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  1. I've spent ages hunting for a camera battery that I could use in the bunker as I don't really want Lithium batteries inaccessible and semi permanently in the loco, but the only sizes that fit are too puny so I'm now considering a 3400mAH 18650 in the boiler, a combined charge and step up module in the bunker and the RC gear wherever it will fit. I will get there one day!
  2. That's a really beautfiul Hunslet there sir, the paint and finish is stunning! How is the R/C arranged in this one? I still haven't finalised what I'm doing with mine!
  3. Can anyone provide pipework photos for westinghouse pump? I need to do the same on my S&M terriers at some point, and SM&M photos sowing the top of the tanks are non existent -all I can say is the Dapol pipework is wrong, but can't see what I shoudl actually have.
  4. The Manor booklet says the gearsets are interchanegable between Manor, Mogul and Prairie: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0644/3971/4015/files/OO_Manor_Manual.pdf?v=1696942654
  5. Get the highest CRI rating you can find - lots of LED lighting is very poor and makes colours look way off what they should be. Colour temp wise aim for 4000-6000k as a good daylight range.
  6. Yes. If you search Barmouth in the HMRS photo acrchive, then there's a series of lots and lots of foreign wagons all shot on what appears to be the same day there. At least one Caledonian van amongst them. https://hmrs.org.uk/photographs.html?location=16680
  7. 5399, the mystery identity loco, was it green or black in 56/57? All I can say from photos I have is it was unlined and carried an early crest.
  8. The front screw goes into the metal weight doesn't it? In which case it'll need drilling and tapping, although you may get lucky and have a suitable self tapper that will work in the existing hole well enough.
  9. Can't say as I'd be offended with that Mogul personally but each to their own. As soon as you weather black it goes grey anyway. It's a bit like these really:
  10. Guitar strings are defined by their string gauge - which is simply their outside diameter in thousandths of an inch. If you can measure your pipe you can find a replacement guitar string to suit. You want Roundwound strings. They all have a piano wire core with normally a Nickel wire wrapped around the outside*, but you can also get stainless steel or various different coatings. https://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/collections/electric-guitar-single-strings?filter.p.m.specification.brand=Ernie Ball&sort_by=manual& *The very fine gauge stuff does not have a wire wrap, it's just a singe strand of piano wire with a coating.
  11. Beta 1257 series or Wera Kraftform Micro series - well worth paying for good quality in small sizes, especially when the difference between 1.27mm and 1.3mm hax can be the difference between a rounded off screw or a successfully assembled wheelset (Slaters Wheels, crankpins etc).
  12. Yep, not even so much as a renumbered oldie. Surely Bachmann can't have that much stock of steamers on their hands they can't throw out a few new running numbers?
  13. Indeed, and some things just don't look right to me on theirs either. OK there are things that don't quite look right on the Dapol ones too, but on balance they bother me less/are within my skill set to fix.
  14. Well I caved. DC Supplies had graded Manors at £80 a pop, so I've just been running in Lydham and Hook Norton Manors around my set track loop. This loop has never been cleaned since purchase some 7 years ago, yet Lydham ran faulessly and after initially presenting a strange stumble so did Hook Norton. The stumble was odd, It ran perfectly in reverse, but forward it would pick a section of track to cut out as if it had been suddenly grabbed. I'm not sure what the cause was, but after picking it up and turning it to face the other way it started behaving as flawlessly as Lydham. I look forward to adding Hinton and Foxcote to the stud as funds and releases allow.
  15. It's virtually endless if you allow for innacuracies or go 'generic'. The 4 Penrhyn Hunslets are available from existing tooling. 3 Pen yr Orsedd locos (quarry condition) need only a little mixing of existing bits (and ideally a retooled cab with no coaling doors). Irish Mail as delivered could be achieved from a similar mixing of bits. The Dinorwic locos are all a bit unique so would need much more work for accurate models, there is as yet no early frame style for example. All require Sandpots as an option.
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