PhilH

Thanks for posting. Seems like an honest review….I think I’ll stick with the Mono X for now and do my usual thing of waiting till new tec becomes old tec and buy at a stupidly reduced price. As I understand it 20k is on the horizon (I think I’ve seen that somewhere) so when that comes out I might dive in to this then. The way these things move on it will probably be the week after next….

I don’t think I’ve ever seen modelling to this standard before, just amazing. Thank you for posting.

With regard to the brittleness highlighted in the above post, I have found that ABS like resin is the way to go. I use it exclusively in all my prints now.

I think part of the problem people find is that 3d printing is lumped together as a single entity when it is two completely different processes, both with strengths and weaknesses. In my, admittedly comparatively limited, experience fdm is for functionality, resin is for detail. Obviously that is not hard and fast but that’s how I approach it. For my current diorama I needed a gun position and also some detail for the actual turret, so both types of printer were utilised. The battery is for size comparison (as are the remains of my breakfast…), the handles are 0.4mm thick, the hand rails 0.6mm in diameter.

Then there’s the 2023 elephant in the room….a child bangs their face on the sticks/ supports then before you can say ‘barrier lawyers ‘R us’ they’re after your money.

**UPDATE** I thought as I posted the cleaning advice above I’d at least give it a go myself as I had been suffering with sticky/ non functioning buttons often having to resort to a blunt pointy thing to get a successful button push. I set to with some ipa, cotton buds and soapy water and a deal of scepticism. BUT….it was 100% successful, as it says in the blurb it is now like new. Thanks to the op for the thread. I too was thinking of spending money on the thing to get it to work properly, so reading this thread made me search out possible solutions. It took literally five minutes and, as stated, would appear to be 100% successful.

This might be worth a try.. sorry it’s a screenshot but it wouldn’t let me copy a link

Thanks Andy

Once again I completely cocked up a post. I tried to edit, made it worse so would like to have deleted it, however I can’t seem to see how to do it or if it is still possible, Has anybody any ideas please?

Just wondering why you felt you wanted one. Is it because the results from your present printers aren’t good enough, do you see a huge perceived increase in quality with this thing or are you getting one just because you can? (which of course is a very valid reason!)

Just to be clear, and has been pointed out above, there is no way anyone on ‘driver experience’ would be allowed to drive a service train with fare paying passengers. That would go against any safety case that railway has, invalidate insurance, etc. Usually it would be a light engine or at very best, and at the top end of the cost scale, engine plus ecs.

I’ll ask the question, are you sure it was a driver experience you were gifted? When I was a driver on the Mid Hants we used to sell various levels of footplate experiences, from simple footplate rides to full on driver plus ecs experiences. Sometimes people would arrive expecting to drive and fire when in fact what they had been given was simply a footplate ride. Obviously they would be disappointed but we used to let them do a bit of firing anyway, and, most importantly, blow the whistle.

What would appear to be even more odd is that I enjoy building layouts, but don’t seem to have the urge to operate them.

Morning from the bottom, quite a nice one too. Not a lot to report, life has been jogging along quite quietly, just as I like it, no alarms and no surprises. Dental reconstruction finally done, having to get used to new bite action etc., but overall very pleased, my wallet not so much. Talking of wallets, I have a pre assessment soon for my hernia op. It has been said by others that it was lifting my wallet that caused this problem, not so much for the amount of filthy lucre in there but the weight of moths gathered in there as apparently I don’t open it very often. As stated above my dentist can bear witness to the lack of veracity in that statement. l’m about to go for the morning constitutional, nothing too strenuous just a couple of miles round the block.Then it will be mainly painting figures for the diorama I’m building, nothing to do with model railways, a depiction in 1/35th scale of a portion of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall being built. In recognition of super Saints being relegated from the premier league I have my black underpants on. Having supported them as my local team for nearly 70 years I have learnt not to get too excited when things go well, or too upset when the opposite happens. Supporting Southampton is the biggest rollercoaster ever, at least there’s never a dull moment. Whatever you’re doing enjoy your day!

When I was a lad, we used to call it ganging up…

Cheers..that’s no way to talk about me…. It was a grand day.

A friend of mine sent me a video which he found on YouTube of this ‘ampsher ‘og complete with beret and dodgy haircut (me) on a play date with a big model (I wish). It’s from 13 years ago when I was good looking, the point being that on YouTube it is accredited to rmweb. I think it was about this time that Andy Y (yep that one) came out for a ride on the footplate with me and my crew (fireman Dave and third man Andy, Dave a driver of 10 years standing on the MHR now,Andy I believe is a freight driver on the big railway now) so could be the video he shot on that day. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RQcoaqAMGtw" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>

not my work, I fear, a ready to plonk Bachmann or Hornby, or some such product