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SamThomas

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  1. OK, I'll rephrase ; "with no ventilation" to ; "in the incorrect environment for the relavant materials". 🙂
  2. The Johnster has made a good point about storage or use. Use it or lose it may be the key, what's the betting those models (or at least a good proportin of them) that have suffered the dreaded rot have been in storage with no ventilation ? Good point also about why European locomotives cost more than UK ones - all the new Roco locomotives I've seen recently are made in the UK. A lot of their rolling stock is made in Vientnam. Maybe, "toy trains" are designed for a limited life/useage span - like cars, & they cost a lot more !
  3. SR71 made a good point about contamination. Could the (probably) increased use of recycled materials contribute to the issue ?
  4. Thanks for all those great images. The model railway is starting to look very sad in places, it is something like 40 years old though & must be due for a refresh.
  5. Please excuse what is almost certainly a stupid question. Are thees concrete sections fixed to the concrete base or will the sheer weight of the infil keep them in place ?
  6. I admire your faith in 2 > 4. Parcels are not a;ways on pallets or cages. Collecting from the hub only eliminates 5.
  7. But it's already been thrown about & maybe at the bottom of a full demountable body in a large truck. I've done agency driving for one of the big "good" parcels outfits.
  8. & of course you would have to run the models on tracks from the same company, because they would be something like 15mm gauge & not compatable with anything else.
  9. You could do with a couple of 4mm Supermen for those railgaps (taller ones for the winter).
  10. Interesting............ Nothing about my comment to impose a weight limit, possibly rendering the expensive works unnecessary. I don't know because I don't know the local area & what alternative routes are available for heavy vehicles. NH may be legally allowed to apply different rules but are they morally allowed to ? Are they being responsible to our heritage ? I can legally drive a 44T truck through a small village with centruries old buildings at the speed limit (whatever that may be), but I don't because, to me it neither morally correct or responsible. It may be just one bridge in this case, but what about the next one & the one after that ?
  11. The NS Series 1200 OHE's had big noses, the Sprinter EMU's had noses, also the SNCB Serie 21/55 & others had short noses.
  12. Dungrange has answered the question regarding CV's. The Roco SNCF loco is DCC ready & looks like it has been fitted with a Lenz decoder. You could return it to analogue DC only by fitting a blanking plug but, if it's reunning well then I would just leave it. In any case, as you have a simple DCC system you could always have a play with DCC on a test track & see if you do actually like it.
  13. DCC equiped locomotives do not take kindly to feedback controllers or HF track cleaners. If a DCC equiped locomotive has has CV's 2, 3, 4 & 5 altered then it may very well behave different when running on straighforward analogue DC. The Fleuschman DCC system you have is capable of setting CV's but cannot read them unless used the Maus is used with a Lenz Amplifier (the black box) - the Roco badged one you have is basically a cut down Lenz one. Allways a market for them though - they are a pretty good starter set. I do like the Roco SNCF Loco. AFAIK Roco Locomotives with 4-digit catalogue numbers will not be DCC ready & will have to be hard wired which involves cutting the PCB board tracks in places. later Roco locomotives with 5-digit catalogue numbers will have the deoder socket type on the box if so fitted. (Not much use without the box though). I recently sole a handfull of unidentified chips on eBay as spare/repair & got a few bob for them.
  14. & unless you know them very, very well, their age. Q - How do you take your wife/girlfriend/partener to take notice of you ?
  15. So, you have a vested interest. At the end of the day infilling is erroding more & more of our heritage. In the case we are discussing it would have been cheaper to impose a weight limit on the structure, unless it would mean heavy vehicles could not access certain area's. Would be quite funny if NR came along & said "hey, we've just noticed that we have a right of way under that bridge.
  16. & a number of the original V200's are still running. The original colour scheme still looks good.
  17. Good tip, although personally I have to avoid using them.
  18. I used to have a few "showcase queens" but not now. Some are on display, some are stored (but very easy to un-store & run). Quite a number are on the rails ready to go, I do have too may to have them all in service at any one time. However, I rotate them, I run them & I unashamedly admit playing trains at times.
  19. Not really impressed with the new website, although I'm only looking at the European HO side. Someone needs to check the images on the Lima section though - a number of buffer heads missing ! Maybe I missed it but an "achieve" section would be nice & useful. I do feel that Hornby are losing out on European sales, I get the impression that these models are overlooked which is a great pity - the current offerings from their European HO stable are certainly up there with the other European manufactures.
  20. Yes, that was great news showing the Highways people that they cannot ride toughshod over people. Well done the local council ! Please correct me if I'm wrong but if the structure is weak then surely a steel "cages" could be fabricated to support the structure as a tempory solution until the funds/willingness are available to do a decent restoration ?
  21. If you must use bubble wrap make sure that the "bubbles" face away from the item to be wrapped, but still only for short term. Even good quality foam can deteriorate in time - white felt as a "next to skin" is probably the best & then you can use other material as cushioning. Just as important for medium/long term storage is probably the environment - cool, dry & with some ventilation.
  22. Most of the scenic companies do a version as well as Woodland. Noch, Busch & Heki are worth a look. However, if you want to mak your own dye some spomge foam, freeze it & then experiment with an old (not the prestine one from the kitchen) liquidiser.
  23. Not a question I would answer on a public forum or to a stranger. However, I do wonder about the amount of modellers who hide their collection (or cost of) from "the wife" - in my eyes that just stopping short of infidelity. Or maybe, just maybe I'm extra lucky with Mrs T - I just own up.
  24. Certainly in the days of steam there would have been. AFAIK the Aswan Dam stops a lot of silt progressing downstream which is causing problems for farmers. (So I was told when last in Egypt a decade or so ago).
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