The Farish 45ft containers might well be hicubes - I honestly can't remember, I just remember that they are not the same as Dapol 45ft'ers.

The 8ft6 containers should be lower than the hicubes.

Cheers, Mike

Agreed - but (my perhaps incorrect) recollection was that they're all the same height.

Quote from: red_death on July 13, 2016, 02:56:34 PM
I'm aware of a couple of potential projects for new N gauge containers which should give a bit more variety - watch this space.

Hi

Any of those the 1970s type?

Cheers

Paul

Right, got a 40" Dapol (red, from a pair of FEAs), a Dapol 45' hi-cube (blue, Stobart), and a Farish 45' hi-cube (Samskip, from multifrets). The lengths vary, about right, but they're all exactly the same height. The red Dapol one should be comparatively shorter. Dunno if it's too tall or the hi-cubes are too short. One of them can't be right though surely?





Sorry for the quick phone photos.

Realise this is a bit OT, to answer the original question I'd want a mix of makes for the variety. However, I have some 3D printed KTA pocket wagons from Vonzack which will only fit Dapol 40' containers, which is technically wrong I think... Ignore me, that's a complete red herring - was thinking KTAs were designed for 45' hi-cubes.

Hi njee20,

Looks to me like the 45's are too small from the picture as I think the Dapol containers are Cubes. I think the Cubes should be around 17mm high and the HiCubes 19mm high.

Cheers, Mark.

Seems logical, I didn't actually measure the heights of any of them, but clearly something is 'wrong'.

Whilst you're here I just want to congratulate you on the awesome KTA (and the KFA that's not made it beyond a soaking in IPA!), must get around to finishing them!

Hello Snowwolflair

I also have a Brawa crane which can be powered for my container port but as I bought it from Germany I have no idea how to power it. It has no power, just a load of random coloured leads.
Do you happen to have any instructions or advice?

Thanks

Quote from: chicky365 on August 21, 2016, 08:29:52 PM
Hello Snowwolflair

I also have a Brawa crane which can be powered for my container port but as I bought it from Germany I have no idea how to power it. It has no power, just a load of random coloured leads.
Do you happen to have any instructions or advice?

Thanks

Yes take the time to replace all the wires as the ones in the original models tend to perish.  There is a panel on the sloping end that when removed exposes the solder points.  Remember to keep the two diodes as they are the end of movement stops for the across movement.

The power to the UP Down and the across movement goes along the rods and pcb tracks.  Clean them as they are very likely to be tarnished, a fiberglass pen is the best way.

the motors are the same as the first generation Farish can motors and in my one seemed to be fine, however they always had temperamental brushes.

If there is lots of oil evident clean it off with tissue and use a dry lube poly-carbonate type.

Thanks Snowwolflair,
My crane has about 10 multicoloured wires coming out of it. Which ones are or the power and what power/battery base would I need to plug this into?

All the motors are 12v DC

If you are just talking about the wires from the crane itself you will have 2 pairs.  If you have the moving base you will have three pairs.

Look for the pairs with a test meter and then power the matched pairs and see what moves.

If you search on the web there is at least one copy of the instructions that can be downloaded.

http://www.modelbanen.eu/Manualer/web/BRAWA%20containerkran%20manualer.PDF

HI All

The Farish 45ft container is not 45ft nor is it meant to be its really 13.6 meters x 8'9" high, the dapol 45ft is a 45ft HC of the current type with the angled corners at the end this was a design that was patented by Geest and allowed a 45ft container to turn in the max turning circle.

The Tesco come Stobart containers are 45ft x 8'6" .

Hope this helps

Regards Arran
=C=Rail=

Quote from: njee20 on July 13, 2016, 10:50:20 PM
Right, got a 40" Dapol (red, from a pair of FEAs), a Dapol 45' hi-cube (blue, Stobart), and a Farish 45' hi-cube (Samskip, from multifrets). The lengths vary, about right, but they're all exactly the same height. The red Dapol one should be comparatively shorter. Dunno if it's too tall or the hi-cubes are too short. One of them can't be right though surely?





Sorry for the quick phone photos.

Realise this is a bit OT, to answer the original question I'd want a mix of makes for the variety. However, I have some 3D printed KTA pocket wagons from Vonzack which will only fit Dapol 40' containers, which is technically wrong I think... Ignore me, that's a complete red herring - was thinking KTAs were designed for 45' hi-cubes.