RMweb Gold Corbs Posted November 28, 2018 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 28, 2018 I thought you’d let the “magic smoke” out... Edit: I thought it was real CGI, but fake smoke? hahaha touché Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barclay Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 With thanks to member Phil Sutters, as of 6/8/17, G.W. Models is as follows:- Address:- 11 Croshaw Close, Lancing, West Sussex, BN15 9LE. Telephone:- 01903 767231. Contact details are still the same - He advertises in every MRJ and attends some of the better shows. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 Contact details are still the same - He advertises in every MRJ and attends some of the better shows. I tend to seek to avoid the sense of judgment that comes from opening the MRJ, and I clearly go to the wrong sort of shows! Thanks to Tiptonian for the contact details, and to you for confirming them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 I have a new laptop, so can now view your videos, Corbs. Can you please tell us about the radio control system that you are using? I've never seen RC in anything so small and I'm amazed by it. I have an idea to fit it into a small 4w overhead electric loco. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Corbs Posted December 1, 2018 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 1, 2018 (edited) Of course! I think with your chassis building ability you'd be able to build a much better running loco than what I have. I use this Deltang Tx-22 transmitter to control it. The big one is the forward/backward speed control. The top left twisty knob is the Selecta, which means you can programme up to 12 different locos. The top right one is the inertia control, which allows you to whack the speed control up to the speed you want, and the loco will gradually gather speed (and the inverse for stopping) The transmitter needs to be paired with a receiver on the loco. I think the one I have used is the Rx41d-x-v5-W from this site: http://www.micronradiocontrol.co.uk/rx_dt_land_v5.html Micron also sell the switches, batteries, cables and connectors. The battery is a tiny single cell (1s) 3.7v LiPo. What I would advise is getting the RC gear first, and designing the loco around it. Both 'Perseus' and my Lambtonesque 0-6-2T suffer from the fact that they were built as DC locos, and I didn't design them to have space for batteries or RC gear. With Perseus that means the battery is sharing space with the motor in the cab rather than the boiler. With the other one it means I can't use nice big battery. Here's a comparison of how a 3.7v battery runs the motor. Perseus (the green one) has a standard Hornby 12v DV motor in it, while Bill (the yellow one) has a tiny can motor mounted in it. The 12v suffers from short battery life and has a lower top speed (both running at full speed when in reverse) because it is effectively working at a third of its potential. Best to design the loco around a 3v or 6v motor rather than a 12v one. In a larger loco this would not be so much or an issue as you could fit an 8v upconverter and a massive battery to overcome the shortened battery life, but in these tiny things it's a bit tricky. I removed Bill's rods for these tests to overcome the binding. Here's the loco accelerating with inertia turned up to 100%. Here's the exact same RC rig bodged on to a Tenshodo Spud. Usually these won't run at less than Mach 1 but with RC it can crawl over insulfrog points quite nicely. The only thing I haven't put on Bill is a charging plug, but I think I'm not going to bother, and just have the body easily removable (magnets or something, Nile-style) and able to quick swap the battery using the UM plug. On my other models I've put charging plugs in and the wiring gets a bit messy. The most elegant one I did was this 009 Bachmann Skarloey which has the plug behind the smokebox door. Hope this is useful! Bonus Bill. Of course, before I added handrails etc. what I should have done is make a cast of Bill so I could make a resin copy and not have to chop up another ERTL loco for Ben.... Edited December 1, 2018 by Corbs 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted December 2, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2018 For people who want radio control without combining DCC, Deltang based systems are definitely the way to go. Combined with small motors and non worm-based transmissions (to reduce power losses) then there is great potential to go for battery power, as the power consumption is reduced. For those prepared to consider metal rather than nylon gears, the following link to eBay might be of interest. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Helical-Gear-Angled-Toothed-45-Module-0-5-Steel/201139346744?hash=item2ed4d6dd38:m:mbCey0BegoveuhlU3MnTFBQ&var=500304674000 The link is for helicals, but have a look at other items in the eBay shop. Not tried them, but these look to be quality items. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brack Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 Those helicals do look good, but the postage is pretty hefty. You'd need to order a big bunch to make it economical. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted December 2, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2018 Those helicals do look good, but the postage is pretty hefty. You'd need to order a big bunch to make it economical. Aye, so it makes sense for a group of people, if interested, to combine an order, or to buy a few sets and lay them in stock for the future. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 I hope you don't mind me going slightly OT, Corbs, but this miniature RC stuff has got me thinking about building another Manning Wardle Class H. They built a crane tank, an "extensive alteration" Class H in 1876 and a "Special" in 1918, which was a crane tank on Class H frames etc. I am wondering if it will be possible to build such a small thing in 4mm scale and have the crane work. Probably not fully working but at least slewing. The traction motor taking power from the track, in the usual way, and the crane motor(s) worked by RC, perhaps? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Corbs Posted December 6, 2018 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 6, 2018 (edited) Yes I think that would be easy to do. You could do it on a budget using the same RC gear I used for my initial test with a Bachmann 'Skarloey'. I bought one of these coke can RC cars: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Coke-Can-Mini-Speed-RC-Radio-Remote-Control-Micro-Racing-Car-Toy-Gift-New-UK/264002720804?_trkparms=aid%3D555017%26algo%3DPL.CASSINI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D55149%26meid%3D5edf19a90ebf40539dd298cde8475213%26pid%3D101006%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26%26itm%3D264002720804&_trksid=p2045573.c101006.m3226 and just used the PCB Rx and battery, threw away the motor, and wired the motor connections to the loco, so you could wire them to the slewing motor. If you wanted to be really clever you could wire the left/right steering control to a raise/lower function on the chain? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-Y567olXjM Edited December 6, 2018 by Corbs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barclay Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 That I would love to see..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Dave, have you seen the crane loco that Giles is building? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Corbs Posted March 1, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 1, 2019 Howdy y'all Last night I did some more work on the Bagnall now that the ROD locos and Garratt are mostly finished. I'd opted to use the motion and cylinders from an Electrotren 0-6-0T which I'd used in a different project. They would not fit in the space as they came so the ends were sawn off. Replaced with thin plastic from some packaging, then filed and cut to fit before painting. L shaped styrene added to blend the smokebox (the body is not mounted to the chassis to enable access to the battery etc.) into the running plate. Now with plates added. needs some representation of a motion bracket. Testing here on RC with the motion fitted. Not too bad. I've worked out it's the front wheelset which needs adjustment as one wheel is not at 90 degrees to the axle. I hope that fixing this will get rid of the lurching at low speed. The front wheelset also had thin strips of styrene packing added to eliminate some of the side play that allowed the crankpins to contact the crosshead. I need to finish off the under boiler area, add a backhead and crew to the cab, and fit a rear coupling (probably an NEM pocket to enable some shunting). 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Corbs Posted March 3, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 3, 2019 Whilst having the top speed of a snail is nice for pootling about the layout, the loco was quite gutless and struggled to move more than a couple of (admittedly quite heavy) wagons. I opted to splice in a remove-able 3.7v-12v converter. I would have gone for the 8v one but oddly it's twice the size. Having a UM plug on each end means I can change it back if needed, or try it on other locos, but most importantly it keeps the battery separate and swappable. In the long term I may hard wire it in to save space. The wiring arrangement now needs a tidy up as it fits within the boiler, but only just. Mostly the overlong shrink wrap is to blame, but I have been carefully dremelling out as much of the inside of the boiler supports as possible. The loco is now much more powerful, the sacrifice being that the battery life is shortened and the low speed ability is still there, but requires a much more careful hand on the throttle. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Corbs Posted March 5, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 5, 2019 Motion bracket and sandboxes added. A slot was cut in the rear bufferbeam for the kadee, misjudged it a bit but fixed with a little fillet. The NEM pocket was spliced into the chassis and fixed with epoxy overnight. A cruel close up shot of the other side. The sandbox filler lids are from RT Models. The tops of the cylinders are cut from styrene strip. The 12v converter works very well. I did a test on the rollers with the loco at full throttle to ascertain minimum battery life. Just under 23 minutes continuously so not too bad considering in normal use it’ll be sat still a lot of the time. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_long Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 On 03/03/2019 at 01:27, Corbs said: Whilst having the top speed of a snail is nice for pootling about the layout, the loco was quite gutless and struggled to move more than a couple of (admittedly quite heavy) wagons. I opted to splice in a remove-able 3.7v-12v converter. I would have gone for the 8v one but oddly it's twice the size. Having a UM plug on each end means I can change it back if needed, or try it on other locos, but most importantly it keeps the battery separate and swappable. In the long term I may hard wire it in to save space. The wiring arrangement now needs a tidy up as it fits within the boiler, but only just. Mostly the overlong shrink wrap is to blame, but I have been carefully dremelling out as much of the inside of the boiler supports as possible. The loco is now much more powerful, the sacrifice being that the battery life is shortened and the low speed ability is still there, but requires a much more careful hand on the throttle. Great thread Corbs, I've found that I lose low speed control with 12v step up chips, so unless I can use a 3V motor then I use the pololu 9v step up chips. still very small and it gives the best of both worlds, control and battery life. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Corbs Posted March 26, 2019 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26, 2019 Sounds perfect! If it does the job then I'd probably hard-wire it in to the loco to have only 1 plug and save space. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Corbs Posted May 25, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted May 25, 2020 (edited) Just over a year on and I am making another one. I didn't fancy dealing with diecast again so made a resin copy of the first one to experiment with. Here is a vid of how that went... Edited May 25, 2020 by Corbs 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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