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15v 2amp adapter can be used and will give you an increase to about 14.5v output instead of 13.3 which will give a slight increase in speed. The slow speed from the Powercab is one of the reasons I switched to a Lenz for my British but kept the Powercab for American where it does not matter as much.

Do want to save them for a rainey day or do you want to get pleasure from them? Yes some may have potential value (provenance will need proof your word is not enough) , but to whom you or your family who get them when you are gone. All comes down to the you. Personelly I don't give a monkey's about perceived value of things. They were either gifts or things I bought to get pleasure from them, so selling is not even considered. An example is some SACD's which are now supposedl'y worth 5 times more than I paid for them, but they still get played rather than selling them or tucking them away for family to get when I'm gone.

You will get different advice on this. Some saying not worth it, they'll run no better. Others saying yes they can be done. In my experience I have found that some old models have run better on DC after fitting a decoder, as well as running OK on DCC. Its a case of try it. With old models I would suggest you do a stall current test on each one so that you can get a decoder that handles the required amps. Before fitting the decoder ensure the brushes are fully isolated as a lot of older models used live chassis's. Refer to the decoder fitting section and you may find some the same that have been done. Old Hornby with portescap motors can be a problem because of the 'live' tube that the brush goes into, but I have come across a couple that where converted. You may end up leaving some on the display shelf but no harm in trying. Pick one , check the section on fitting, if you find nothing post about it with photos of the motor and people will the be able to advise about the best way of doing it.

USB is a seriel bus so many drivers are defined as com ports. You can find the com port number in Windows device manager Com ports and printers section look for the Silicon labs driver and note the com port number. In Decoderpro in the EDIT menu is Preferences go into that and it should be on the connections section At the top - manufacturer - NCE then - type NCE USB then in the settings section - first is the com port selection which should be the same as port that windows shows.

I've had this because of Win 8.1 installing a driver automatically. Unfortunatley the drivers Win 8.1 are not always the correct or best driver. I suggest you start by uninstall the driver from windows get onto the NCE website to find the driver and install that rather than letting windows do it automatically. Decoderpro preferences allow you to set a 6.x.x or 7.x.x usb interface. I also found that first time read of the loco needs to be done with programming track setting in Decoderpro not POM

If I lived only about a mile away I would have been bankrupt by now.

Only one was scrapped, the other sank as well. Granted it was wartime action but 2 out of 3 sunk!

Good advice. Closed on Tuesdays and Sundays. He often closes for some days during all short/half term holidays and for a couple of weeks during the summer. May be inconvenient for us but nice to see he thinks about his family.

If I remember correctly that is Jenny Emily. Although I found no reference to truck driving during a quick look at her web site. (Came across it by accident while looking for something else). Any one interested in visiting there is a small car park just down from the shop, usually plenty of space in the streets behind the shop and for those on public transport the Manchester Metro system goes through Shaw these days.

I tried that as well.

IMHO everyone needs to forget about the sort of Bluetooth pairing that we are used to i.e . put in some sort of code to pair devices. While I do not have any info I suspect that these Bluetooth devices will work in a similar method to Apple Airplay. Example In my home I have 5 Airplay receivers (think of these as locos) and 4 Airplay transmitters (Mac's, iPad and iPod, think of these as the smart control device.) When I start iTunes on a Mac it see's all of the available Airplay receivers. I can then connect to 1 or more of these receivers. While the connection exists I can not connect a different transmitter to that receiver, it is a one to one. To end the connection I can either disconnect in iTunes which makes the receiver available to other transmitters. Or turn off the power to the receiver. Applying power again makes it available again to any transmitter. (Or I may be completely wrong about it)

This may not be a problem Blue tooth LE can use a pairing method called 'Just Works' which suggests that you don't pair like you do with your phone and your car.

While I see the possible benefits in control, for a lot of people one of the major things with DCC is sound that moves with the loco. Until they produce this system with onboard sound it will not replace DCC for those people because I don't think they would be happy with the airplay solution. I have previously tried using stereo speakers on a PC under a layout and was not impressed. The sound of the loco coming from one or two places when its actually 12 feet away is pointless. Static systems need lots of small speakers around the layout with sensors to detect loco position and move the sound accordingly. The Pricom system can do this. ( I think the Soundtraxx as well) I'm not anti airplay I use it to four rooms in my house.

Sorry to get off topic but I have to comment on some of the above. Don't just blame iPads for your attachment problems I suffer similar problems from Windows users. Its usually a fault of the user not the software. Your Pages issue again don't blame Apple. Pages happily opens Word documents so maybe you should reproach Microsoft and developers for not including the ability to open Pages documents. Yes iOS is a closed environment (keeps the malware down) but you are wrong about OS X I run several programs on my macs NOT obtained through iTunes or the App store. And for info I also use Win XP and Win 8.1

Sounds a good idea but in some situations could prove as unreliable as infra red. I use airplay from a mac mini to devices around the house. But to try and save some money on one occasion I resorted to blue tooth connection. I found that every time I walked between the transmitter and the receiver I disrupted the connection. So it was quickly replaced.

That may be true but I think you are missing the point. Major works like Crewe were manufacturing plants not just servicing. Raw materials went in and new locomotives came out. We no longer do that on a major scale. We buy most of it from abroad like many recent diesels coming from Canada.

I've been a regular there for a long time (and spent a fortune there) but noticed on friday that his shelves of British "00" are looking thinner. Tim admits that this is the case which is due to the shortage of supplies coming through. But having said that it is still worth paying him a visit. Also remember that if its not in stock but available he will get it for you. Anything I want from Gaugemaster I get from Tim rather than order direct, because I take the view 'use you local shops or lose them'.

One of the things I like about the New Westminster/Surrey side is the variety.

But they can be beaten on price. The retailer I use tends to price the same as Hattons ( apart from when they are doing really cheap deals). So I have a £4 saving with no postage to pay. Add to which I am a long term customer and have spent a lot of money with him over the years so he frequently knocks a bit more of the prices for me. Example I paid £95 each for the LMS twins. Don't misunderstand I am not knocking Hattons as I occasionally buy from them, an example being an American diesel last week, and as per usual they gave excellent service - ordered Wednesday night , dispatched Thursday where it went to Warrington sorting office and stayed there all thro' Friday finally arriving to me on Saturday morning.

Well it wasn't my granddad or dad but I did know someone who worked on her in Doncaster plant. IMHO most of the fame comes from many years of good PR after Pegler bought her because back in the late 50's early 60's many of us hanging around Doncaster station did not consider her anything special, just another A3. But I'm glad she was preserved because we don't have any other examples of the class.

I think you will find the box say's 'linked' not locked. Its a warning so you don't end up breaking anything as you take it out. To be fair to the member of staff you are referring to, you were in ''Modelzone". Its basically a high street store. They sell a lot more than model railway stuff and the member of staff's interest could be something like radio control cars not trains.

The method of attaching the pony truck has been used before. My old tender drive 8f uses the same method as do my 2 Fowler 2-6-4T's and like my new L1 they do not suffer regular derailments. My L1 runs fine on my code 100 track and points including slips, 3 way points and curved points (all Peco streamline) even at top speed which it will not normally do. For info its R2959 and I did not have to remove any transit pieces. They had been removed by the shop where I bought it because they put all loco's on a short test track for you to see it working before you pay for it.

Yes it works but the problem is that many Bachmann steam outline will not go over them. Anything from derailment to grounding on them can happen.