RonnieS

Inside the box the Brimal 24 volt D connector awaits wiring.

Yesterday I began work on yet another panel! This is the one for the loco yard and as the previous 3 utilises a WORKS box. At £10 it saves a lot of work over building one from scratch. The power for the turntable will be a S/H gauge MASTER controller let into the lid of the box and as you can see the AC power socket let into the side. The mains/ 16vAC transformer just plugs in.

Last night I fitted the studs and switches into the goods yard panel top. A soldering session (on the internals) will take place this weekend!

Not really a lot else completed but all the points now work in the goods yard.

Like a good whiskey I improve with time.

Long time no posting. The Camera died! A new acquisition was tried out today on Clive's scenic work. However I hadn't worked out how to programme out the flash but playing about at home I now have "got it" so more soon.

Oh Boy They should make you Sales Manager for CDC models! The above photographs have sold me anyway. Thank you so much.

Just found this. What a crying shame the photographs were lost!

I have several Hornby Black fives and in order to produce good ones I have cannibalised bits from one loco and my spares box. This has left me with 3 usable tenders, a good chassis and a really bare body. I only need cab steps and sandboxes and I'll be OK for yet another. Any source recommendations would be really welcome.

Well I gave it the occasional run BUT today a driving wheel moved on it's axle. In a box now awaiting it's fate. Again DO NOT DO THIS CONVERSION

I am considering replacing my aged airbrush with https://www.expotools.com/acatalog/Gravity-Feed-Airbrush-with-Pistol-Grip-AB777.html but I can't find a review. Could any helpful person here comment on it's ability?

247 developments is now selling containers https://www.rmweb.co.uk/profile/29567-247-developments/content/?type=forums_topic_post Long missing items. I am putting an order together but wonder if the steel containers made it to the 1960s? I thought I had seen a photograph but can't find it now.

Work continues on the Yard side...................updated plan

Hi Brian Quite interested in the container set. Was that a show special? Or can I order a set? If so it's by @phone only I believe. I am a bit deaf these days but should be OK.

Well done Tony! They got about more than you would think. I have a photo of one near Bilston (Wolverhampton area). A running in turn on a trip working (or as known in the area a "bank train") Rob sent me the below info According to "Pannier Papers No 6", several 15xxs were overhauled at Wolverhampton Stafford Road works:- 1500 left works 10/5/62 1502 left works 13/6/57 1507 left works 27/12/60. 1507 On 1/1/61was photographed at Worcester on the only known passenger working by the class!!

Well! It's all coming together (a bit like a jigsaw puzzle) slowly. The DCC/DC panel is working great. A flick of a switch and it's either Z21 or a choice of 2 MODELEX hand held controllers. The latter are the absolute bees knees in DC control. Achievement due to all the gang working together . Teamwork makes the dream work!

Have you seen this? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/355414562110?hash=item52c05bd53e:g:0H8AAOSwCFNls~67&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4AUaz0ZXB3aVyNFW6dPqdRLW4R%2Fy5%2FI69eXxFpacGdFnMlHf710ehzqGeaU2eqMPffK71sxnw9qNEcBSXHVKf98RGILn0hTG9mcsT0g24RpWx1WHUAFVeVGtflC3Q0bvVgMtmw0%2BCcQHpqoZ%2Ffosv2atRJl5KFXGZSldBihm%2Fm8GfBCZb34mFTdjpMf3S5Xafv3MiJtbykj0wPVZSdYmRTCEftJaVOVdh%2Bdt9WOD1ZPCK3iisrBZK4knfCPoSJ17tHIDf45YoHpOTMcbjGNKmKjBh7jFW94I08leA7iVU4TY|tkp%3ABk9SR9j6vr2pYw

Inspirational! I feel ready to try one after seeing this. Especially as I have just discovered https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/386322315345 and my soldering is now much much neater

Just in case anyone was wondering about the name (and nobody was!)

Finally!

Not a lot happening on OLD MILLS as It's the run up to and I have been working on a DCC/DC control panel for a club project.

My Christmas Present to me is the Hornby 78xxx. This one was latterly Gloucester allocated so not a huge stretch of maybe. At the mo it's very stiff and requires much running in. Nearly al my 80+ locos run at 3 on the Modelex but this one needed 5 for the first hour. It's now about 4.2 so more miles!

I served my apprenticeship at Bilston Steelworks. From 1965 on. It changed from Stewarts and LLoyds to British steel during this time and at the start there were still a few steam locos. My Uncle Bill was high up in the electrical part of the loco shed, although what his job tittle was I can't recall.

Nothing much happening here. New year resolutions will include some weathering