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    dripfedfred

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    Hi,

     

    I recently purchased the YouChoos LMS 4F sound with green No.9 sugarcube and keep-alive and am very pleased with the sound and controlability of the motor. Do you do re blows of Zimo 648 sound decoders?  I could do with having my weak chaffing Pannier sound chip reblown with your latest 'Hall' sound and also purchasing your No.9 sugarcube and a keep-alive.

     

    Larry Goddard (coachmann

    Silver Sidelines

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    Good clear photos there. Thankfully you have covered ground that got ditched when my coach thread was deleted (I had covered the Roc and Hornby couplings close-coupling options). With the Bachmann 'Porthole' stock, I simply removed some of the NEM box and shoved the couplings further in to them, held by Loctite. And of course raised the bodies on 20thou spacers. What did you find was the minimum radius your coaches will negotiate following close-coupling?  It is an issue that raised its head on my layout after  27" radius return loops were introduced. The acid test for me is if a train of coaches can be propelled at high speed over the whole layout without derailing.

    Barry O

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    The cleaning up looks fine to me, although I feel the boiler bands are  too-in-your-face. I tended to darken the boler band lining on some locos, although it wasn't necessary on GWR and BR green locos as my "orange" lining colour was mid tan. Someone once put it in a nutshell...."You shouldn't be able to see the lining from a distance". I agree.

     

    Larry

    Dave Holt

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    Trouble with blogs is they keep missing the radar, which is why I missed these updates. The layout has come on fantastically well and I must say you don't do things by half. That control panel for instance. It was a good idea to incorporate Delph New Road into front of the layout as it puts the railway into its environs (I could only incorporate Shaw Hall Bank Road retaining wall due to lack of squeezing space in the shed). The baseboard top is grey...Did you spray this before laying track?

    Dave Holt

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    Not been on RMweb for a few days and so I was told about your blog by phone. 'Search' wasnt any good at all so I trawled through the layout blogs in the hope it was here. Nice to see things coming along. Glad I only built the coaches and left the P4 bogie construction to you! Sounds like hard work. I look forward to seeing the excursion train when the bogies are painted.

     

    Larry

    Timara

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    That 04/8 looks a treat. I must admit that as a lad all the 04's looked much of a sameness except for the big boilered 04/7. I have the Isinglass drawing for the 04/7 and keep telling myself I should roll the boiler in readiness for obtaining an 04. I used to roll boilers from 5 thou plastikard around a suitable size of dowling but I'm told 5 thou is no longer available?

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    pete_mcfarlane

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    I do like the look of these coaches particularly the SE&CR/SR Continental stock. My initial reaction was where did you get a roof seeing as these coaches were so narrow. While searching your blogs I noticed the Comet roof was mentioned and that the coach bodies had been produced over-width to suit a roof intended for 9' wide coaches.

     

    The coaches look the part and certainly no worse for being over width. I dont know how I missed your thread but it is very interesting.

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