What happened at your workbench today?

Made these 3 water drains for my recently installed water cranes. They are cut up squares from drain leaf protection cover left over from doing my shed.The metal is some left iver mesh that was kicking around, glued on with Hafix and pegged using Clingfilm to stop the pegs getting glued on as well. Since been sprayed Matt Black and awaiting a small dab or two of glossy black to make it look wet.
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Faffing about in 0 gauge with a former Blue Flyer. It had been done up with a PR upgrade kits that included 2 x motor bogies, new side-frames and lots of other detailing. It had seen better days but I was happy to get it For £90 x ebay. In fact tje advert showed it in bits so it was a bit of an act of faith to bid on it but the bogies and motor all worked so a good basisi for some work. I have done a fair bit if tidying up and made a better job of fitting the side frames with 12ba screws and cross pieces of soldered brass to the main chassis.
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dunnyrail said:
Faffing about in 0 gauge with a former Blue Flyer. It had been done up with a PR upgrade kits that included 2 x motor bogies, new side-frames and lots of other detailing. It had seen better days but I was happy to get it For £90 x ebay. In fact tje advert showed it in bits so it was a bit of an act of faith to bid on it but the bogies and motor all worked so a good basisi for some work. I have done a fair bit if tidying up and made a better job of fitting the side frames with 12ba screws and cross pieces of soldered brass to the main chassis.
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What surprises me is that G scale manufacturers have been so slow / unwilling to use flywheels. Given the known issue of track cleanliness outdoors, it always seemed an obvious benefit to me. Bachmann have used them on their later 1:20.3 offerings but they should have been using flywheels as a matter of course. There is no harm done if the loco is used on DCC or battery power, but it's incredibly difficult to add a flywheel to a mass-produced model.
 
Rhinochugger said:
What surprises me is that G scale manufacturers have been so slow / unwilling to use flywheels. Given the known issue of track cleanliness outdoors, it always seemed an obvious benefit to me.
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Good point. I wonder if the idea is that the momentum of heavy stock is sufficient to keep 'em rolling.
 
Rhinochugger said:
What surprises me is that G scale manufacturers have been so slow / unwilling to use flywheels. Given the known issue of track cleanliness outdoors, it always seemed an obvious benefit to me. Bachmann have used them on their later 1:20.3 offerings but they should have been using flywheels as a matter of course. There is no harm done if the loco is used on DCC or battery power, but it's incredibly difficult to add a flywheel to a mass-produced model.
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I agree for track power the flywheel is a great addition, but not just for that my Roundhouse Jack has a stonking great SloMo Flywheel that makes driving it a thing you need to think more carefully about and this Hymec will have Battery Power as well so will be my first Battery Powered loco with flywheels. Be interesting to see how it pans out.
 
I didn't see this coming.
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I recently bought some couplers on Marktplaats, which is like our variation of eBay. They were advertised as "fitting for LGB". Now it seems the low bit, (I don't know what it's called, the part that's pushed up in order to uncouple) is too low. It's in danger of hitting a rail at a turnout or a crossing.

And yes, it may need to be a millimeter higher than it is now, but it's still too close for comfort. I'll need to cut some material off all the hooks. Grrrr!

For the record, the thing on the left is an LGB frame.
 
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