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I’ve been led to believe it may involve a milling machine. I’ll be investigating as soon as I’ve got one

Phil, can i be the first pedant to point out that the loco with the head board is not the right sort to match to their announcement :-) Looks to be Sybil Mary which is a Penrhyn Large Quarry Hunslet not an Alice class.

Apparently, the bootie is cancelled for Saturday. Reason given being poor ground conditions. If it’s a swamp then it probably doesn’t help with the parking.

It is and I tried the decoder on the previous version and then in looking for an answer to my issue upgraded it to the latest.

Is anyone aware of an issue with ZIMO MS series decoders, specifically with the cv 153 limiting the run on on loss of DCC signal when equipped with stay alive capacitors. I have used this feature with MX decoders without problem but now have a loco with an MS450 in it and despite setting cv153 to 15 which should stop the loco after 1.5 seconds it has no effect. the decoder is a new MS450. It has the latest firmware installed. I am running it on a rolling road, powered by an NCE PowerCab and linked by USB to DecoderPro on my laptop. I have no problem reading or writing to the Decoder either by handset or DecoderPro it just doesn’t seem to have any effect with this feature.

Over the years I bought several of the twenty quid headband magnifiers in a quest for seeing what I am doing but never really got on with them. Then my shortsighted eyesight got to the point of two pairs of glasses, one for near and one for far. This properly did my head in with all the constant swapping. This renewed my quest for something better and it turned out you get what you pay for (Quelle Suprise) Proper Genuine Optivisor - well made, lightweight but strong and comes with glass not plastic lenses. Eyesight has moved on to varifocals but still with my Optivisor when doing fiddly stuff.

Not that anyone’s counting……..

BACKWOODS MINIATURES INSTRUCTIONS – CONTRIBUTIONS WANTED. A recent request for instructions on a Facebook forum has started a bit of a side project, an archive of scanned Backwoods Miniatures instructions in all scales. I was able to help the original enquirer anbd found the easiest way to do get it to him was to add it to my blog. I have added to it the ones I have, or have found so far, and a few others have contributed. If you have a Backwoods kit we’ve not added yet please consider scanning the instructions and sending them to me so they can be added. If you have instructions but no scanner get in touch and we can try to work something out. Please check your kit stashes. What we have so far can be seen here Backwoods Miniatures Instruction Archive

Mol, no milling required. Rewire the loco, decoder goes where current pcb is, speaker on a laser cut spacer and keep alive go in the chassis. Nothing is attached to or requires mods to the body.

If you want sound Mol give us a shout. I did the sound installs for Ixion and have Paul Chetter originated sound projects recorded from a close relative of the model.

That needs clarifying a bit. We* lock outward opening doors only. This was a requirement predating all this ROGS stuff and is because of the very limited clearances on the original parts of the line. It was adjudged that an open door or an opening door on a moving train could hit the wall/rock/Wales an tip a carriage over. With much of the line on a ledge with rock one side and drop the other this was deemed undesirable. This is pretty much limited to the historical and older modern stock. The new carriages on the FR & WHR have inward opening doors which aren’t locked. This seems to confuse many. * by we I mean the railway I drive on.

Certainly at some point it was between 15” & 12 1/4” as that was the justification for the narrower gauge. I expect that ‘loophole’ has been closed now.

If you read the news article on the Accurascale website it explains that in delaying whilst they tried to sort the sound from the 89 it’s missed it’s production slot at the factory.

In the days when the Alan Gibson company was run by Alan Gibson Alan himself told me that superglue was a no no as it reacted with the plastic in a way that loosened the press fit and that nothing more than the press fit is needed.

Do try them on branchlines100@btinternet.com. I had trouble contacting them in the summer on the sales@ address and was getting mailbox full messages. IIRC I wrote to them, got a phone call reply in which they explained there was a problem with sales e-mail which needed sorting by the hosting company and was given the btinternet address since when I have had responses at worst next working day.