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GRS make points that would suit you, I've used their 32mm gauge 2'6" radius points with Peco track in my Garden.

http://www.grsuk.com/GRS_45mm-C301500

I have had good results by using my Unimat as a pillar-drill, and converting it into a punch.

But, you will need a pillar-drill...

RE: Your question about the "Side Tanks"? I believe them to be coal bunkers, or coal bunker extensions. The Billy loco is based on the O&K Well Tank design. Andrew Barclay built their own versions of this design, the most well known is "Douglas" in the Talyllyn Railway. Howev...

Soar Valley Light:111900 wrote:Great minds think alike - especially when they share the same name!

I think your explanation was a little clearer!

Of course Andrew!

However, I have NEVER understood (or tried to understand) measuring gradients using percentages???

Soar Valley Light:111897 wrote:Joe,

Gradients are a ratio of amount of rise against distance travelled. As such they hold good for any scale.


Andrew

We both posted at the same tome Andrew...

Hi Joe, Simple answer is - A gradient does not scale. Let's take the Rheidol as an example, the gradient on the final miles of the line stiffens to a fearsome 1 in 50. This simply means that for every 50 units of distance travelled the line rises 1 of the same units. So every 50 feet the line rises ...

I can't be certain, but I'm pretty sure that the Swift Sixteen Delrin is from the same supply as motionco?

Hi Zac, Have used http://www.motionco.co.uk who are pretty good. I've used two sprockets on an 0-4-0 loco chassis (but unfinished so not seen much use) 3/16" bore (axles also supplied by http://www.motionco.co.uk) with 12 teeth. http://www.motionco.co.uk/light-power-sprocket-bore-p-33.html Seem...

Could someone tell me the diameter of the Zecar axles? Markus Hi Markus, They're about 1/8". I say about, as IP Engineering wheels are almost a rattle fit on the axles... The axles are also "crimped" at the ends, the ultimate solution would be to make plastic bushes to go over the Ze...

Been equally impressed by what I've seen & read, to that end I've bought a ZeCar. I have also bought myself some 1/8" bore Delrin gears & chain. I want to build a longer wheelbase (at least that of the ZeCar) with "4WD"... I'm assuming that if one axle works well, two can only...

I've had some very good results with Peco Set Track.

This is in SM32, using a combination of the 30" & 38" curves. I don't think I could have achieved this with Flexitrack?

Virtually any locomotive or motive power built until the 1980's in the UK had a form of handbrake. Usually a wheel that operated a screw thread. The handbrake would operate the loco brakes and could be used if the loco was parked or the loco (power) brakes failed. One was independent of the other bu...

More or less what I thought until we inspected one with a longer than usual  syphon tube fitted on yet another coffee pot that was correctly installed and located well away from the side of the boiler.  I have now found three more of these distorted gauges among our local group members which were f...

A quick tuppence worth... Bourdon pressure gauges should never get hot. Simple. The reason that there is a syphon is so the steam can condense to cold water before it enters the gauge. The gauge never gets hot because there is no passage of water or steam through the gauge. Pressure gauges on full s...

Please don't be afraid to have a go at any of Rob's (Swift Sixteen) kits, etc. I honestly believe that if you were to shake a box of a Swift Sixteen wagon kit hard enough the kit would assemble itself... They are that easy to build. I also know that if you fluff something up, a swift (excuse the pun...

Hi,

Brian is right, I fitted Link & Pin couplers originally but found them fiddly and time consuming.

Here's the link to my old Link & Pin thread.

http://gardenrails.myfreeforum.org/sutr ... ght=#75428

Didn't the fr have problems with the alco's  smokebox temperature when they first converted to oil firing? The Ffestiniog had many issues when they converted the fleet to burn oil, not least of which was actually getting the system to work... When they did get it to work they had real problems with...

I did reset the timing, it is not that difficult. There's a document floating about on the net that explains how to set Accucraft gear.
It's seriously easier that RH valve setting...

I've fitted these cocks to a couple of Accucraft engines and in my opinion they do work. Fitting is, I believe best done by removing the cylinders and using a small pillar drill to cut the holes. I found the easiest method to remove the cylinders was to remove the body & boiler as well. However,...

I've built these for my Roundhouse Penrhyn Quarry Hunslet and been asked if I could supply to others. Although not a commercial enterprise, I have decided to add them to my garden railway website. http://stlr.info/images/bootlane/rh-cross.jpg I've attached these with "Gorilla" glue, others...