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You are a bit unfair there, scroll down far enough and there are a couple of clear photos of the loco out of its box. Besides the box is damaged. Keith

Something like this then, just the faintest shadow of a number. Any particular reason for changing the speaker? rgds Keith

The instructions do state that a 4 ohm speaker is provided under the chimney, I haven't checked yet but can measure the resistance across the speaker terminals when I open it up to fit a decoder. Keith

I see it has the split axle bogies, does it have working lights? Keith

Very low relief indeed, and the hatch covers are not big enough to actually close the hole, but a minor point in the scheme of things. On another note, have now an oval of track to give it more of a run, and no sign of any locking up, radius 2 is pretty marginal for it though, does go round smoothly enough but one or other end driving axle pops off now and again. it does show up why they put the boiler unit pivots in the wrong place, if they had been at the prototypical position the bunker would foul the cab on such corners. Keith

Not so much also, rather 'instead', the numbers look to be correctly placed wrt to the cylinders and valve gear, if the ledge was the correct length then the dribble would correctly cover the number. Incidentally does the Irwell book give any support for the backward facing Lion? Or is that also in need of a replacement. Regards Keith

It won't have to after I have P4d it, but meanwhile the instruction book with the model says it will run round radius 2. Keith

This is the second time I have read a similar report, there was one several pages back. Seems I will have to organise somewhere to test run it before I start conversion. Currently I only have one yard of 00 track, it runs fine up and down that but I'm not going to find this sort of seizing up problem that way. Best send an order in for a Setrack oval. Keith

I understand it has the 2.5mm axles so you will have a problem if you got the 1/8th. I have seen one on a demo under conversion, by Pete Hill using AGW 4F conversion sets, he indicated that he would be preparing an instruction sheet for the AGW downloads page but it hasn't made it to the page yet! Keith

Why metric! I did say SN3.5, 3ft 6inches covers most of southern and west Africa, much of Australia, New Zealand and Japan, appropriate attention to buffers and couplings and you have a nice industrial loco. And 16.5 mm is very close to correct for 3ft 6in. More so than for metre gauge. Regards Keith

Looks about right for 'S' scale, Be good for SN3.5. Keith

I would go with that, also allows for a lip at the top to support the trackbed. Keith

You don't need to take the over centre spring out when using Servos, keeping the spring helps as it removes the need for the servo to apply the closing force making the setting less critical. This one still has the over centre spring in. http://youtu.be/zcKRknQ2Hew?list=UUWRbJ7me2ffZKQiA3L0mO7g Keith

If we just stick to English language terminology it is certainly not 'standard across the world'. The diagram you linked to can only be relied on for the UPRR, and then the terms used by the Operations dept. as distinct from the Engineering dept are unlikely to always match, then there are very likely unofficial terms in use by the workers as well. Even within Engineering depts the terms given on that diagram are not all used in the UK, and each of Australia, South Africa, India are different again. Just accept that diversity rules and use words you think your audience will understand. Keith

This radius question has nothing whatever to do with absolute scale, it is about the meaning of, "minimum radius for main line track", in the module standards. IMHO whatever is specified as minimum must be adhered to. If it is specified as 36" then 30" is not acceptable, even if only an 8" length. If people want to use 30" radius on the main line then the standard should be changed to say 30" minimum. As ZiderHead says, Keith

Well not quite, they are indeed for a different purpose, and the name relates to the purpose not the physical construction, catch points can have a pair of points as in Martin's photo, but very commonly had just one. Similarly trap points can have just a single point or any other combination up to a complete turnout, or quite often half of a double slip. Regards Keith

That is for the purpose of defining a specific turnout, in this case with 'C' switches, Vertical rail and a 1:9.25 crossing. But all of this terminology is variable depending on the railway, the purpose, the era etc. Without specifying all of those variables, and perhaps not even then, you can't dogmatically state what is the right or the wrong word. Whilst CV on Network Rail may be read as 'C switch' Vertical, on the DLR CV means 'Curved Vee' (as opposed to SV, 'Straight Vee') and is supplemented by the radius in metres. So on DLR the CV9.25 mentioned above becomes an SV245. Keith

Order form here http://www.irse.org/public/itemsforsale.aspx Keith

No, those are to small, you need to be looking at G clamps around the 4" size, IMHO Keith

You're welcome, it was second or third hand when I got it! Best Keith

Google will do that for you, then you can ask about the bits that come out scrambled. Keith

Here's a video of a demo unit using the same principle, http://youtu.be/zcKRknQ2Hew?list=UUWRbJ7me2ffZKQiA3L0mO7g Uses a bit of B&Q aluminium angle but I think your bolt arrangement is a bit simpler. What I don't see on yours is how you are preventing the 1mm wire dropping out? I use a piece of heat shrink sleeve over the wire. Keith

Statement 3 looks very clear to me, it means whatever Kenton wants. Keith

Or bogie or rear pony truck, that chassis does look brand new though. Keith

Please keep this topic for the "madness", there is a whole other topic for your "good buys", Best, Keith