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When coming across YT articles regards layouts if the term “railroad” is used I generally assume it is a US layout.

Richard

Brick counting does not work on stone built houses as although individual courses can be even the stone sizes do vary. Here in West Yorkshire where there tends to be a lot of sandstone built houses you can see that lower courses are often taller stones and getting narrower the higher you go and that...

Walkingthedog wrote: ↑Thu Aug 08, 2024 1:13 pm The good old days were always wonderful because we didn’t have a care in the world.

Too true, as a kid you generally accept what is around you as normal until you learn otherwise. A bomb site was a great place to play with little thought about who lived there and what happened to them.

Richard

I lived through the 50’s so very much post war Britain. At the time I did not think too much about about the decrepit environment and depravation where I lived. Now I look at photos of the place from the fifties and how bad it looked and find myself shocked that what I see. The “good old days” were ...

Does anyone know anything about Teedoubleudee, it is a year since he last posted a rather bad tempered reply? Has he switched forums?

Richard

The brown component on the motor is a capacitor and its purpose is to suppress the effects of sparking on the motor commutator. The black component will also be a capacitor and based on the age of the model and the appearance of the white component I would suggest it is an inductor. Both these compo...

I seem to recall the intention is to keep the layout in a shed and bring it into the house when in use. 50 X 25mm is fine when used fixed to a wall or other permanent structure but I think you risk quite a lot of movement with the changes of temperature and moisture levels. I would suggest you cut s...

Track of the same code ie. Code 75 or Code 100 should have the same height even between manufacturers as the 75 and 100 are actual measurements. For Code 75 = 0.075” and Code 100 = 0.1” which means that all track sections of the same code should have the same rail height therefore no difference in h...

Surely you mean a 0.5mm drill, 0.05 is the diameter of a human hair!

Richard

Just had a look at your Lostock Junction thread and as far as I can see all your images are coming up some with a bit of a delay at times but they are all there.

Richard