RMweb Premium Andy Hayter Posted July 14, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 14, 2019 Not a problem - 220 - 240V same as most of Europe - including the UK. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 (edited) I bought the same iron a few months ago based on a recommendation in the Wright Writes thread. I would strongly recommend it. I also bought a pack of a selection of tips with the intention of finding out which ones I used most. PS It also has three presets you can set to different temperatures. Very handy. Edited July 14, 2019 by Guest Spelling Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 I bought an ESRA RH80 unit with similar functions some years ago, ordering it from the USA, thinking I was getting it at a better price. Then found myself stung for customs duty which made it dearer than if I'd ordered from the EU! I have to say that it has proved an excellent purchase. I mostly use a 2mm chisel bit running at 300°C for ordinary soldering as I like to get plenty heat in there as quickly as possible. Jim 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted July 15, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 15, 2019 On 14/07/2019 at 19:33, Andy Hayter said: Not a problem - 220 - 240V same as most of Europe - including the UK. Weird: when I followed the link, the photo showed 110v! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Hayter Posted July 15, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 15, 2019 (edited) In that case I linked to the wrong machine - apologies. They do the equivalent at 220V Edit: Looks like my ultra-safe computer security system is directing to the US (.com) site and is refusing to link to the UK (.co.uk) site. Computer security is all well and good but sometimes it goes to far. Edited July 15, 2019 by Andy Hayter extra info. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Harrison Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 Weekend plans! 9J #216 to be thoroughly weathered. This process started last weekend.... Then I'll be looking either at a ROD or an 8A. And, if the weather behaves itself, on Sunday afternoon I'm off to a friend's house for the afternoon for a garden party/ watching 16mm scale trains go by afternoon. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Harrison Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 Beg leave report #216 finished. 8A 0-8-0 #1077 begun... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Harrison Posted July 20, 2019 Author Share Posted July 20, 2019 The 8A should, in theory, be a fairly quick turnaround. Last night off came the LNER markings, a new coat of matt black went down and today I'm debating what sort of a finish I want. They were fairly unkempt by 1919 but for personal reasons that doesn't seem right for this particular model. Clean unlined black could be an option but it would be quite similar to what I have in mind for my ROD. Modellers licence and pre-1914 lined black? That does sound quite appealing you know. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Harrison Posted July 20, 2019 Author Share Posted July 20, 2019 The completed second 9J.... .... And the 8A.... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Harrison Posted July 21, 2019 Author Share Posted July 21, 2019 That was a quick turnaround. I've gone for a lined out finish with just some light weathering. For some reason as the weathering wash was wiped off it took some areas of the lining with it, but actually... that doesn't matter. It suggests a tired finish. I quite like this one. 6 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Harrison Posted July 24, 2019 Author Share Posted July 24, 2019 So, next project. It's the restaurant car for the Rufford- Marylebone through service. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Harrison Posted July 26, 2019 Author Share Posted July 26, 2019 If you want an idea of roughly what I'm aiming at, you could certainly do worse than reading the current copy of Model Railway Journal (#272). Not exactly that of course, RLS will be a terminus and without the Lancashire and Yorkshire aspect, but it's a good mark of what I have in mind. It's also nice to see some of my coaching stock choices vindicated (Hornby clerestories and Ratio 4-wheelers). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Harrison Posted July 27, 2019 Author Share Posted July 27, 2019 Low-melt solder and temperature-controlled iron duly ordered. The restaurant car has been painted in matt orange and will soon be re-teaked. I've been struggling recently with plotting out how I want my townscape to look, well today I visited Leamington Spa with some friends and I might have cracked a part of it, at least. I'm talking about the girder bridge over Leamington High Street, which has got a good interesting semi-urban thing going on. It's also quite similar of course to the route of the GC through Leicester and south Nottingham. I'm trying to avoid the hackneyed road along the backscene and round the front of the station approach and this might be one way of doing it. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Harrison Posted July 28, 2019 Author Share Posted July 28, 2019 To a very approximate scale of 1:20, this is what I'm thinking around. So, coming left to right along the scene, the train would cross a road bridge. I'm torn at the moment between a brick skew arch or a plate girder type- both would be appropriate, really, looking at the GCR route through Leicester for inspiration. Anyway, the important think is it's over a road junction, in the apex of which I'll build that Fothergill Watson-inspired office block/ studio I drew up. On the left hand fork heading toward the backscene I'll place some houses- I have the Hornby Victorian semis in mind for this- whilst coming back either side of the FW building I'll put some shop buildings and aim for typical Nottinghamshire market town vernacular. In front of the bridge on the left hand side there would be more typical shops and on the right hand side a retaining wall with an access road sloping up to the coal yard. Once over the bridge the train is into the station, and along the back of the layout I want to avoid just a simple street scene, so I'm thinking along the lines of alleyways, small yards, little industrial shacks and buildings.... something like the air of the Newman Brothers coffin factory in Birmingham (which is a great little museum to visit if you're ever in the area). At the platform ends clearly there would be the main station buildings and then I am thinking in terms of the main road straight across the front and the other side, the station hotel. I'm thinking of something along the lines of the hotel built alongside Chesterfield Market Place for this structure. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedders Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 If you're looking at an elevated site,coal drops were not unknown on the MSL/GCR, Brigg for one had them. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poggy1165 Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Coal drops were (relatively) common on the former MS&L. There used to be a splendid set-up at Ardwick (Manchester) and I think they still exist at Penistone, albeit long converted into garages. Where they were not found was on the London Extension. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Harrison Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 Coal drops weren't something I had considered, but will now. The backstory behind RLS is that it's an 1840s proto Derbyshire Line. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Harrison Posted August 2, 2019 Author Share Posted August 2, 2019 The GCR restaurant car is finished. The plan for this weekend- a Barnum brake. Or at least, starting one. I have an idea... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 40 minutes ago, James Harrison said: The GCR restaurant car is finished. The plan for this weekend- a Barnum brake. Or at least, starting one. I have an idea... Ooooow I am interested to see how you are going to approach that. richard 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Harrison Posted August 3, 2019 Author Share Posted August 3, 2019 The passenger saloon end will be done as-per my previous Barnums; silhouette cutter. For the brake end I've ordered some matchboard-style plastic sheet and will build it in the time-honoured fashion. What I'm not sure about is, how the two will match up and whether there will be an obvious joint in the two halves. It's worth a go I think. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Harrison Posted August 3, 2019 Author Share Posted August 3, 2019 Actually, a thought has just struck me. I've got the silhouette cutter files for the Barnum saloon, if I simply cut two more complete sides from that file (as though I were building a third saloon carriage) and then cut those two sides in half, I've then got the passenger saloons for a pair of Barnum brakes and I could then build both of my planned brake carriages together, as one project. Sounds like a plan? 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 That sounds like it could be a good plan. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Harrison Posted August 4, 2019 Author Share Posted August 4, 2019 Work on the Barnum brakes has officially begun. First stage- yesterday- was to run the saloon files through the silhouette cutter. This gives me two floors in 20thou, a pair of saloon sides in 10thou, and two sets of ends and internal partitions in 20thou. Once these had been scored in (I never set the cutter to cut comepletely through the material, just deep enough to give me a guideline for cutting by hand with a scalpel) I rubbed over the sheet with a graphite stick to bring up the scored edges. Today I have glued up the floors (each floor is a laminate of two pieces of 20thou, for a total floor thickness of 40thou), then use some plastic 2mm 3mm I section girder for the underframes. Bogies will be some ex-Mainline (think they're ex-Mainline) LMS carriage bogies, which look about right and cost me £3 a pair when I bought them last year. The overall plan is to build the saloon sides, split them in two giving me two brake saloon ends, then build up two brake ends in 20thou wood panel effect plastic sheet, which I've had to order in especially. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Harrison Posted August 10, 2019 Author Share Posted August 10, 2019 Stage one; building the floors and passenger saloons from the silhouette-cut parts. Plastic sheet has arrived so work can start on the brake ends. Lots of measuring, drawing and very careful cutting to come. 2 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard i Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 Interesting. I am interpreting the line on the doors on the end for windows, or is it paneling? Whats your view? richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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