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- Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:46 am
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Breakdown Crane
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3571
Breakdown Crane
D+S produced a kit for a steam crane many years ago, but it has become very rare and expensive. I have learned recently that there is the prospect of a new kit. Alistair Wright of 5522 Models is evaluating if there is any serious support for an new etched kit for the crane in the form it was used on...
- Sat Jun 26, 2010 9:44 pm
- Forum: Cornish Riviera Area Group
- Topic: Cornish Riviera Area Group
- Replies: 21
- Views: 19693
Re: Cornish Riviera Area Group
Steve,
Pity about the heat, but you are far better indoors, especially with such a super project as you have taken on. I found the photos fascinating, and it is good when a modeller's vision can live on in this way. Thanks for such a comprehensive report.
Best wishes to everyone in CRAG.
Jim
Pity about the heat, but you are far better indoors, especially with such a super project as you have taken on. I found the photos fascinating, and it is good when a modeller's vision can live on in this way. Thanks for such a comprehensive report.
Best wishes to everyone in CRAG.
Jim
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 10:00 pm
- Forum: Starting in P4
- Topic: Basic tool set for P4 modelling
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10465
Re: Basic tool set for P4 modelling
I don't think anyone has mentioned masking tape yet, or clothespegs (wooden). Both have uses in holding things down or together, especially when soldering. You can cut the clothes pegs to a specific shape, as Flymo did with his (or someone's . . . ) hairgrips. Then there are the indispensable cockta...
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 9:45 pm
- Forum: CHEAG
- Topic: CHEAG - the Inaugural Meeting
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3364
Re: CHEAG - the Inaugural Meeting
All sounds good.
But how should those of us who weren't there pronounce CHEAG?
All best wishes,
Jim
But how should those of us who weren't there pronounce CHEAG?
All best wishes,
Jim
- Tue Apr 13, 2010 4:39 pm
- Forum: Layouts and Operations
- Topic: St. Mary Hoo C.E.G.B. Railway - a first time P4 layout
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4822
Re: St. Mary Hoo C.E.G.B. Railway - a first time P4 layout
Welcome, Simon. I am immediately caught by your description "The choice of location was very important for me; I like railways in lonely and wild places, especially ones situated in flat landscapes with unobstructed views. I also like the sea very much. This part of Kent fulfils these criteria ...
- Wed Mar 31, 2010 9:32 pm
- Forum: Paul Willis
- Topic: Beer and Buckjumpers
- Replies: 821
- Views: 57616
Re: Beer and Buckjumpers
On this business of perspex boxes, I make a lot of use of Ferrero Rocher boxes, and they are are also handy for transporting models, wrapped in foam, to shows. Of course, as my wife says, I model to Ferrero Rocher scale . . . .
Jim
Jim
- Tue Feb 23, 2010 5:48 pm
- Forum: Coaches and NPCS
- Topic: LNER Pigeon Van
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7254
Re: LNER Pigeon Van
Sorry, this isn't going to help your specific query, but folk might be interested to know that there is a bogie LNER Pigeon Van at the Scottish Railway Preservation Society site at Bo'ness, and it is in use by the carriage restoration volunteers.
Jim
Jim
- Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:29 am
- Forum: Layouts and Operations
- Topic: Eastwood L&Y; A Layout in a Weekend – Can they do it?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 23519
Re: Eastwood L&Y; A Layout in a Weekend – Can they do it?
As someone who was not at the show, but whose thoughts were with those toiling in the public eye, can I, on behalf of the Scalefour Society, thank the whole team, not forgetting photographer and commentator Mark, for providing the watching world with first class entertainment. Not only was it entert...
- Fri Jan 22, 2010 10:13 pm
- Forum: Wagons
- Topic: Wagon Suspension
- Replies: 68
- Views: 20791
Re: Wagon Suspension
The Society's Chairman's wee brain is beginning to hurt. At lunchtime he read the latest MRJ, which states Martin's layout is EM (and a very nice article it is too). He then managed to get a measurement wrong on a scratchbuilt engine he was working on this evening, so that the the cab footplate is w...
- Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:22 pm
- Forum: Chassis and Suspensions
- Topic: Axle/hornblock alignment jigs
- Replies: 41
- Views: 16836
Re: Axle/hornblock alignment jigs
Clever clogs here has kept his examples of what Allan has pictured in the original plastic bag, with the label. It reads "Variflex Axle Jigs for Hornblock Alignment V001". I reckon they space frames to 14.6mm. Exactoscale did something similar called Loco Mainframe Assembly Gauge P4 Standa...
- Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:26 am
- Forum: Railway Buildings
- Topic: What's inside a goods shed?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 28083
Re: What's inside a goods shed?
Jack, Have a look at Scalefour News 141 February 2005 "Goods Sheds North and South", where there is a picture of what Mike Gilgannon did, showing the crane. (Previous issues are accessible on the website, if you don't have that one to hand). Beyond that, you'll want sack barrows and all ma...
- Sat Dec 26, 2009 9:52 am
- Forum: Other Workshop Practice
- Topic: GW Wheel Press
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9985
Re: GW Wheel Press
Well, I reckon there is some wobble, Tony, and I seem not to be alone. I realise I need to be more precise and to compare Sharman and Gibson wheels in this respect. With luck, during this holiday period I shall be using the GW Press, and will report on my Wobble Factor. The wobbleness will have noth...
- Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:10 pm
- Forum: Tools and Techniques
- Topic: Help Needed!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10652
Re: Help Needed!
Bob, You might like to consider including the International Railway Index, which lists over 225,000 articles on a CD available from Gerald Wildish, "Trees", 2 Worsley Road, Ansdell, Lytham St Annes, Lancs FY8 4DD. True, it is only an index, but it is searchable by company, rolling stock et...
- Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:23 pm
- Forum: Track and Turnouts
- Topic: First turnout built!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3465
Re: First turnout built!
Ian,
Great to see that you did it. Do make sure you let us see where it all leads to in due course and how you get there.
Jim
Great to see that you did it. Do make sure you let us see where it all leads to in due course and how you get there.
Jim
- Mon May 11, 2009 5:32 pm
- Forum: Tees, Ouse, Esk & Rye
- Topic: TOERAG on the loose
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3125
Re: TOERAG on the loose
Just wishing you well for the Show. Unfortunately I shall be on the other side of the country at a rival show.
Jim
Jim
- Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:59 am
- Forum: Semaphore Signals
- Topic: Distant Signal Locking
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13088
Re: Distant Signal Locking
I've come into this correspondence a bit late; but I always found one bit of the jargon useful when thinking through such things. And that is "Sequential locking". This enforces the pulling off of levers in a logical sequence, and prevents, for example, the Distant being pulled off before ...
- Fri Dec 26, 2008 7:17 pm
- Forum: Chassis and Suspensions
- Topic: Oh for a simple but effective pick-up system
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11154
Re: Oh for a simple but effective pick-up system
Not necessarily the best way to do it (but it was an afterthought, and it was me) is seen in my article on bodging a J88 in the current Scalefour News. The photo is fairly clear. I filed away part of the frame to give a recess for the p.b. wipers, and slipped some sheathing from electrical wire over...
- Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:27 pm
- Forum: Control Concepts
- Topic: Lever Frame painting
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7066
Re: Lever Frame painting
John, I painted the outside only, black satin, leaving the uppermost parts of the slots unpainted, where they would get worn. As to the levers, the handles were always left bright metal, and signalmen used cloths in their hands when pulling the levers to avoid contaminating them. The levers themselv...
- Mon Dec 08, 2008 10:40 pm
- Forum: Track and Turnouts
- Topic: Catch Points
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6736
Re: Catch Points
I don't know how I missed my esteemed colleague William Barter's contribution to this in the summer, but his reference to the interlaced loop and runback catch points leads me to quote a further example. This was where the branch from down in the valley reached the main Oban line at Killin Junction,...
- Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:12 pm
- Forum: Electrics
- Topic: DCC & Wheel cleaning
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4907
Re: DCC & Wheel cleaning
Tim,
It's a good notion, and I have tried to do it with my scratchbuilt frames.
However, now you have the wheels going round upside down, what magic formula or procedure do you use actually to remove the dirt from the wheels? P4Talk has had dire warnings recently about using WD40.
Jim
It's a good notion, and I have tried to do it with my scratchbuilt frames.
However, now you have the wheels going round upside down, what magic formula or procedure do you use actually to remove the dirt from the wheels? P4Talk has had dire warnings recently about using WD40.
Jim
- Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:13 am
- Forum: Tools and Techniques
- Topic: Resistance Soldering
- Replies: 96
- Views: 27470
Re: Resistance Soldering
A really useful contribution. Thanks, Jim