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At the end of last year I started work on an extension to the layout
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Heres an introduction to the Deepdale Garden Railway with an overview of the layout from last year 🙂
All the track and buildings are scratch built and the locos are a mix of kit and scratch built and all are battery remote controlled
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3 hours ago, Michael Edge said:
7mm Janus finished yesterday.
Ready for a wash and scrub up now, the coupling rods are still fastened with the standard Slater's nuts but these will have to be modified to fit the roller bearing covers. i don't want to do this until the rods are finally fastened though.
Oh my! That is a different animal in O gauge 😁
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On 13/04/2022 at 07:35, Michael Edge said:
More work on the Janus this week.
Both engine casings done, apart from the cylinder head cover panels which don't appear to have been etched. Neither was the cab roof but these won't be difficult to make from sheet. I'll probably do all the running gear next and leave the handrails till last now.
I couldn't put my finger on why the wheels didn't look quite right till I looked at a photo and realised it's the massive counter weights have yet to be added 🙂
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A long overdue update but it seems my photos haven't survived the forum update!
Here's a video of the progress so far. The track on the elevated boards is literally just sat in place currently so will be fixed down once I'm happy with it
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1 hour ago, Zomboid said:
Last loco built by BR I think, not just Donny.
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This discharge curve of a cap is going to screw you over unless you have some sort of boost converter to regulate the voltage
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In the steelworks it appears to have been late 70s/early 80s
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On 14/09/2021 at 12:10, Michael Hodgson said:
You want to know how he derailed them in the first place?
Do you know?
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So why did the 08s have hatches in the cab roof and ladders up the radiators?
What was the actual requirement to be accessed up there so much so both ladders and a roof hatch were provided?
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and a rough approximation of what the complete layout will look like
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38 minutes ago, Gareth-Ingram said:
Looks great. I hope you are planning to make a proper snow plough for the coming winter season!
Flangeway are producing their snowplough in O gauge, I've already registered interest in a pair of them
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Another 08 on the bench for radio/battery conversion
And think I've finalised the track plan for the other side of the garden
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I've also been testing a new board for Fil of Fils Battery Trains which works great!
Reed switch stuck on the side switches the power on and off so when the roof is placed on the batteries are in circuit
Did some speed testing with a 3 lipo cells
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I found one of the new sections had a bit of a dip in it so roughed it all up and recasted screed to bring it back up to level
Plenty of SBR to hopefully get absorbed into the screed
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After more concreting I thought it was a good idea to get some track down temporarily and do some testing with another Dapol Class 08 I converted to radio control today
I also removed the unprotected lipo from the Class 20 and made up a higher capacity replacement from individual protected cells
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My new arrival turned up today
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Potential idea for the other side of the garden. The straight line across the top goes off to the cabin above the return loop.
I'll probably add some sidings at a later date
Michael Edge's workbench
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