RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted June 13, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 13, 2022 5 minutes ago, Bucoops said: The exception being solid state discs and regular hard disks :D SSD's are cheap now, I have loads for storage. I used to bin HDDs as soon I upgraded, with SSDs I just add them to storage (there just so easy to stick together and to practically anything else). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted June 13, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2022 7 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said: SSD's are cheap now, I have loads for storage. I used to bin HDDs as soon I upgraded, with SSDs I just add them to storage (there just so easy to stick together and to practically anything else). They're certainly a lot cheaper than they used to be. Still spent (for work) £16k on them last year though 🤪 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted June 13, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2022 2 minutes ago, Bucoops said: Still spent (for work) £16k on them last year though Reverting to topic, that would buy a lot of Peco double slips. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Bucoops Posted June 13, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2022 20 minutes ago, martin_wynne said: Reverting to topic, that would buy a lot of Peco double slips. Yup! Wonder how I can get them onto expenses... 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dasatcopthorne Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 (edited) Just ordered and paid for a BH Double Slip from Hattons that they say is in stock. £60.00 Fingers crossed. Dave Edited June 21, 2022 by dasatcopthorne 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PMP Posted June 18, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 18, 2022 9 hours ago, dasatcopthorne said: Just ordered and paid for a BH Double Slip from Hattons that they say is in stock. £60.00 Finders crossed. Dave They are available, and the quality is excellent, as indeed are the single slips and crossings. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasatcopthorne Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 A word of warning if you are replacing a Flatbottom version with this new Bullhead version. 1. The tiebars are in a slightly differing position. 2. The holes in the teirbars for the drive pin are slightly larger, possibly requiring more movement of the motor. Especially Servos. Dave. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasatcopthorne Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Double and probably single Slips. A possible small problem. Over the weekend whilst I was operating Elbow Lane at a show, I came across a small problem that other users may find. During the afternoon I had a couple of instances where wagons were taking the wrong road as per the blades settings. On inspection I discovered the one blade was failing to close completely against its stock rail. My first thought was that a particle of ballast was trapped behind the blade but this proved to not be the case. So I put my glasses on! I then realised what the problem was. Because the blade, at its pivot end, is 'loose', it had slid along and no longer fitted into the set/flat area in the stock rail. I am certain this movement was caused by track cleaning. The cure is simple enough. Just push the blade gently back towards its pivot end and hey presto. Keep a lookout for this and I hope it helps someone. Dave 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mark C Posted November 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 12, 2022 On 26/09/2022 at 10:40, dasatcopthorne said: Double and probably single Slips. A possible small problem. Over the weekend whilst I was operating Elbow Lane at a show, I came across a small problem that other users may find. During the afternoon I had a couple of instances where wagons were taking the wrong road as per the blades settings. On inspection I discovered the one blade was failing to close completely against its stock rail. My first thought was that a particle of ballast was trapped behind the blade but this proved to not be the case. So I put my glasses on! I then realised what the problem was. Because the blade, at its pivot end, is 'loose', it had slid along and no longer fitted into the set/flat area in the stock rail. I am certain this movement was caused by track cleaning. The cure is simple enough. Just push the blade gently back towards its pivot end and hey presto. Keep a lookout for this and I hope it helps someone. Dave I had a similar issue with switch blades not closing tightly and derailing stock...caused, in my case, by an incorrect rail being used during assembly which meant that the switch blade's inset was on the other side of the rail (and at the far end of the rail the planing was the wrong way round). It's going back to the retailer for exchange... Otherwise an extremely impressive piece of pointwork. Mark 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NFWEM57 Posted June 8, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 8, 2023 (edited) On 29/10/2021 at 07:13, Eveannessant said: Necessity is the mother of learning new skills. Did you build in OO or have you switched to building in O..? Just curious, given your contributions regarding both gauges..! Edited June 8, 2023 by NFWEM57 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sulzer71 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Question for those that are using the double slip Are these useable on DCC straight out of the box without having to juice the frogs so to speak? I always attach droppers at either end of each turnout so will loco's negotiate these without stalling wired that way? Tia Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Nile Posted January 24 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 24 Depends on the locos - number of wheels, pickups etc. The frogs already have wires attached, if you keep these accessible then you can add juicers later if needed. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sulzer71 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 9 minutes ago, Nile said: Depends on the locos - number of wheels, pickups etc. The frogs already have wires attached, if you keep these accessible then you can add juicers later if needed. Have had no issues wit SLW Class 24s or Accurascale Class 37s on the normal turnouts , don't think I had any issues with a new tooling Bachmann Class 20 either Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Nile Posted January 24 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 24 Then you should be ok. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PMP Posted January 24 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 24 3 hours ago, sulzer71 said: Question for those that are using the double slip Are these useable on DCC straight out of the box without having to juice the frogs so to speak? I always attach droppers at either end of each turnout so will loco's negotiate these without stalling wired that way? Tia Simple answer, yes. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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