Giles

it's a 5v motor - and yes - comes complete with the gearbox (120rpm)

Following the success of the Mechanical Horse, I remotored the RC Bagnall with the same tiny gearmotor. It performs beautifully, even with the heavy white-metal body. The motor is 6mm x 8mm x 15mm with planetary gearbox added. Slow speed shunting is what I need, and this gives me about 8mph scale 2019-02-09_10-53-59 by giles favell, on Flickr 2019-02-08_07-14-46 by giles favell, on Flickr

in many ways DCC is a rather more complicated way of doing the job - very much harder to control - added to which you wouldn't easily have proportional/variable speed control on all the motors, as one does with R/C. But yes, in principle it can be done with DCC (one would need to look into a set up to give you four bi-directional motor outputs). It has been done, certainly. A track with a pure 3.7v supply would also work fine (apart from dirty track and wheels!).

could certainly be done..... in 7mm easy peasy. In 4mm one would have to look carefully at where to put a battery, because of the lack of width.... (could mean a small battery with reduced operational time)

Oh yes.... but I was bored by then!!!

We're looking forward to a busy weekend....

Another one for the fun of it.....

in memory of the 'Golden Arrow' Express.....

...... Genius.... I remain in awe.....

Benefits of size...... My loco 'Alice' at the Great Dorset years ago. Sye seats two side-by-side, which is perfect for driver training, or socialising on the move! SDLR at The Great Dorset Steam Fair79 by giles favell, on Flickr

Agreed - most locos are 'over-scale' in order to benfit from the size. The 10 1/4" Society has defined wheel profile standards, and I believe, wheel gauges available. Here is my old web-site re-located. http://gilesfavell.com/giles railway site.htm This gives a variety of information on the subjct.

Ah..... you can find the Berkeley's on an Ebay (international) search. Theyre not cheap, but they are very nice. I got one as I had three - although only one ever got on the road.... I ran it for a while both in the Valleys and in London when I was a student. Great fun.....

I built up a Wrightlines Bagnall (in 0-14) with a completely scratch-built chassis a year ago, and fitted it for radio control using a Deltang Rx41. It was powered by an N20 gear motor (with high out-put speed - I think it was a 1:5 ratio gearbox) and a final drive through a 1:20 worm and gear. To my surprise, unlike every other N20 combinationI've used, it lacked power, which showed in the slow speed running (which wasn't really up to expecations.) I put this partially down to the worm and gear, which are a little crude. I would have used a bevel gear set, butI couldn't fit them between the frames. However, I found some 0.3 Mod bevel gears (at £4 each!) which with some optimistic engineering could be made to work (their O.D. was 5.1mm and the axle O.D. was 1/8".....) I adapted the gears using silver solder and my lathe, and finally fixed them using Loctite 601. The new gearmotor is much smaller and is the same that is fitted to the Mechanical Horse The motor is 6 x 8 x 16 and is 5v. The gearbox (8mm dia) has an output speed of 120rpm at 5v. The result is as much usable power, but much smoother and better slow speed. I'm very pleased with this combination, and will certainly use it again! 2019-02-08_07-14-46 by giles favell, on Flickr

Perhaps you deserve a day off then?

I'm sure you'll find a home for it! It's a good laser....

Our mate Martin (of 'The Yard' notoriety...) habitually operates the standard gauge section of Denton Brook, which can get quite busy...... After Warley, he requested the addition of a rack to hold his tea and biscuits, and also a holder for the controller....... Not wanting to spoil him, he can do without tea and biscuits, but I thought he could do with a controller holder.... I've done three different itterations - all on the same principle, but the first two with back-plates that would take two star knobs to fix them to the base--board. The problem I then found was that the only place I would then be able to fit the controller would be on the face of the scenic section, which I really didn't want to do as a matter of principle. The third version therefore sits within the mounting angle for the point control panel, and uses the same star knob for fixing. Much neater! Printed in PLA, it's lovely and strong, and doesn't wobble when you press buttons. It also whips straight out of the holder should one require...... 2019-01-21_02-19-13 by giles favell, on Flickr (The panel normally fits on the fiddle for exhibition, but I've got no room for that at home, so I put it on the end - which also stops stuff falling off! 2019-01-21_02-18-48 by giles favell, on Flickr 2019-01-21_03-05-29 by giles favell, on Flickr

Thats extremely kind! I made an embossing tool, which I also sell as an unmade etch now, which embosses about 8 and a half in a row, and you just move it along ond do more...... These are in Modelling clay, though its fine in Daz, and also workd nicely in foam board and similar. they were then painted, and then ash and a little sieved soil brushed into the cracks, and fixed with dilute PVA This is 7mm of course. Embossed cobbles in Celotex foam as a test IMG_3196 by giles favell, on Flickr Embossing tool. Different side will fit between rails. IMG_1295 by giles favell, on Flickr This is some of the tramway track, still with a bit of finishing to do IMG_3301 by giles favell, on Flickr

When it comes to the large rise in house prices, people tend to forget that for many, many years it was controlled by the limitation of the mortgage providers, whereupon the maximum you could borrow was 2 1/2 times one persons annual salary. This effectively capped property prices at a reasonable level. Some wise-guy then decided to increase the allowable amount that could be borrowed to 4 x both partners annual salary, and hey-presto - up went all the prices because of demand, and up went all the interest payable to the mortgage companies...... I may have misremembered the exact rates - but that was certainly the gist of it. We all still had to buy a house, but had to borrow a great deal more money to do it, and pay the mortagage companies for the privilege. Then came (unaffordable) negative equity. Nothing to do with the Baby Boomers per-se, rather the financial institutions who worked out they could shake the money tree.

Hi Domenic, Thanks for posting! Very interesting....... Itoo have managed to engrave glass, but simply by putting a sheet of white paper underneath. I should think your way is more effective though. Keep the information coming! Best Giles

Mechanical Horse on Denton Brook 13 by giles favell, on Flickr Fully radio controlled, and now completed.

Very nice job! in 3 1/2" she'll still take you round well! AS built, Penrhyn style. Lovely.

Its an old SuperScale kit I picked up on Ebay some time ago. It had real rubber tyres!

Here's the photo I was talking about - for genuine research. 2019-01-09_06-37-16 by , on Flickr

A video of the two latest in action on Denton Brook