sagaguy

If it`s the very fine wire you want to strip,heat it in the flame of a disposable lighter and and remove the insulation with your finger nails. Works for me!. Ray.

I used 150gsm gloss photo paper,I blackened the cut white edges with a chisel black marker pen,preformed the tumblehome between my fingers and stuck them on using 6mm double sided tape.Hope this helps. Ray.

No mistaking a WD tender,my O gauge tender from my WD 2-8-0 build Ray

You can see the D series overlays here.

These are for the D series coaches,I thought i produced a set for the brake ends but you can alter the length of the sd brakes.

Try these for starters,to fit SD coaches

You really need insulation board as a base board for Peco spiked track to work which was the original intention of Peco.I built several pointkits in the early 60s and afraid to say that they wern`t a success,keeping the gauge was the most difficult thing. Ray.

Quality control was not great at Wrenn unlike Meccano.Screw holes not fully tapped,they didn`t always use quite the right gauge wire for armatures etc,The Mazak material used could be be difficult to drill and tap,by the way,all threads were BA. Ray.

Disposable cigarette lighter,hold the cable in the flame fo a couple of seconds and strip the insulation with finger and thumb nail,it doesn`t get hot!. Ray.

Very powerful locomotives,this one is operating from the catenary under seperate control from the rest of the track layouts.

If they have the original p/up configuration for 2 rail,just turn one round.Don`t take the motor out,you won`t be able to mesh the gear properly. Ray

They are normally 1.2mm selftapping screws in various lengths,i get mine through ebay. Ray.

They were the old Eveready 126 batteries.Modern equivilents are available but at a price. https://www.smallbattery.company.org.uk/sbc_a6570.htm Ray.

I don't think you can use them for low melt solder but they are ideal with normal solder for seams,just follow the iron with the solder but solder paste,ie. Carrs,is the cats whiskers for small items. Ray.

I suppose it comes down to how many brass kits you will eventually building .I'm building 0 gauge loco kits and the question of soldering came up.Because of the large areas of brass,I had to upgrade my soldering station to 100w but the biggest boon to me is that I recently purchased a resistance soldering unit and makes life pretty easy as it just heats the area where you are soldering. It's made the assembly of coupling rods a doddle. Ray