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Hey George Is that hole in the top for the candle? and I see you baked them on a oven tray with loads of icing! Borithe would be proud of you.... Eoin

Hi I support the H&S idea, it goes without question that there should be a system to protect workpeople carrying out a process that potentially could kill or maim for life, not to mention all the other associated ramifications. One of the main problems is human interpretations- a H&S plan is only as good as the understanding the person who writes has of the processes involved in the work and how H&S officers on the ground implement it.... Borithe's example is clear evidence of this. My experiences of H&S is in the building industry and I have seen and experienced good management of it and mad abuse of it. One example is we were constructing a high-bay storage facility in North Dublin, a roof height of 11.5 meters which required a serious section to be written in our H&S plan at design stage for the roof workpeople working at this level. A fall from this height onto a concrete floor is instant death. When it came time to erect the roof beams I visited the site and as I approached from a good 1/2 mile from the site I could see a workperson walking across a roof beam of 300mm with no life line attached, I thought to myself 'a there must be a catch net under, but still there is no excuse'. When I entered the site to my horror there was no catch net and everyone up on the roof had life lines on but not attached to anything! I asked the foreman acting as H&S officer for the works to refer to his H&S plan for construction stage to see that the roofers were complying with it and was told 'a sure that's the way they work, if we ask for lifelines to be attached they will walk off site'!! One other, though not as serious- We were working for an outside contractor on a site, every time we visited the site we were sent to induction (architects are exempt from this) 1&1/2 hours of how to ware our shoes, site cloths, hard hats, and using drills, ladders...... it's endless, well 1&1/2 hours of it. We found out later that the H&S office for the main contractor was under orders to make as much difficulty he could for our design team to access onto the site! The problem with H&S system is humans Eoin

Hi Put this up full screen and turn up the sounds Eoin

Hi All Here is a few shots of another 7mm model being built by an MRSI chap, from a scratch built kit set-up by that master in the same club. Fresh from the blast cabinet and almost ready to go off to the painting man.... Lovely stuff- I want one! Eoin

Hi Yes dave182, I was a slight worried about that one also- but alas, tonight I set-up a Faller Test Road with 150mm, 180mm and 200mm radius bends. The roadway was made from 1mm card 60mm wide, with a 3mm magnetic guide set in. A few stalls at first but out with the spanners and after about an hour or two- it's up and running with loads of power! Slight stalling or tramping on the 150mm & 180mm curves but still makes it around and the 40' trailer needs twice the road - swinging it's ass. The 200mm radius curve looks like the minimum, it swings around it with a slight hint of tramping but looks smooth and needs less additional road The video was taken after a good 1.5 hours running and when I quit there was still power left. Very pleased with the results and thoroughly enjoyed doing it.... Next one has got to have lights.... Eoin

Hi Thanks for watching and thanks for the great comments I got the truck complete to testing stage over the weekend, everything went smoothly except for an annoying 1mm screw breakage and a frustrating time getting it out! This is the trailer axle ball bearings going in, drilled out a 3mm recess to flush fit them. The plan is to set the rear axles of both trailers slightly lower than the others so that the load is on these axles only. The shot above is the front trailer sub-chassis. This is the rear trailer sub chassis getting the same treatment. All new axles and Faller wheels installed, the axles are 30mm long with a 3mm wide styrene sleeve behind all wheels to keep on centre. The non load carrying axle slots were opened up to a very loose fit so the wheels should run on the road with no weight. Just about to bolt it all together in this shot. A close up of the works, the little elec board is tucked into the petrol tank with the charging socket and the ON/OFF switch on-board. On the other side is the reed switch for the breaks- the reed has two outlet terminals when the breaks are on the second terminal is made live- Break Lights! Gears and bushes on the drive system were given some Loctite. That little hole in the steering beam is where the 1mm screw locked up and the head sheared off, this the mounting point for the Faller steering arm. This is the LiPo battery charging circuit with the leads installed, the 3 pin plug has double grounds on the outer pins so one cant plug it in the wrong way round. Charge it up ready for testing. I gave it a quick run on the kitchen floor and it works, it pulls itself and the trailer no problem! it does do bends but will need a bit of playing with, which is best done on a Faller Road. Now the other fun bit- road testing..... I will post the results soon... Eoin

Hi You just reminded me! I did this some time back and forgot all about it;- The first photo is put together with scaling the photos as the curve of the lens with angle of shot distorts things at the edges. The second photo is done without scaling. Eoin

My God BTB I just felt the aftershock all the way out here at the Sugar Loaf, I think the main blast emanated from the Northside- Malahide area me thinks! There will be no shandy for you..... Eoin

Hi all It was a very well attended show last week, looking forward to the next one;- See you then

Hi Paul We missed you in Bray today... Use your iPad to login to the site and when using the 'Replying to Thread' interface, you will notice icons along the top bar, the third last one on the right is the icon for posting an image into your reply, click on it and 'Insert Image' dialogue comes up on screen, click on the top tab 'from computer', then in the next dialogue click on 'Select Files' a browser comes up for your iPad, go to the directory where the file is stored and select it, when the file or files are selected you click on 'Open', in the next dialogue you see the file name to be uploaded in a list, if happy with this you then click on 'Upload File' and its done. Note- what you see when inserted is text only but this is OK, you only see the image when you post the reply 'Helpdesk' Eoin

Hi IR Taxi would be the easiest leaving you right at the door, the 145 from Bray town comes up by Boghall Road, I think the 45 may do so as well, best check that one!- get off at the church just at Boghall Road junction and head up BH RD to the first turn on the right and then straight up to the end.... Wrennie will be there with all his stock Sean Ryan with OO and N stock Phil with his American HO stock Don't forget 2.00 is packing up time Eoin

Hi MikeO I reckon your on the right track with the sketch, sure you have to work to the donor unit proportions rather than the actual train, round corners on the windows and a splash of brown mucky stuff on the under-frame;- Its a 2700 Eoin

Hi Tony In replying to a thread use the ' Go Advanced' option and in there use 'Manage Attachments' click on it and then you can attach a pdf file using the browser that pops up Eoin

Hi I got a bit more done on the Daf conversion;- Motor mount made from .23mm brass sheet Mounting fits nicely into the chassis, attached with screws Now to fit the LiPo battery into the cab behind the seats Back-end of the glazing and plastic behind the seats is removed, and two lugs in the die-cast ground away and the battery fits snugly Battery in and leads extended, electrics board has started but I broke the reed switch so cannot complete it until I get a new one The board sits into the petrol tank The motor doesn't look to bad, and with the trailer on it will almost disappear- some paint will help! Eoin

Hi David Excellent stuff, OO or O gauge the technique is the same. I plan to do the same thing on the Greystones Station Building..... What glue do you use on the VIVAK plastic? I use this material but have not found a solvent glue for it, the manufacture recommends a solvent but does not name a product, nor answers emails regarding. Love the building structures to, givenme loads of ideas Eoin

Hi Those were the days when you could drive a motorbike anywhere That point under the old tunnel in the photo above was one of my favourite fishing grounds many years ago, we would camp in the tunnel and hang out fishing for a few days, some amazing Bass fishing there if you got the time right.... also its my favourite walk with great scenes all around including trains One of the members on the forum may be doing a diorama of this area in the near future! Eoin

Hi controller If you are using DCC, one should run the lights from the decoder so that you have on/off control of the lights! This would involve wired couplers- two wires, to run down the train to power the lights, then no pick-ups are required on the coaches. DCC Supplies & Gaugemaster are 2 suppliers of electrical couplers. The resistor for the LEDs all depends on what type of LEDs your using- single?, strip of LEDs?, or other.... Capacitor & rectifier- I don't know much about in these circumstances;- I know the cap has to be huge if you want to smooth out electrical pick-up! I would recommend sticking with the DCC system, to me it's simpler and you have control Eoin

Hi I'm converting an Oxford Daf 105 Skeletal Trailer Freightliner to the Faller System and here's my take on it, with help from friends and the internet. After getting the Faller Truck conversion kit and sizing things up it was decided to make some replacement parts for the front axle as the Faller system is for HO- 6mm scale difference in width! Also the Oxford Daf weighs far more than the plastic HO Faller trucks and the plastic axle beam would take on a droop over time. In the photos part of the Faller beam is shown in front of the new fabricated axle beam to give an idea of the scale difference. There is a 2.5mm diameter difference between Faller and Oxford wheels so it was decided to use Faller throughout. Also, install the load carrying axles in roller bearings to reduce friction and help with the weight (not in the kit) including the trailer, the drive axle is mounted in copper bush bearings supplied with the conversion kit. The side photo shows the scale of the wheels, and without the Oxford wheels in the view- sure it's grand! Lumps of metal were removed from the chassis, cut-outs were made for the steering through the sides, the reed switch (the brakes), and the horizontally mounted 3V motor and drive gear. A brass plate was made to support the front axle and to hold the front of the chassis in place;- the Oxford chassis has free air where the axle beam needs to mount! ... So far so good;- Motor goes in next -that needs to be worked out!, and some mods need to be done to the cab for the battery, then a bit of wiring and.......... Eoin

Wow Thanks all for the great comments, it's great to share these experiences and get feedback, thanks I took a better video of the 6'er DART the next day, I'll post it up when I get a chance to edit it. It's at times like this I wish I had a fully landscaped up layout to run trains on for taking video.... Eoin

Hi I got to set up a 6 coach DART this evening for a little drive, I took some video, but as it was late in the day the light was not great- so here is a short video of a 6 coach Sunday Evening DART heading back to Dublin by way of the test track! I think I'll redo this when there is better light Eoin