Hi all,
I have just about finished building my Nigel Lawton Bow Frame 20HP Simplex kit in 14mm gauge. I will post some pictures when it is complete. At few questions for the group:
What driver figure are people using?
Has anyone got the fan motor to work? I have everything in place. I can run the worm drive with my battery drill and watch the fan turn. But the motor isn't strong enough to run it. (I used the large 1/2W resistor for the main motor and the small 1/4W resistor for the fan motor. The instructions were not clear on which resistor to use.)
I would appreciate some advice on installing couplers. I would prefer to use Kadee couplers mounted at standard H0 height. On one previous locomotive I found that a cut off coupler shaft (i.e. remove the part that goes in the draft box) with a hole drilled in the shaft fitted reasonably well in one of the pockets in a three level coupling of the sort fitted to a lot of industrial locomotives. In this case, the Simplex comes with no form of couplings at all.
Regards,
Michael Milway
