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The answer must be yes because last night it was freezing at the club house and I had to run the DCC track and accessories to test the new bus bar extensions I fitted so we can now have 7 hand control...
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Ok, I put my hands up. When we tested the currupt locomotives on the rolling road we used the main ZTC 511 controller (on the programming track). They ran ok in both directions and then it...
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The demise of ZTC as reported by their website and our forum (see here) has been a blow.
Their 4007 decoder was a great little decoder that has helped force the market to reduce costs and i...
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After fitting the Traintronics TT300 slow motion DCC point motors to the layout we carried out some tests. The motors moved well for most of the time but whenever the track had a short they all ...
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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 ...
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Yes, after buying a heavily weathered tank loco and several other secondhand ones we are about to embark on a dirty campaign - Weathering them to look like those quite dirty tanks in all the photos.
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We have fixed all bugs in the track work on the front end and tested all routes. There were some strange physical issues caused by a defective micro-switch and the age of the layout track work and al...
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Having stripped down the two scenic boards that have been partly completed and removed them to a shed at home to complete the task we stripped off more boards from the front of the layout so that the ...
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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...
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The boards are now fixed together never to be separated and the surface sanded. New cork has been laid and sanded so all is well for the new track to be fitted.
I now need to plan the electrics...
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Well it was a frantic time getting ready for the YMRG Open Day in July. Keith managed to complete the new track-work for points to and from
Yeovil Junction just in time but Olivia and I had a bu...
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During open day the baseboard for the goods area dipped about 5mm in the middle as it must have had some excessive weight on it sometime in the last year!
We are planning to remove it and add st...
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With two of the team in not the best of health at present there is a lot to do for the remaining two of us, in preparation for our Open Day.
There are always the tasks you forgot like completing the ...
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After a long holiday period and some secondment to the "The Summit" project We have finally started to make the second board scenic. Again we are using Polystyrene for the cutting sides as t...
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