Hi OzzyO,I used these, ceramic tipped tweezers. Three different ends to the tweezers for about £7.00 from you know where.
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Hi Mark,Hi OzzyO,
I quite like the look of those tweezers, but having looked "you know where" I can't find them! Perhaps I am looking at the wrong "you know where"!
Do you have a link?
Many thanks.
Mark
Hi OzzyOHello all,
I really should have put this in my last post but I forgot to.
It's to do with something a bit smaller than the track laying but as important in its own right, it's the ground (shunting) signals. We have two options for these.
The MSE ones that we have some of, as shown below.
Or the ones from Bolton Bits as shown below.
I quite like the look of both of them. We will want them to work, so which way to go? But not lit as what's the point when the layout is set in daylight?
ATB
OzzyO.
Hi OzzyO
I have used the MSE kits for my layout and made them operational by modifying the back blinder to take an operating wire from sub-baseboard.
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This, however was a fudge as the MSE kit does not lend itself well to operation. I have recently been making up some non-operational versions and the quality of the metal used for the castings left something to be desired - tricky to solder with 70 degree solder and I would not like to try a higher temperature solder.
From the look of the fret I think the Bolton's Bits version will be easier to make operational as there are some nice holes for a linkage in the balance weight arm.
Regards.
I will try to remember and take one (or more) tomorrow.Hello Bill,
do you have a photo of the ground signal from the side?
TFAH
OzzyO.
I like lit signals, even if the layout is set in / displayed in daylight. Looking down the line…
Jon’s kits are designed to work, he has an active thread in t’other place, you can see how he does it. Very small servos.
Whilst I habitually use red & blacK for J&K, (with black to the back) I’m pleased to hear that the common crossing connections are green. Frogs are obviously green.
Coming along very nicely!
Top tip... Put something hard to drill through between the underside of the baseboard and the Megapoints circuit board. They don't take kindly to being drilled through when installing level crossing gates... Ask me how I know!Hello all,
as I'm off track laying on this thread at the moment I thought that I'd show you some gizmos that electrical Edwards has got. If I've got this correct these are for route setting so with the input of one code say R4N (road 4 north). These gizmos will set the points and point vees to the correct road and power supply.
First the warning.
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One of the units and the waning.
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It looks like he's got two sizes of units, this one could be for the front as we only have four points and six signals.
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This size could be for the fiddle yard as we have about twenty points in it, some times you may have to throw up to five points to set one road. There will be at least two of them in the yard one for the north end and one for the south end (or up and down).
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For the power I think that we will be using a dedicated transformer one for the point gizmos and one or two for the DCC units.
If you have any question, I'll have to pass them on to electrical Edwards.
ATB
OzzyO.