A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.

[RapidoCorbs]

Evening, I've posted in the product thread about the mistake in the instructions 😬

 

Brake parts - warehouse staff have checked and we do have a very limited stock of spare bits including some extra brakes for the 4-plank. If you would like one to upgrade your single-sided braked wagon to double, please drop me a direct message on here.

[nigel newling]

Please Corbs, can you make me one of the happy recipients? :-) These two wagons will form part of my engineering train, as spoil wagons, and, in 1947, would definately have been either side braked.

Nigel

[Oldddudders]

12 hours ago, RapidoCorbs said:

Evening, I've posted in the product thread about the mistake in the instructions 😬

 

Brake parts - warehouse staff have checked and we do have a very limited stock of spare bits including some extra brakes for the 4-plank. If you would like one to upgrade your single-sided braked wagon to double, please drop me a direct message on here.

Now look here - this will not do at all. Here you are, representing a manufacturer while apparently bending over backwards to help customers and potential customers. No good will come of it!

 

PS I have about a dozen of your wagons and they are simply delicious. 

[The Fatadder]

Here’s hoping that Accurascale didn’t just buy the class 66 tooling and it will be followed by a re chassied 14xx….

[Neal Ball]

17 minutes ago, The Fatadder said:

Here’s hoping that Accurascale didn’t just buy the class 66 tooling and it will be followed by a re chassied 14xx….

 

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

 

🤣🤣

[longchap]

20 minutes ago, Neal Ball said:

 

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

 

🤣🤣

 Yes, but that does not mean you would not buy one. 

 

BTW, I also do NOT need a 48/58xx

 

 

Edited February 24, 2023 by longchap

[57xx]

19 hours ago, gwrrob said:

My two Rapido O21's arrived this morning.

 

 

 

 

Out of curiosity, what is the CO branding in the circle? At first I thought it was "condemned" but saw a pic in Atkins et al showing a newly painted wagon with it on, but the caption was of no help, only noting that the CO was there. I couldn't find a ref to it in the livery section (maybe just being word blind...).

[BenL]

13 minutes ago, 57xx said:

 

Out of curiosity, what is the CO branding in the circle? At first I thought it was "condemned" but saw a pic in Atkins et al showing a newly painted wagon with it on, but the caption was of no help, only noting that the CO was there. I couldn't find a ref to it in the livery section (maybe just being word blind...).

Construction 

[MrWolf]

42 minutes ago, Neal Ball said:

 

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

 

🤣🤣

 

In the words of Mrs Doyle:

 

Go on 

Go on

Go on 

Go on 

Go on 

Go on 

Go on 

Go on 

Go on

 

Go on!

[57xx]

15 minutes ago, BenL said:

Construction 

 

Ah, thanks Ben. That makes sense since the other wagon I saw it on was a P diag ballast wagon.

[MrWolf]

Back on topic. 

 

Is it possible to obtain PW train transfers including the CO and Tool Van branding?

 

I find myself amassing such a train.

[OnTheBranchline]

57 minutes ago, Neal Ball said:

 

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

I do not need a new 14xx

 

🤣🤣

With the markets doing poorly, model trains might be a better investment right now anyway.

[The Fatadder]

27 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

Back on topic. 

 

Is it possible to obtain PW train transfers including the CO and Tool Van branding?

 

I find myself amassing such a train.

I think Railtec have the CO on one of their sheets 

POW sides do some tool van transfers I think.

1 hour ago, longchap said:

 Yes, but that does not mean you would not buy one. 

 

BTW, I also do NOT need a 48/58xx

 

 

I don’t need one, but I would be highly likely to sell 1470 and buy a new one to replace it with if the chassis were to be replaced with something that actually works…

[57xx]

1 hour ago, The Fatadder said:

I don’t need one, but I would be highly likely to sell 1470 and buy a new one to replace it with if the chassis were to be replaced with something that actually works…

 

I'd be happy to send my Hattons one back to them so they could supply a chassis of merchantable quality.

[BMacdermott]

24 minutes ago, 57xx said:

I'd be happy to send my Hattons one back to them so they could supply a chassis of merchantable quality.

Hello 57xx

 

Have you tried using a controller without feedback?

 

I noted some way back that my 14xx jumps all over the place on feedback but is as smooth as many without.

 

Brian

[The Fatadder]

31 minutes ago, 57xx said:

 

I'd be happy to send my Hattons one back to them so they could supply a chassis of merchantable quality.

Agreed, under DCC I just cant get mine to work well enough.  Really need to get the decoder out of it and into my 64xx so at least I have a useable loco...

[gwrrob]

6 hours ago, nigel newling said:

Please Corbs, can you make me one of the happy recipients? :-) These two wagons will form part of my engineering train, as spoil wagons, and, in 1947, would definately have been either side braked.

Nigel

 

I plan to run mine with these Cambrian kit built permanent way wagons.

 

 

 

[gwrrob]

3 hours ago, longchap said:

 Yes, but that does not mean you would not buy one. 

 

BTW, I also do NOT need a 48/58xx

 

 

 

I would rather they resurrected the aborted King class project. 😇 Imagine an Accurascale King chaps....

[Captain Kernow]

1 hour ago, BMacdermott said:

Have you tried using a controller without feedback?

 

I noted some way back that my 14xx jumps all over the place on feedback but is as smooth as many without

If only that was everyone's experience!

 

[BMacdermott]

Hello Captain

 

What controller are you using?

 

Brian

[Captain Kernow]

1 minute ago, BMacdermott said:

Hello Captain

 

What controller are you using?

 

Brian

For non-feedback, I've tried at least three different bog-standard Gaugemaster units.

 

[BMacdermott]

Thanks Captain

 

I thought they had feedback (says Brian not really understanding electrics but only going on past experience🙂).

 

Brian

[BMacdermott]

Hello again Captain

 

Just checked - the handheld has feedback as far as I can tell from adverts etc.

 

Brian

[Captain Kernow]

14 minutes ago, BMacdermott said:

Hello again Captain

 

Just checked - the handheld has feedback as far as I can tell from adverts etc.

 

Brian

Hi Brian,

 

Gaugemaster do a non-feedback hand-held and also a feedback hand-held (I have both). They also have non-feedback on their mains cased control units, which I also have a couple. Their panel-mounted controllers also come in feedback and non-feedback form (all of my layout control panels have a panel-mounted non-feedback control unit fitted, so that I can switch from them (as non-feedback) to one of my favoured AMR hand-held controllers (which do feature gentle feedback). I've been using the AMR controllers for many, many years and they are very kind to the likes of Portescap motors and are excellent for non-coreless motors.

 

The horrible little coreless motors in the DJM 14XX, together with it's ridiculous 'diesel motor bogie' drive arrangements are the first to defeat all of my various control units.

 

[BMacdermott]

Hello Captain

 

Thanks.

 

I must have a lucky loco. All very strange.

 

Brian