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9 hours ago, woodenhead said:

……or new dresses……

I didn’t realise the “C” in TMC stood for clothes?😆

On 09/12/2022 at 22:09, e30ftw said:

Is it true Rail/model rail will be doing the unique infrastructure livery and named after rail magazine?

 

 

Might buy one for one of my colleagues, he models Union Pacific, same livery?

Harry Kane's penalty kick has finally landed....

Harry Kane's penalty kick has finally landed......

I thought the reason for TTS decoders being relatively cheap is that they don't read feedback from the motor? The sound is based on what the decoder thinks the motor should be doing . I'm sure I've put a TTS sound tender from a J36 on the track without the loco being plugged in and I wondered which loco was chuffing without running. 

Been a few years since I left the banking world, but from memory Barclaycard Merchant Services charge around £25 for processing a successful chargeback where the retailer uses their payment processing. That's in addition to the original transaction amount being removed from the retailers bank account by Direct Debit. Definitely something any business, large or small, should avoid incurring.

1 hour ago, 49395 said:

I wonder if this could eventually lead to a 3rd axle and a H2/J79?

Hope so. I have built both in O gauge from the Jim McGeown kits. Sadly O gauge locos have been sold, love to have one of each in OO.

Thanks Iain

I have been revisiting a few projects from years ago, and found a Hornby class 25 which was fitted with a second motor bogie. The wheels were swapped out for plain ones without traction tyres. However the motors ran at different speeds. I'm contemplating fitting CD drawer motors at both ends.

Would it be better to wire the motors in parallel or series? It will be powered by either a Zimo MX600 or a Gaugemaster Ruby decoder, whichever gives the best results.

J39 retool please.Not being greedy, that's all I'm asking for.

Have Hornby confirmed that the driving wheel balance weights on the A3 and A4 will be in the correct position for the retail models? It’s the only thing that’s preventing me from pre-ordering the A4 set.

Going to order one in as preserved at Locomotion livery. Used to do cab guides on the loco until asbestos was discovered at the end with the rheostats.

2 hours ago, ThaneofFife said:

the diesels look to be single powered bogied models.

 

 

The catalogue pictures are Photoshopped OO gauge models. In OO the class 66 is old school Lima (and Hornby) with a larger motor bogie and a small non powered trailing bogie. Class 50 and HST re the more recent examples with both bogies powered. The Silver King A4 photo is based on the 2004 A4 model - the two pole drawbar with the pin sticking down under the tender shows it to be a version before DCC sockets and the white loco to tender plug were introduced.

You could use address range 1 to 127. DCC uses base 16 not base 10 numbering system. That confused me back in the day (1997 ish) when I had a Digitrax BigBoy system. 2 digit address but a 4 digit LCD screen, programming in hexadecimal.