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might be worth having a read of the @Sir TophamHatt edit and this https://www.modelrailforum.com/forums/blog/neil_s_wood/index.php?showentry=228

Someone was asking what brackets were missing.....so while doing some essential winter maintenance i took some shots.... and differences between a 0 and 1 No 1 end and its buffer beam pipe work We will start with No1 one end B Side nearest camera, fuel filler valve, followed by the radiator Drain/filer followed by 1 of 4 external bogie retainers, followed by speedometer drive, followed by the engine water filler/drain, followed by the oil filler. (note the different bearing suppliers for No1 axle and No3 axle (timken and SKF) Further down, Battery boxes and gravity catches each of the 4 boxes contains 24 cells, the tanks below were added during dual brake conversion, the two orange boxes are the centre point tappings for the batteries (required for the lighting) which is split into two 110v circuits and the control emergency switch (which used to allow the cubicle to run from a battery supply) also present on the right hand side of the tanks is the check valve for the engine room compressor. Note the missing sandboxes on the outer ends of the bogies. Above we have the hatch for the charge circuits, and light switch, as well as jump start terminals! Further down...the external BIS Pull lifting bracket attachment points, fire alarm PULL, bogie retention bracket no2, urinal cistern filler another lifting bracket attachment, and finally the white pipe is vacuum pipework. No2 end A Side....note the different headcode panel 149 was unique in that it had different ends due to an accident at this point of its life... going forward lifiting bracket, urinal cistern filler, fire alarm pull another bracket Close up of No2 end Further on at No2 end A side, the NON return valve for the locomotives nose end air compressor, the pipe facing down is the turbocharger breather and storm drain, the brass "whistle like object" on the white pipe is a safety valve for the main air reservoirs, outer tank and pipework is unique to a dual braked machine. battery box B side, with oil drain, and bed plate drain (out of view) Moving further up... Engine oil filler, engine water drain, Exhauster breather (peaks were synonymous with a white mist coming out of this pipe, this indicates the train they are hauling is vacuum and the exhauster (a heavy consumer of oil) is running, lifiting bracket...radiator overflow, retention bracket, and another lifiting bracket, rad filler and fuel filler, and the main vacuum pipe (like the other end) Close up of the buffer beam. ETH room roof, with the water tank fillers blanked off and covers unqiue to an ETH machine Underneath showing the arrangement of the water tanks and the bed plate water tank. the inner pairs of tanks were fitted as built, the other tanks added when dual braked. close up of the retention bracket someone mentioned about viewing the frame through the grill, its actually the back of the grill you can see....it has sections fabricated to fit between the frame, not over it. Someone mentioned the fuel tanks, well there you go Just for fun, this is where the toilet used to be, in the former (now ETH) boiler room, the outlet is all thats left of the urinal the shelf above is where the cistern sat. You can see the frame in good detail. The eth room roof internally and the original position of the water tanks...which were replaced with ballast weights on removal

Hi Keith... Its odd because android 6 is quoted as needing 2gb of ram to run, but I suspect this is a recommendation rather than a requirement....and ESU have slimmed it down for there usage... ISTR that Android 4 was recommended 1gb, which is why I think it may have been "swapping" to flash and chewing up battery life...interestingly....my PC recognises the MC II as a HP G7 tablet....which has the following specs... https://support.hp.com/in-en/document/c04459235 HP only officially support it up to 4.42 Be interesting to see if there are any hacky bashers out there that have shoe-horned a later version on....but if im honest I dont think it has the ram to support a higher version of android... oh....and @GoingUnderground I can confirm it still chews through battery life when in standby!! But one thing I have turned off is location as its not needed and this seems to have had a good improvement on battery life.

@young37215 AFAIK the latest Mc2 has been out at least 6 months, I purchased one from Peters Spares, TBH im not sure what your expecting. I have had to send it for repairs and had a new one sent to me by ESU in the last month however, the specs are as follows CPU Quadcore A33 Memory 1gb Android Version 6.01 Android is starting to require more memory and the MC2 would require an upgrade and the battery life is bad enough as it is without having more memory to support. as regards your question...fitting a higher capacity batter should be fine as long as the voltage is the same and it fits n....but....I doubt if the access point would have the capacity to charge it.... im sure I read somewhere someone found a way of accessing the boot loader on the MC2 and managed to upgrade android to a later version.....but they didn't release how they did it. Edit....I note that the app sat idle consumes 407mb of ram....if the previous MC II only had 512mb it's likely that it was writing swap files to flash.....which would explain the poor battery life...

The poly fuse is there @RAF96 because car bulbs can and sometimes do mask a short from the command station...and the concern is they can draw enough amps to melt wiring if the short were to go un-noticed for long periods, the poly fuse is there to blow should the bulb draw more than 0.9 amps if you are talking about the same diagram I have seen 0.9 amps was deemed to be safe enough to leave on for extended periods.

Its likely....the motor algorithm set on the TTS decoder is incorrect, what speed step does the judder occur at? Most juddering I have had is at slow speed, The Hornby 66 uses the same motor as my Limby class 31 and I have had to change the motor algorithm to get reasonable operation, its the same on the 8 pin Bachmann 37s and the super detail class 31s I have fitted and vitrains 37s and 47s.. in fact im yet to find a motor that TTS works perfectly with out of the box....... Try those.... CV3=35, CV4=20, CV150=1, CV153=215, CV154=0. Also, turn off DC running in CV29 Also.....theres an awful lot of conjecture and discussion on a lot of American modelling forums about the use of car bulbs as short protectors....the gist is while they work.....they can allow a short to persist....and whilst at low currents that's fine....at higher currents....a car bulb puts out a tremendous amount of heat.....enough to start a fire! http://www.rr-cirkits.com/Notebook/short.html also....might be worth bearing in mind @RAF96 is a DCC beta tester for a high profile manufacturer. Might be worth reviewing what you have said as its a bit harsh!

Hi Roy, Jamie is Loksound, he's on here drop him a PM. He takes PayPal and emails you the sound file. SWD just sell a Non re-furbed and refurbed 37 file, was at a time when I didn't pay much attention to 37s, I dont think there is too much difference to the sounds between a 4 and 5 TBH. But more knowledgeable folk might have a different opinion

SWD definitely have them roy, not I have that project in two of my 37/5s, Likewise so do howse, but its fairly old project, I dont know if Jamie Goodman @gooderzhas done one he might of but Obviously Biffs is also well known which I believe is recorded from a 37/5, and im sure he has done one from a 37/4 as well. I don't know if 37s do rev up, it wouldn't surprise me if they don't....they have quite a low ETH capability, the idle speed is the same with ETH off (compared to a 45 or 47 in which the idle speed was permanently raised)

engine....yes the same pretty much however loaded up slightly slower and more controlled start up...different....the 37/5s were alternator fitted....generator fitted locomotives start the engine by motoring over the generator, you cant do this with an alternator so 37/5s have starter motors which make a characteristic whining sound when starting the engine. biffo supplies both refurbished and unrefurbished sound files, as does Howes, and maybe Jamie goodman, SWD also supply both types, ive only sampled biffs recently and I must say its very very good.

Yeah that's likely Nearholmer, there was also one in use on the New York City Fire department as a water pump.... its not really a fancy engine, its unusual but then unusual piston and crankshaft had been around for a while (Napier Sabre) its a very powerful engine for its size, and also its a very high revving engine So your generator was quicker to react to outages.

Deltics Loco engines are not turbo charged @MarkC, they are scavenge blown, only the marine deltics were turbocharged, and there was considerable issues I seem to recall trying to get them to run in a loco.....I suspect....that this is either...an ex Norwegian patrol boat engine....or possibly one of the last Royal Navy units......the seller is probably a breaker....which is why there is little info on it......however....25k is not to be sniffed at...whilst it would be very difficult to put in a loco...it will contain a lot of spare common parts.

you can go one better diesel electric locomotives are technically hybrids

Ahh but that's how these things start for example...my line the GWR had an issue at a crossing....which a local complained wasn't as wheelchair friendly as it could be....which started as a letter in the local rag and whipped up a massive storm....in the end the railway reminded them it wasn't a public right of way...and basically said if they think the crossing needs that much investment then they will simply remove it......quite quickly the issue died down....

Pollution control is by far the biggest issue that is the threat to preserved lines....the threat to steam is the government ban on house coal burning....whilst its likely heritage operations will be exempt from this, the issue they are facing is it will decimate what's left of the domestic coal industry because according to a study done by the HRA it will not be viable to run a coal mine just to supply the preserved lines of the UK, meaning that preservation will have to rely further on imports....which again may not be viable to ship....and even then they are reliant on the less than perfect coal especially for steam loco's of the copper capped variety. ironically though what the letter on the original post fails to realise...is that the swanage railway, serves quite heavily as a park and ride....so if the line closed....how grid-locked would swanage actually be? In addition with the investment in the wareham scheme by the local authority...I fail to see that this will actually gain any traction whatsoever....

Hi Brian, they are all common negative, I know how to wire it I was just going to copy how they have done it, they wire the terminals together in groups of 2 3 or 4 depending on the aspect of the signal, so the when you rotate the knob it goes ...red yellow green...or red and green, or red yellow double yellow and green, I didn't realise they had modded the switches though, hence my confusion, I thought you could get continuously rotating ones, off the shelf. Thanks for your help.

But they are sunken on the real thing.....granted not as much as the Hornby one but short of halving the thickness of the bodyshell what could they do?

In what way do you see the Hornby model being deficient? That's not a poke im genuinely interested.

Option 2 looks like the ploughs that were given with the original Bachmann class 37, which had slightly different bogie frames. (which is what you have purchased) Unlikely to see those now as the more traditional clip in ploughs were distributed as soon as the 37 was retooled which was quite a while ago.... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bachmann-Class-25-Detailing-pack-snowploughs-with-Speaker-chassis-OO-gauge/274595894860?hash=item3fef30d64c:g:tDQAAOSwRetfxTeV Bachmann, 25 kits seem to still feature separate ploughs... but....I would really give the bogies a good scrub, and try and key for glue to grab, as the plastic Bachmann use on the bogies I find notoriously difficult to glue. other options might be Vitrains and Hornby detailing kits for the 50s which are separate ploughs, or theres the etched brass route, which I seem to recall ph-designs offer

Thankfully @Darius43 these don't use that method, I suspect Phil is right its just lack of pickups on such a large wheelbase

Mr P lve looked at those contacts more times than we have looked in No1 end cab junction box on the real 45149....

Hi @Crosland, its a single pole switch 16 way switch express models wired the outputs together according to the signal used...so a 2 aspect wired the poles in groups of 2 so at each increment you got...red then green then back to red again then green..............same with the 3 aspect and the 4 aspect and yes @wasdavetheroad i have googled it but...its like searching a needle in a stack of needles. i dont expect express models will get them back in stock either

Hi All, i used to buy express models rotary switches for my signals, they are the ones that continuously rotate, i need some more but i dont know what they are called to look in the usual electronics sources. Any one know what type of rotary switch they are? Thanks Simon

Hi Lippy, those are the ones

Its unlikely to be the decoder. I have had a number of speaker coils fail recently, so I would just try a new speaker. @charliepettyIf its the factory one it will be a loksound select V4, it could be the speaker has failed. it will be a 20x40 4 ohm speaker