Today I acquired...........

[Turbo]

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!

 

[marlinspike]

Any use to you?

I thought that was a gingerbread house for a minute. I thought 'Cool ... they're doing factories now'.

 

[Onoff]

 

[Pete.]

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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?

 

[iNf]

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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Are you going to attempt this...
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1JK56NN3wz/

 

[Windy Miller]

Are you going to attempt this...
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1JK56NN3wz/

Thats amazing! Wonder how long it took to get that lot set up and 'tuned'?

 

[RichardM]

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.

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

 

[My Old Landy]

Are you going to attempt this...
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1JK56NN3wz/

I don't have Facebook sorry!

 

[BrokenBiker]

I don't have Facebook sorry!

Here you go

 

[Bullet2012]

I don't have Facebook sorry!

you probably dont need to join fb to view it

 

[Jack_K]

Snap-on counselor MT1665 engine analyser.

 

[Bullet2012]

What do a train set and your wife’s chest have in common?
Both were made for kids, but dads can’t help playing with them.

 

[Turbo]

You're not going to pour transformer oil into that portable site transformer?

I may do some daft things but I'm not that daft!
The oil is for oil cooled welders.

 

[harveyp6]

I don't have Facebook sorry!

I don't have farceback either, but I managed to see it.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Stuff, again.

Dusting powder, for puncture repair kits.

From a mad member on here.

Must be mad, he had a TIDY workshop, with clear spaces.




Plus a Lego Crocodile.

 

[My Old Landy]

I don't have farceback either, but I managed to see it.

I will put it another way, I don't click on links that result in anything to do with Facebook

 

[My Old Landy]

Here you go

Cheers

 

[Puglet1]

I am so jealous. I’ve always wanted a mobile bread board!

 

[MattF]

I will put it another way, I don't click on links that result in anything to do with Facebook

Sensible.

 

[m_c]

A couple bits to give my desktop a bit of a speed boost