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Grade of solder specifically formulated for bonding materials with a low melting
point, such as whitemetal, commonly melting at 70-100'C.
/glossary/2987.htm
Several H&M
point motors have been intermittent in their operation after a couple of months standing still. As Yeovil Town is exhibition standard we can't have any unreliable aspects. ...
/blog/yeovil-town/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new.htm
After changing a TT300
point motor in the goods yard in November which appeared to male before break on the micro-switch we discovered that we have a further 3 units causing the same fault in the fidd...
/blog/yeovil-town/3362.htm
Automation on a railway allows us to run the same train on the same track at the same speed in the same way many times. We all know the Murphy's law that states a train will run 19 times with no...
/blog/yeovil-town/3365.htm
The
point at which the bodyside of railway vehicle meets the roof. Denoted since the 1980s by an orange horizontal line.
/glossary/2932.htm
A hunp at the top of a rope-hauled railway to prevent wagons or carriages accidentally running back down the incline; an incline on which wagons are built to be run off by gravity as required, usually...
/glossary/2980.htm
The assembly that holds the signal and
point levers in a signal box or ground frame. A lever frame is made up of slots for the levers to operate in and allows for them to be locked togethe.
/glossary/2983.htm
Well I refitted the accessory decoders to Yeovil Town yesterday one by one and the last one failed on one H&M motor (all the others worked). When I checked it out I found that we had a direct shor...
/blog/yeovil-town/900.htm
Ok, so Yeovil Town did not quite work correctly last night...
We got someone to clean the track and they were a bit too enthusiastic and the track cleaner was not up to the job so we ended up with li...
/blog/yeovil-town/791.htm
After replacing a couple of H&M
point motors the base board was replaced. The alignment proved a problem and after much investigation one track was deemed to be at fault. It was by an ...
/blog/yeovil-town/landslip-at-yeovil-town.htm
We have introduced a new Glossary Cross Reference Feature for most written pages. The Glossary is being populated with common and not so common Railway and Model Railway terms. Simple text...
/news/283.htm
There is nothing like an Open day deadline to concentrate efforts on a layout!
The problem with the
point motors being out of sync has been fixed with some programming. The new temporary track ...
/blog/yeovil-town/progress-tracked.htm
We are finding it very slow travelling to the clubhouse to model small areas of detail on each board so we are moving most of them back to my garage where I can pop in every so often which is what wor...
/blog/yeovil-town/3340.htm
We have finally made some headway with the new track on the new front boards. The boards were designed many years ago and by chance the joint between two 6ft x 2ft boards lies directly under com...
/blog/yeovil-town/3351.htm
After fixing the issue of
point motors doingtheir own thing when they want to! We tested the main track with several different types of locomotive;
An Intercity 125 with a full rake of coaches
...
/blog/yeovil-town/2744.htm