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Fair point and one which Marklin addressed; some controllers / locos worked on channels A & B whilst others worked on channels C & D! Seeemples!

Referring back to the original heading for Mike's thread, "Where does our interest lie in the 2021 Hornby Range?", I submit that our interest seems not to include encouraging new blood into the hobby! AFAICS, there is only one reference in this whole thread to their 'new' Playtrain (in Mike's opening post), designed for the under 6s as an introduction to this hobby. OK, it may prove to be a clone of the Marklin myWorld but, hey, you have to start somewhere. Without something like this what, if anything, does the future hold for our hobby when our generation is no more?

Are you sure?

My dear learned friend, I fear you may be mixing your computers! Sinclair ZX80, ZX90, ZX91, Spectrum; Commodore (CBM) C64, perhaps? BTW, I spent several months a few years back wearing a white coat whilst employed as a school science lab technician.

There are good wines and there may be French wines... I recall entertaining a French colleague and selecting an Australian Red; he noted the better quality!

Good Evening, well, at least it was POTS day! Let's get though the weekend for next week until further notice from BoJo looks to be a whole new can of worms kettle of fish! In tonight's headlines: Unfortunately often the case and, most definitely, unW.I.S.E (acronym - Women In Science [and] Engineering) Give the children their head and see how they perform; don't suppress talent! Have the T Shirt for that too! Nice drop of McGuigan Estate Merlot from Saint Burry slipping down here!

They are. Send them the model number of the locomotive (from the box) and, if you have it, the part number of the exact spare(s) you require.

Don't be put off by your lack of self confidence! I guess, however, much depends on how you define "properly" When I subscribed to N Bahn, I never read every word and tried to make sense of it in the English context. With a basic understanding of the language and the usually copious photographs with the articles, it shouldn't be too difficult to get the gist. If all else fails, there's always google translate from German to English!

Chances are, knowing Kato, they won't be factory fitted anyway!

As I understand things, the 'light' is a neon bulb which only glows when AC is present. If the track (Note: this HF gets right through to the guts of the motor so will also clean the loco's pickups, the contacts to any motor brushes and the commutator slip contacts as well) is clean, it should not glow. However, if it is on all the time, there may be something wrong as I doubt your system is that dirty! The High Frequency cleaners WILL NOT work if there is anything DCC present! I.e. putting a HFC between a DCC Controller and the track will screw the DCC signal. If your loco is DCC Fitted, the HFC will screw that too. May I suggest you: 1. Wire up an independent length of track from the HFC Track Output and see what happens with no loco on it; the neon should be on. 2. Put a non-DCC fitted (DCC ready is OK) loco on this track and see how the neon behaves. If it is off or flickers, the HFC is working properly; goto suggestion 3. If not, refer to Gaugemaster and ignore suggestion 3 and beyond.. 3. Put the HFC back on to your main track with no locomotives thereon. The neon should be on as you are replicating 1 above. 4. Put the same locomotive as used in Suggestion 2 above on the main track and see what the neon does. If the neon is off or flickers, that's good, no problems. If not, you have a problem with the wiring of the main track which needs investigating. Start by checking that the only wires to the track come from the HFC and that the wires from the controller go ONLY into the HFC.

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Good evening, and what an insight the last 24 hours (one of my WiFi hubs crashed in the early hours so just sorted!) Zeus, SOHCAHTOA, Slide Rules, ah, what memories! IIRC, when I sat my Maths GCE O level it was the first year that calculators were allowed. I also had a CBM Scientific (probably still have somewhere; I know where my [later acquired] CBM Pet is!) Back then, the best thing about calculators was writing 71077345 on the display! Those that remember will know; those that don't, unfortunately, googgle leaves not much to the imagination! For that exam, I had a slide rule, my calculator and asked for the standard issue book of log tables. Baz, I agree that given the practice we had had pre-calculators, the brain could be faster than the transistor. I heard the story that the reason the Millennium Bridge wobbled was that all the calculations were done using the CAD tool and that no one could properly interpret the results. My first Zeus book cost me 75p (15/-). I have since bought a less biohazardous copy from Squires for £2.99! Log tables, Sine, Cosine and Tangent tables all included. Sorry, CB, that revolting pedant within me has forced my to parenthesise your definition as SOoHCAoHTOoA doesn't look quite right! Now, while I was at Uni, Rogers and Mayhew's Steam Tables used to cause me grief until an independent tutor from Portsmouth Poly (my father was head of Mech Eng there!) introduced me to their Steam Chart - no looking back! And after all that, I forgot to mention Napier's Bones!

As I see it, the lighting kits, 11-112 / 11-113, etc. are individually powered from their local coach's bogie. This is the same as many of Kato's Bullet trains and will NEED one of their FR13 style decoders per lighting kit.

Good Evening one and awl. Pride has been taken in deciding to buy some Hornby; 66773 and 9/11ths of 390 119 now on order. They'll look good in a TrainSafe wall display! In other news, an observation: IIRC, nobody has explicitly stated form who's home one should work so, therefore, all window cleaners are working from home; it just happens to be yours! In a measured response, Might take a while to fathom out! Meanwhile, 10 cricket pitches = 1 furlong.

I recall that Simon K, on his return to the fold, banished the original, abysmal, attempt by Hornby into this field having seem Marklin's myWorld first hand. My first reaction on seeing this was that the track is almost Marklin C-Track (as is myWorld, albeit in plastic) with, apart from the red colouring, different section joiners and no centre stud which both Trix and Marklin C-Track have from their common moulding processes. However, it is possible to run a myWorld train from the plastic track to standard metal-railed Marklin and Trix C-Track and, using an adaptor to account for the height difference between C-Track and Marklin's K-Track, direct onto Hornby or Peco track! With an adaptor wagon, it is also possible to couple standard Marklin or Trix stock to the myWorld range and run them across all 3 systems. Given that the magnetic couplings look identical to myWorld's, that the body presentations between the two brands seem similar, the remote controls share similar functions and the track bears more than a passing resemblance to Marklin's, I suspect either that there has been much collaboration between the two companies or that this will end in Court!

It certainly looks fit for purpose and, judging from its main task, certainly looks mean enough to do the onerous task of rail milling without even noticing!

Evening Awl! Just passing through to (try to) add a little humour to today's enforced confinement. An element of justice all too often blown by the wayside:

A Song For The Lovers - Richard Ashcroft

So do we go with (and revert to) Girls Just wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper? Or do we just go with the errant flow and go with You Are The First, My Last, My Everything - Barry White?

From 2015: https://www.gaugemasterretail.com/magento/rightlines-article/setting-up-the-roco-video-locomotive.html

Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips

Welcome to 2021 folks! Only about a dozen fireworks just gone off but now quiet again! Have a good one.

I find it both amazing and amusing how quickly a 'sensibly-intentioned' thread can all too quickly develop into so many diverse and, although related to the main theme, disappear off in as many differing directions like tree roots! Such is the distraction of social media! I submit this merely as an observation worthy of so many threads on this forum but dipped into this one sheerly out of idle curiosity. Whilst I am aware of "The Archers", I can lay claim to never having listened to an episode of their trials and tribulations!

I have noted the date! Hate to say that that if you've only just bought it, you've been sold a pup as it looks to have expired

Good Evening, Awl, Today's catch up has been an interesting read considering the sentiments mentioned. In summary, what a year was 2020, however, tomorrow's just another day! Who mentioned the Groundhog? Just the right wheels? No Left ones? Or were they left behind? Appropriately for my last comment, this has to be used as the icon for the Groan button, should it ever be released from its current incarceration! Is this what makes Britain Grate? Not only their Lockdown 1 closure, but also a massive systems failure not long after they re-opened, causing about another month's loss of production but then at least one confirmed case in the plant. Truly their Annus Horribilis, as HMtQ once said! They need all the support they can get! Tomorrow is just another day; more of the same old same old. However, hopefully over the course of the next 365 days grouped together and collectively known as 2021, the overall picture will brighten and the current spectre of doom will diminish. Only time will tell! Hopefully, "Dinner for One" ("The 90th Birthday Party") can be watched somewhere in the televisual media later affording at least one tradition for this time of year; “Silvesterzauber” in Zurich has been cancelled and it doesn't look like Lausanne will be celebrating this evening either. Sorry, ChrisF! Best Wishes, One and All, for as good a 2021 as you can hope for!