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Hi Tony Ah sure you've been busy! Great layout, keep the photos coming, layout posting on the forum is a bit low at the moment and we need our fix... Eoin

Hi Noel The cloth is just wrapped around in the opp direction of travel, if one wants to drive in both directions an elastic band is popped on the middle of the wheel, and yes there is a bit of friction as the wheel knurl hits the track and hits the bit of chassis thats pushing it- hence the name 'friction wheel'..... Eoin

Hi Dave I got it from Mr Ryan- here is a link to Centreline Products;- https://www.centerline-products.com/ plus do a Google search for 'Centreline track cleaner images' and you'll find a whole lot more Eoin

As the DART test track was up and running, 177 was sent out in the twilight to test the Centreline Track Cleaner, a small squirt of SR24 on the cloth and away it went. The cloth got pretty dirty within 2 laps, I left it running for about 10 laps and then changed to a dry cloth I finished off with half as much cloth wrapped around the friction wheel and ran it for 10 laps and then ran a cloth over the track with the finger- some black residue showed up All in all it did a better job than my Dapol cleaner and in less time. I ran the train again this morning with a dry cloth (and a dry track) and it cleaned up beautifully, the finger-cloth test still showed up black mark but NS rails will do this anyway, the track is sparkling.... So I rate this cleaner better than the Dapol system, I also like that the Centerline unit is simple to use and can be disguised as a wagon and run in a train without being obvious Eoin

Hi All We had a great Fair yesterday, I hope all had a good mothers day!! One of the regulars brought in two Gauge O projects been worked on;- Wantage Tram Weast Clare Drewery Both are Worsley Works sides etches and scratch built chassis- lovely little machines Eoin

Hi Peter That just needs to be gauged properly, 7.4mm is the approx dim that works. Otherwise Sean Ryan will fix or replace at the next Bray Fair on Apr 09, or you can contact him if you want to do it before then- I'll pm you with his contact number... Eoin

Hi Noel That's a fantastic job, very expertly done Eoin

Hi all Another layer down, this time gorse bushes- chopped up sponge, poster paint and a bit of yellow flock. The work crew were out chopping up a fallen tree for firewood..... and of course the coffee, cake n trains Eoin & CM

Excellent David That is superb Eoin

Hi Peter My N layout has r1 & r2 curves and all locos n stock go around OK, if using standard N couplers there is oodles of space to get around... Don't know what chassis your going to use for Irish diesels but the BR Class 20 is good for 121s, Class C, & 141, BR Class 66 is good for 201s, and BR Class 30 is good for Class A. All these chassis are a bit long but hard to reduce in size, they all go around my layout OK.... Hope that helps Eoin

Hi Tony It's looking great Print out your sign from a computer, a program like word allows you to draw and set up the panel for the sign and print in whatever colour you like. Before cutting out the sign from the sheet cover it with Tranpaseal, you know the transparent sticky plastic sheet for covering your school books! This will protect the printed ink... Eoin

Hi David Its looking great, sometimes I reckon the chaps that design these kits never build them! By your cataloguing of this build provides info for those that are yet to have a go.. I defiantly will, its a great looking machine and have added it to my project list Eoin

Hi John Looking good, nice little bits Eoin

Hi Nelson Good one! Yes I had, but it is a bit more of an involved turning exercise, I thought I do the wheel as supplied first and test it, if I experience shorting problems then turn version 2.... The supplied cloth with the unit wraps 4 times around the friction wheel and as long as the cloth is renewed regularly version 2 may not be required. The cloth is cut strips of J-Cloths and I saw in Lidl today they come in multi colour packs!! Eoin

Hi All The next Fair is coming up on Sunday week March 26th....

Hi I tuned a lump of brass last night, I worked out the diameter to be 19.5mm by scanning the drawing from the instructions, getting it to scale and tracing it in Autocad to create a drawing. I also worked out that there is a slight chamfer required on the ends as there was marks on the chassis showing that only a centre-point was touching the sides... When pushing the unit along that little bit of track I can feel the knurl hitting the track (the instructions warns against doing this without the cloth) I reckon this is going to work quite well, I will report back when a test is done... Eoin

Hi CM Thanks, hey post up some photos I'm dying to see how the gorse dried out? Eoin

He did but unfortunately I was out for those six days, sure look at what we got.... Eoin

China Trees to Irish These shiny green China trees need a bit of attention for the layout So a bit of spraying was done and this is what I used Green & and a little brown mixed and sprayed overall, black added to the pot and sprayed here n there from underside to give a bit of shadow, and then yellow to give a highlight sprayed random from above... Eoin

Hi This was given to me yesterday, a Centerline Products Track Cleaner D36, unfortunately it's missing the friction cleaning wheel..... but a lump of brass will be turned to produce this and all will be OK again I've seen pictures of these before and now I get to fix one and try one... Eoin

Hi The Ferris shot is a bit dark and hard really to tell, Ciaran's shot on his site, is in good light and it doesn't look like black;- http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Irish%20Locomotives/121%20Class/IrishLocomotives.html#126_196106086_0001_CC_JA.jpg and there is this stuff also;- http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/4218-Why-flying-snail?p=63616&viewfull=1#post63616 Eoin

Hi This discussion on the 121 livery took place some time back in another thread but I cant find it. In researching the livery for a 121 kit I'm working on(from time to time!) I came to the conclusion that its a gold line! added to the front and rear logo/numbering and not on the side, this lead me to believe it was done for visual reasons, you can see the grey and yellow have poor contrast with each other in the above photo- especially at a distance. If you check out the 121 colour photos in the Huntress book and the Boocock book you'll see its back n front only, especially the Huntress photo of the cab end in the sunshine its not black or white, its kind of brown! Eoin