Georgeconna

Possibly Needs to be re named to the Price Moan Thread as there are no bargins really thrown up and I would hazard a guess if there were they wont be here any how..

That is a lovely kit to make as welll.

If the couplings don't recentre then the Kaydees the uncoupling function wont work correctly. The coupling are a pain to change in those coaches. Not sure why companies where there designed so  you can pull them out quite easily for replacement and then another company comes along with a slightly different solution that jut does not quite get their.

piccy with the baccy coupling inserted and now  no droop. the droop was going under other stock when being propelled.

I stuck  Baccy Coupling into the A Class, Solved the drop and also the hook wobbling about at severe angles.

Would not be too happy looking at that silvering TBH. What I would do it take that off, Gloss the area, Fresh Decal , Re sit it properly, Gloss over again and then matt.

Did  good few back in the day. Should of done one for myself!

2 hours ago, David Holman said:

An almost daily feature of my childhood as I lived close to several of their bases. Hunters, Provosts and Lightnings too. To stand next to a Vulcan is quite an experience!

 Duxford is perhaps THE place to go - how they squeezed the B52 into the American hall, let alone land it there is the first place was a real feat.

8 hours ago, WRENNEIRE said:

Some of the pics are from the Lima /Murphy thread on here, my pics! 

Better check your Cupboard!

1 hour ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Nice to see an honest seller - title, description and lead photo all mention "Dicky". If only there were more sellers like this:

https://www.ebay.es/itm/144922075863

 

 

I don't get it , normally you are giving out about the price that some lads are asking for other bits and bobs and then ok with this one where the price is actually over double the original selling price? Honest though!

Still a good price for someone.

PM Sent there.

Mags for me will get my vote for sure , Exquisite model.

On 21/1/2023 at 11:07 AM, murphaph said:

I've probably not run my A's long enough to see the failure George. I am interested to hear what it turns out to be though. Hopefully just a dry joint somewhere in the chain. Have you tried a different decoder first? The ESU stay alives are a three wire job I think so in theory the decoder could be gone bad as well. It's not a simple capacitor connected across the potential of the rails AFAIK. There's a bit more too it because big fat capacitors work as stay alives but they also swallow the ack pulses from the motor when programming so they have to be switched out of the circuit then. The three wire ones use some charging and discharging circuitry on the decoder and therefore don't need to be isolated during programming like simple caps do.

Good news is that got some help from FB, The CV value for 113  was 0, Strange as I had not done any programming on this at all. Anyway set it to 127 and it works again so happy days.

23 hours ago, Georgeconna said:

Just wondering if anyone's Stay alive has stopped working? Lift it off the track and stops dead? Running no affected though.

Have not messed with any settings either.

 

no one then? Looks to of failed then.

Just wondering if anyone's Stay alive has stopped working? Lift it off the track and stops dead? Running no affected though.

Have not messed with any settings either.

23 minutes ago, minister_for_hardship said:

https://www.anglocelt.ie/2023/01/17/the-south-kerry-greenway/

This time aimed at food anoraks. Let's see how many rail related things they get hopelessly wrong!

Nevin....I'm out....

1 hour ago, amdaley said:

I presume you took a spin on the  Schwebebahn suspension monorail (dingle dangle railway) 

sure did, amazing bit of kit and you can get static models of same

Herpa WSW01 Schwebebahn Generation 15 - EU Rail FanEU Rail Fan

This is the link to the Store in Wuppertal, Bit of a hill climb but a 3 mins bus trip. They had trolley buses there too but none on the wires.

Matschke Modellauto * Modellbahn / Modelleisenbahn and more in Wuppertal

They have a virtual tour of the shop on the above link over on the right

The Dusseldorf one, great for tools

Menzels-Lokschuppen Onlineshop - Model railway dealer since 1979

Was in Wuppertal over the weekend and found the most fantastic model shop I have ever been in (no doubt some of you would of been there too) Had my eye on these Leccys for a long time so picked one up there and two kinda suitable coaches..

Hope to do a small Winter layout 

Just need so build up a wee bit of stock and some track.

Fab model shops in Dusseldorf too.

Highly Recommend the Bierbrunnen, Rohwinkeler Str.21 for refreshment too, Top quality beer from the fountain.

AK Extreme Metals is a good option , sprayable.

I Have sued these paint, Airbrushed straight from the bottle, Use a Black Base first

Marks Have them

13 hours ago, murrayec said:

Alclad is the best metal paints I reckon;-

 

Alclad has really been Surpassed at this stage, AK Extreme Metal is more hard Wearing than Alclad which easily Rub off with handling.

Nail on the head there, Perfect. 

Cheers,

Came back out today and started her up and bingo the LED is shining brightly so nothing to do right now.

I wonder is the Vibration of the sound no helping poorly soldered joints, It does Vibrate a fair ol bit, I will turn the Vol down a wee bit.

Could be either the Socket or the LED soldering. 2 points.

If happens again I check it out further but I will leave alone for now.

Cheers for the input!

hi Lads,

Anyone have this problem, about 20hrs running on the clock, Left hand LED is working as you can see it flickers when I change the lighting but does not stay on.

Possible dry joint?

Looks Like a will have to take apart this yoke at some stage to investigate, bit of a dissapointment tbh given little use it has had.

 I use Cobalt Digitals, Slow, First Batch I had was Duff, Manufacturing fault but they took them all back, (14 of them) and replaced the whole lot and no problems since.

I can control these from the DCC handset and are easy to program and have inbuilt  frog switching also which is great. I use them for the Fiddle yard too.

12 Cobalts are now 360 notes. Big Swallow for sure!

I agree some nice techniques there, Painstaking slow but worthwhile. I wonder will be Sticky paper onto the plasticard come back to haunt him.

The Stanley blade jig was sublime!