RMweb Premium GWRPhil Posted February 2, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 2, 2016 Thanks for another great weekend. It was really good. Thank you very much for the work you did on my mk1 and pca wagons so that they have working tail lights. I didn't get any photos this weekend unfortunately but I'll look through what my daughter and wife took and hopefully will find some good shots to upload. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted February 2, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 2, 2016 Thanks Phil you at most welcome. Last night I started fitting the tail light to a Dapol Megfret container wagon.to enable the wires to pass between the bogie and underside ofvtheceagon. Indexed of scribe a couple of grooves for the fine wires from the surface mount LED. This morning the whole assembly is in place in the bottom of a container and working. Hopefully tonight I will be able to take a photos of the installation. Maybe an autobalaster will be next vehicle to have a working tail light. I should also start working on fitting head and tail lights to all 11 Chiltern class 168s. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium GWRPhil Posted February 2, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 2, 2016 After watching you fitting my mk1 light this weekend I'm thinking of having a go with my Drs mk2 escort coach. Gotta wait for the next exhibition I go to that agl is at so I can get another kit. Do you have his contact details so I can find out where he's gonna be and I can arrange with him to get a kit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium GWRPhil Posted February 2, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 2, 2016 So here's some pictures of the weekend. All the pictures were taken by my 5 yr old daughter and are seen as she took them. first a fiddle yard shot with Gordon at the far end operating the layout. A close up shot of my daughters new Dutch livery 37 which I chipped (upside down at first, oops) Next a fiddle yard shot with displayed the question that for any modeller is the most longwinded to answer This shot was taken during the exhibition. Somehow,by accident, my daughter has managed to make it look like night A shot of the centre of the layout A close up of the dmus and the digger A shot of the doubleheader virgin voyager coming onto the layout the signal box end of the layout A shot of Ian and the Banbury HST diversion in the station Close up of the yard Shot of the busy eddies on the bridge Overview of the yard and station Andrew operating the layout And finally a close up of the post office vans in their car park. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted February 2, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 2, 2016 After watching you fitting my mk1 light this weekend I'm thinking of having a go with my Drs mk2 escort coach. Gotta wait for the next exhibition I go to that agl is at so I can get another kit. Do you have his contact details so I can find out where he's gonna be and I can arrange with him to get a kit. Pm sent. She has taken some good photos except for me being in the way, trying to duck but not quick enough Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robatron86 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 (edited) I will be popping down to Alton this weekend. I've always wanted to see it in the flesh. I have seen its fiddle yard already though.... Edited February 2, 2016 by Robatron86 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted February 2, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 2, 2016 Work continues on fitting working tail lights. The Dapol container flat is nearing completion. Just requires buffer beam detailing. The Dapol Mgafret required a little more work to hide the fine wires from the buffer beam to the container. A couple of grooves had to be filed along the underneath do that the tight fitting trucks do not catch them. The coupling box has been removed on both rear ends of the container wagons and the mega fret has had a strip of styrene added to thicken the buffer beam. The other wagon will have the same treatment. The Dapol container top just plugs onto the base and the four corner lugs hold it in place but if it does work loose then a small screw will be used to hold it in place with a piece of styrene added in the container as the fixing point. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted February 5, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2016 The container flats now have screw link couplings and brake pipes plus much cleaner wheels. I hav also been working through other container flats cleaning themuck of the wheels but still a few to go. I wonder how many miles hat they have run at shows since the layouts first show back in October 2011. Tonight the layout will be loaded ready for the hour long run to the Alton show tomorrow morning Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigP Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 (edited) -- Edited January 31, 2021 by bigP Deleted Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted February 5, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5, 2016 Paul See you Sunday Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted February 7, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2016 The layout ran well yesterday after having trouble to get one of the touch screen PC's to load JMRI properly. I think that PC now needs the Windows XP to be upgraded as its not really liking the newer Java updates. Eventually it became stable for most of the day so fingers crossed for today. The tail end flashing lights got quite a bit of attention form the show visitors. Mike even manged to have one working on the end of a bogie bolster on the MOD train. He cheated by running the wires through to a VGA just in front of it but its very effective. The Network Rail ballast wagons are next on my list to fit these tail lights to. Childrens Railway 66720 failed last weekend after running during the Erith show but when I put it on the test track yesterday it was working again. I have found this to be a quite common occurrence with the Dapol 66's. We nearly lost three ' Big Jims' when setting up the layout as they fell out of my tool box and in the wind the little bag nearly blew away. This morning i will try and fit them to a few more locos. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robatron86 Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 It was lovely to see this yesterday in the flesh. Glad you had a good day overall. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robatron86 Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Oh and I meant to say hello but you were always deep in conversation and I didn't wish to interrupt! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted February 7, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 7, 2016 (edited) Oh and I meant to say hello but you were always deep in conversation and I didn't wish to interrupt! Sorry about that. Its a good job that we had enough operators this weekend! Edited February 7, 2016 by roundhouse Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robatron86 Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 It's quite alright. As I said it was great just to watch it in action, although I fear I may be a bad influence on the layout as the 3 times I visited the layout, something went wrong! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium njee20 Posted February 7, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 7, 2016 Sure I've missed it in here, but what brand are the tail lights? Layout looks great, was going to try and get over to Alton yesterday, but didn't make it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted February 8, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 8, 2016 (edited) Sure I've missed it in here, but what brand are the tail lights? Layout looks great, was going to try and get over to Alton yesterday, but didn't make it! They are by a smaller supplier who is from Essex. I will dig out he details when back home. We are booed booked at the following shows his year: Rota rail in Fareham Burgess Hill Great Central Railway Barnstaple Swindon Steam Beckenham Tolworth Wakefield Robatron - we did have a class 168 playing up which worked fine previously so that requires looking at. Th HST set also gave us grief yet last week was fine. Maybe a coach was the wrong way round as they do have a long coupling one end and a short one the other. Other problems were mainly due to operator error and I had my fair shar of them aswell. Otherwise the layout ran fairly well. A few modifications to carry out before the next show. We did discuss moving he white boards form the end of the layout to th back of the curved section of the backscene and use magnetic numbers for each loco or unit rather than using marker pens to write gnu,beers on the boards. Always plenty of tasks to do. Edited February 8, 2016 by roundhouse 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium njee20 Posted February 8, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 8, 2016 Great, thanks. We are booed at the following shows his year Booing? Seems unlikely, it's a superb layout Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted February 8, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 8, 2016 Great, thanks. Booing? Seems unlikely, it's a superb layout Typical ipad - auto corrects words that were typed correctly and doesn't auto correct those that aren't!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Budgie Posted February 8, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 8, 2016 We are booked at the following shows his year: Beckenham Oh good. That is my local show, and I can go and see the layout again without making too much effort. I'm looking forward to it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted February 8, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 8, 2016 This evening I decided to have a go at Sir Nigel Gresley that I bought yesterday from the Kernow stand. We had it run once round Banbury but it did tend to stall a lot. So back on the test track behind the layout, it started to hum. The loco was quickly removed from the test track before it blew the decoder. So tonight it was on the rolling road working on DC where it worked fine. Back on the modelling table I unscrewed the 6 pin decoder socket to find one track feed wire partially hanging off. Must have been touching something else. Anyway, the wire soon broke off the circuit board as part of the circuit came away from the board. Socket stripped out and wires reconnected, its now running rather smoothly on the rolling road and test track. Tomorrow night it will get a small Digitrax decoder hard wired in. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloucester Road Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Phew, good that you were able to save the loco prior to going pop. And then fix it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium GWRPhil Posted February 20, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 20, 2016 (edited) A friend sent me some pictures today of a show he went to. Although the of sample not n gauge some of the photos were of a loco that in in gauge would be suited to Banbury. Hopefully the n gauge model is as good According to my friend the Drs sample is taking longer to produce as Dapol are using a 3D printing technique to apply the livery to the Drs model Edited February 20, 2016 by hawkingetippyd 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted February 20, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 20, 2016 Thanks Phil. Looks good but after recent issues with Dapol stuff I will wait till its out and reviewed. The dodgy wiring in Sir Nigel Gresley and the class 73 in OO has made me far more cautious of their products Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium GWRPhil Posted February 20, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 20, 2016 Let's hope they get it right on the 68. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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