RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted July 27, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 27, 2017 I have decided to do a stock take of my point motors One!... Erm... One!... Nope, that's it... Al. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 One!... Erm... One!... Nope, that's it... Al. You think that's bad, I'm writing up an interview with a company about dealing with the implications of Spain's decision to impose daily VAT returns on businesses! Boring doesn't come into it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRUNFOS Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 You think that's bad, I'm writing up an interview with a company about dealing with the implications of Spain's decision to impose daily VAT returns on businesses! Boring doesn't come into it! Don't mention the Inquisition! Sir Tain Amusement. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 Given that you have to submit a return for every day t hat you raise or pay bills, and the fine is €1500 per day that you're late, we can see how the Spanish government plans to recover all its lost revenues. No doubt we'll follow suit soon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 Phil - you just gotta get yourself one of these .... https://beta.railsofsheffield.com/br-4-6-2-holland-afrika-line-35023-merchant-navy-un-rebuilt-br-early-with-tts-sound-JJJA29906?utm_source=Mailing+List&utm_campaign=f9413b80ed-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_74d01bc2ed-f9413b80ed-5320093 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 27, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27, 2017 (edited) Yes, it was a laugh..... Points and accessories available: 14 Fulgerex that work (5 that don't) EBay ages ago (I'm using them with the duckworth dangle adaptation for above board, out of sight pokinisation) 3 Pecooboo P11s (gift)......F Yard somewhere? 6 Pecoboo PL10Es and 6 PL13 switches + 5 loom sets (purchased) Not sure about location due to horrendous thump when they change 5 Cobalt Omega Classic (purchased); slow and smooooooooth for the Station area 1 Cobalt Digital iP (gift); ditto above 3 Cobalt 90* adaptors (gift); not sure about use DCS 8fx Cobalt frog thingy (purchased) to make the slow and smooth work just like a magic smoothy I lied.....to make the Solenoids thump like a thumpy thing. Pah! 1 Tortoise and adapting set (gift); not sure of location I also found my NCE 6 Circuit Breaker set (one per BUS District + a spare) and a load of push button switches + some other switches, many of which are not the correct type for my points! (All purchased). This afternoon I decided to finish wiring up 7 Pecoboo P11s (thanks to the late Geoff Brewin for those) in the fiddle yard east end, to the H & M 6 Switch Flash Unit (EBay about 3 years ago.....bargain price) and attach a 16 V DC supply from my ancient H & M Duette (think I was given that in the 70s?) Ah ha I hear you say, 7 points with six switches. Oh yes, even I managed to wire up a crossover and lo, the trickery floweded and they all worked. My Flabber is gasted I can tell you; all those bits of wire and things and it works............................w.ell the motors move the points but I've no idea if the Polar Bearity magicness happens (yet). Such japes. Sir Flashmob de la Precinct. Edited July 27, 2017 by Mallard60022 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 27, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27, 2017 Phil - you just gotta get yourself one of these .... https://beta.railsofsheffield.com/br-4-6-2-holland-afrika-line-35023-merchant-navy-un-rebuilt-br-early-with-tts-sound-JJJA29906?utm_source=Mailing+List&utm_campaign=f9413b80ed-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_74d01bc2ed-f9413b80ed-5320093 Ummm, whistle is OK but the exhaust is ####### #####. Sounds like a Traction Engine that is about to explode; sorry Smiffy. Anyhow I do have the Clan Line version (no sound) DCC Fitted and it is yummy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 (edited) Bon ciel, je suis tellement excité! Permettez-moi de sortir ma veste, et je vais vous donner une main ... Beaucoup d'amour, Audrey Edited July 27, 2017 by Dr Gerbil-Fritters 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 27, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27, 2017 Bon ciel, je suis tellement excité! Permettez-moi de sortir ma veste, et je vais vous donner une main ... 96fb1e831a265782be6e218192d26d49--beautiful-things-fire.jpg Beaucoup d'amour, Audrey Wish I could speak Latin. Ar$h Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 Wish I could speak Latin. Ar$h I would translate, but on the basis that a picture's worth a thousand words, I think I'll leave it. Sir G Gainsbourg 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 27, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27, 2017 Sir Canarde de L'Orange here. Don't suppose anyone has a redundant laptop power supply plug/transformer and lead giving 12 V DC? If so I'm looking for a few as I'm told they make a good regulated power supply for point ops.. Thanks. Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 81C Posted July 27, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 27, 2017 (edited) Bon ciel, je suis tellement excité! Permettez-moi de sortir ma veste, et je vais vous donner une main ... 96fb1e831a265782be6e218192d26d49--beautiful-things-fire.jpg Beaucoup d'amour, Audrey Sir Gota-Lenght Edited July 27, 2017 by 81C Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted July 27, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 27, 2017 You can often find old cheap Hornby plug/transformers at local model railway exhibitions, or try one of the 2nd hand dealers who frequent them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted July 27, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27, 2017 eeeyoop. I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Sir Laniru, as it appeared in a Steam Railway Magazine April Fool p*ss take (gerrit?) some years ago. Almost as funny as when they painted one side of City of Truro in BR lined black....oh the letters..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted July 27, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27, 2017 PS - parcel on your doorstep in the morning, Phil. Delivery came today! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted July 27, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 27, 2017 Classic Mike. What Ship is that please? Not the Mail Boat by any chance that visits all sorts of places in the Fijord areas? The ship is the THV Patricia, a Trinity House buoy tender, completed 1982 and now a rather ageing but very comfortable lady. We do our level best to have a week aboard her every year - this being our 6th year in succession. This year we joined at Penzance and disembarked at Plymouth although we didn't travel a great distance overall - one night off Penzance, one off Mevagissey, one off Dartmouth (or rather the mouth of the Dart) and a total of 4 nights at various times during the week anchored in Plymouth Sound; definitely better than a week chugging up & down the BBC (Bl**dy Bristol Channel) which we have been exposed to on a couple of previous trips. Here we are passing the breakwater on our first entry to Plymouth Sound with Bovisand over in the background - And proving the opposite of the well known Plymothian saying we did get to find out that if you can see Smeaton's Tower from the vicinity of the Eddystone lighthouse you know it is going to rain and if you can't see it you know it is definitely raining. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 27, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27, 2017 You can often find old cheap Hornby plug/transformers at local model railway exhibitions, or try one of the 2nd hand dealers who frequent them. Thanks Stu. Are they deffo 'regulated power'? Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 27, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27, 2017 (edited) Some pics of not rocket science. Flash Gorden......he's alive..............................Number 5 is the dual switch for the crossover, middle background. Untidy wigglers for the 6 peco P 11s I was mumbling about previously Couple of Micro Switches at points. Typical Micro Switch arrangement for pokin' ops. Could be motorised if required. Frog feeds. Frog Juicer at west end. All this stuff is surface mounted, will be off stage and can be ripped up if it don't work. Once it all works then maybe it will get a bit more tidy and I might even motorise some of the presently Micro Switched points (planned for hand operation at the moment. My new friend. She's hot. Eastender Bridge .... Devon Seasider's fave spotting place... Edited July 27, 2017 by Mallard60022 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonseasider Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 Img_0667.jpg Eastender Bridge .... Devon Seasider's fave spotting place... From the other side of which these days (although not back in the halcyon days of the early '60s) you can look out over the Lyme Bay Cider Company vats & yard, home of the rather addictive Jack Ratt & a varied selection of "country" wines & liqueurs. ** ** Note: I have no connection with this company other than as a satisfied customer . . . . hic . . . . 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted July 28, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 28, 2017 Mr Duck You can get power packs on Ebay for reasonable money, I had to replace mine when it died. SS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 OMG Phil - you're smokin'! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted July 28, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 28, 2017 OMG Phil - you're smokin'! Hmm... OR Al. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 28, 2017 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 28, 2017 Hmm... ashtray1.jpg OR duck1.jpg Al. Trying to catch up with a few layouts including yorn............ Phil 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 81C Posted July 28, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 28, 2017 I think Stu means something like this there are plenty of others on fleebay to bid on. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-R965-Train-Controller-with-transformer-/222513498898?epid=1823234015&hash=item33ced68b12:g:8T4AAOSwq1JZGy0E Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted July 28, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 28, 2017 I think Stu means something like this there are plenty of others on fleebay to bid on. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-R965-Train-Controller-with-transformer-/222513498898?epid=1823234015&hash=item33ced68b12:g:8T4AAOSwq1JZGy0E Yes, exactly that. Thanks. Via the controller you also get a 16dc supply (the silver nuts). I've seen these for a fiver at some shows. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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