lambretta

just had this pop up on my facebook feed https://www.facebook.com/GIAdventure.Fans/videos/1842810292429492/

the track over barmouth bridge leads to a narrow gauge railway so that could throw up interesting options

few pics of barmouth bridge

i am hols there at the moment (barmouth ) check rails all the way from the tunnel mouth to the other side on the wooden part the rails are raised and the check rails are higher than the running rails will take some pics whilst i am here and post some brm magazine aug 2017 has a layout feature on barmouth station

wouldnt be surprised if they havent changed just enough to stay legal

as these are a copy of tcs decoders this may be a clue page 17 on manual gives instructions for enabling stay alive https://tcsdcc.com/Customer_Content/Technical_Info/Tech_Manuals/Comprehensive%20Programming%20Guide.pdf

got hold of an electrofrog point and it goes over so that is the way to go it needed a silly amount of lead before it would go over insulfrog edit only question now is why does my tatty old one with thin wire connections to the front and back wheels go over but the new Hornby with brass connections to all wheels stall

sons a tyre fitter so will have a word when i give him a lift in tomorrow get some of the sticky backed ones they use for alloy wheels

on the iold app when you selected a cv there was a button to push to test to see what it did and you could pick the best icon eg is it a low high horn or a single tone

ren it around with a big roll of solder on top and it clered the points so it look like i shll have to raid my fishing gear for a bit of lead weight for ballast

they are rad 2-3 curved points and the old one goes around at a creep so am pretty sure its engine related so will keep investigating that i have bent the contacts a touch to ensure they are making good contact with the wheels no matter where they are in relation to the body i will have to try it on some of the standard points ps it will go over a good speed but not on creep

tried rocking from side to side and that didnt help but pushing down did build quality is pretty poor the body rocks freely on the chassis d looked at going for electro frogs which makes sense but would mean taking up a lot of track to replace the 4 curved Hornby point i have using printed templates at the moment to see how i can minimise disruption expect i will have to go to normal rather than curved point

will try that tomorrow

i have the dcc clips fitted to all of the points it stalls as the leading wheels are going over the frog in both forward or reverse

yes so far still in the process of converting others and these are the only 2 short wheelbase engines i have should add its 3 different point of the same type only thought i have is the wheels are lifting some how but cant see that they are and would think if the frog is lifting on the outside rail it would do the same when going down the inside trck