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Clearing out my spare I find I have 3 Bachmann V1 Bodies. Before I sell them for spares has anyone found a replacement chassis to allow them to become part of my layout ?

Does anyone know of a manufacturer of Paddington Bear in oo gauge to fit on a plinth ? Thankyou

This has probably been asked somewhere before. I have recently purchased a remagnatizer from Ron Dodd and cannot believe the difference this has made to my old triang motors and power bogies. This has given me the urge to spend the second lock down refurbishing my collection of 20 or so Triang units. The main problem after a few years in the spares box the main missing part is the screws, obviously borrowed at some stage for othere projects. I have seen the screws advertised on a well known spares site but only in small amounts. Does anyone have a list of what the different screw sizes were that Triang used then I can buy a decent amount.

Try the following :- 3 floor low relief shop fronts www.kingswaymodels.com,Free downloads,K205 Solicitor & Estate Agent Shops. This could give you the relationship between each floor. OR www.scalescenes.com,Townscenes,T005 Low Relief High Street & T005A Low Relief High Street Backs. These may give you a few ideas. I recommend both sites for all sorts of kits which can be printed off and kit bashed. Good Luck

Due to isolation my man cave has been tidied for me. One article I am missing was a review in one of the modelling magazines of a small company producing an 00 gauge twin axle builders type trailer with a towbar for a landrover. Can any one tell me who the company is and if possible it's web site.

I have all the information thankyou

My wife comes from Facit and I have been promising her a layout based on Facit Station and the stone sidings complete with the incline for some years. Has any one got a plan showing the track layout in reasonable detail.

THANK YOU for your help I got the answers I expected. I am in my early 70's and have spent all my life trying to get rid of my curly hair so as most of you said I will not be trying to build something so dangerous. The choice is between a visit to the NEC or replacement magnets.

I Have been reading a web site were a student made a simple pulse magnatizer. https://instructable.com/id/How-to-make-your-own-magnatizer/ it uses the following circuit and components - a 1N4007 diode - a DPST switch (I get mine from an old computer) - a Push button switch (or how it is called) - a jack and a capacitor(230 uF and 400 V) from an old power supply unit - a plastic, wood, Plexiglas, or any material you found, but NO metals like iron, steel, aluminum, copper or any metal that are atracted by magnets. - a 15 W, 220 V lamp - copper wire for making a coil (0.6 mm diameter for 800 turns) - something on you can spool your coil (I use a plastic support from solder with inner diameter 20 mm [don't use something that have the inner diameter bigger than 20 mm because then your magnetizer will not work]) - a cable for your jack (I use an ordinary cable for PC supply), why I use it ? because it can be removed. -two plastic panels (I made them because my case needs panels ) - 20 cm of thick copper wire (2-3 mm diameter) Not being an electrical engineer I need to know is this strong enough to rematnatize my Triang x04 etc magnets. The full article covers some apparent safety issues ALL I need to know will it do what I want. If not has anyone got any othere ideas.

This months Model Rail NO 262 July 2019 on sale now has an article on page 84 for concrete groundwork in a diesel depot. Hope this is of some use to you. REDONE

Has anyone tried updating either the Triang Class 31/37 power bogie or the DMU/ Blue Pullman/ Dock Shunter type Power bogie using High Level Gearboxes and motors. I want to do it for nostalgial reasons and they will only need to run 12 feet / 4 meters into a station from the fiddle yard ?

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I am about to refurbish my old triang power units, I know they are old but after 40 years I enjoy the memories. I know how to strip, clean and reassemble these motors and that rewheeling will improve running. My Jinty's use the X04 motor and I have 10 of the power bogies used in the Blue Pullman etc. What I would like to know is what capacitor anyone would recommend to improve their ability not to stall and how is it wired in the circuit.I expect that the correct capacitor is quite large so which capacitor wired in parallel would anyone recommend. This is my main layout, I am designing a smaller layout for my eventual move to a small flat and this will be DCC so I do not want to involve Dcc on this layout.​