Looks excellent David. I am assuming at this stage your going the route of masts but no wires. Have you tried something like sommerfeldt and rejected it, or just decided this is the way for you?

I am really torn in that I love to see the panto in an up position when running, but haven't decided whether to run them up and locked somehow with no wires, or go the overscale wires and let them run properly.

Regards

Graham

Hi Graham, I tried the Sommerfeldt system on my first layout, but decided that going forward I will simply leave the wires out. In N, the wires would be something like 0.1 mm thick, so anything like chicken wire etc would just be too chunky.

I am tempted to superglue the pantographs up in position in future. Interestingly, Dapol's 86 is supposed to have a 'half' setting that lets it run up while still clearing their forthcoming catenary masts.

David

Thanks David.

I thought about the superglue idea but like you I have a CJM 92 and no way is superglue going near that

I think I will get some of each and look at it in situ. See which is worse in my mind. I used Catenary before on a layout and wasn't to upset with it. Perhaps theres an aftermarket for someone to etch some wires from really thin NS or similar. Biggest problem then would be getting the equivalent of paper cuts when installing it.

regards

graham

Hi David

Its a struggle to see scale OLE in 4mm scale! In 2mm scale you are better to leave it off IMHO. OLE is one of those things. its good to have it (and in 4mm theres no excuse not to) but if its thick enough that you can easily notice it its worse than not having it.

Cheers

Jim