Jamie Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Well hello stranger, how have you been? Was talking about you today at the SEC, your old friend Jim was asking if you will be visiting so I'll ask the same question. Cheers, Dave F. So that's why my ears were burning! Might make it on Saturday if I can face braving the crowds. Hope you have a good weekend, and talk yourself hoarse as usual Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 46444 Posted February 22, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 22, 2018 Well hello stranger, how have you been? Was talking about you today at the SEC, your old friend Jim was asking if you will be visiting so I'll ask the same question. Cheers, Dave F. Agree...Nice to see you posting again Jamie... If you visit Mr.Frank's emporium I'm sure he'll show you his buffer collection.... As an aside projects are a foot for a layout based on the Oban-Ballachulish line as well as Reston-Duns and St.Boswell's in the Border Country.. Looking forwards to seeing Wharfside develop as well Dave. Know the area well. Arthington and the junction towards Otley off the Harrogate-Leeds line always looks interesting modelling wise. Cheers, Mark 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrk Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 Agree...Nice to see you posting again Jamie... If you visit Mr.Frank's emporium I'm sure he'll show you his buffer collection.... As an aside projects are a foot for a layout based on the Oban-Ballachulish line as well as Reston-Duns and St.Boswell's in the Border Country.. Looking forwards to seeing Wharfside develop as well Dave. Know the area well. Arthington and the junction towards Otley off the Harrogate-Leeds line always looks interesting modelling wise. Cheers, Mark I've got etchings too.... And Jamie's seen them.... Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted February 23, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 23, 2018 I've got etchings too.... And Jamie's seen them.... Dave. , and puppies? Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethashenden Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 I've just been through the whole tread, very nice work! Looking forward to seeing it progress. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrk Posted March 18, 2018 Author Share Posted March 18, 2018 Just taken delivery of some very nice microswitches from 'inhelume', these are to replace the function of the SEEP switches on their point motors which are starting to cause faults like intermittent contact and shorts! These microswitches are properly made and reasonably priced. I've had a couple on test mounted on a subframe with a SEEP and it seems to function as required. I'll post a photo of the set up later as for now we're out to lunch, quite literally. The switches bought were these. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5A-Micro-Switch-Long-Lever-SS-5GL-3-V4-Miniature-Microswitch-SPDT-heavy-duty/230800798717 Dave Franks. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrk Posted March 21, 2018 Author Share Posted March 21, 2018 Hi all, I've posted this elsewhere but I'm supposing it should be posted here too. I'm in the process of constructing the goods shed which was at Burley in Wharfedale. It was basically a Midland shed but with detail differences. What I'm after is photos of the inside walls, platform, roof trusses and hand crane. I have plenty photos and measurements of the outside details from the similar shed down the line at Guiseley but I was unable to gain entry to the inside. Any photos of a small MR goods shed would help, I have scoured the various books and websites but they produced little info. Guiseley shed. Many thanks, Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lecorbusier Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Dave, It may not be of any help but Bill Hudson's book on the Peak line has some good info on Midland Goods sheds - both photographic and drawn. A google image search on the Bakewell goods shed turned a fair amount of info when I put it in. Regards Tim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrk Posted March 21, 2018 Author Share Posted March 21, 2018 Hi Tim, thanks very much for that, I'll check it out. Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lecorbusier Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Hi Tim, thanks very much for that, I'll check it out. Dave. This might be of interest as well http://birminghamz.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekEm8 Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Hi Dave, Are these any help Coalville 12 July 1986. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lecorbusier Posted March 21, 2018 Share Posted March 21, 2018 Any Help? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrk Posted March 25, 2018 Author Share Posted March 25, 2018 Hi Tim, thanks very much for the links and photos, they have the detail of the roof trusses I wanted. The photos show two cranes in these sheds though I'm still wondering if the smaller three wagon shed would only have one as the loading areas are closer together. The drawings for the S&C sheds don't show any interior detail unfortunately. Work on the goods shed has stopped for the moment as I'm working all hours casting and packing for Scalefour North. Cheers, Dave Franks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post davefrk Posted May 3, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 3, 2018 (edited) Hi People, well finally got time to sit down after the busy-ness of the Scalefour North show and the following rush of orders and the setting up of a new mould ready for pouring the rubber, a few new items for modern wagons in there too. Say no more. On Wharfeside there has been some modifications to the seep point motors, as I was advised a long while ago the switches are a bit unreliable and that has proved correct so I've been replacing the integral seep switch with some decent quality micro switches as I'm doing the wiring, more of that tomorrow maybe. My colleague Phil Cowling who recently moved up to Scotland from Essex (yes we know!!!) has a liking for doing some impromptu filming and has now put a few clips taken on Wharfeside up on Youtube for us all to gaze at. The first is the amazing sight of Phil's GER J70 tram loco purring round with a few wagons, I say a few but actually 60 yes 60 wagons, count them, that's probably 6 times more than the real thing. Second is Phil's GER J15 J17 or some such on the fuel oil train again purring along nicely. Third is Phil's Britannia 'Moray Firth' on the Thames Clyde Express, a DJH kit with Comet under pinnings. Phil has offered the loco to take a place beside my Dornoch Firth for Thames Clyde or the Waverly Express duties. Both locos were transferred to Leeds late 58 for these expresses. Passing on a fitted goods is my DJH Black five which has a scratchbuilt chassis and a good size Mashima/Anchoridge can motor so it can crawl around with this train all day long no problem. Fourth is Phil's long term project to detail up an old Dublo 8F with comet chassis and Mashima motor, it's running well now after a good run in on the 60 wagon test train. And finally, filmed last night is my DJH Crab on the fitted goods passing under the newly built and painted bridge, again a scratch chassis and a Mashima/Anchoridge can motor designed to slog round with a heavy train and heading for Leeds is my Black Five on an empty stock working. Stanier Hooter sound effect by Gerry.... Thanks to Phil for placing these up on the tube. Hope you like the clips and I hope the links work for you. Dave Franks. Edited May 24, 2018 by davefrk 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad McCann Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 A bit of Stanier hooter on that last one if my ears didn't decieve! ;-) That J17 wotsit will look even better with the leading cabside windows glazed. Tellt! ;-) D4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iak Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Pure filth mon, mind they do look bl###y good on your beastie... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrk Posted May 4, 2018 Author Share Posted May 4, 2018 Well thanks Iain, I think... Dave, the Stanier hooter was our good friend Gerry yawning would you believe. Also I forgot to say some of the clips were taken some time ago before all the ballasting was done. Dave Franks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGC Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Hi Dave, people seem to like the clips; that's good news. A couple of corrections, the loco on the tanker train is a J17, nit J15; the J17 is a more powerful loco. It's almost finished; as Dave says, it needs cab glazing and a crew, then weathering and that's it. The last clip is not Moray Firth but your Black 5, my contribution to the train are the Thompson 6 wheel PBV and Gresley Pigeon Van at the head of the train. Phil. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrk Posted May 4, 2018 Author Share Posted May 4, 2018 Hi Phil, so you've got signed up at last, well done. I wasn't sure of the GER J class but I've corrected it now (I need educating on all things GER) and how I got the last clip details wrong I just don't know. All the best, Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tic-toc Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 "The first is the amazing sight of Phil's GER J70 tram loco purring round with a few wagons, I say a few but actually 60 yes 60 wagons, count them, that's probably 6 times more than the real thing." Here's some info taken from the LNER Encyclopedia .lner.info "On one occasion, No. 7131 was recorded leaving Upwell with 48 wagons of about 400 tons of fruit. By Elm Bridge, it was short of water and had to run light to Wisbech to fill up!" 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted May 4, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 4, 2018 An hours worth of weathering on the minerals in prospect Dave?!! Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrk Posted May 6, 2018 Author Share Posted May 6, 2018 A wee bit more than an hour Mike although in my period minerals weren't so decrepit as your stuff in the sixties some were even brand new. Most are Bachmann repainted in various hues of grey then renumbered to suit the diagram, Bachmann didn't always get it right, some are lightly weathered others still to be done. There are about a dozen kit built but have had the same paint job, the seven plankers are mostly kits with a few Bachmann and they have been through the weathering shop. All have had three links or Jacksons fitted, new buffers as necessary and all now have brass bearings for the Gibson EM wheelsets making them much more free running hence 60 wagons behind the J70. The record still stands at 117 behind an 8F, must try it again now more wagons are available.... 150 maybe? Dave Franks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrk Posted May 28, 2018 Author Share Posted May 28, 2018 Okay, this is the first photo that has been processed on the new Windose 10 computer so I hope it works, I just don't like the way W10 deals with photos so I'll be looking at another program that I was using and know well. I mentioned a wee while ago about fitting the SEEP point motors on the fiddleyard with independent switches for the frog polarity and also route indication. The micro switches are good quality ones from an EBAY seller - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5A-Micro-Switch-Long-Lever-SS-5GL-3-V4-Miniature-Microswitch-SPDT-heavy-duty/230800798717?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 The switches are mounted on a 10mm plastic block which is glued onto a 2mm baseplate which also locates the point motor, the brass screws are 12mm long and screw into tapped holes in the plastic block and the switches have a wee bit of movement for adjustment. The switches have some mechanical resistance but being 'back to back' one switch overcomes the other so there is little resistance for the solenoid to overcome plus the spring that presses on the daft washer that forms the SEEP switch is stripped out so there is much less stiffness in the pointmotor itself. Now under test two or three motors will fire instead of barely one on 16 volt AC though a CDU on 24 volt will be used eventually but it shows up the difference in the set up. The purple and blue wires are for the solenoid, white and yellow are the frog polarity and the other switch will be for the route indication. There's at least a dozen of these switch units fitted now and are working as expected. Why use SEEPs in this day and age? They've been sitting in a box for nearly twenty years waiting to be fitted to a fiddleyard not built till recently so why not. Dave Franks 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrk Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 A question was asked regarding the screws seen on the Seep motor, they are there just for the photo set up, woodscrews are used to hold the whole assembly together and on the baseboard. Dave Franks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrk Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 (edited) Just been examining one of my DJH Black fives after it failed a few weeks ago. Built in the nineties and fitted with a Portescap motor/gearbox. It was hauling a lightish train of 8 Stanier coaches when the controller tripped out. Gave it a slight push and it ran a few more feet slowly then tripped again. Checked the controller on other section switches and it ran other trains okay so it was the loco. On the bench the motor wouldn't run with leads to the wheels and the old controller tripped out so a short was suspected. disconnected the tender pickups, still a short, disconnected the motor leads, no short, checked motor, the Faulhaber coreless motor has a short.... Great. The loco has Ultrascale wheels, hornblocks etc so I don't really want to strip it completely, managed to get to the motor screws and removed the motor, still shorting. Last year I picked up a couple of 24mm coreless motors on Ebay, copies of the Escap/Faulhaber motor even the end boss fits the portescap mount perfectly but, --- no screw holes so here is the question. Anyone had a similar coreless motor apart and is there room to drill and tap the end for remounting on the gearbox, not worried about what thread it is as I'll be doing it to a BA thread. The other option is of course to fit one of my stash of Mashima 1630s like what are fitted in most of the other big locos.... but it means stripping the chassis down to remove the gearbox and fitting a new Highlevel box. Decisions, decisions.... Dave. Edited June 4, 2018 by davefrk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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