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  1. deepfat
    I am looking at these units but wondered if anyone had tried them or have a better /cheaper alternative? I have DCC concepts digital motors throughout and I am trying to put detection far enough from my points to throw them if points are set against my express trains
  2. deepfat
    So if you want to see old folks like me in Steampunk gear check out Whitby in October. However I will not be investing in this fad, because it's some cheap locos badly weathered with gears randomly stuck on. This on the other hand is my vampire killing nerf gun - so if I was going to model this genre I'd be like the chap on the telly and make my own
  3. deepfat

    Blood on the tracks  - I just managed to catch my self on a surprisingly sharp electrofrog frog. Note to self - Ddo not operate dangerous machinery under the influence of alcohol!

    1. woodenhead

      woodenhead

      I received a package from Digitrains earlier this week, by the time it had gotten from the ground floor to the railway room it was covered in bloodmarks.

       

      Then I realised I had tomato ketchup on my hand from the kitchen.....

  4. deepfat

    EFE Gate Stock

    deepfat replied to Yankee's topic in EFE Rail

    OK so I was trying to work out if I had anything suitable already as I have a lot of mainly SR maunsell era locos, so thanks for the information. They do look great hence the question
  5. deepfat

    EFE Gate Stock

    deepfat replied to Yankee's topic in EFE Rail

    Can I ask a newbie question here what would have pulled these lovely coaches in SR days e.g. I have an Adams Radial so would that work?
  6. deepfat
    soo 5 thou is 0.127mm which is very thin indeed and I do have code 75 throughout my trusty digital vernier gauge shows the inside top of rail to top of rail at 16.50mm on this diamond crossing which is the NMRA standard? As for a gauge I'll pick some up[ when I am next in the US as I work for a small US company MICROsoft :-)
  7. deepfat
    Thanks for all the positive advice. I did pull and push test over the diamond with same results and was careful to provide only lateral thrust. I measure the Back to back of the wheel not the track and I am going to use my vernier instead of a gauge to get a reading which I'll share. I am in the process of of replacing the faulty junction with these new point and I am taking slow - butchering the points for DCC etc. check the track bed is level adding longer dropper wires etc etc so it'll be a couple of days before I can test under power.
  8. deepfat
    Now I am swapping out the points where my derailment problem occurred. The good news is the new long crossing is OK, the bad news is that the apt-e does not like going over a diamond crossing even gently pushing it (it's not wired in yet).. I have a DCC Concepts back to back gauge and all looks OK but is this is the only explanation? The track in either direction, the crossing is new out of the packet the rails in and out are straight .. any advice appreciated
  9. deepfat
    so my apt-e is derailing when turning right over just one of my long turnouts (Peco SLE-194) from toe to heel at speed. There is nasty thunk when the front wheel of the last power car (PC2) goes over the frog and as the speed increase so does the chance of derailing. I have checked all the back to backs and they are fine. Also I can get the same result if I just run PC1 by itself backwards over the same turnout. So I am replacing the points with new units and re-laying this area of my layout more carefully. However has anyone else had trouble at speed?
  10. deepfat
    My next questions are 1. Has anybody run this thing at 152mph scale speed 2. is anyone mad enough to use Hornby RailMaster. 3. Also the manual doesn't mention the dialogs where you can hear the the engineers confirming the record - I found it by accident and loving it!
  11. deepfat
    @mr_tilt I have ordered some trunking to store my latest acquisitio n. Here she is along side a very different take on how to install a turbine in a train
  12. deepfat
    I am just going for the secr livery as it's my wife's favourite from when she took me to the NRM and saw the original. I have bachmaan secr birdcage coaches and some of the secr Hattons genesis on order as well. I am hoping that is what she would have pulled back in the day, but happy to be corrected
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    @BR60103 I do worry about peco they don't seem to making anything. I have friedn in other manufacturing organisations from Rolls Royce (engines), Da Vinci (Westland) and Sunseeker(yachts) and they are still in production. I would love to see innovation at Peco too the loco lift is a good start but needs to have additional removable parts for transit and as you say to create a system for made up trains
  14. deepfat
    I am going to add a long hidden siding on my layout where it can live when not in use. So a bit like the NRM in that it can quickly get on the mainline when I want to use it. None of my stuff is in original boxes it's in crates and peco loco lifts but of course that isn't going to work for this. also honoured to get a reply from @Mr_Tilt I studied the apt-e as part of my OU MSc and I am no a project manager engineer at Microsoft, because of what I learnt.
  15. deepfat
    Before I get one of these how long is the 4 car version as I'll want some sort of unique siding for it when it isn't in use so I don't have to break it down each time. Secondly is there a group of people thread for those who actually run this on their layouts?
  16. deepfat
    Phil good stuff I did some work a while back with Ordnance Survey and I have historical maps from them and I have a couple of books on train routes to Hastings. However I am borrowing as well so I'll be adding a roundhouse that'll look a bit like the one at Eastbourne (destroyed 1923). I got the Hastings station plans from the network rail archive. However I am working flat out full time so only limited time to work on the layout and definitely limited skills which is why I love the advice I get on here
  17. deepfat
    Phil I grew up there but my bridge is going to be a real homage - it's going to be curved and it's going to allow one line to go over another so NOT over Queens Road. My layout is too small to do Hastings station but the building as it was in 1934 will be recognisably on there as well. Below is the SCARM cad I am working to, but my work at the moment is backscenes and the edges of the layout. I need to get down to Hastings to shoot the housing at the back of the station and go to Bulverhythe to shoot the sea across to Bexhill for that
  18. deepfat
    @phil_sutters thanks the cake stands have arrived, thanks so much for the idea
  19. deepfat
    I had take 2 of the AZ one yesterday and just a bit of an achy arm so far. 1st one did give me a sort of flu for 24 hours, but small price to pay to do ones bit
  20. deepfat
    @Teaky No problem, happy to help. I see you have the right dialog and I am assuming you have administrator privileges on your PC? so what does it say when you click OK? When I do it I get this (I had 6Gb to clean up so shame on me!).
  21. deepfat
    by my count that's about £10,000 of stock there so spending a few hundred quid to protect them seems eminently sensible, it's a shame you still can't get the loco lifts when other manufacturers like dcc concepts, KR models Hattons etc. seem to be able to supply us
  22. deepfat
    Friends My loft layout is built on Microsoft as I work for them in the UK as a project engineer. So dm if you are really stuck with Windows issues and I'll try and help. No scam and no fees and this is me on linked in
  23. deepfat
    Hi and hopefully I have tagged this right. I want to model an homage to this bridge in Hastings and I need to source the columns they only need to be 80mm high but I have no 3d printer and haven't manage to find anything suitable on the interweb so far. thanks in advance @deepfat
  24. deepfat

    My GT3 has just arrived from KR models- It's a thing of beauty, did anyone else get one?

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    2. deepfat

      deepfat

      wow that is some seriopus model building. I am waiting for Aberdeen Commonwealth to turn up and have a PDK brass kit on the go but not happy with the compensated chassis as it binds when I had connecting rods..20190717_151457.jpg.62adb9da4e5fc2f45a4c370000ad909c.jpg

    3. Spam Can Man

      Spam Can Man

      I bought a Comet Kit etched brass Merchant Navy Class chassis with the idea of building 21C1 Channel Packet in original conditional with the "widows peak". I bought the wheels from Markits and started scratch building the body from plasticard. That was many years ago! Of course Hornby brought theirs out! I might build it as an austerity Merchant Navy. Bulleid designed it and they made a wooden mock up of it, but they never built any!

    4. Spam Can Man

      Spam Can Man

      I must admit, I'm not a great lover of compensated chassis. The Comet chasis had compensation, but like you, I found the coupling rods would bind. I soldered the chassis up solid in the end.

  25. deepfat
    Thanks Mick that is the plan and I don't need the precision to spray coaches. I'd love to see some tips and and blogs on here to share expertise
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