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The Spaghetti Incident

Pugsley

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Progress continues slowly with the 7mm 37, and I'm currently in the middle of adding all the wiring for lights etc. This is how things looked the other day:

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It's all a bit tidier now, but I am running out of places to put all of the wires - and the ones for the cab lights, speaker and cooling fan aren't even visible in this picture!

 

I've given up casting the brake shoes from the kit - I'm now in the process of drawing up my own and will get those from Shapeways, or possibly give iMaterilise a try, as I've not had anything from them yet. I'm also going to look at adding additional pickups to the bogies as I'm not totally convinced that the original solution is going to work that well - there is more movement in the axles than they can cope with at present.

 

I've also started creating a length of track, so I can set the chassis up on the rolling road, to get that running sweetly by tweaking a few cv's. It looks like this project will have taken the best part of 3 years to complete, and it's not even there yet - yikes!

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James Hilton

Martin it'll be worth it! Do you wish you'd gone for battery power now? On board power would have made it a real locomotive, and got around your pickup problem. She'll be a beauty when finished :)

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Pugsley

Thanks James. Battery power would be a nice solution, but as I wanted sound etc, it's not the right solution at the moment. I am keeping an eye on this:

http://westernthunder.co.uk/index.php?threads/acc-ess-protocab.2124/

which looks to have real potential, but it's early days yet. Once that has sound and lights capabilities, along the lines of a current DCC system, I'd go for it. Hopefully by the time I get round to building a 7mm layout, it'll be a viable alternative.

 

Until that time, I need to sort out the pickups etc, which shouldn't be too difficult. I just need to give it a bit of thought.

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