Horsetan

Will 21mm be an option on your custom-made DARTs?

(Ten hours later) Think I've found a couple of other sources of the 12T and 20T spur gears; not too expensive. Original Heljan Hymek geartrain looks like this: ....whereas the room left for a centre axle on the Sulzer bogie looks like this: A bit close to the idlers.

If ye're near the South Dublin MRC, I wonder if they'd give a lend of Adavoyle Junction so that your DARTs can be test run on all facets of 21mm gauge.

What was the answer to your Longford shunting puzzle in the end, John?

The large Heljan cog (the initial stage driven by the worm) is 10.92mm overall diameter, and has 20 teeth. Bill Bedford reckons all Heljan gears are 0.5MOD.

Brilliant.

Looks so much more convincing on 21mm.

Nollaig Shona Duit.

Are we to assume that the loop is not long enough to hold both commuter and liner, and that the molasses must not be touched? 1. Draw commuter train forward towards Dromod, clear of points. 2. Set back train into loop. Uncouple. 3. Run forward towards Dromod, clear of points. 4. Set back into liner road and couple to liner. 5. Draw forward towards Dromod, clear of points. 6. Set liner back into main line. Uncouple. 7. Run forward towards Dromod, clear of points. 8. Set back into loop, couple to commuter. 9. Draw forward towards Dromod, clear of points. 10. Set commuter back into liner road vacated in 4/5 above. Uncouple. 11. Run forward towards Dromod, clear of points. 12. Set back and run through loop towards Edgeworthstown, clear of points. 13. Set back onto main. Couple to liner. 14. Draw liner forward towards Edgeworthstown, clear of points. 15. Set liner back into loop. End. I'm sure the whole thing could be done in fewer moves if there were enough space on the cem&fert line.....

The future of marketing and merchandising is assured.

Will there be Episodes 8, 9 and 10?

The upside down photos episode was funny, though.

'tis a start. But would you be completely happy knowing that something better exists....?

I sold my oul BMW to buy the Brassmasters Princess last year. It was worth the sacrifice. Michael/Judith Edge's Princess etches are still available at £45. Brassmasters say they will still sell the detail castings from their Princess kit separately, and may still produce spare etches if needed. No. But there's nothing stopping ye buying the Comet Ivatt detail/conversion kit (LDP08) and adapting it to work with the Brassmasters..... Sure there'll be people trying this.

God Almighty, the shunt manoeuvre possibilities are messing with me head!

I detect Des raising his game even as he wrote that.... 'tis not easy being SSM - he has to be Malcolm Mitchell+Martin Finney+Brassmasters+Masokits for all of Ireland. Having managed to acquire samples of much of Brassmasters' loco kit range over the years, their artwork is good enough to frame and go on show at the National Gallery. Des, there's still time to snap up the very last Brassmasters Princess kit if further inspiration is needed. They only produced 40 kits. Once they're gone, they're gone forever.

"When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, Sir?" (John Maynard Keynes)

Elsewhere, I think I've partly solved the problem of obtaining those Heljan plastic gears. Fingers crossed. The Heljan cog has 12 teeth, and has an overall diameter of about 6.95mm. Not sure what DP or MOD type it is, though.....

'tis a feckin' good disguise. Would that be the same size as the one Ted won for the "Three Elvises Act" in the Priests' Talent Show?

You're hired!

Pearls before swine....