Amiens Street Terminus

[BosKonay]

(The theory with the printed strip, is that is under the moving tie bar, so you ballast all the white bits safely)

[Broithe]

Ah, right - I see now..

[201bhoy]

Love the container flats! Layout's really coming together now!

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

His talents are unbelievable (hiddenagenda) I've yet to see better out there

 

 

 

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[Barl]

Your layout is coming along nicely and those container flats look fantastic

[BosKonay]

Awful photo, amazing flats!

 

Don't want to spoil them by plonking containers on top

[Guest hidden-agenda]

Looking first class Bos them base boards are a great job very very tidy looking and the wagons are 47 foot 6 inch by the way.

[josefstadt]

They are small card 'inserts' that come with the Cobalt Motors.

 

After you drill the hole for the motor armature to poke through, you are left with a big, 6mm hole - not good for ballasting! You slip the card insert under the point, and you get a neat little slot for the motor arm, and can then ballast safely without dropping ballast into the motor or under the board.

 

They'll need a good whack of an airbrush too - you'd think they could have printed them with ballast (or even printed them grey )

 

Thanks for the explanation Stephen.

[FrankS]

WOW ! BEEutiful looking wagons, Hidden Agenda, absolutely fantastic

[BosKonay]

Today was mainly about Point Motors

 

 

 

16 More to program and install tomorrow

[Garfield]

Huge difference between Cobalt motors and Tortoise... the Cobalt is far more compact.

[BosKonay]

I'm very impressed by them. I seem to have a few from a batch that are a bit dicky (they wont accept an address). But otherwise they are (relatively) tiny, very powerful, very quiet, and include frog polarity switching, and two additional switches as standard (for if I ever get around to adding signals!). Best of all, the motor incorporates a decoder, so its' literally two wires to the motor and you are done! I'd definitely recommend them.

[RedRich]

I've read the booklet from the manufacturer, it contains a lot of info. Definitely the way to go regarding the points and signals Stephen, good decision.

 

Rich,

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

Today was mainly about Point Motors

 

So what your saying is you spent the whole day lying on your back

[BosKonay]

So what your saying is you spent the whole day lying on your back

 

Yep, and now I've a sore back, strained eyes but two dozen fully programmed working points

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

Yep, and now I've a sore back, strained eyes but two dozen fully programmed working points

 

 

Me thinks its time for you to have a beer and sit back and enjoy

[BosKonay]

Cheers Anthony

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

Cheers Anthony

 

Stay of the vodka or God knows what way you'd wire up the rest of them. Next doors TV would be doing all sorts of funny things.

[wiggy]

Today was mainly about Point Motors

 

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16 More to program and install tomorrow

 

This is something I have yet to do on my layout.

I have drilled the holes under most of the points that I am going to fit under the baseboards (8mm I think)

How did you fix the motor to the baseboard, screw or sticky tape.??

How did you decide on the position of the motor to the point blades, did you set the motor in the middle of the travel and the point blade in the middle as well.??

How are you going to control the motor, with switches or DCC control with modules.???

Have you removed the spring out of the point blade.??

 

Looked at the manual but nothing like on hand experience.

 

I'm going to use the Tortoise motor as I have been told that the Cobalts don't last very long so not sure if anyone else has had a problem with them.

Thanks,

Wiggy.

[fitzguttentite]

Excellent work

keep the pics coming

[BosKonay]

The motors are Cobalt Digital from DCC concepts.

 

The motor itself it digital so it plugs directly into the bus and is programmable with an address.

It also has connectors for additional switching like signals as well as frog polarity.

 

In terms of positioning there is a template they supply that you place under the point and it lines up all the drill holes.

 

I'm using their double sided foam sticky pads to fix to the board. It's at least twice as quiet as screwing them in.

 

Using the template, you don't need to worry about centering. It works perfect first time

 

They are about half the physical size of the tortoise, don't need additional cabling or accessory decoders and have a lifetime guarantee.

[BosKonay]

And yes, as part of the adjustments to the points i remove the springs and cut the ends off the tie bars.

[wiggy]

And yes, as part of the adjustments to the points i remove the springs and cut the ends off the tie bars.

 

 

Thanks,

Wiggy.

[BosKonay]

Some magnets finally arrived for testing!

 

3mm cubes and 3mm diameter rods (4mm long) NeoDymium jobs for use as uncouplers....

 

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

They are really strong magnets Stephen tried some myself as un couplers but I didn't like the end result let us know how you get on

[BosKonay]

I've seen a few videos on youtube. and some US sites, will video how they work shortly and see if the kadees like em! (i'm not a fan of the ontrack kadee uncoupler, it's bloody huge!)

[BosKonay]

Ok, first up here are some photos of the magnets in situ

 

[BosKonay]

Here's the video of them working... (and a peek at Anthony's 'job' on 185 )

 

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[BosKonay]

Some more of Anthony's masterpiece

 

[BosKonay]

Poor 185

 

An some general catch up shots, showing the concrete area with a lick of paint... (not sure if I'm happy with it yet), the completed station throat, and some mainline being started.

 

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

Stephen can you post a link up to the magnets as the ones I used were bigger and maybe that was the problem

[BosKonay]

hey Anthony. I had previously got some 5mm cubes, which were way too big.

 

I got both rods and cubes in 3mm this time and, as you can see, they are a lovely neat fit between the rails, and the kadees seem to work well with them!

 

I have a larger amount coming on a VERY slow boat from china - but got a batch from this place

http://www.ebay.com/itm/140814055073?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

 

And I'd recommend them!

[BosKonay]

The only issue so far is that the NEM socked on the cravens is way too high, I'm thinking of gluing the kadee to the underside of it...

[Flying Scotsman 4472]

Just ordered a few packets there will let you know how I get on

[Garfield]

Ok, first up here are some photos of the magnets in situ

 

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You know what? You could probably chop out a piece of sleeper and replace it with the magnet... seems a perfect fit and would make it even less noticeable.