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- Wed Aug 30, 2017 9:21 pm
- Forum: Starting in P4
- Topic: Making a Start - The Peak District Midland / Monsal Dale pre 1903
- Replies: 1221
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- Wed Aug 30, 2017 7:17 pm
- Forum: Starting in P4
- Topic: Making a Start - The Peak District Midland / Monsal Dale pre 1903
- Replies: 1221
- Views: 263739
Re: Making a Start - The Peak District Midland pre 1905
In haste, but just to say I agree with Richard, as to the man standing on the cart tailboard. The loads of the nearest two wagons look too fine and pale for coal, given the overall lighting levels and angles? I strongly suspect material (fluorspar, as dressed at mine; not lead or lead-rich) from the...
- Mon Aug 28, 2017 10:19 pm
- Forum: Starting in P4
- Topic: Making a Start - The Peak District Midland / Monsal Dale pre 1903
- Replies: 1221
- Views: 263739
Re: Making a Start - The Peak District Midland pre 1905
Wonderful thread, gents. Surely, never before can so much fascinating information have been shared about one such short siding.... Will is going to need an extra page for his summary of this one? Being at my workbench on S&D matters for the first time in four years, I am minded to lob in a few q...
- Thu Aug 24, 2017 11:22 am
- Forum: Starting in P4
- Topic: Making a Start - The Peak District Midland / Monsal Dale pre 1903
- Replies: 1221
- Views: 263739
Re: Making a Start - The Peak District Midland pre 1905
Thanks Alan, 'Midland Style' pp51/2 has a drawing of this type of disc ground signal; text notes that pre 1904, standard ground/dwarf signal was of rotating type, cylindrical, with red disc, one quarter of body green with a green glass for 'off' (as we see in pic), the remainder white -also just dis...
- Wed Aug 23, 2017 12:15 pm
- Forum: Starting in P4
- Topic: Making a Start - The Peak District Midland / Monsal Dale pre 1903
- Replies: 1221
- Views: 263739
Re: Making a Start - The Peak District Midland pre 1905
?? The 'lad' by the cart wheel is surely the crumpled end of the material which covers the horse's back end... ie. 'he' is a 'horse's ...'?
Fascinating analysis. Whys the cover over the horse's back?
Steve
Fascinating analysis. Whys the cover over the horse's back?
Steve
- Fri Aug 11, 2017 12:10 pm
- Forum: Exhibitions
- Topic: Scaleforum 2017
- Replies: 129
- Views: 34413
Re: Scaleforum 2017
Gawn to join the choir invisibule?
- Fri Jul 14, 2017 5:52 pm
- Forum: Steam Locomotives
- Topic: Crew
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2276
Re: Crew
Kilmersdon pug 1969 had Herbie and Nelson Loader; father and son team!
Steve
Steve
- Sat Jun 10, 2017 10:55 am
- Forum: Scenery and Structures
- Topic: Telephone cabinet signage
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10824
Re: Telephone cabinet signage
Steve, Tim, As an aside, the S&D's less-out-of-the-way Radstock East box was worked in late 40's/early 50's by two ladies; Kath Parker(later Berryman) and Doris Dorley (by implication at the same time); Joyce Tamblin (Jones) worked it, later. I have been fascinated by this thread, and not just f...
- Tue May 30, 2017 8:48 pm
- Forum: Layouts and Operations
- Topic: 1st P4 layout - Endex
- Replies: 153
- Views: 62892
Re: 1st P4 layout - Endex
Hi Gavin, I have only just skimmed the first part of this, and it struck me that you have taken a sensible and brave decision, but that you have also been brave enough to post here, at some length. Your next version will start from a firmer foundation and should proceed more routinely, with your new...
- Thu May 04, 2017 10:16 pm
- Forum: New Products
- Topic: MRJ Binders
- Replies: 189
- Views: 62902
Re: MRJ Binders
BUMP!! Over a month on from Scalefour North and the issue of two missing MRJ binders from my order remains live. We should by now be clear of anyone having missed the calls (this thread, email) to check their own consignments, if they were away over Easter. I will be going away shortly for an early ...
- Sat Apr 29, 2017 8:34 am
- Forum: Other Workshop Practice
- Topic: Soldering Station Replacements
- Replies: 44
- Views: 13574
Re: Solder Tip Cleaner and Tinner problem
David -ah! A very good point......no where the heck is it..? Now have two dead Antex bodies so perhaps two new elements be in order.
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- Fri Apr 28, 2017 8:18 pm
- Forum: Other Workshop Practice
- Topic: Soldering Station Replacements
- Replies: 44
- Views: 13574
Re: Solder Tip Cleaner and Tinner problem
Well...thanks to the kindness of John Brighton, I have today been able to prove that my Antex 660TC station still works (phew), and it is the TC50 iron that is kaput - so a call to Antex for a new element seems in order for now. Not such a drain on the wallet as I had originally feared. However, the...
- Thu Apr 27, 2017 12:37 pm
- Forum: Other Workshop Practice
- Topic: Soldering Station Replacements
- Replies: 44
- Views: 13574
Re: Solder Tip Cleaner and Tinner problem
Superb, David - much appreciated and many thanks.
Hello, Hakko - and, sorry Antex, but......tough old world.
Cheers,
Steve
Hello, Hakko - and, sorry Antex, but......tough old world.
Cheers,
Steve
- Thu Apr 27, 2017 9:46 am
- Forum: Other Workshop Practice
- Topic: Soldering Station Replacements
- Replies: 44
- Views: 13574
Re: Solder Tip Cleaner and Tinner problem
Many thanks for this David, the info on tip range especially - promising. I am getting very tempted by a genuine Hakko now. Bit of a shame about the resetting 'faff', but no doubt one gets used to this.....
Cheers,
Steve
Cheers,
Steve
- Wed Apr 26, 2017 12:46 pm
- Forum: Other Workshop Practice
- Topic: Soldering Station Replacements
- Replies: 44
- Views: 13574
Re: Solder Tip Cleaner and Tinner problem
David, that's great - many thanks for the research. I will report back on my Antex issue after Friday's test run at a friend's. I am emailing John McAleely separately (he is also working on my fritzed outgoing PM issue as well..!) to ask that this thread now be separated, so that a new heading, more...
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 5:58 pm
- Forum: Other Workshop Practice
- Topic: Soldering Station Replacements
- Replies: 44
- Views: 13574
Re: Solder Tip Cleaner and Tinner problem
Thanks for this Jol, I am nodding in agreement with your view on Antex. The price of a replacement element/tip sensor seems pretty hefty. I have, of course, a range of bits for different applications, and no doubt these will not be interchangeable with whatever I might get next. If I find that my co...
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 4:04 pm
- Forum: Other Workshop Practice
- Topic: Soldering Station Replacements
- Replies: 44
- Views: 13574
Re: Solder Tip Cleaner and Tinner problem
Ah, that is looking very interesting! (So why on earth have Antex shot themselves in the foot over the 660 TC upgrade....?)
Much appreciated David...
S.
Much appreciated David...
S.
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 12:43 pm
- Forum: Other Workshop Practice
- Topic: Soldering Station Replacements
- Replies: 44
- Views: 13574
Re: Solder Tip Cleaner and Tinner problem
David, Thank you for chasing this up; my 'to do' list has it a bit to far down, at present, as I endeavour to complete my last commission - a LRM MR 2F chassis build, before the end of the month. The original target was Scalefour North - some of you saw the basic rolling chassis there - but Easter f...
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 4:44 pm
- Forum: Other Workshop Practice
- Topic: Soldering Station Replacements
- Replies: 44
- Views: 13574
Re: Solder Tip Cleaner and Tinner problem
Thanks Will, appreciated, will get onto it...
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 4:17 pm
- Forum: Other Workshop Practice
- Topic: Soldering Station Replacements
- Replies: 44
- Views: 13574
Re: Solder Tip Cleaner and Tinner problem
Thanks Tim, useful to know... ...and your soldering is probably at least as neat in first instance as mine is; but you should see the piles of garriflex 'swarf' and fibreglass 'stogies' accrued her over a decade plus! I aim for the Tiffany/Brandreth neatness level, once I get re-equipped and have ti...
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 4:01 pm
- Forum: Other Workshop Practice
- Topic: Soldering Station Replacements
- Replies: 44
- Views: 13574
Re: Solder Tip Cleaner and Tinner problem
Thanks for the pointers, David, I am certainly very wary about 200C and WM! I do note that Eileen's now stock a low-temperature soldering station for such, clearly to complement the revised Antex 660A - see their August 2015 newsletter on here, et seq. But, two soldering stations to replace one? Not...
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 1:55 pm
- Forum: Other Workshop Practice
- Topic: Soldering Station Replacements
- Replies: 44
- Views: 13574
Soldering Station Replacements
[Continued from this earlier thread (" Solder Tip Cleaner and Tinner problem "), split at the author's request] Andy...you don't know how close, just how close..... (But would I then need to use lead-free weights on the fishing line?). But there is that MR railmotor to pick up and finish a...
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 1:55 pm
- Forum: Other Workshop Practice
- Topic: Solder Tip Cleaner and Tinner problem
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3031
Re: Solder Tip Cleaner and Tinner problem
[Now continues at this thread ("Soldering Station Replacements"), split at the author's request]
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 11:15 am
- Forum: Other Workshop Practice
- Topic: Solder Tip Cleaner and Tinner problem
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3031
Re: Solder Tip Cleaner and Tinner problem
Thanks all for your suggestions, but I discovered the major problem this morning. Suspicious about the tarnishing of the hot tip, I set the iron at a minimum 75 degrees, from cold, and was able to melt 296degree solder..... the thermostat control has failed; the flashing light denoting apparent atta...
- Thu Apr 20, 2017 2:21 pm
- Forum: Other Workshop Practice
- Topic: Solder Tip Cleaner and Tinner problem
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3031
Solder Tip Cleaner and Tinner problem
A puzzle here, and advice needed please, from those who use a tip-cleaning and tinning paste with their soldering iron. I am not a beginner, but increasingly feeling like one just now. For decades I have successfully soldered, but recently I am getting some rather odd behaviour from my armoury. I ha...