What happened at your workbench today?

Can you get another canopy?
Perhaps move the ticket office from the Station Master's house?

Make a substantial station building complex. :)
 
MickyF said:
Something that will make you all laugh.... it made me cry... I have made my first scratch built truck - well it's a people work van - built on the chassis of a Nequida oil tanker. Painstakingly made all the parts on my CNC router, glued and painted it. It has 2 Moving buggies each with 1 axle. So I added a centre set of wheels intending to drive these with motor and gearbox. Took it out to the track for a test push... First time that have the concept of wheels going round R1 curves! It jammed at first curve and I discovered that the centre wheels had to move side to side 15mm! Not possible with the motor fixed inside the carriage... Back to the drawing board...
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:(:banghead:

Ah! The curse of the R1 curve!
 
MickyF said:
Something that will make you all laugh.... it made me cry... I have made my first scratch built truck - well it's a people work van - built on the chassis of a Nequida oil tanker. Painstakingly made all the parts on my CNC router, glued and painted it. It has 2 Moving buggies each with 1 axle. So I added a centre set of wheels intending to drive these with motor and gearbox. Took it out to the track for a test push... First time that have the concept of wheels going round R1 curves! It jammed at first curve and I discovered that the centre wheels had to move side to side 15mm! Not possible with the motor fixed inside the carriage... Back to the drawing board...
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How about fixing the motor to a sliding plate within the car which is attached to the centre wheels and moves acrossie with them?
 
Henri said:
Pictures!! :)
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Henri said:
Pictures!! :)
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Got phone back so here's some pics. Now removed centre wheels as you can see! And cut chassis and moved wheels much closer together... I now have a plan! Somebody on here posted some pics of really small cheap gearboxes that went on the wheel axle? I lost the thread and can't find them on ebay or amazon...
 

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PhilP said:
Possibly one of these?

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Search "N20 motor"..

PhilP.
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Thanks Phil - i've seen them. The ones I have seen are in a small clear plastic housing and I think the axle passed through it. I bought a couple of blue rectangular gear boxes with motor inside with an axle incorporated with 3mm shaft but they were not good (cost about £3). Slow speed was non existent, they just started after about 2.5v and abruptly and didn't seem as if they would last, lot of noise and vibration. I took them to bits and there were no bearings just moulded plastic. Fun this isn't it!
 
PhilP said:
Can you get another canopy?
Perhaps move the ticket office from the Station Master's house?

Make a substantial station building complex. :)
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Too substantial for my redesigned railway. The building with the canopy will be on the track two platform and will serve as a waiting room and a P-way store.
 
Tackling LGB's SBB containers (mülden) today to try and get them a bit more RhB-ish in looks.
Likely the next build thread coming as I continue to wait on bits to finish the Sersa wagon and MGB Tm 2/2.

 
MickyF said:
Thanks Phil - i've seen them. The ones I have seen are in a small clear plastic housing and I think the axle passed through it...
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This sort of thing from Tamiya? The ones I think you're looking for start a while down the page.

www.pololu.com

Pololu - Tamiya Motors and Gearboxes

Tamiya manufactures a wide variety of inexpensive brushed DC motors and gearboxes that are great for hobbyists and students. Many of the gearmotors are kits that can help you understand how gearboxes work and allow for user-configurable gear ratios.
www.pololu.com www.pololu.com

And the original forum thread:

Tamiya 70189 gearbox for g scale

Following a chat with Paul-rhb of this forum, he advised me of a suitable g scale motor/gearbox that he was using. There designed for robot kits, but seem very durable, and have 4 speeds to choose from As I they cost £8-10 each from eBay I decided to investigate Only buy them individually...
www.gscalecentral.net www.gscalecentral.net
 
MickyF said:
Got phone back so here's some pics. Now removed centre wheels as you can see! And cut chassis and moved wheels much closer together... I now have a plan! Somebody on here posted some pics of really small cheap gearboxes that went on the wheel axle? I lost the thread and can't find them on ebay or amazon...
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Or this way...
Tamiya 70103 Gearbox from here, Tamiya 70103 Universal Gearbox, no connection to the company other than an extremely satisfied existing customer.

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If you have time, would you mind supplying the measurements for the body work, height, width, length and so on, rather struck on it's appearance, and with time and materials to hand, may have a crack at building something similar, with Bluetooth control and Li-Po batteries.
 
The Shed said:
Or this way...
Tamiya 70103 Gearbox from here, Tamiya 70103 Universal Gearbox, no connection to the company other than an extremely satisfied existing customer.

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If you have time, would you mind supplying the measurements for the body work, height, width, length and so on, rather struck on it's appearance, and with time and materials to hand, may have a crack at building something similar, with Bluetooth control and Li-Po batteries.
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I can‘t get this picture out of my head... man, the OPTIONS this tiny gearbox gives...! Wow!
 
A side view of my two new buildings for the CFR:-
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Livingstone will replace the old shelter at Priory Halt. The halt will be renamed Livingstone. The sign will be visible to trains approaching from the east.
The stone building will become the excursion waiting room at St Bernards Station.
 
Progress continues on my SAR coach set. Painting done. Interior panelling and seats now in - that was fun. Next the underframes and bogies folowed by their roofs and final detailing. Max

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