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Thats a lot of Kitchen Cars, 2 FK, 2 SK only 2 FP and no SP, why no SP when they had 2 SK, or did the Kitchen Cars also include seating ? Just wondering not arguing

Remember what confucius said about meters An electrician with one meter always knows the correct voltage An electrician with two meters never knows the correct voltage. Hat coat door

It cost a lot of time to produce the sound that is loaded and that time, both in recording and editing the recording into a usable file set all has to be paid for and that we all understand, but why does a blank sound decoder with no ones sounds loaded cost the same as one loaded with sound. Obviously the answer is that ESU and Zimo must sell the decoders to the sound producers for a fraction of the cost the rest of us pay for a blank, otherwise why would they bother making the sounds in the first place. Also as to the true cost of these £100 decoders, have you ever blown one up and had it replaced, what were you charged, one supplier I use charges between £15 and £20 to replace a faulty decoder, I bet they are Not loosing any money on the replacement are they, that I bet is the true cost of these decoders direct from the makers, with the prices for retail held high to make all the work done producing the sounds worth while, that I have no issue with, its still asking £100 for a blank that gets me, why shoild I have to pay the sound producing element of the retail price if I was producing the sounds myself. Not that I am capable of producing the sounds so am happy to pay the price the producers charge, just saying there sould be a big difference in the prices of blank decoders.

Blame the parents is all well and good, the trouble is the parents were probable of the same moral standard.

To take the body off you have to first pull the two bogies off, they just unclip with a little side to side wiggle, that then exposes the 4 retaining screws. Hope this helped Paul

Their easy shunt's work very well but are not compatable with micro trains. Their own magnets are very expensive as well but there is a much cheaper work around if you go down that route. Paul

I blame the TV antique shows the claim these enamel signs are worth a small fortune and make them all a target for a certain type of person.

I used to be a white goods engineer and we were replacing these same burned out door locks in Indesit washing machines 20 years ago, so it's not a new problem, the problem is the same lock is now used on Wirlpool and Hotpoint machines as well as Indesit or In the Sh** as they used to be called. The next one will be the Dishwashers that can develop a fault that lets them turn the heaters on without any water being taken. Fires in Domestic Appliances is not a new problem, social media warning everyone now makes it seem like it's a new issue, its not. Paul

Press F0 Hat coat door What does the express models headlights door that the Bachmann lights can't, not heard of them before. Paul

Sorry guys, took me so long to type the above everyone else pointed out the same as was saying.

Thats going to be a difficult one to diagnose over the Tinterweb What make was the new Turntable and What cartridge is fitted , Is it a moving Magnet or Moving Coil, they need different pre-amps to work correctly, depending on your Pioneer system it probably has a MM type pre-amp built in and will sound terrible if a MC cartridge is connected. Some high end turntable might be fitted with the higher quality MC cartridge or if its not new, the previous owner might have fitted a MC one. If its a MM cartridge then don't know what to suggest next. Not knowing the turntable you replaced, a couple of other thoughts Where you connect it to the amplifier does it say Phono, I wonder if its just a standard audio input and the old turntable had a pre-amp built in, if thats the case you will need to add one for your new TT to work. Working blind here though, perhaps some pictures of the connectors on the back might help. Paul

I went down the Servo route on my layouts at first I used the MERG Servo4 system and now introducing their new EzyBus system, both using Gaugemaster DCC80 frog juicers. Nice and cheap compared to the more commercial options but just as reliable. Paul

Jam first ?

Did BR do any Nuclear Flask movement using Steam Locos or was it only started by the time BR had gone Diesel? If they did what type of flask wagon did they use, any pics? Not up on the nuclear history so was just wondering, or was its a simple case of at the time steam came to and end Windscale was the only Nuclear power station online so did it's own reprocessing and nothing was moved on the rail system until more power stations came on line. Thanks Paul

Number 3 Brunswick Green for Loco Green, but unfortunately its a Gloss so needs a Matt varnish, but good for the green used on Station woodwork out of the tin. Coal black is quite good for Loco black. Unfortunately there are not many true matches to Railway colours in the Humbrol Enamel range, which is why for a specific railway colour intend to use Railmatch Enamels and just use Humbrol for the more generic colours. Unless someone has a list of matches they would like to post. Paul

I had a Graham Farish Class 14 that I once timed and it took 20 minutes to cover 12 inches, not bad for something so light. Paul

Fox Transfers are only showing 54 Acrylics but 157 Enamels from Railmatch and they normally stock the full range so something is ammis with the Acrylic range. Personally I only use their Enamels, perhaps the Acrylics didn't sell as well as the Enamels. Paul

That's the way I do it as well, it is probably possible so await a more knowlegable reply. Paul

Hi Don't know if it's relevant to your problem, I have a DCC++ setup but don't use it anymore having moved to Sprog3 and MERG controllers. I mainly only use Zimo decoders and found although the DCC++ would run the locos fine I also got a failure to read on the test track, unless I applied pressure the to loco holding it down on the track, the track was scrupulously clean by the way. That was the reason I moved away from using DCC++. Even now I have box based on the DCC++ that is built just to read a locos CV1 value, I use at exhibitions just to identify club members loco address values and that has the same issue with Zimo decoders, pressure has to be applied to the loco or it will not read, any other make and it's fine. A bizzar issue I know, give it a try it might work with yours Paul

Have you checked on the JRMI site to see if there is an updated Dapol Decoder Definition file available to install Paul

Anything other than their 50 & 68 may well be noisy even after many hours of running in the older Dapol Diesels just have that reputation, some are just plain noisy, others do need some work to get everything aligned just right to minimise the noise. Of all the ones I have owned only a Class 27 was anything like as Quiet as it should have been. Paul

On his Drive Tribe YouTube channel he is currently doing a repair of an old Hornby Castle, got to the end of part 2 and it's not running yet, awaiting upload of part 3 so its a new video set, anyone else seen it ? Paul

The do the hold your money for 21 days to all new eBay sellers so not sure why they imposed it on you without telling you first? Are you sure the message came from them and is not an elaborate scam to get you to post it without payment. Check your PayPal account to see if it's actually there on hold or not. Always check you have the money in your account before posting as the scammers are good at sending fake you've been paid emails that look legit. Paul

Just checked on Hattons site to see if their 66 is any closer to going on sale and noticed they have drastically dropped the models available, last week you could chose from 111 variants and now its showing only 18 What's going on, anyone know. Paul

From memory any thinner based on alcohol or spirit does that to Vallejo paints, they realy are a water based acrylic, some like Tamiya and Mr Color are Alcohol based Acrylics.