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  1. What type of meter are you using Sir Topham? Is it digital or analogue (numbers or needle) and if digital is it autoranging or are there lots of ranges you can select? Autoranging digital is by far the easiest as you select DC Voltage, AC voltage, resistance, etc and the gubbins inside deals with everything else if you know where to put the probes. If it’s a meter with lots of ranges and you don’t know what you might be dealing with then start at the highest and work down. I.E. track voltage should be about 12v at full whack but you could start with 200v then down to 20v in case your controller has gone mad
  2. I’m with Alister_G - Gaugemaster for me too on our church exhibition layout and my own layouts too. Karl
  3. May I recommend this excellent article on DCC conversion of these motor bogies: https://bearwoodamrg.wordpress.com/2016/08/22/fitting-dcc-to-a-tenshodo-or-hanzono-motor-bogie/ Karl
  4. The following is a statement from our FB page: “Perhaps you will be saddened, but not surprised, to learn that the difficult decision has been taken to cancel the 2020 Wilmington Model Railway Exhibition. This has been done in the interests of exhibitors, traders, volunteers and visitors as it would be difficult to deal with CoVid19 issues. The Wilmington Show will return, God-willing, in 2021. In the meantime we continue to raise funds through ebay sales - over £2,000 so far - and would welcome donations, both of cash and/or model railway items. Please make contact via this page to make arrangements.” The decision was no taken lightly given that all monies raised go to children’s charities but safety has to be our highest priority. Karl
  5. I would recommend Lenz - I’ve had Lenz ever since I converted to DCC and in almost 20 years I’ve done pretty much everything with it from pootling around with little shelf layouts to full blown computer control (via RR&Co) of a 30’x12’ eight track exhibition layout utilising phones and tablets as throttles as well as integrating Lenz, Roco & Fleischmann handsets. The Lenz LR101 feedback detector will tell you what train is where - you can go other routes but Lenz is a superb system They aren’t the newest and shiniest manufacturer on the scene but their kit is bulletproof, reliable and keeps its resale value. I’ve just incorporated MegaPoints servo controller boards onto a Lenz run DCC layout with zero effort and am about to venture into the world of Arduino powered animations for a new exhibition layout which will be run with one of my Lenz Set 100’s - don’t anticipate any difficulties their either. karl
  6. One of the guys in church has bought one of these: https://uk.banggood.com/1080P-HD-Mini-Wireless-WIFI-IP-Camera-DVR-Night-Vision-Home-Security-p-1627751.html?rmmds=search&cur_warehouse=CN and for the money it’s really impressive - we are planning to use it on a number of exhibition layouts we run in the hopes of staging a virtual charity exhibition late this year. Karl
  7. I am slowly disposing of a large amount of railway stock donated to our church railway exhibition to raise funds for the children’s charities we support. One of the items bequeathed to our charity for sale is a new style Hornby HST power & dummy car sets R2703 GNER. As with the vast majority of the rolling stock it was stored in sidings on the layout and for some reason the normally clear windscreen and side windows appear to be fogged. I don’t know if this is through exposure to daylight or some other environmental factor but as can be seen in the photos the dummy car is more affected than its partner. The side glazing in the body is perfect as is every other item of glazed stock that was on the layout. It is possible that the owner may have glued them back in for some reason but I cannot see any obvious signs of glue around the frames. Other than the glazing the unit is a superb model and hauls its matching rake of Lima Mk3’s with ease around my sons little loop layout when tested. Can anyone suggest a possible remedy for this or a supplier of replacement glazing units please. Karl Karl
  8. I would say keep the speed down, at full chat it did wobble more than I liked hehe Karl
  9. Here’s my baby - Pushabout Sidings - at our last show in October which is a 5-3-3 Inglenook. All stock is Kadee fitted with uncoupling magnets fitted at the throats of the sidings. I run a wide variety of stock, all of almost identical length, such as 7-plank PO wagons, presflo’s, ore wagons, box wagons, etc with pannier tanks, saddle tanks, 03’s or 08’s - all on a 4x2 board I have a handout for interested people at shows detailing the operation and layout specifics which 8 can happily forward to you if you like. Karl
  10. This question intrigued me so I’ve just popped 6 onto an OO gauge 3rd radius peco curve and a Bachmann 37 atop them - works like a dream Don’t have any N gauge currently but I would imagine it will perform the same Karl
  11. My 8x2 exhibition layout is getting loads of playtime at home at the moment, probably more than ever before, set up in the spare room. Our church exhibition layout (16x12) only ever sees the light of day a max of twice a year for shows plus a rare Saturday for fettling if required but does get worked to death on show outings. Periodically we take Individual boards home to add or amend scenic detailing. If I had the space the biggy would permanently be up too. Karl
  12. Wire in tube - why did I not think of that? It’s not like I spent most of my twenties RC flying ... DOH !! What one of us really needs to do is to get into our storage rooms once lockdown eases a bit more (it’s in church) and do some very accurate measuring and templating so we can try a mock-up - thanks all Karl
  13. There may well be a thread to help me but I cannot find one so here goes..... We have a large (16x12) exhibition layout that has grown and been tweaked over many years - all of our points are on the rear non-sceniced boards which take 4 running tracks and split them into 10 fiddle sidings. Some of the points are becoming “tired” and swapping them out is not something we really fancy. Having seen Megapoints at Ally Pally we loved them and bought a servo controller & we have a matching set of 9g servos. Due to storage constraints we store the board in pairs, face to face, and mounting the servos below board risks them being damaged so we’d like to mount them above. Following possibly too much alcohol during a zoom meeting we had a bit of a bonkers idea - maybe fit the servos along the edge of the board and then operate the points via rodding due to space constraints. Has anyone tried this or were we having a bit of a mad moment? Karl
  14. Our church exhibition layout is wired for both DCC and DC operation - it was originally built as a DC layout with 3 loops and a fourth outer loop which ran Hornby live steam, it’s 16’ x 12’. As time has gone on the live steam became more and more erratic and the fourth loop migrated to DCC, then the third too. Now we can run all or any of the loops as mix of DCC and DC which allows us the flexibility to put up a huge amount of shared stock at a show - standard format is the outer 2 DCC & the inner 2 DC including a lot of Thomas for the kids. My advice if you wish to go down this route is to wire for DC and DCC running is simple. Karl
  15. Hi guys - I’d like to clarify my position with regard to these sales. We at St Michael & All Angels in Wilmington have been running a charity railway show over 20 years as part of our outreach and giving. The 4 charities we support are Demelza House children’s hospice, Cherished Memories, Railway Children & St Michael youth project. During these 20 years we have raised over £200,000 for charity through the show proceeds and the sale of items donated by very generous supporters, retailers and manufacturers. This year C-19 has led to the almost inevitable cancellation of our show, at a time when the charities are at their hardest pressed for funds. A great friend and supporter of the show passed away late last year and bequeathed all his railway stock to us, we have also disassembled his extensive layout at the request of his estate for sale. In order to still generate funds for the charities we took the decision to liquidate as much of the boxed stock via eBay as we can which is what I’ve started to do - I genuinely had no idea that things had gone quite so silly on there which is the sole reason I put up my recent post about the Bachmann underground entrance. I’m not looking to profiteer, swindle or rip off anyone only to sell the things we’d usually simply sell through our secondhand stall. Karl
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