Schuylerville NY, a town along the Hudson River and Champlain Canal above Troy/ Albany NY, still has a very large wooden water pipe/ flume in...
I have been extremely busy with many projects, this one, motorcycles, making a small benchtop injection molding machine (very near completion)...
Peruse this thread. Method for burying Rokuhan switches is exactly what you you are trying to do. I've used this method before for trolley...
Duplicate posting error. Sorry.
There's a cool passenger station in Ft. Edward. I had uncles and great uncles who lived there, going back far enough to have worked the canal and...
Actually, as an idler gear, it wouldn't change the speed of the two axle gears. An idler gear only bridges space and transmits the gear action...
Just read your thread to this point. :cool: Very nice! (y)
That sounds pretty good. Aluminum foil is about .0005" (a half thousandth). I have also cut up soft drink cans for shim material but don't...
Just curious, what is the thickness of that pan material?
I have used aluminum foil over styrene different times, generally just looking for the metal look. What I used was heavy duty(?) aluminum foil...
I am the guy doing the tie bed and RTR turnouts in code 40 and code 55 that was mentioned. I haven't announced the line as it's not yet complete...
I'm not surprised that you're having performance problems with only one truck pickup. It would be worth the effort to add pickup to the front...
Beautiful! How creative! One lucky kid! (y)
I am using the same basic set-up, resistor (10K trim pot) and switch, as originally described. All the pictured mod accomplishes is to afford a...
Very nice method for remote turnouts. One suggestion that might help to keep the switch modification wiring a little neater is shown in these...
I think that's considering that the track nail holes in the ties (HO?) are on center and might want to spread the cork on insertion, not...
In this sentence quoted from the above post, the highlighted word should read "lower" as this edit shows. Sorry for the error. Even with 42"...
Both of those are probably too high, too. The 136:1 will definitely be too high but the 26:1 will run awfully slow, too. That's still 364:1...
700:1 primary reduction is way too much especially running through a final worm drive. The primary reduction is the multiplier for each following...
With really small motors high gear reductions are an imperative. 75:1 minimum and up to 150:1 and more depending on motor specs, wheel diameter...
