Just upgraded my West Coast Class 33 as support for my West Coast Class 5. I had fitted a Hornby decoder but have now fitted a Loksound. Took a few trial and error circles of my loop to program the right speed, acceleration, deceleration but managed it.
I have been looking for Hornby Pullman oval spring buffers. A lot of the coaches offered on Ebay seem to have missing buffers. Research indicates that it is extremely difficult to find the correct spares and Hornby are currently only able offer one type of spring buffer. I am hopeful that my purchase of buffers from an Ebay supplier will fit or at least be adaptable.
Well as experienced modelers will know chipboard is not a recommended base for track but I used it because it is inexpensive. OK because I found that although Hornby track pins will not indeed grip at all well on chipboard the very fine Peco pins do - just needed to drill some sleepers for the thinner pins and take a bit more care in fixing - job done. Also Hobbycraft sell foam and felt sheets in A4 size, much less expensive than Hornby track base product - very useful for miscellaneous base
Well I recently managed to overheat a track joint with the high current from my Live Steam controller. Result was a melted sleeper at the joint, which increased the joint resistance thus killing the system - tripping out. Replaced affected track - sorted. Currently testing a modified remote control analogue sound van for added features; working well though a bit of a challenge to get the 'chuff' to match the loco speed; the Live Steam voltage being relatively constant but subject to interruption
A few years ago I purchased Hornby Live Steam. I learned through practice how to control the powerful locomotives! I do not have the space for a permanent layout in my flat so I created an oval track using four portable baseboards which I could link together. Then being bitten by the model railway bug I thought why not add a DCC oval? So I now had a double track oval, the outer 4th radius for Live Steam and the inner 3rd radius for DCC. This got a bit boring so I decided to link the tr
