Scalefour Forum

Squires inform me that Minicraft range and spares are now unavailable? I need a replacement keyless chuck, MB 1932, as my current (replacement) one is so worn that it will not grip properly. Has anyone had experience of substituting other makes of chuck on a Minicraft drill, please? Many thanks, Steve

And with, eg. 'Protocab' and battery power......

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"Beam me down, Scottie"

Thanks guys, Robin, Rob, brilliant - very useful! Tim - yes indeed; I guess dad logged the shedplates where he could, but in many cases (eg. not at Bristol, Holbeck) would not know the precise coding significance. As BC notes, on other Railways the code-names would be more intuitive eg SDN, DID etc....

Is there a readily web-accessible list of the shed codes in use by the LMS (LNER, SR and GWR also would be useful, to a lesser extent) in 1943-45, please? I am in the process of tracing my late father's rail travels/spotting logs as a 16/17 year old in this period, primarily between Poole and York, ...

Tim,

All my references are packed away for moving - but I think they may be at Midland Railway Study Centre in Derby (NOT Midland Railway Centre at Butterley...) - just possibly, the NRM..

Will try to chase for you!

Great stuff, am following all this avidly,

Cheers

Steve

Just when I was thinking I had an excuse NOT to model the actual pithead in my emerging plan to show my version of what happened to the Clandown branch when Middle Pit, Radstock, was altered early in the twentieth century....

Nice one, Rob; will be following with considerable interest.

Steve

Quite right, Howard! Sorry, but had briefly emerged from frantic box-packing and only picked up the later postings...

Stunning trackwork, as well.......

Cheers,

Steve

Strong magnet in body behind headcode number, white-painted stee/tinplate cover panel, handled with plastic tweezers?

Back to my pre-Group 'kettles'.......

Steve

Have a look at DCC Concepts' MR-design taper-post lamps?

Cheers

Steve

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...

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...

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...

?? 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

Gawn to join the choir invisibule?

Kilmersdon pug 1969 had Herbie and Nelson Loader; father and son team!

Steve

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

S

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...

Superb, David - much appreciated and many thanks.

Hello, Hakko - and, sorry Antex, but......tough old world.

Cheers,

Steve

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

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...

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...

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.