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I've had old Farish loco's turn into 1A1 1A1 or 11 1A's and still trundle round ok, might not have the strength to pull the skin off a rice pud, but they still looked ok. (well as close as the old farish loco's got to ok looking)

sounds like a workable plan to reduce it to 1Bo Bo1, if it lacks traction you could always run two.... then it would be prototypical.....

read the last line as jawa's, they'd be pinching the rails though....

this link was posted on the N gauge forum thread for finetrax, lead to failed thread hijack from the owner of the that website. Wayne wasnt best pleased me thinks.

3 Comapnies on this one from 1909, guess that would be only 2 by the time of big 4

think i'll will use my old xuron track cutters then, the ones i tried to cut piano wire with and put a huge ding in the blades. The more modern farish wagons are a lot softer than the peco ones, dremel and diamond files for these me thinks. must be time to build the sterile room for carrying out this sort of operation in, all white tiles and spot lights for finding the bits that ping off into the carpet/layout scenary, springs, whole couplings etc.... will have the plasters and first aaid kit on standby, not to mention the swear box!!!!!

will there be any dummy 50's produced at some point dave?

Dosent the cab unclip on the domino box one then, the cab came off by accident on my disc one?

I must be getting old, just cant get head code disks into place, cant see the holes and then cant keep my hand still enough when I do. Nice model, looks great with the domino box one hauling coal hoppers round the layout. Time to cull the older ones from the fleet I think.

Not all 3x2 are the same strength. Wonder if karhedron can remember the N strength of his were. I did a trial with some similar to his and could get a mainly consistent uncouple but no delay. Heres a link to one magnet seller, .25kg pull no wonder wagon wheelie or rocket!!! www.first4magnets.com/3mm-dia---max-029kg-pull-75-c.asp

probably got a bit of mold flash somewhere on the coupling gumming up the works, time to get out the scalpel/wetndry and the microscope...

Does anyone on here know what the lengths of the orginal Dapol NEM dummy knuckle couplers are, ie, short, standard and long? Not even sure there is standard one as they only seem to sell Long and Short as spare parts in pack of 10, 5 of each.

http://www.barrowmoremrg.co.uk/Prototype.html theres some dimension to be found on the diagrams here, not sure you'd get all you'd want though to make an accurate model(unless the drawings are scale and you can work out the missing ones).

hope they put some more bolts in that fishplate in the bottom corner of the mha pic

dapoldave, as has already been mentioned the instructions for the coupling converter are up on the website , what's going to be the recommend method of using them with boggie rollingstock coaches etc?

http://www.Dapol.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=782&Itemid=97 the instructions for the conversion kit are now available to read. scalpels, files and glue at the ready.......

The instruction sheet for the conversion pack will be going up on the Dapol website this morning hopefully, so we can all see whats going to be required to use them.

they will all be fixed, its just the out rigger being extended giving that Bo-Co look to it.

So you 12 inchers are laid perfectly, dead flat, no bumps, cant, dips, joint gaps etc? And none of you stock has percular woble where the body/chassis is slighty warped, the boggies/close coupling mech are a bit stiff from a bit of mold flash etc? if money is tight why are you bothering to change over from the rapidos anyway, you can uncouple those with the use of the appropriate devices, raising ramps, magnets and droppers...

the thing is tho, no one has got your layout and stock to test with. What works for one will not necesarily work for another. for example, I've got short dummy knuckles on my GF HST Mk3's but only because i've chopped the buffers off.... if you find something doesnt work for you, theres always Ebay or the various forums classified ad's or doing swaps with another modeller to recoup your R&D expenditure.

Start a New Thread, about your Hols and get AndyY to make it a sticky till september??

i've beenplaying round with the rare earth magnets in a similar configuration to Karhedrons pic, i've used 2 more magnets so my configuration looks like this ============== | | |O|O|O| | | |O|O|O| | | ============== i've not really had much joy with the whole setup really, still cant get a reliable/consitant uncouple to take place. If you move the trip pin too close to the center line then the opposite row of magnets tends to grab it, ie the right hand magnets grab the left hand sides pin. I might just have to change the configuration to 2 rows of 4 with no offsets. i'm using 3mm dia by 2mm thick Neodymium, 50 of them for £9 I'd still like to know what the height of the trip pin should be in relation to the rail head. too low and you foul the frogs of points or the magnets grab pin and nose down the coupling altogether. Too high and nowt happens! The Dapol magnets are ok and do the job just about (but not looking forward to chopping out all the ballast and sleepers to use them if it comes to it), but even then you still have to faff about with centerline alignments and heights. As for the shunting with them on either magnetic setup, i cant manage more than an inch or two before they couple back up, probably my ropey track work i expect. Even after saying all this, they're still better than rapido's and the hand of god, (or in my layouts case it would seem, paw/arse of cat!!!) one other thing i did have a little succes with was bridging the little magnets in each row with a peco track pin, seems to help spread out the magnetic field over the sleepers.

Going back to the rare earth magnets, as these little s0ds are so strong i might try a pair of them set outside of the rails rather than between them. i know it may sound sad, but i did have rather a collection of rare earth magnets at one point. I've got one little ###### thats about 1/4"(6mm) thick and 1"(25mm) round that needs 100lb(50kg) pull to shift it off a piece of steel.