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Hi Frank, Thanks for your input re loco springs. I wondered,[before I contact Slaters] would it be possible for you to take the measurements of the springs on...
Dear all As usual please scrap this if you are reading for the second or more time! I'm off travelling again for work so it will be a week or more before...
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Oct 1, 2004 7:55 pm
1996
Has anyone built the Tower Models Warship ? A friend purchased the kit, and I collected it at Telford. Any information will be appreciated. John Burrow San...
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Oct 2, 2004 8:55 am
1998
Reminder from the Calendar of 7mm http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/7mm/cal Railway Modellers Weekend Sunday 10 October 2004 10:00 - 16:30 (This event does not...
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Oct 3, 2004 8:55 am
1999
All I cleaned the track on "Gas Works" today prior to going to an exhibition in Leipzig next weekend. I used Carr's Track Cleaner and the amount of black dirt...
Bob, At my club, we used to use lighter fluid and a rag on the 7mm layouts (cue Brian and a apoplectic fit ;) ) to clean the track, even the next day of a two...
Hi Bob, Just make sure you haven't got a ring of dirt between the flange and the tread. It is possible to remove a complete ring of grime from that area. It...
... Possibly. When nickel silver oxidises, it still conducts. But I would guess your locomotives are equalised? That means enough pickup points to take the...
Hi Bob. I'd be interested to know of the weight of the wagon with the death wish, but like the other e mailer the back to back seems to be the best place...
Bob, Was this a one off, or a repeated happening? Sounds like poltergeists or harmonic vibration, or perhaps the wagon is ex Padarn railway, 4ft gauge! Maybe...
Graham The wagon fell off about half an hour after cleaning the wheels! It may well have been vibration but the wagon must have been standing with its flanges ...
I have heard that a coating of graphite from a soft pencil is an aid to electrical pickup, mind you, you'd have to forego those lovely shiny rails. ...
Hi ... rails. ... I have tried both pencil graphite and Railzip. The graphite worked quite well, and leaves the rails just as shiny as before, but the Railzip...
Bob. Agree with you there never put a fibreglass brush near the loco to clean it to many nasty fibres floating about,as to the trackwork cleaning,when i was a...
Christopher The locos are both sprung, equalised and rigid, the latter being four wheelers and prone to stalling on dirty tack BUT they didn't! I'm not certain...
Frank The wagon event was a one off - rather like the track cleaning that happened afterwards! Bob ... From: FRANK SHARP [mailto:Frank.J.Sharp@...] Sent:...
Jeff The wagon in question is a Slater's LMS cattle wagon finished as an Ale wagon, naturally. It is weighted about two ounces extra, so could be heavier. It...
Nick The stationary wagon fell off in a siding next to a passing train. As I say in my reply to Jeff, the track has been in situ for over ten years and wagon ...
Hi Bob, Looks as if this one is going to have to go under the "just one of thase things" catagory. Regards, Jeff. [Non-text portions of this message have...
Fred, Be wary of using meths for cleaning, you are quite right it does evaporate, but the methyl violet dye used to colour it doesn't. We used meths at work as...
Flakes of human skin, dandruff and perspiration Bob - an interesting mixture.......... Regards Brian Lewis Tel: +44 1 275 852 027 Fax: +44 1 275 810 555 ... ...
Hi Jeff and other DCC users, One of the potential advantages for DCC is that due to being delivered on an AC current, it can "overcome dirt" thru capacative ...
Steve, and all, I'm a believer on springing or compensation as a way of avoiding pickup problems. I know rigid chassis seem to work, but as someone put it to ...
In the past there has been a long thread on paint removal so I thought I would share a discovery with all. At the week-end I picked up a Loco (etched...
<John Burrow <jburrow@...> wrote: <Has anyone built the Tower Models Warship ? Hi John, I'm well on the way, having commenced construction just after...
Anyone who has worked with equipment that has a fan and filter will be aware of the very fine black "dust" that ends up on the equipment over time. We have had...
I had a chemist analyse my track dirt once when it was causing a problem on a public exhibition layout. He reckoned it was 98% carbon. Carbon, as we know, is...
Andrew McMillan
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Oct 4, 2004 1:51 pm
2022
I seem to remember Lonnie Donnnegon (or another) recorded "Ghost Train". Perhaps this was the inspiration. Regards ` Tony ... From:...
