Scalefour Forum

A long time ago, I recall visiting a private layout where they had used a plunger for indexing. The plunger they used was a vertical chisel shape and it engaged in a V, where the angle of the V was a bigger than the chisel. Therefore, when the chisel engaged, it dragged the turntable deck into line ...

Get in contact with Ashley Pollard, who is on this forum. I suspect the West Country will be the same as the Merchant navy (well maybe, perhaps!). She and Ted Scannel have written it up on the Clag site - here http://www.clag.org.uk/hornby-wc-conversion1.html No doubt she can fill you in further if ...

Regarding Terry's much earlier posting, does anybody have any thoughts about rivets for the Exactoscale sleepers.

My preference would be to use them, but with rivets at the turnouts...........................


Mark

Rob, You mentioned that you were going to use Copydex to secure the track to the underlay, which I would caution against. It works fine (I think) until such time that you need to do something with it such as cut or drill it. In my case, this was drilling the dropper wires, which of course took place...

A caution if I may Richard, followed by a little advice. If you start to use this room in a more than an occassional manner, you could find that more than domestic planning permission is required...........the real planners and particularly building control will be after you. Thus, I would be a litt...

4-4-0's are always a problem I find. I hang the tender onto the engine's draw bar. If you make this pin sufficently flexible it will turn vertically and then keep the rear axle fixed, you have a three point support. I then only spring the two leading axles lightly so that the bulk of the weight rest...

Terry, Way too late I know (and hey, you will not have wished me to interupt valuable modelling time in mid September!), I have used the Wills corregated iron sheet. However, not the solid one, go for the clear glass one meant for skylights in industrial units. It is made of about 15 though plastic ...