RMweb Gold Regularity Posted January 8, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 8, 2020 13 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: Well done on getting them to help. Let’s hope it wasn’t rubbish workmanship... 1 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted January 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 8, 2020 2 minutes ago, Regularity said: Let’s hope it wasn’t rubbish workmanship... Or bits scattered everywhere.... 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted January 8, 2020 Author Share Posted January 8, 2020 There’s been a fair few bits of that since this thread started...... 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted January 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 8, 2020 Gordon, you need to listen to The right sort of music or.. Recordings of steam locomotives of your preference When ballasting...along with copiuos amounts of tea..it becomes more therapeutic..honest! Keep up the good work! Baz 2 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denbridge Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 1 hour ago, gordon s said: Evening all....Anyone bored yet? Still not a train to be seen. Dear Diary.... Monday. Played golf on a muddy field. My trolley ran out of power halfway down the 18th, so had to push the blooming' thing. Didn't win anything. Came home and did a bit of ballasting. Tuesday. Did a bit of ballasting. Jeez, it's mind numbing... Wednesday. Bin men came. Did a bit of ballasting and stuck some cork onto a piece of plywood. I thought railway modelling was going to be exciting..... Bed time soon. Golf tomorrow and then a bit of ballasting for a change.... Soon be round the bend, one way or another. Looking good. Assuming you don't do another redesign. I get worried when I see you making great progress haha. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jukebox Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Barry O said: Gordon, you need to listen to The right sort of music or.. Recordings of steam locomotives of your preference When ballasting...along with copiuos amounts of tea..it becomes more therapeutic..honest! Keep up the good work! Baz This. x100. I figured out some time ago that I can spend hours working on the layout, doing the most repetitive, tedious tasks, so long as I have a soundtrack. I had acquired an el cheapo powered speaker system somewhere along my travels, and it now sits under one end of the layout, and a cable with a 3.5mm plug attached lies atop. I come in, plug my iPod in, and hit shuffle... The catch is, when you are doing ballasting, that you get a song with a faster beat, and you tend to want to eye-dropper the PVA in time to it, and it gets too fast for you to do the cribs. Other than that, it works a treat. Cheers Scott 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 9, 2020 15 minutes ago, jukebox said: This. x100. I figured out some time ago that I can spend hours working on the layout, doing the most repetitive, tedious tasks, so long as I have a soundtrack. I had acquired an el cheapo powered speaker system somewhere along my travels, and it now sits under one end of the layout, and a cable with a 3.5mm plug attached lies atop. I come in, plug my iPod in, and hit shuffle... The catch is, when you are doing ballasting, that you get a song with a faster beat, and you tend to want to eye-dropper the PVA in time to it, and it gets too fast for you to do the cribs. Other than that, it works a treat. Cheers Scott ABC Classic, or ABC Grandstand when there's a Test match on. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 9, 2020 10 hours ago, gordon s said: I thought railway modelling was going to be exciting..... If you want exciting, try DCC! MIke. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted January 9, 2020 Author Share Posted January 9, 2020 Tell me about it.... Just two wires and away you go. Yeah, right..... Still a convert though.... 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted January 9, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 9, 2020 So get the track layed, the wiring done then...more testing required! Baz 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted January 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 9, 2020 I find having a couple of sound-fitted locos with the boiler sounds on does it for me when in the railway room. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted January 9, 2020 Author Share Posted January 9, 2020 On 28/12/2019 at 09:58, Rowsley17D said: I find a light brush with graphite powder in the hole/bush helps enormously. Didn't mention it at the time, but that has to be the line of the month...... I'll remember that thought should the situation present itself..... 1 1 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted January 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 9, 2020 (edited) 10 minutes ago, gordon s said: Didn't mention it at the time, but that has to be the line of the month...... I'll remember that thought should the situation present itself..... Happy to oblige with unintended innuendo. Edited January 9, 2020 by Rowsley17D 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted January 9, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 9, 2020 3 hours ago, gordon s said: Didn't mention it at the time, but that has to be the line of the month...... I'll remember that thought should the situation present itself..... I was amazed at the collective restraint when I read that coffee-across-the-computer statement. 1 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 Friday night and all is well... I'm happy to be on a roll right now with a virtual production line taking each board in turn. Added seven lengths of SMP to the pointwork and all the droppers are in place ready for the bus wiring. When did it change from 'buss' wiring to 'bus' wiring? When I was in electro mech, we always talked about buss bars and a bus was something you got on to go down town. Funny thing, the English language..... Once all was in place and tested out, I airbrushed a coat of primer and will add the brown track colour later tonight. Whooppee do....more ballasting over the next few days... The more observant will see that I pre ballast the turnouts as I got fed up gumming up the works. A liberal coat of PVA first and then set the turnout into the glue. Immediately tip on the ballast and hoover up the excess. Job done and it all still works... In case you're wondering how I know where to lay the track, I've managed to come with with a system that works for me. Print out Templot plan and tape to the ply sheet. Cut out the ply to the Templot track bed drawing. Take a small drill (1-2mm) and drill holes down one of the rails. I never used to bother with the pencil lines, but found the holes became difficult to see once a good spread of PVA was added to stick the cork down. I slice down some cork roll to 17mm width and stick that in place along the pencil lines. The bevelled edge strips are then added and the final job is to stick down the track with one of the rails aligned to the dark bevelled edge where it joins the plain 17mm cork. Double track is two lengths of 17mm cork plus a centre strip of 27.5mm to give me the correct spacing between the two tracks. Pretty simple really, but as always ever willing to hear if you have a better method. Son in Law is dragging me out for a round of golf over the weekend and I have a Stableford Qualifier on Monday, so progress may be slower over the next few days. Fear not, I'm determined to get round to the other side, before it warms up again and work takes a few months break...... 16 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold lezz01 Posted January 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 10, 2020 That would have been the advent of communication with phones by using thumbs Gordon. Everything gets shorter it's the instant gratification generation mate. Regards Lez. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted January 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 10, 2020 1 hour ago, gordon s said: When did it change from 'buss' wiring to 'bus' wiring? When I was in electro mech, we always talked about buss bars and a bus was something you got on to go down town. Funny thing, the English language..... Hi Gordon, Buss was wrong. It should always have been bus bars, or correctly 'bus bars, or strictly omnibus bars. omnibus is Latin, meaning "for all". It is the same meaning for common electrical connections, and for public transport to town, and for other things. It is also sometimes used to mean several items combined into one, such as the omnibus edition of The Archers at weekends. (Does that still exist?) cheers, Martin. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 (edited) Right or wrong, they were definitely bussbars when I was working in the 3 day week.... Tried to add an image link of bussbars but failed. I’ll be back.... https://www.shutterstock.com/search/bussbar Edited January 10, 2020 by gordon s 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted January 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 10, 2020 4 minutes ago, gordon s said: Right or wrong, they were definitely bussbars when I was working in the 3 day week.... Tried to add an image link of bussbars but failed. I’ll be back.... Hi Gordon, Call 'em what you like, but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busbar Martin. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted January 10, 2020 Author Share Posted January 10, 2020 Must be American spelling....... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 "Aaah, Houston, we've had a problem. We've had a Main B Bus Undervolt." 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold lezz01 Posted January 10, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 10, 2020 Wasn't that a main bus B undervolt....... Regards Lez. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 52 minutes ago, lezz01 said: Wasn't that a main bus B undervolt....... Regards Lez. Lez, I think what I quoted is from the actual transcripit (and audio) of the mission. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trustytrev Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Hello Gordon, The clue is even in your own example. trustytrev. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted January 11, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2020 There were a couple of chaps renewing the welding bay extraction vent, when one dropped a spanner across the busbars ans caused a pretty spectacular fireworks display, followed by a fire which caused the aluminium vent to melt and it had to be done again. Sorry for the topic drift. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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