DJ Dangerous

Getting closer! Feet on and wall brackets on...

A Nice Cronos 6,1m x 2,9m / 20' HC (CRTU-0700874) near IKEA in San Miguel back on Tuesday 22nd. Container hotspot there, almost always something interesting. Have a few more since then to add as well. Trailer looks to have an extra metre or so to spare, wierd length for a trailer, no?

Have you looked at adding a servo for remote uncoupling a la McKinley?

What are the limitations of the magnetic Dellner couplings? As in, what don't they work with? I've tried them with an A and a single Container Flat, but with the notorious coupling mechanism on the older Flats, they uncouple while moving slowly over points. @Sean has been testing these pretty thoroughly, so maybe he can list a few incompatible combinations? Also, aside from grabbing both pieces of rolling stock to pull them apart, is there any trick for more subtle uncoupling of the IRM magnetic couplers? Like, tapping them with another magnet or something?

Sure it looks like it was never even opened!

Mad dash to La Laguna for a replacement, back down south by five, measured, marked, scored, drilled, cut and cleaned, ready to pack up again and take home for trial and assembly...

And we have a casualty! Finished the first side off no problems but the second side didn't like not being supported properly while absorbing 100kg of downward force. Oops!

Not a running session, but something that will one day play a part in them. That's enough for today, more IKEA butchering tomorrow.

Only a decade out!

Just have to add to this thread again. Have been in touch with IRM a bit lately, poor aul' @Garfield must be sick of me, but the courtesy and proffesionalism is unflappable! I tend to keep odd-ish hours, probably don't sleep enough, anybody who gets close to me says that I have a thyroid problem and I'm overactive, but bejeesus, Patrick takes the biscuit. I'm genuinely starting to suspect that P.A.T.R.I.C.K. is an acronym for some kind of AI supercomputer with a deepfake face edited into a handful of photos to fool us. Powerful Artificial Turbocharged Resident Intelligent Computer Kit, I dunno. Credit where it's due, we are spoiled with this kind of service.

Your work is more like miniature engineering than modelling, @murrayec. Have you trained mice to act as loco crew, too?

Your home-made decal-work is exquisite, @Darius43!

Finally arrived! Heritage railway with some large scale Irish locos for the kids to ride on.

Legend!

To the re-mapping functions?

Awesome! Both @ttc0169 and @Patrick Davey have posted Crossley sound decoder videos in their own threads.

Some great info from @Signal Post / @Noel and from @Fowler4f. Can the functions on the IRM Crossley sound decoder be re-mapped, or is each function locked to a specific address? Sorry if this has already been answered and I've missed it. As with @Jonathan_RK, I'd love to know if a decoder can be reset to default without losing the sound file?

CMNL open-top Dublin Tour Bus. I quite like these. Auction finishes in twenty minutes or so. https://www.ebay.es/itm/126025402333 This bus has a UKBUS serial number as it's part of the CMNL Tour Bus range, rather than the usual IEBUS serial number.

What era / country / region etc are you modelling? I've been slowly buying N-Gauge stuff from Hatton's over the past year or two, only bargain stuff, really. Also bought some track and points from Hatton's, and some rolls of ballasted underlay from Gaugemaster. @Arran has some GORGEOUS N-Gauge containers on the C-Rail site.

Just waiting for @MOGUL to tell us if that one was full of SQ sausages and Tayto crisps...

So Mark Cuffe had his own run of Dapol commissions for Mark's Models, at one stage?

Larry Pucket has several useful instructional DCC videos.

Love the EZ Command. I hope that other controllers are so nice to use. The simplistic layout is great so far and the power dial feels excellent. Limited to ten functions but that's enough for me, for now.

Were these one of @leslie10646's "Provincial Wagons" commissions? How much???

A few lessons learned the other night as a DCC beginner, after frabtically emailing people for help! Thanks, guys! 1. A "blanking plate" is a really crap name. It's looks like a circuit board, and nothing like one would expect a blanking plate to look like. 2. The blanking plate is removed by lifting it vertically upwards. Several members advised me that it can be levered up gently using a screwdriver, but I had to grip the sturdiest part with a pliers to break the dynamic friction. 3. All ESU chips, whether blank, IRM or Murphy Models, are set to loco no. 03 by default. 4. Drive hold and locomotive brakes are awesome for throttling up without the loco moving off. 5. There is no consensus between manufacturers so they all asign different functions to different features. F0 being the directional white marker lights seems universal. 6. On speaking with both Hatton's and Gaugemaster, a typical DCC controller like the NCE PowerCab (2,0 amp) or Gaugemaster Prodigy Advance (3,5 amp) is apt for scales up to OO Gauge, and will run a small O Gauge loco on a small layout, but for larger O Gauge locos and / or larger layouts, DCC boosters are required, and they're like €200 a pop. According to Rails of sheffield, the NCE PowerCab can run 4 x OO Gauge trains or 8 x N Gauge trains. According to Hatton's, the same controller can run up to 12 trains simultaneously, "dependant on power draw" . So, no consensus there! With a Bachmann EZ Command (36-501), I, at least, need two hands to "drive" a loco, so filming and driving is difficult, at least for now. So no videos of this learner!