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I forgot to mention; this loco has a 25 x 9 mm PEEK speaker in a homemade 5.5 mm deep enclosure, it only just fits! Yet I'm tempted to try something with a larger 'cone' and enclosure to try and get more bass and complexity out of the sound project. Does anyone have a view on that?

It's too easy, isn't it? Still, I find it fascinating; a smooth, quiet running Dapol Class 50 was a pre-owned bargain and another piece of luck enabled a body-swap to pre-TOPS Blue, just like I remember tearing past the swings and slides at our Rec'. I'm now in the habit of using Digitrains sound files, but they didn't have a Zimo Next18 small enough at the time. I nearly went with Legomanbiffo as his projects are sublime, but didn't want to confuse myself with ESU and Zimo protocols! Luckily Youchoos had the hardware and Digitrains did a reblow. And here it is on speed step 4 with volume at 40/255, turn the volume up and enjoy.

It's the right way up on my phone!

I've figured it out using a battery, Common is Black, Red is tail lights and white is headcode lights.

Hi, Please can anyone help? I can't figure out the Common wire for the lights. Guess it's black, but if someone has a wiring diagram or knows - please message me. Thanks P.S. the black is sandwiched between the red and white wires - not easy to pick out in this photo

Frampton P4 is looking great even after being in deep storage. My highlight of the show today.

So happy to meet Paul and Rich again today at Lydney show. Frampton P4 still looks great and highlights those tiny yards we used to find almost by accident. Thank for showing this gem again.

Good morning @scottystitch Is there any news on the Society Ferryvans please? Rgds Ian

Hi, Glad to say my copy looks fine. 👍

Very disappointed with online content this year - lots of traders shown as attending, don't have links to their websites. Seems it's the same with all layouts. If visitor numbers are down then the organisers need to look at their own efforts first.

Hi, Well, I'm happy with the mechanics and electrics, final testing was completed tonight and everything works (sound deadening/wire-in-tube/frog juicer) Now I can concentrate on the scenery; I have a Scenecraft 'Great Central Goods Depot' which should set the scene nicely, abeit a little worn/unkempt. I think it looks like the one at Quorn and that one is not as low, being attached to a platform on the 'porch' side' and from an archive photo, having a small loading platform on the road vehicle side. (If I have that wrong, please, please, correct me) An ancient Peco road-over bridge recovered from a previous layout is being hacked to produce a bit of a scenic exit and will need integrating with some sort of raised roadway. A hardstanding will be needed as I want to suggest forklift operations. Provision for a cassette or extension. Frog juicer with red/black input top right, track power red/black middle right and frog feeds in green. Bent Wire-in-Ballpoint pen ink reservoir tube. A one minute video hosted on YouTube shows the track being tested With the Peco road-over bridge narrowed, skewed and positioned, I drafted the roadway and track down to the yard on mount board and cut it out. Fettling it to fit/suit the location was a very enjoyable - back to teenage modelling exercise. I made a little 40 degree repose 'gauge' to check embankment slopes and hacked some polystyrene packing to support the roadway. I kept going and glued most of the elements in place. A tiny test board has been made with an offcut of track to test ground cover techniques. Hi, Thanks for dropping-by. Some progress as I'm trying to keep going. The bottom of the ramp has been cut into the yard surface to try and make that transition smooth. I've added polystyrene to create an embankment supporting the road. Trying to give an impression of slightly uneven ground with the formation and yard having been levelled. Some photos to illustrate my my thoughts. I'm still moving the bothy around and thinking it might need a weighbridge. When I fitted the bridge I used a Farish BR 12T van to test for clearance - unfortuately a my Farish locos are taller, so about an hour was spent lifting it slightly and realigning the track. All good now. As per my strap line I have been working on some detail, as the inside of the bridge is visible to the curious I have cut up the unused wing walls to create interior walls and highlighted to myself that I need a solution to the interior faces of the road walls! I have been distracted by collecting rolling stock! Now I'm back to scenery. The bridge needs finishing at the baseboard edge, the road needs widening, the road profile made fitting spear facing nigh impossible, the road went straight in to the background and I've been putting it off untill I had two things; a brainwave to carve foam board to correct the road contour and found more wing walls dead cheap on a second -hand stall (plus a Hornby milk tanker!).

Hi Paul, I now have manual braking and brake squeal 'nailed', I further increased CV4 and CV578. Thank you for all your help. I'm going to ask a further question; Is there a way to turn off Flange Squeal when speed equals zero? Thanks in advance Ian