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Hi Jack I'm in the process of working on my 153 and wondered if you could repost the missing pictures that you posted above but must have been lost in RMWeb service provider change. Thanks Ray

Hi Stewart, Our local model railway club has a good library particularly for modelling mags. As they started in 1949 they may have some of those issues you are searching for. However the club is closed at the moment until Covid is lifted so it will be a long time a coming but if you give me a list of the RM mags you are missing then I can take a look once we are back to see if there are any at the club. (Incidentally Gauge O guild members have access to a database of magazine articles which is very useful and open to members only - I'm not) Now I'll be a little opportunistic here on a totally diferent topic if you allow. I've just seen a post on Seep point motors from you dated Sept 24 2014 in which you mention a design for a base with micro switch operation and I'd be interested to see some pics you mentioned but a quick search hasn't found any post on this forum. Any chance thanks? Ray ...to quote Nowadays, I'm a tad fussier though. I prefer to use PROPER switches for switching the elctrofrogs. I do not like the Peco ones (nor the price!). So I have made my own adaptor plates for the SEEP version, which are cheap and easy to make, and also make the SEEP easier to install. I'm not able to post any pics at the momement, but if there is interest I will later. Basically, a plate of thick plastikard has the SEEP bolted to it. The drive pin of the motor actuates a copperclad sleeper strip which acts as a new tiebar. One end of this has a brass wire soldered into it, acting as a drive pin for the Peco tiebar (middle hole). The other end of the copperclad acts against a proper microswitch (ebay) which is also bolted to the baseplate. The assy can be mounted under the board, easier to poke the brass wire through the hole in the point when it is at the end of the tiebar. I do have a couple of very simple jigs to align it but rarely use them (made from a coffee stirrer). All wiring (6 wires are pre-soldered, and these "droppers attch to copper nails in the underside of the baseboard. All K.I.S.S. !

Z21 Long Address? About 6 months ago I took the plunge and invested in a Black Z21. I'll say at the outset I love this system compared to NCE cabs which I use at our local club (they are good of course - but don't have the most accessible screens/info displays). I particularly like it because it offers both the more tactile hand controller Maus as well as having control from any phone/pad so any guest can quickly get involved with their own control in their hand. I like the fact that routing can be set up simply once points have decoders. (Using MERG system for that - also a great resource). As the summary suggest the challenge I'm having with the system is to be able to program Long 4 digit addresses. CV1 only deals with shorter addresses up to 3 digits 100 or whatever. I haven't yet figured out a way of giving 4 digit numbers to my locos. Any advice from an experienced user would be welcome? I have a feeling it also may differ from one chip manufacturer to another as CV29 seems to offer them some choices.