RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted July 6, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 6, 2019 3 hours ago, acg5324 said: Still no progress on the layout.......tiling and decorating taking precedence...... The London Midland book appears to have hit the shelves a bit early....I’m very pleased with it. ......some sample pages uploaded....hairy arm not included! A few more posts like that and we won't have to buy the book! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted July 6, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 6, 2019 3 hours ago, acg5324 said: Slight detour from tiling the bathroom, got one of two SR cast iron signs mounted in the garden. M20 coach bolts to hold that one up. A length of bullhead rail would have done the trick. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted July 6, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 6, 2019 58 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: A length of bullhead rail would have done the trick. Easier to find and drill an old fence post...... whole bag of post concrete to anchor it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted August 31, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 31, 2019 I found that fitting a desk into the layout room would have been a bit of a squeeze, so as the layout design wasn’t set in stone I have removed a baseboard. The layout is now 10 x 6ft....still big enough. The approaches to Olympia will need remodelling at both ends however. Redundant track has already been lifted. A few pictures of the room. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted August 31, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 31, 2019 7 minutes ago, acg5324 said: I found that fitting a desk into the layout room would have been a bit of a squeeze, so as the layout design wasn’t set in stone I have removed a baseboard. The layout is now 10 x 6ft....still big enough. The approaches to Olympia will need remodelling at both ends however. Redundant track has already been lifted. A few pictures of the room. Very nice Andy. The operating well will be cosy - no room for NIB or me... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted August 31, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted August 31, 2019 Two foot wide.....maybe walk crab like!.....or fit a traverser on the floor! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted October 18, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 18, 2019 Been a busy week.....finished the Scottish Region book and this was sent off to the publishers. To celebrate I found a Scottish beer in our local off license. Lia Fail from the Inveralmond Brewery. Very nice it was too. As we are having visitors next weekend, a belated housewarming / significant birthday for me, I thought it was about time I actually did some work on Olympia. This morning I cleaned the baseboards of detritus. This afternoon the baseboards were levelled and clamped up, some still need bolt holes drilling. For the guests entertainment I thought I’d try and get something running. The DCC bus was extended right around the layout, temporary baseboard jumpers installed. A temporary track was laid to attach at each end of Olympia. Droppers dropped and attached, each board tested one at a time until I had a complete working loop. The class 40 was set off with a coach and has now run for an hour propelling the coach without falling off. Nice! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted October 18, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 18, 2019 3 hours ago, acg5324 said: Been a busy week.....finished the Scottish Region book and this was sent off to the publishers. To celebrate I found a Scottish beer in our local off license. Lia Fail from the Inveralmond Brewery. Very nice it was too. As we are having visitors next weekend, a belated housewarming / significant birthday for me, I thought it was about time I actually did some work on Olympia. This morning I cleaned the baseboards of detritus. This afternoon the baseboards were levelled and clamped up, some still need bolt holes drilling. For the guests entertainment I thought I’d try and get something running. The DCC bus was extended right around the layout, temporary baseboard jumpers installed. A temporary track was laid to attach at each end of Olympia. Droppers dropped and attached, each board tested one at a time until I had a complete working loop. The class 40 was set off with a coach and has now run for an hour propelling the coach without falling off. Nice! Well done sir, on all counts! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted October 19, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 19, 2019 Thanks John, it should be enough to entertain the guests! Sound fitted class 40 on a freight and probably a class 47 on a Motorail. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Good to hear you've been able to get back to the layout and undertake some modelling. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted October 20, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 20, 2019 (edited) Some spare time this afternoon and I got a second loop installed and attached to the DCC bus, two train running!! One interesting fault has come to light. One cross over on the outer loop works fine. The crossover from the inner loop to the outer loop causes a short. Not sure why yet. Both have insulating fishplates between them, but the curved ones don’t have any insulated joiners on the other rail that connects to the frog. This crossover works fine insulated joiners on the two rails that connect and the the two inner straight rails. On the lower picture the crossover doesn’t have an insulated joiners on the inner ‘straight’ rails, which I suspect is the problem. Edited October 20, 2019 by acg5324 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted October 20, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 20, 2019 Some up to date pictures of the whole layout and room. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted October 20, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 20, 2019 5 hours ago, acg5324 said: Some spare time this afternoon and I got a second loop installed and attached to the DCC bus, two train running!! One interesting fault has come to light. One cross over on the outer loop works fine. The crossover from the inner loop to the outer loop causes a short. Not sure why yet. Both have insulating fishplates between them, but the curved ones don’t have any insulated joiners on the other rail that connects to the frog. This crossover works fine insulated joiners on the two rails that connect and the the two inner straight rails. On the lower picture the crossover doesn’t have an insulated joiners on the inner ‘straight’ rails, which I suspect is the problem. I suspect you've created another crossover accidentally somewhere, with two points back-to-back even tough they're a long way apart. I always use insulating joiners on all four rails at the heel of every point. Either that, or someone's put a three-rail wagon in a siding... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted October 20, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 20, 2019 5 hours ago, acg5324 said: Some up to date pictures of the whole layout and room. Does the Solari actually flap? Oh, and that minion looks as though he's trying to work out how to climb on to his toilet seat... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted October 21, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 21, 2019 Ah Kevin......he has quite a repertoire. Lots of different minions phrases and a selection of fart noises! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted October 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 21, 2019 3 hours ago, acg5324 said: Ah Kevin......he has quite a repertoire. Lots of different minions phrases and a selection of fart noises! Must've learned that bit from you... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRail Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Andy looking good nice to see the layout as a whole 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted October 21, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 21, 2019 7 hours ago, St Enodoc said: Must've learned that bit from you... That’s just a rumour!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted November 14, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 14, 2019 (edited) . Edited November 14, 2019 by acg5324 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted November 14, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 14, 2019 43 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: ? I was trying to load a picture that is in PDF format, didn’t work and I couldn’t delete the post completely. The picture is the cover for the next book ScR. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted November 18, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 18, 2019 A successful and busy weekend in Brighton meeting up with everyone at the exhibition. Attendance was good and the standard of layouts was excellent. The journey down from York was via Birmingham New St, Mrs G wanted the Birmingham mug from Starbucks. Never drink there coffee but got mugs from around the world! This also gave me the chance to travel on a Pendalino, never been on one. Some say lucky you. The 1230 New st to Watford Junction turned out to be a 5 car 221......very very packed. Still ran to time and connections into the Milton Keynes - East Croydon service were made. Two more c377s got me to Southwick. Had an excellent visit to the Corkscrew lines on Friday and trains ran too. I head back north Thursday after giving a slide show and talk to the S.T.I.G ( earlier version than Top Gear ). 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted December 6, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 6, 2019 A small side project for Olympia, converting an Oxford Diecast n gauge RM into an RML 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongRail Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Personally would cut by hand saw more as it gives you far control. I have recently purchased a piercing saw and it’s brilliant 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted December 7, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 7, 2019 I don’t have a piercing saw so had to make do with the Dremel. If I do another conversion I’ll probably get one. The four body parts have had an overnight bath in Nitromors. Final clean up and glue together today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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