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.