Scalefour Forum

polybear wrote:Court Baliffs have also been unsuccessful in gaining entry to his property in order to seize assets.....

So how come this person is allowed to trade at the Scale4North?

We know of many tales of taking money and refusing to re-fund and also County Court judgements against him.

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Alan

In fact, the P4 profile drawing is not really any use, as it lacks several critical measurement setting locations that are on the EM profile drawing. Jol Actually it doesn't need them as the various circles are tangents to each other and therefore calculable as regards the position of their centres...

grovenor-2685 wrote:

simple enough to calculate it. You have all the data in the drawing.

Except the gauge corner radius of the rail.
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Not knowing the corner radius of the rail would bring the same uncertainty to P4 in just the same way.

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Alan

Julian Roberts wrote:Please enlighten me. While there are plenty of dimensions on the EM wheel drawing Jol kindly provided I can't see an equivalent for the 0.35 of the P4 wheel drawing.

simple enough to calculate it. You have all the data in the drawing.

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Alan

An email was sent to Colin this morning who answered that the EF of his EM wheels is a commercial confidentiality. I don't see how he can justifiably say that as the EF is calculable from the published EMGS standard (See Jol Wilkinson/Grovenor post above). If he is not prepared to say what his is t...

Which way do you think the ejectors point on a 94xx tank Noel? If you mean the ejector exhaust, it goes up the chimney so far as I know, Jim. Cylinder drain cocks and regulator open would probably produce enough steam to blot out quite a bit of the picture, so the steam is presumably a minor leak f...

I found this very helpful http://www.norgrove.me.uk/Robbo.htm A timely reminder that my boiling flux tip goes back as far as early days of cast metal kits and the original model railway pundit "Robo" Ormiston-Chant. Now there was a man who would have really enjoyed the forum. Ah yes a man...

It would help if they got the Post Code correct in the directions.

Alan

We have some of this on DLR as well, the concrete slab forming the track bed is supported clear of the tunnel invert on large coil springs. This does give a little resilience/movement but the intent is to decouple the vibration in the rails from the tunnel lining and hence the ground in areas with ...

Not sure what my DMU stuff says about previous discussion. Think each car was powered, maybe 2 out of 3. Not 1 out of 3. That was SR dmus Thumpers etc. Just wanted to quickly say about CofG Difficult to get it in the middle as model steam locos tend to be light towards the front (I have found). Mor...

Tony Wilkins wrote: Anybody got any depleted uranium to spare?

Tungsten is denser than Uranium - and easier to get hold of as well.

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Alan

I understand the tenderisder to be the gear box that has an out put shaft lower than the input / motor shaft. What I was referring to was the final drive gear boxes that have an additional etch for a bearing in place of the motor. Gordon A You may be right Gordon, I thought the additional etch was ...

Back to Back dimension for Steam Locomotive wheels is: 1360 to 1362 mm. i.e. 2mm which is .025mm or .001" in P4. Flange wear toleration depends on the tread profile but is generally 4 to 5 mm (Euro Star seems to be an exception). which is .05 mm or .002" in P4. Are you suggesting that thes...

The only difference between WBP and marine ply is that real marine ply is hardwood veniers throughout wheras WBP may have softwood interior veniers.

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Alan

More importantly, fishplates were cast, and cast iron/steel can't be bent like that. Rail end joints are subject to high levels of alternating stresses, so rolled wrought iron track would presumably have required rolled wrought iron fishplates, as cast ones would not have coped with the stresses. T...

Doesn't work in android unfortunately.

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Alan

So you've told me the distance from end of guide to bottom of bore, for which many thanks. If you could please now tell me how long your guide is then I can work out what I need. It measures 6mm same as the guide depth. These are for Slater's buffers. As regards springs wouldn't it be better to bas...

Based on a Slater's buffer: Distance to buffing face = 6mm Really? Seems a bit short. Perhaps I wasn't clear in my picture; apologies. The distance in question is from the front of the front of the buffer head to the base of the wide bore. If 6mm is the depth of the wide bore in the buffer guide, t...

Buffer-dims-7mm.png Thanks for the information on the bores. I now just need the three dimensions shown in the attached image. That's a section through the 7mm model, BTW. The distance from the bottom of the wide bore to the buffing face I set to 6.25mm in 4mm scale. IMO, this gives the softest spr...

I'm not entirely sure what the springing conventions for 7mm scale are either. I'll have to do some digging... Otherwise I'd be interested in being the guinea pig. I'll have a dig around. Richard Normally the buffer has two diameters of bore. The front bore accepts the diameter of the buffer shank ...

Points 6/7 incorporated a single slip, not a double slip. You would never be able to use it to get direct from the down platform to the down loop (or the reverse) at all. The only possible movements were up platform to down line (in either direction) or up platform to down loop (in either direction...

The mine was for fluorspa. It can be seen in the photos up the hill from the station.

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Alan

Next Question .... I have also recently got hold of this image of the Monsal Dale Signal Box .... I don't know the date Monsal Dale SB.jpg Can anyone explain what the post contraption in front of the stairs might be ... it doesn't appear on any of the other pictures of the box I have. Would anyone ...

Has anyone seen the real thing lately?

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Alan

Check out LED Lighthouse: https://www.led-lighthouse.co.uk/

A bit more expensive perhaps than eBay but delivery is quicker and the range is greater. Have a look at "Neutral White". That's what we use on Ellerton Road.

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Alan