4mm Llanfair
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Andy P
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Really enjoying this relaxed, informative and well executed project Larry, please keep this one going, it looks a winner, and a pity I'm no longer in Swad, or I could have popped up to view it whilst at Bala on Holiday, but sadly that will no longer happen now.
Keep well and stay safe.
Keep well and stay safe.
LarryG
Western Thunderer
I agree there is a lot of slip in the fluid flywheel/pre-selector set up (just as there is with automatics). The whinnying of the gearbox & flywheel as it idles in-gear is music to my ears.
Anyway, thanks for the kind words. Andy P too. Thanks for the sketch Phil. Food for thought.
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LarryG
Western Thunderer
I was in and out of the shed all morning before I noticed the roof capping felt had blown completely off. It was only when I was up there this afternoon that passing neighbours said "Oh I meant to tell you about that"!
No electric wiring today, but I did manage to considerably shorten the headshunt and fit buffer stops, which again made the layout look more compact...
Also, the water tank was moved away from the crossover points...
Focalplane
Western Thunderer
An interesting comment, Larry, “making the layout look more compact”! Most of us have the opposite need, particularly in 7mm.
It’s certainly true that buffer stops start to make a layout “real”.
Sorry to learn of the rain and wind damage to the roof. It’s one area I don’t like thinking about too much having been up and down ladders earlier in the year. I am definitely getting past ladder work!
It’s certainly true that buffer stops start to make a layout “real”.
Sorry to learn of the rain and wind damage to the roof. It’s one area I don’t like thinking about too much having been up and down ladders earlier in the year. I am definitely getting past ladder work!
Stephen Freeman
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It's nearly always worse near the coast, Pretty rough here too though, but then it's not that far away, the worst I had to deal with was rearranging some garden furniture and the barbeque cover.
LarryG
Western Thunderer
Just finished re-felting the roof, sealing joints and washing down. I had three ladders on the job in case I lost a pair. Warm today as well so the felt shaped easily. Looking like Harold-the-Tramp at the mo, unshaven and flippin' hungry. 
EDIT 13.40hrs. It's pouring down now to test my workmanship haha..
EDIT 13.40hrs. It's pouring down now to test my workmanship haha..
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Allen M
Western Thunderer
LarryG
Western Thunderer
I had finished wiring the layout when an Electrofrog point failed. It was replaced with a large radius flat-bottom point along and a short stretch of siding with re-spaced sleepers to match Peco bullhead. Fingers crossed everything works in the morning and the replacement track can be weathered...
LarryG
Western Thunderer
Laying an operating rod to the new point meant melting the rod through the plastic webbing on the point in front. The point it replaced wads a medium radius which was shorter and would have meant burrowing under the adjacent points frog.... a no-no...
Through and easier than expected...
New point fully operational ~ and weathered....
Clow up of the operating lever with a frog polarity changeover switch to the Electrofrog point...
Through and easier than expected...
New point fully operational ~ and weathered....
Clow up of the operating lever with a frog polarity changeover switch to the Electrofrog point...
LarryG
Western Thunderer
Yup.
EDITTED 13th (!) October. I had a short this morning and it took ages to find the culprit. Yes, it was one of the square brass rods that had scrapped its way upwards until it finally touched the underside of a rail.
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Pencarrow
Western Thunderer
LarryG
Western Thunderer
I was too occupied to open todays parcels, however, I've since dunnit and found buffer stops from Peco (left) as well as Lanarkshire models. The latter are very tidy and easy to solder together using low-melt designed for whitemetal. It's many years since I used low-melt let alone open the little drawer. Counting 10 sleepers back from the end of the siding, I am going to remove the rails and then alter the chairs to suit Lanarkshire's buffer stop. They're not insulated so they will go on the carriage siding the end of which loco will never tread! . The yard headshunt, on the otherhand, will will have a Peco buffer stop or a sleeper-built stop, then it won't matter if I miss-judge momentum...
Pencarrow
Western Thunderer
Hi Larry, with the Lanarkshire buffer stops I superglued some squares of tissue paper to the rear of the buffer beam and, when set, superglued that to the rail uprights. Worked well, firm fix and electrically insulated.
