Four Firsts!

[petercharlesfagg]

When I have problems with uncoupling Peter, first off I take the offending item and turn it 180°.  If that does not solve the problem, I then move it to the back of the rake (if that is aesthetically pleasing) and try it using either end.  I feel sure if you keep swapping your coaches round, you will eventually find a secure rake.  If all else fails, you could try a small piece of blue-tac on the coupling.

I hope this helps you find a solution to your uncoupling and I look forward to the PCF Epic #2 

cheers John.

Thankyou John, I am considering Plastic Weld!

[Newportnobby]

When I have problems with uncoupling Peter, first off I take the offending item and turn it 180°.  If that does not solve the problem, I then move it to the back of the rake (if that is aesthetically pleasing) and try it using either end.  I feel sure if you keep swapping your coaches round, you will eventually find a secure rake.  If all else fails, you could try a small piece of blue-tac on the coupling.

I hope this helps you find a solution to your uncoupling and I look forward to the PCF Epic #2 

cheers John.

Thankyou John, I am considering Plastic Weld!

That sounds a little permanent, Peter. Maybe some TackyWax might be better?

[petercharlesfagg]

When I have problems with uncoupling Peter, first off I take the offending item and turn it 180°.  If that does not solve the problem, I then move it to the back of the rake (if that is aesthetically pleasing) and try it using either end.  I feel sure if you keep swapping your coaches round, you will eventually find a secure rake.  If all else fails, you could try a small piece of blue-tac on the coupling.

I hope this helps you find a solution to your uncoupling and I look forward to the PCF Epic #2 

cheers John.

Thankyou John, I am considering Plastic Weld!

That sounds a little permanent, Peter. Maybe some TackyWax might be better?

Thankyou but it was written with tongue in cheek!  I forgot the smiley!

[jonclox]

Well done Peter you've sorted out your history of problems and ended up with a great results.
I envy you with all those bridges.
Congratulations (so far)
  Ooops-- I nearly forgot----- a great 1st video

[lil chris]

well done peter, looks good going over all those bridges. I bet you have done a bit of swearing laying all that track, I know I did  laying mine especially when it did not work. At least you did not swear on the video.

[petercharlesfagg]

well done peter, looks good going over all those bridges. I bet you have done a bit of swearing laying all that track, I know I did  laying mine especially when it did not work. At least you did not swear on the video.

Thankyou, very true!

I didn't realise or rather I didn't know that sound was recorded at the same time!  Hence the music!

Now that I DO know I shall try again and add some narrative i.e. tunnels here etc!

Regards, Peter.

[petercharlesfagg]

Hello again.

A small update:-  I have discovered that I will have to sell most of my North American locos!

The coupling is fitted to the body not the bogie and on the Peco Number 3 curves the overhang uncouples any wagons!

Regarding my Dapol steamer and carriages.

There is a slight bump in a length of flexible, almost invisible but obviously enough to uncouple my steamer from its carriages!  I have left it under compression for 24 hours and hope that it flattens enough!

Regards, Peter.

[Malc]

Glad you found the reason for the uncoupling, but a shame about not being able to use your US stock. Does it make any difference if you go around the circuit in the opposite direction?

[Bealman]

Malc, they will have to run on opposite side of the road. Could fix it.

Maybe. 

George

[petercharlesfagg]

Glad you found the reason for the uncoupling, but a shame about not being able to use your US stock. Does it make any difference if you go around the circuit in the opposite direction?

Thankyou Malcolm, I must admit that the idea had not occurred to me but I will try it but thinking about it makes me wonder if it will make any difference?

The other side of the coin is that I now need more cash to purchase tunnel making stuff, so perhaps it would be better to cut my losses and move on.

After all if things go the way they usually do I shall be re-aligning track all over again!

Quandaries, always quandaries!

Cheers Peter.

[georgehgv]

Great video Peter, all those bridges and viaducts, can't wait to see the scenery progress. Keep threatening to make a video of Geominster, you have given me a good reason now. Moving pictures give a better feel to the actual layout.
Great stuff, well done you.

George

[petercharlesfagg]

Great video Peter, all those bridges and viaducts, can't wait to see the scenery progress. Keep threatening to make a video of Geominster, you have given me a good reason now. Moving pictures give a better feel to the actual layout.
Great stuff, well done you.

George

Thankyou George, The scenery is not something I relish, like yourself I have virtually no experience of such and to that end I am intending to have as many rock faces as possible merely to cover the cracks!

As for the video, I have had the camera for 5 years but only discovered by chance how to record some moving pictures.  Now that I know how, the next thing will be a better picture but when?

I must admit that I have been very lax in viewing others hard work and even more so in commenting.

Cheers Peter.

[georgehgv]

Great video Peter, all those bridges and viaducts, can't wait to see the scenery progress. Keep threatening to make a video of Geominster, you have given me a good reason now. Moving pictures give a better feel to the actual layout.
Great stuff, well done you.

George

Thankyou George, The scenery is not something I relish, like yourself I have virtually no experience of such and to that end I am intending to have as many rock faces as possible merely to cover the cracks!

As for the video, I have had the camera for 5 years but only discovered by chance how to record some moving pictures.  Now that I know how, the next thing will be a better picture but when?

I must admit that I have been very lax in viewing others hard work and even more so in commenting.

Cheers Peter.

Hi Peter.

I hope to have all the track running shortly, just one small troublesome section on the reverse loop which needs attention, however in order to have confidence I think it is time for me to do as you have done and set a locomotive off on  a journey and record the moment. I do have two separate loops so will endeavour to have two locos running and maybe another just crawling along. If that all works then scenery is next and needs attending to, sadly too many distractions mean that it keeps getting delayed.

Do you have a plan of your layout? Post it, because it is always good to see other modellers ideas.

All the best - George

[petercharlesfagg]

Do you have a plan of your layout? Post it, because it is always good to see other modellers ideas.

All the best - George

Thankyou George.

When I was thinking of a plan last year our friends on here were only too willing to try and get some semblance of my ideas into a plan.

I imagine that unlike yourself where your woodworking is to a plan, both my life and my woodturning have never complied to a plan!

I have always hankered after having bridges etc. and crossovers and points all over the place ever since I had my Tri-ang railway all over the floor of the loft as a boy with especially the Grand Victorian Suspension bridge carrying the track over the rafters!  (Those bits of wood that go across a floor in a loft space and stand proud of the others)

There WAS a plan, drawn up by one of our friends here but after the initial inner space trackwork, my brain took a different course and then the problems hacked in with great force!  (A double return loop comes to mind that was more difficult than my little grey cells could cope with!!!)

Time will tell but I doubt very much if a plan will ever come to fruition!

Peter.

[Bealman]

Peter....

Did you have one of those Triang suspension bridges?

You lucky, lucky.....

Now I understand the abundance of bridges on your layout!

George