MinerChris

On 28/12/2020 at 08:15, bcnPete said:

Thanks Kris - good idea, never thought of that! I guess the only thing is you would still need to remove the roof to change the battery...unless the battery was housed under the chassis.

 

Come to think of it, the battery and switch could have been housed under the chassis so no need to remove the roof  

Hi Pete,

Not sure about this, but could you use a bank of capacitors instead of a battery, with your track pickups? *(Edit - With Diodes to protect against reverse polarity) That way, no flickering and no switches to turn the LED off. If you really loaded up the capacitance then I suspect that it would stay lit for quite a while and as this is 7mm I suspect you could fit more than in the 2mm equivalent... 

Best Regards,

Chris.

4 hours ago, bcnPete said:

Well done Chris - assuming it’s not DCC then with all those wires 

Indeed, probably a good thing really with the short during troubleshooting. I'm much happier having to replace a £20 transformer than an £120 DCC controller.

Chris 

Thank you Pete, it was really good to see you and Meeth last weekend too. Supplies for the next job on the list were picked up then too, but I baulked at the cost of the jig, so we'll see how (if) I can get on without it..

On 05/02/2019 at 17:04, queensquare said:

Cracking progress Chris, keep at it.

 

Jerry

Thanks Jerry, though progress again comes to a shuddering stop for three weeks while I go back off to work. -32 degrees this evening.

Chris.

Thanks Pete, the fiberglass scratch brush covers a thousand sins, or in this case solder everywhere.. Time will tell if it'll run as nicely as your new points! 

7 hours ago, John Brenchley said:

That looks very neat and accurate  Chris

I was interested to read your comment about using the modified filmstrip tiebar as I thought perhaps I was the only 2mm scale modeller still using this method.

I'd be interesting to know what your modification might be please as its always useful to find out how others have found ways to improve on existing ideas.

Best wishes

John

Thank you John, If you look at the April 2015 copy of the mag, you will see an article that D869 of this parish has written about it, in far better detail than I could.

Best Regards,

Chris.

Thanks Pete, but it's not a shade on your faboulous work.

In 2mm, smooth free movement is much better than anything which has any "stiction". It's all too easy to derail a fiddleyard full of stock if  sector plate sticks then suddenly moves. Just occured to me that a taper roller head bearing would make a really good pivot. Something like ebay item 270924167058.  Taper rollers are self-aligning and automatically take up any clearance.

nice progress

Beautifully made.

Thank you Nick, that's pretty much what I'm proposing. I don't suppose you could show the woodworking of your partition for me?

My latest thinking is that I'm probably going to have to stand a piece of 1/8 plywood up vertically using some metal L brackets drilled & attached into the baseboard surface. Then attach a longer piece of 0.5mm ply to this with the requisite curves in the corners.

Chris.

as opposed to sore thumbs from operating?

Whats 18" between friends... "Tolerance,"

Chris

Definitely think that the new grass looks spring-like, as opposed to the post drought of the old lint. I do wonder if the dye has faded over the last 10 years in the sun, you don't have a old piece stashed away in your bits box for comparison?

Best Regards,

Chris. 

There was.  I think John won - his pannier has been seen running on St Ruth. 

Pity he hasn't written it up then!

I just noticed that your blog doesn't appear in the RSS feed on the 2mm website. It really should.

 

If you drop a mail to info@2mm.org.uk (Nigel) then he will add it.

Would this mean a commitment to write more than once per year?

Now I know why these chassis are selling so well - you are consuming multiple examples!

why buy one, when you can get two, to support your friendly association...

Best Regards

Chris,

Thanks Both, I'll forego the resistor next time too methinks. still just a couple of bits to get around to before I bring it back. Just the two sets of etches, soldered and stripped many, many times.

Maybe a nice simple pannier next?

Isn't there a race on between John and Steve?

Best Regards.

Chris.

Perchance it only sleepeth?

Chris.

Making a rare public appearance to say "Why didn't Chris get in touch with the Brisbanites whilst out here???"  

Apologies, The only reason was that I completely forgot about the SEQAG, Its a pity as I had my Class 22, a coach and controller in tow. If I make it out to Aus again I'll be certain to get in touch and try and bring something interesting..

Chris.

Once I have made hundreds of these little devils in various denominations of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 bays

... And then onto the point rodding for St Ruth?

Chris.

Seems like sound engineering principles...
 
Engineering flowchart: Does it Move? WD40 vs. Duct Tape (original artist unknown) by dullhunk, on Flickr

Is the insulation destined to keep the coupling rods on the hall too?
 
Do you have any idea about how the moulded handrail brackets compare to similar ones from NBrass or the 2mmSA etched ones, as I guess this is the option for replacing the broken ones? 
 
Chris.

Thanks Pete.

Hopefully the delay to move down to the states won't be too much longer, and I can get started...

I have to admit It is a little daunting... I think that the sensible thing to have done would be to have got some of the more complicated pieces of point work out of the way before building the boards, but you only live and learn. I'm also hoping that building normal points will become much quicker once the new pegged easitrack point kits are available.

Chris

Thanks Jeremy, hopefully I'll get something done on it soon! The printing list is certainly long enough to justify the postage costs.

Best Regards,

Chris.

Sorry Rich, this seemed to fall off the world fairly quickly and thus I missed it!

I'm not too sure at what I'm after yet to be honest... I have another 16ft and 17ft6 body, but I was thinking of doing a different diagram from the V14 and V24's that I've already done. I always have an agent to consult my copy anyway, and plenty of other stuff to be getting on with.

Best Regards.

Chris.

Like Holman's 'Compair' compressors . . .

Perhaps... I think that the ones I'm looking at are pre-Compair though.

Off to a good start I think some interesting stock.

Thanks Don, hopefully a lot more interesting stock is still to come..

Best Regards,

Chris.

good luck

Thanks Nick. I think I'll need it..

You'll be needing some seats for that DMU of yours then

 

...and I know where you can find some nice bromine tanks to go on your Lowfits if you want a bit of variety.

I already have some... and you can put other things on Lowfits other then bromine tanks...