RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted April 3, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 3, 2016 This be a surface BUS in the Fiddle Yard area at the moment so needs discipline (to stop it writhing about like an unruly Viper) & not really support to place it around the baseboard in a convenient loop. I shall use 'blocks' for BUS joiners, inserting various things that prevent DCC Diseases and possibly doing some awkward to reach dropper joins. However as this is surface mounted I can solder most droppers quite easily. I shall be planning my Station area BUS system in a much more organised way but it will still (hopefully) not involve underboard soldering. Philth. Fair enough. How about some rectangular section plastic trunking, the sort with the clip-on lid? You can cut holes in the sides where you need the wires to poke through. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted April 3, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 3, 2016 You could half-hammer in some track pins / nails into sweeping curves, carefully aligned and calculated, then solder the bus wire to them. Where the tracks go over the loft hatch opening, will the bus be on a bridge ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 3, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 3, 2016 You could half-hammer in some track pins / nails into sweeping curves, carefully aligned and calculated, then solder the bus wire to them. Where the tracks go over the loft hatch opening, will the bus be on a bridge ? :no: :no: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Phil, If you do run the bus over a bridge, can you take a pecan share it please? There are some buses that just look extra good with a bridge beneath them - not one of those modern forward control ones mind you.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted April 3, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 3, 2016 can you take a pecan share it please? That just sounds nuts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted April 3, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 3, 2016 I need performance enhancing drugs.................I'm not sporty but I don't care. Ar$e Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted April 3, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 3, 2016 By the way, I accidentally started a bit of bother over on the DCC Questions section. Philth. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted April 3, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 3, 2016 Things getting a bit twisted ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted April 3, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 3, 2016 By the way, I accidentally started a bit of bother over on the DCC Questions section. Philth. I didn't dare look That's dangerous territory in there. It ought to have a wonky sign with "Abandon hope all ye who enter within!" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted April 3, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 3, 2016 Personally I prefer Modern Jive, would like to be able to do Lindy Hop but I can't even stand up these days, but I used to prefer the Locomotion to the Twist. Nevertheless I have learnt that I need to do some comical things with wire......................... Philth. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted April 3, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 3, 2016 By the way, I accidentally started a bit of bother over on the DCC Questions section. Philth. That's tame compared with a lot of DCC "debates" (or track debates...). I'm with the twisters. It's good practice, and as with most good practice it's only when you need it and haven't got it do you wish you had it. I endorse the suggestion regarding those wire strippers too. They make cutting the insulation for the droppers a piece of cake. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted April 3, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 3, 2016 (edited) I have ordered the Strippers (£5.00 and free PP ........................... ) and that pic is exactly what I need to see as it is what i shall be doing but on the surface for this particular bit of work. Thanks. Philth. Edited April 3, 2016 by Mallard60022 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymw Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 If you want to bunch your cables together, to neaten up the inevitable spaghetti, then this cable wrap is low cost, reusable and easy to apply. http://www.rapidonline.com/cables-connectors/10m-spiral-cable-wrap-04-0400 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cromptonnut Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 One thing I saw somewhere on here the other day for keeping cables neat is comb binding sections (http://www.diybookbinding.com/plastic-comb-binding-for-self-publishers/) available in places like Staples. You can just push the cables in and pull them out when you need to modify. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 I have ordered the Strippers (£5.00 and free PP ........................... ) and that pic is exactly what I need to see as it is what i shall be doing but on the surface for this particular bit of work. Thanks. Philth. "strippers' caught mu attention! Wiring though is a sore subject for me. I hate it, although the layout has been up for around fifteen years or so now and everything is still connected, which is just as well 'cause the possibility of crawling around underneath nowadays is really unappealing. The older you get, the lower the layout gets or so it seems! Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted April 4, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 4, 2016 Who needs strippers when this Forum provides such good entertainment? A very kind contributor to this (and a load of other sensible, no nonsense threads) has enabled me to have a tender behind. Here it is and thus my tenderless Grange has been 'Resolvened'. Apologies for poor focus but it is the tender that is the subject here. 6869 is pretending to coast L.E. down the up @ Honiton Bank. Philth. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Oh ! I do like a nice tender behind ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 I currently have a truly tender behind - after three years of visiting all manner of people whose title's include '...path' I've now been told it looks like an intramuscular cyst after I finally had an ultrasound- apparently the medics now need a CT scan to make sure before approaching the nethers with, in the words of the radiologist, "either a very long needle, or a very sharp scalpel." Who said growing older brings benefits? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted April 4, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 4, 2016 . I'm with the twisters. It's good practice, and as with most good practice it's only when you need it and haven't got it do you wish you had it. Do you twisters twist the track too.........just asking Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted April 4, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 4, 2016 Do you twisters twist the track too.........just asking Only last summer. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted April 4, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 4, 2016 Do you twisters twist the track too.........just asking Only a little bit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted April 4, 2016 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 4, 2016 Do you twisters twist the track too.........just asking again and again and around and around Wiggo etc. Slightly overweight analyst. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sp1 Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 again and again and around and around Wiggo etc. Slightly overweight analyst. I still think Chuck Berrys version of 'Around and Around' is the best..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 (edited) Who needs strippers Me! it's been ages since we had a good scandal at work. None since one of the heads of Department attended an event with not one but two Ladies of Independent Means. Two! That's class.... At his Disciplinary Hearing, in front of the bewigged and begowned Council, he was asked why he had brought two 'tarts' to a prestigious event. He replied, 'it seemed churlish to only ask one of them and leave her friend behind. And I couldn't decide which one I liked best.' He always had a drop of the good stuff on hand in his filing cabinet, in case tutorials got a little tedious. Edited April 4, 2016 by Dr Gerbil-Fritters 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 My goodness this thread does plumb the depths of imagination - who said railway modellers don't get out enough? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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