My Old Landy
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The factory is something I would be interested in
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Dr.Al
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Eight more rolls of this stuff as I seem to be using it like it's going out of fashion: https://amzn.to/4b2TCDb
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I've been there so many times...even when I've got the bit on I've usually done it backwards.
Just soldered a diode this evening...it took me 3 attempts to get it the right way around
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Cobbler
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When in my teens, I got sacked for similar. Was changing a 2 way switch, one of the old round china ones & the wires were 3 blacks, no colours & I got it wrong twice. The guy I worked for sacked me on the spot, leaving me to walk back about 7 miles home. Sod drove past me as well, used to see him occasionally & he wouldn’t speak to me, totally ignored me. All part of life I suppose, I worked for some horrible sods when young.I've been there so many times...even when I've got the but on I've usually done it backwards.
Just soldered a diode this evening...it took me 3 attempts to get it the right way around
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cheers 
Is that for the pass through connectors?
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I've been gathering track whenever I see it at the right price on the car boot sale, to go with the various locos and other stuff I've still got from the layout I had when I was a kid. My idea was that when I've finished restoring the cars, I've got a pretty big shed that I could build a decent-sized layout around the outside of. I'm sure you can all see the flaw in that plan.
I went to see Pete Waterman's layout when it was in Chester Cathedral and it looked great, but I think I'd probably enjoy building a layout more than actually doing anything with it once it was built. Loads of stuff is different now, with DCC and so on. I'm not bothered about sound as it always seems to sound tinny due to tiny speakers, though I expect that will improve.
I remember in the seventies and eighties when I was first getting model railway stuff, the catalogues for the German companies like Marklin and Fleischmann always seemed to have much better stuff, or maybe it was just photographed better.
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Well the new loco is DCC sound fitted. Oh and the blue light flashes too! It's amazing how these things have come on.
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Lincs Wol
dHaving decided that 57 hobbies just isn't enough, I have embarked on building a rail layout.....
Well, I actually saw this Police Class 37 got released by Hornby and I wanted it (oldies will remember the advert for BR it was used in).
As I don't currently have a railway, I also bought a load of track and various other stuff!
Just got to get the garage conversion done so I can play with it
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Lincs Wold Railway have a lot of used model railway stock for sale.Having decided that 57 hobbies just isn't enough, I have embarked on building a rail layout.....
Well, I actually saw this Police Class 37 got released by Hornby and I wanted it (oldies will remember the advert for BR it was used in).
As I don't currently have a railway, I also bought a load of track and various other stuff!
Just got to get the garage conversion done so I can play with it
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25l drum of transformer oil only £14.
5kva transformer box.
When viewing this I didn't notice the 3 phase plug on it. Oh dear I said I wonder have I bought a 400v to 110v transformer (or similar more vulgar words).
Thankfully it was wired as single phase across 1 live and the neutral pin in the plug.
Hooked it up to 240 power and got a nice 110v output.
Transformer is nice and clean inside with no cooked smell. Very quiet too, virtually no humming noise from it.
I had been looking for a 5kva transformer for a long time, now I have 2!
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I thought that was a gingerbread house for a minute. I thought 'Cool ... they're doing factories now'.
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25l drum of transformer oil only £14.
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5kva transformer box.
When viewing this I didn't notice the 3 phase plug on it. Oh dear I said I wonder have I bought a 400v to 110v transformer (or similar more vulgar words).
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Thankfully it was wired as single phase across 1 live and the neutral pin in the plug.
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Hooked it up to 240 power and got a nice 110v output.
Transformer is nice and clean inside with no cooked smell. Very quiet too, virtually no humming noise from it.
I had been looking for a 5kva transformer for a long time, now I have 2!
You're not going to pour transformer oil into that portable site transformer?
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Are you going to attempt this...Having decided that 57 hobbies just isn't enough, I have embarked on building a rail layout.....
Well, I actually saw this Police Class 37 got released by Hornby and I wanted it (oldies will remember the advert for BR it was used in).
As I don't currently have a railway, I also bought a load of track and various other stuff!
Just got to get the garage conversion done so I can play with it
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I still have my old Fleischman loco from the 70's, one day I'll get around to restoring it.
Dad gave the rest of my train set away many years ago
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