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hi, somewhere amidst the upstairs carnage, is my tiny ball bearing which dropped from top bush on my 3 rail loco. It is one sixteenth, tiny. Has any kind soul a couple spare, so that i can afford to drop another one whilst replacing. Thats the trouble, with Bionic thumbs, things drop out. john

yelrow wrote: ↑Sat Nov 24, 2018 12:35 pm hi, somewhere amidst the upstairs carnage, is my tiny ball bearing which dropped from top bush on my 3 rail loco. It is one sixteenth, tiny. Has any kind soul a couple spare, so that i can afford to drop another one whilst replacing. Thats the trouble, with Bionic thumbs, things drop out. john

Lucky it was not one of your Z gauge loco you were working on John.................................John

Compared with the size of this ball bearing, they are massive. Carpet floors are supposed to stop things rolling. Nobody explained this to my carpet, and it’s not in the vacuum.

Hi John ..............If these are the Hornby Dublo Balls which are end of shaft / motor you should be able to pick them up on ebay I have seen them advertised.........................John

Yup ,will order along with springs and carbon brushes, just a pain

been there...done that....

The Dublo Surgeon might be of help - http://www.dublo-spares.co.uk/

When I drop things onto my wood floor they are found (if ever) usually a long way from the drop point.

My magic locators are a magnet on a flexi wand and a super bright torch. The torch is used in poor light to hopefully get a glint from anything remotely shiny. I have found things I didn’t know I had lost yet with it. The magnet works well to find things hiding in palin sight behind the dust bunnies.

Rob