MickeyMoggs

I think your garage is bigger than my house.

Jealousy spat over, how will you keep the spider population under control now that you've cleared them out? My layout is in a garden shed and the first 20 minutes of any session has to be spent clearing the webs from the ceiling and the bodies from the track!

HiI have been operating a Dynamis for a couple of years and find it excellent. Worth setting up a dedicated programming track, I have had a problem a couple of times changing CVs on maintrack, Works well on dedicated track. I also use this for wheel cleaning using an excellent product that sits on the rails and puts power to wheels with wire brushes that clean it at same time, Clean wheels essential for DCC sound!Chris

Good advice, thanks Chris.

Hi there,I too have recently got a model of 2818 and I was wondering if you could describe to me any key areas where I need to take special care installing decoder. What type of Hornby decoder did you use? Is is the standard one?

I used a standard Hornby 4-function one. A bit of overkill for steam by hey ho. One word of warning, don't use the insulating sleeve that comes with he loco, it doesn't fit in the slot! I put a single wrap of insulting tape around the chip and then another to hold the purple lead. The only other thing to watch is that the socket is, to my way of thinking, the wrong way around, ie the leads face outward when installed rather than inward which would make life far too easy.

Put a long load on and you can even simulate slippage, in Pete Warterman's words, "Just like the real thing!"

Sheds rule! (when not sub-zero cold...) The above sounds familiar to many I suspect. I would ditch the insulafrog points if goind DCC. Converting to live frogs is not as hard as people make it sound and you'll get better reliabilty. Looking forward to pictures too.

I'm amazed no one has come up with some form of silver conductive paint to automatically convert the vees. I can't imagine it would be a difficult job for someone in the know. My only problem with electrofrog is the awful look of insulated rail joiners.

Interesting baseboard, Sundeala on top of ply rather than instead of. Looking forward to pictures of the completed shed, looks great.