitably insulated from the post etc of course) for the other. If I have to use Fibre-Optic, I use Crofon .025&...

Hi, I think the main problem you were having was in the choice of solder. If you use lead-free, it's a real pig to solder to steel without using a corrosive flux, switching to a leaded cored solder should be a little easier, better still use nickel silver rail (steel rail doesn't really look like pr...