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You will not defeat me!

Well, after taking a break (and a little shopping at Wycrail) I have revisited the Yellow Peril and this time it was successful   The 1mm copper wire was first shaped and checked against the dome until I was happy. A flat filed in the side and 0.5mm hole drilled through. 0.45mm brass wire soldered in place and the joint cleaned up.   I then cut the wire off almost flush with the joint and filed it flat to make a suitable location to cyano on the handwheel section salvaged from the previous

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Yellow Peril for Summat?

Ahead of Summat's date with the public in March I've started fettling the RMweb Austerity.   First off couplings. Off to with the front pocket and the hook removed from the rear tension lock. Home made 3 links held in place on the DJM hooks with a spot of Cyano. Done 🙂   Real coal added to the bunker and it looks like the crew have been careless with cleaning out the smokebox....   I've also filled the buffer beam holes as I won't be fitting vacuum pipes. A touch of

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Wigan!

I have great pleasure in announcing that Summat Colliery has been invited to the Wigan show in 2011

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What about another siding?

At the Mickleover show it occurred to me that a short siding running up to the end of the coaling stage would   Provide somewhere to store the Colliery "loco coal" wagon Fill a space that is a bit empty that has been bothering me for a while   So if I ripped up the shed road up to somewhere next to the coaling stage and slotted in a steamline short radius point would give something like this:     The Anyrail diagram is very approximate, I've not measured anything, but I only

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What a Day!

What can I say, Wycrail on Saturday went really well. The journey down on Friday was fine, a bit sticky round Birmingham/Solihull on the M42, clearly the bods in charge of the variable speed limit were bored and were playing silly beggars (40, national speed limit, 50, 60, 50 ......) but despite this I got down to High Wycombe from Robin Hood country in 2 1/2 hours and safely tucked up in the digs by 5pm. Shame it was raining.   Pootled down to the venue for about 6pm and got Summat se

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Two Years on ...

Two years ago I started Summat Colliery - my first real attempt at a scenic layout and a portable exhibitable one at that   If you want to follow the path I took over the last two years, it's here on the old forum, but this blog will show what happens next and give details of shows etc that it is booked to attend.   I've added a Exhibition Diary block which will detail shows that Summat Colliery will be attending

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Trains4U Open Day Report

What a day, Summat behaved itself really well - first time out since the Mansfield Show. Had a few odd track alignment problems at baseboard joins. Most sorted with a quick tweak with pliers   Loads of great questions from knowledgeable punters and a lot of customers went away inspired.   I think Gareth should start stocking hanging basket liner as I had a lot of questions about it's use on Summat   Summat Colliery set up and ready on the upper floor mezzanine ready for the the off

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Trains4U Open Day

Summat Colliery will be appearing at the 3rd Annual Trains4U Open Day on September 12th.   Hope to see as many RMwebbers as possible on the day, bring yer wallets and make Gareth's day B)

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Signal induced eyesight problems

Those of you that followed my Summat Colliery thread in the old place will know that I had an "incident" with the MSE signal before the Elizabethan show early this month.     Time to come clean .........     I have known for a while that my close vision has been deteriorating, but like most blokes steadfastly refused to accept the fact! The carefully crafted signal kit from MSE had been planted for a photo shoot with Mike Wild of Hornby Mag but I hadn't got round to

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Setbacks and Progress

OK, safe to say my first attempt at the steam pipework for Yellow Peril didn't go to plan last night!   drilled the 0.5mm hole (only one broken drill) and soldered the 0.45mm wire in place. Started forming the copper wire to shape and the thing snapped where the 0.5mm hole was drilled 🙁   I've started again this time shaping the 1mm wire first but didn't have the heart to start fitting a new handwheel to the end.   So, I cut back the side ladder instead and glued the

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Refresh?

Wow, last update was a long time ago LOL   Summat will be dusted off again for the 10th Anniversary Mansfield Show in March next year and I'm thinking about giving it a bit of a refresh. I've always had a plan to add another turnout with a stub siding up to the loco coal staithe to hold the colliery loco coal wagon     The siding is even in the track plan on the flyers that I give out to folks     Seeing as I have all the bits and there is a spar

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Red Lorry

Took a break last night from the Deltics to do a bit more detailing on the red lorry for Summat, it was about time that the owner's name was added to the sides B)     I've added a sprinking of coal dust to the loadspace floor too   EDIT: looking at the photo there's room to add "UK" on the end as well, not sure how many traders in 1958 were keen to say they were a UK company but hey ho!

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Power to the Servo

First problem I had with wiring up the MSE servo unit to drive the signal was that of power supply. My Accessory power bus on Summat Colliery is driven by a laptop psu and whacks out 18v DC, great for supplying CDU units but likely to fry the controller box that needs 12v DC.   Now, the MERG pulsed accessory decoder boards I use also have an option of an on-board 12v regulated supply to drive small steady state devices. These parts are optional in the build, but thankfully I saw fit to

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Nottingham Show Report

Firstly I'd like to add a vote of thanks from myself and disco-dave to all the guys and gals at the Nottingham Model Railway Society for their hospitality all weekend. Were looked after very well, even to the extent of moving the demo tables to clear the end of my layout when it became clear that the legs would be kicked all weekend as the main access to the inside of our "block" was, yes, you guessed it, right next to my layout   Had a thoroughly brilliant weekend, it all went too quickly,

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Nottingham Show

**STOP PRESS**   Summat Colliery will be appearing at the NOTTINGHAM East Midlands MODEL RAILWAY EXHIBITION on March 20th & 21st

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New Conveyor

Been a while since I did anything on Summat but after Wigan I left the long conveyor on the parcel shelf in the Scooby and the sun got to it. Half of the plastic deformed like a banana   These sections of the Walthers kit were kindly donated to me by a couple of RMwebbers as I'd already used the large conveyor from my kit to run to the road hopper. Little chance of anyone else having a spare set so I contacted Walthers about the possibility of some spares. Despite an initial favourable respon

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More Lighting

Added some lighting to the main screen building last night, again the long leaded 6v miniature bulbs bought at the Derby Show masking taped to the roofs in strategic places to get a fairly even spread of light. Only 4 bulbs for the whole building which ends up brighter lit than the "bus garage" on the other board.         Next step is to get some kind of connector for the power as this building is removeable for transport etc - a trip to Mapins this afternoon methin

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Mickleover Show Report

What another great weekend!   I arrived before anyone else on Saturday morning, having not got lost or heading for Scotland but was soon joined by Mike Bellamy and Selwyn North who carried the layout in for me!. My new helper Keith arrived just in time to miss all the heavy work and we proceded to set up Summat in a more leasurly fashion than normal. I took a lot of care setting up the legs to ensure that the shelves fitted properly to avoid any more accidents with falling, breaking teacups et

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Mickleover Model Railway Group Show

The nice chaps at Mickleover have kindly invited Summat Coliery to take part in their show on 2nd & 3rd October.   I will be there with a new "helper" called Keith as disco-dave is otherwise engaged for that weekend, treat him gently lads

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Kitchen find....

Found this in the kitchen today     Now I'm told it's a funnel for adding salt to a device called a dishwasher. However, SWMBO informs me we don't add salt to ours so looking at the photos from New Haden Colliery in this month's HM rang a bell.   Would this be a drying tower (?) for Summat perchance B)

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It's far too late now

Tonight I have to pack up Summat Colliery ready for the trip down south for Wycrail on Saturday, so no time left for futher fiddling - frankly I'm getting ready to pack it away under the desk and get on with some other modelling. It's the last outing until the Mansfield show next year - I could do with a few more bookings, so if you have a space to fill .......   So, hope to see loads of you at Wycrail, there's a lot of new detail etc on the layout since Member's Day and the Derby show, not le

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I have seen the light ....

I bought a load of long leaded 6v bulbs at the Derby Show this year and last night I started to add a few to the layout. I made some 3mm holes in the back panels of the "Bus Garage" and poked the bulbs through. Then followed a good hour playing around with combinations of series/parallel wiring to get the level of illumination right. I ended up with using 5 in series which with the 18-19v laptop PSU voltage available gives a nice warm glow to the building. Not permanently wired up yet, will ha

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Getting to the Point

Following a shopping trip at Wycrail 10 a Peco SL-E191 short radius point and a pack of PL-9 mounting bases hit the workbench.   So last night whilst watching TV I prepped the point before fitting it to the layout (a bit of a first). The pic below shows what I do to all electrofrogs, nothing new, it's all in the accompanying leaflet, apart from the hacking off of the solenoid mounting points!     I've also fitted the solenoid (an old PL10 with extension pin, bought

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Flower Power

Spent an hour last night playing with some miniNatur flowers from International Models and the fibres from a domestic sweeping brush that I found lying around somewhere.       In the photo above there are also some home made purple topped flowers (Hollyhocks?) made by dipping bristles from a wallpaper paste brush into PVA then green flock, wait 5 minutes dip the tip in PVA again then into the purple flock, tedious but cheap (Thanks Mr Nevard for the tip 😁 )  

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Fiddly, very Fiddly

And so to the steam pipe to the cab from the dome for Yellow Peril. After studying two photos it is clear that there is some form of steam cock with a handwheel connected to lagged piping coming from the dome.     So 1mm wire, drilled 0.4mm on the end with 0.3mm wire soldered in, then the smallest hand wheel from an 00 mse point rodding set sweated on. The handwheel is a 4 spoke not three like the real thing but hopefully I will be forgiven that ....    

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