Peter Kazmierczak Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Crayons are too dangerous. Remember what happened to Homer Simpson? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 14, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14, 2018 Just you wait Clive - bet one of 'them' will be on here telling you one of those frog juice drink thingies (spawn?) will be just what you need and it would have saved you the time you spent sharing your hobby with your offspring, nothing like traditional railway modelling for family bonding Frog juicers (IMO) are the spawn of the devil - but that's another topic likely to be locked................. If it was wired with DCC and using a particular model of point motor, for frog switching you just need one wire. Just sayin' Cheers, Mick 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 14, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14, 2018 Ned Ludd has got a phone?????????????????????? Hope it's not a mobile thingy! What happened to the baked bean tin Clive? Mike. Hi Mike The Science Museum have asked me can they have my phone as an exhibit. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 14, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14, 2018 Hi Mike The Science Museum have asked me can they have my phone as an exhibit. "Mummy - what are those two tin cans and string for...........?" Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 14, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14, 2018 (edited) Crayons are also acceptable, if other technologies are beyond you... Ah! Crayons Before I started my nurse training I was unemployed, to fill up my time I use to help in the occupational therapy department of our local hospital for people with learning difficulties. They asked me to do a one to one session with this lad, and gave me some crayons and paper. Come the end of the session the head of the department asked me how I got on so I showed her what the lad had done with the crayons. She then asked me how many crayons did I have left. "All of them, but it was a struggle to stop him putting them in his mouth". With that one the other therapist said "Well done he normally eats half of them". Edited March 14, 2018 by Clive Mortimore 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 14, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14, 2018 "Mummy - what are those two tin cans and string for...........?" Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 14, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14, 2018 I hope your wiring is better than that at 0.49....... Cheers, Mick 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 14, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14, 2018 Any chance of some photos of the layout Clive. Either digital or roll film will do. Hi Peter I will do once I have laid some more of the station throat and tidied up. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted March 15, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 15, 2018 Mrs M has gone to sleep so banging this time of night might wake her. Indubitably. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted March 15, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 15, 2018 And trying to remember the programme addresses for the locos and units I reckon it was decent of the GWR/WR to give its loco numbers four digits so they could be used with DCC so easily. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 15, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 15, 2018 Over the past few nights i have had trains running round the layout. A nine car DMU made up of three 3 car units of different makes (both real and model) ran without any problems. Going the other way I have had a rake of coaches hauled by all sorts of locos. One Hornby 47 couldn't shift the train. I did think it was a bit light when I put it on teh track. It had no weight in it. Not a problem for a loco which was only used on locoshed models. Soon cured. A total balls up was an early Bachmann peak, it was making a funny noise. Give it an oil, broke the thing trying to get to the motor. Got it back together, still making a noise. I cannot recall when it last run..it might have just done so. A surprise was a very cheap secondhand B1 (Bachmann split chassis) I brought just before we moved, so I don't think I have ever run it. Well it romped away with the coaches. The 9 car DMU train was changed for a six car Cravens train, that looked and performed well. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBRJ Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 I reckon it was decent of the GWR/WR to give its loco numbers four digits so they could be used with DCC so easily. Always ahead of the curve at Swindon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 15, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 15, 2018 Always ahead of the curve at Swindon Downside with Swindon stuff is that it all looks the same.......... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted March 15, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 15, 2018 Downside with Swindon stuff is that it all looks the same.......... That's why Veronica never notices that I've bought another loco... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted March 15, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 15, 2018 I was chief winder up. Not much change then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bogie Posted March 15, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 15, 2018 Videos once all is running properly, and I have learned how to use the video bit on my camera. So no prospect of any videos then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesysmith Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 If your non working Bachmann peak is one of the centre motored versions, i suggest looking at the universal joints on the worms at the bogies, these coming loose is a easy fix with a bit of superglue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted March 15, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 15, 2018 Frog juicers (IMO) are the spawn of the devil - but that's another topic likely to be locked................. If it was wired with DCC and using a particular model of point motor, for frog switching you just need one wire. Just sayin' Cheers, Mick Mick, Any idea where that type of point motor happens to be on sale? (and surely you only need one wire to the frog whatever system of control you use) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 15, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 15, 2018 So no prospect of any videos then? I will wait until Mr P the master of railway video production visits and allow him to make a in depth visual report on my progress. I'm too old to keep learning stuff I don't feel is necessary for my enjoyment. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 15, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 15, 2018 If your non working Bachmann peak is one of the centre motored versions, i suggest looking at the universal joints on the worms at the bogies, these coming loose is a easy fix with a bit of superglue. Hi Cheesy Thank you, it might be worth a try. When I get to my pile of broken locos I will try and remember this post. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 15, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 15, 2018 I hope your wiring is better than that at 0.49....... Cheers, Mick Looking at what I have done so far, it wouldn't get my stamp if presented to me when I was an assembly inspector at Marconi's. You know you are getting old when in Chlemsford museum is a bit of radio kit designed and built at Marconi's with my stamp on it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted March 15, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 15, 2018 (edited) Don't I know it.. I worked on this, and I don't mean a similar equipment, I mean this one. And it's in the RAF Radar Museum at What was RAF Neatishead... Along with a load of other stuff I worked on. PS it displayed pictures From the Marconi Type 84 Radar... PS, I also held an inspection stamp from Marconi at a later date... Edited March 15, 2018 by TheQ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 15, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 15, 2018 Mick, Any idea where that type of point motor happens to be on sale? (and surely you only need one wire to the frog whatever system of control you use) Most motors require three wires to switch the frog polarity - left/right rail and frog. Whether that power is DC or DCC is irrelevant - it still needs track power to the switch terminals This is on top of the two or three wires already required to power the motor (2 for an analog stall type and certain solenoids - Kato for example- and three for normal solenoids) So most point motors with frog switches require 5 or 6 wires to the motor/switch combination. With this particularly blue type, the DCC in (when it is powered from the same DCC bus as your track) is switched back out on another terminal = 1 wire. QED. Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 15, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 15, 2018 Don't I know it.. Type+84_control_suite_Centre=10_med1.jpg I worked on this, and I don't mean a similar equipment, I mean this one. And it's in the RAF Radar Museum at What was RAF Neatishead... Along with a load of other stuff I worked on. PS it displayed pictures From the Marconi Type 84 Radar... PS, I also held an inspection stamp from Marconi at a later date.. Hi Q I was with Marconi Communications, they had about 7 sites around Chelmsford when I worked for them, plus there was Marconi Radar, Marconi Marine and the Research place at Gt Baddow. I think there are still a few people left working at Gt Baddow otherwise it has all gone. My stamp number was easy to remember if you were a puffer nutter 4-6-2. It is scary what was (nearly) state of the art gear when we were making it, is now museum displays. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted March 15, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 15, 2018 I reckon it was decent of the GWR/WR to give its loco numbers four digits so they could be used with DCC so easily. Some had even less! Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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