Graham456

O ! God!

Stu and other people haveing mad thoughts........ I have wondered if you made the rail from copper clad double sided paxolin as the rail web, with a running surface of some sort stuck on top, could you have a pair of cats whisker pick ups running eather side of the rail,sorting out the one rail positive/negative problem, the shape of the rail would keep the whiskers in the channels........over to you I am not going down that line....hopefully I am not mad enough. burriip, ding, fruit loop

Right who's going to risk getting chucked out of this forum by saying That's NOT a TOY that's the real Andy........it's so like his little pic

Blimey that must be a very early Railway as that was built between 1220 and 1258............is it still there....big cheeky smiley

Don't say sorry! Your loss! It would have been easier to sell them to us madmen on flebay and buy some car wheel weights all ready sized up and ready to go at your local tyre store!

O Dear ! Poor thing,even I think that might be dead. Unless there is some remains under the footplate?

In my case I buy people's cast off's there much cheaper than. Unbuilt kits, and some times they come with bonus of better wheels or motors, (even portascrapes) the sadder looking the more appealing to me, as for some reason I feel sorry for them! If glued together all the better as people can't seam to mix aradite so you can just pull the bits off the rubbery glue, I have ended up with five 44xx never paying more than a tenner for most of them Haveing said that even the one I bought new in 1978 wouldn't have been more than that! I also find it amusing how little people know about what there building? Why else do they stick the safety valves on top of the saddle tank rather than through the underside of boiler so that there ON the boiler of the Cotswold L & Y 0-6-0st ? Must have corrected three or more of these and them moved them on The only trouble with Ks kits is what do you do with 72xx,52xx,42xx, 1363' coal tanks ectra now the new and improved RTR has come out......................still no mazak rot to kill them off I suppose!

Yes your right! We know that's why I said there's no veneer in Eer! Doh! I meant rot in here (keyser's kits being the subject) Keysers not useing mazak

And NO mazak rot has ever appeared in a keyser kit has it ! Please note I talk of mazak rot. NOT thouse fun inducing rotten bits grotty bits or shoddy bits

And can we please have a few details of the box tank as I feel amount of cloning comeing on pretty please

South Eastern Finecast do usually stock old size Romford gears and will take them to shows if asked but you would have to mail order from them normally so you might as well go direct to markits! Shies at the loss of mainly trains,,,,,

[quote name="Enterprisingwestern" post="2743303" timestamp="1496576555" It seems to me that the market is just about floating in the right waters, something for everyone, but as always with railway modellers, not everyone is happy. Mike. The truth of this lies in that Hornby can make and sell a toy like wagon with Hornby 2017 or what ever date gauldly printed on the wagon every year and it sells ! Or thay wouldn't keep doing it

The thing is or to remember when complaining of the faults with model wagons,is that if a highly detailed 100% accurate model was put on the shelfs for us to buy.......what would we modellers DO ! ...Both in the Modeling and moaning departments and how boring forums would be

And you thought the days of taking liberties with liveries finished in the eightys did you ?But Not quite so in your face as then thankfully

As I remember it there is a age size limit to go underground at the big pit,as you can't have the little ones running off into the workings there are miles of passageways to get lost in So you might have to come back in a few years,if you don't do it befour the furture kids become now kids

Sorry John, they are as manufactured ...(pick pick sold by Dapol after some one there carves one side off). .I have several and they do come from new like that If feel that Compound2632 is itching to lay into these wagons, but for me I am happy to have the right wheel base at last along with the Hornby nine foot wheelbase wagons which do need work to rid them of toy ness to a greater degree compared to the Dapol ones Both fit in a rake of coopercraft and slaters with out looking so bloated and stretched like my old mainline and replica did

Well Branchline have and do replacement M7 milled brass part chassis with no law suits yet! So I would have thought a milled chassis would not be a problem, after all you or someone has to buy a 31 from Hornby in the first place for you to repair it later But I would be amazed if any one has a CAD drawing other than Hornby to produce the new one from as asked by Holmesfeldf

Don't know about EM or P4 sized cats but look on u-tube or even a search on this very site will reveal loads of 12' to the foot scale moggie's for you on layouts all terrorising trains might be a touch big for the original posters use though! P S just checked out one of my my cats that just happened to be passing and the gauge between the fron paws appears to be 3 1/2 gauge so far to wide for any four millimetre layout of and scale weather EM or P4 never mind OO

It is a Airfix coupling but a rare type. Most didn't have the wings which self center the coupling in the pocket, the early and majority of the Airfix couplings used a metal spring at the back of the box to self centre.just befor the change to the big Hornby sized coupling some one realised a saveing could be made by doing away with the metal spring and reducing the fiddlleness of assembly by fitting the ears to the coupling but that are like hens teeth sorry to say, if your happy not to have the self centering wings they will be easier to find but then the springs ??? As for the problem of the hook both being in the centre causing agro, yes it proberly might, but Bach in 1979 looks over rid that and I continue to be a happy user.....any one want the big hooks I took out of later stock?

I am useing cheep LED floodlights meant for out door use to light the loft in my house, there was a eight foot fluorescent tube in there when I moved in but even though it was eight foot long single point lighting is no good. Now with one above and one at each end shineing in wards the lighting is much better and nearer a cool daylight colour all for less than thirty quid and only thirty watt total consumption

[quote name="The Johnster" post="2724144" timestamp="1494933850 For balance weights on the 14xx, I used brass retrofit ones but I have forgotten who made them; I picked them up at a show somewhere. They or something like them are probably still obtainable, and are a simple fit; you just superglue 'em on over the existing balance weights which are too small for the driven axle anyway, and paint them. Fine but if you glue replacements of the right shape over the existing weights there the wrong side of the wheel !..... So it ain't that simple..... Let's hope the other posts about swapping wheel rims works it would be nice to be shot of rubber bands and I know changing to the new model would be even simpler...but that involves to much money

Yes ! But ! I have often read this advise but! What do you do about useing the front wheels on the back compleatly stuffs up the wheel balance weight position and shape on the wheels

Stu I would have thought Hayle would be better pasty country hunting land than Truro isn't there a big golden building very near the Philps , Warrens and Hamptons pasty emporiums to hold it in or the old chapel which the local club used to meet atTruro has what ? And going by the rush for chicken and ham pies perhaps you need to set a Very South West Area Pasty Pie Munchers Group. VSWAPPMG what a mouth full .......

Puh ! The real no brainer is Staplegrove.....six miles from me Chippenham dosent have a proper Railway. Just a thing with guided busses rattling back and forth And it's not in the south west,it might be south west iof London but it ain't in that bit of England between Bristol Channel and the south coast and I can say that as a calne born lad

Eer haveing just read this. Shall I stash my wagons out of sight whilst your storing your layout over night Saturday in my house then ? Worried of Combe Florey.