014 back to back gauge - they have arrived
Hi all, ? The back to back gauges I ordered have arrived, I have attached a picture. ? I have a put a calliper over them and they are all with 0.01mm, which I think is very good, given that my calliper is only a cheap digital one they could well be all spot on. ? If you have not done so already please email me directly with your address details, but only if you have already expressed an interest in them. ?If you have not I have small surplus which I will sell on first come first served basis. ?If any one drops out then I will also be able to sell another gauge. ? Once I have every ones details I will mass email every one with payment details, then I will get these in the post. ? ? To confirm the price ?7 plus 80p postage in the UK, overseas at cost. ? I just want to remind everyone I am not doing this for commercial gain, so please be patient with me, I have a full time job so I will get these posted as soon as I am able. ? Thanks again to everyone who expressed an interest and made this possible. ? James Hockley ?
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Amberley Museum’s Spring Industrial Trains Day Sunday April 26th
? ? Amberley Museum’s Spring Industrial Trains Day Official press release: Amberley Museum’s Spring
Industrial Trains event, primarily aimed at the enthusiast, this year falls on
Sunday 26th April. Whilst much of the industrial loco
collection will be out and about, we hope to also feature the first visiting
Lister Railtruck which has arrived in advance of our summer Listermania Gala on
11th and 12th July. Which one? Well that would be telling! Down at the De Witt Kilns we
should have the standard gauge Simplex 4wDM loco ‘Burt’ in action at half past
each hour (except over lunchtime). A conducted behind the scenes tour
will take place at 2pm (meet in the triangle area, takes about an hour) and
again due to popular demand we will be able to offer adult visitors hands on
experience of a true industrial railway. Our very popular
‘Driver-for-a-Fiver’ scheme allows two trips at the controls of an internal
combustion loco along a stretch of line, under the accompaniment and guidance
of an experienced driver, with the opportunity for photographs to be taken. We
hope that this will raise much needed funds to continue our work in restoring
and maintaining the collection. As always, this is subject to availability of
locos and volunteers (and weather!) but we hope to have two locos available for
this. Start point is the concrete apron at Brockham Station. Slots will be
bookable on the day. We’re looking forward to meeting
old and making new friends. Amberley Museum is a 36 acre site
set in the South Downs National Park dedicated to industrial heritage, with
communications and electricity exhibition halls, working printshop, stationary
engines, lime kilns and more. Visitors can take free rides on the narrow gauge railway
or historic bus.
The Museum is home to a variety of
traditional craftspeople, such as the wheelwrights and potters, with a café,
gift shop and nature trails. ?We open from March to October and hold many
events ranging from children’s activity days to classic vehicle shows and the
ever popular Santa Specials. Full details at . | | | | | | Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre is set in a 36 acre site set in the South Downs National Park. ? | | | | Preview by Yahoo | | |
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hi James,
Sorry for the delay in replying - I have been away for a couple of weeks.
My address is: Peter Tarver 67 Minehead Road Bristol BS4 1BP
Paypal gift is fine for me.
Thanks again for putting in the leg work with this.
Cheers, Pete
From: "James Hockley jameshockley_38@... [O14]"
To: O14@...
Sent: Tuesday, 7 April 2015, 16:35
Subject: [O14] Back to Back gauge
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Hi All, ? Just a quick update on the status of the production of the gauge. ? I have spoken to Malcolm this week and he is going to try get these produced and posted before April 13th. ? That means I should be able to start sending them out around start of next week, it is going to take me a while to get them all posted off I suspect due to my own work commitments. ? Can I ask that all those who have requested gauges email me directly with your address details so I can start preparing to get these posted, I want to put together a spreadsheet of all those who have ordered so I can ensure I have not missed any one. ? Once I have the gauges I will request payment for them, I would prefer PayPal gift, but I am open to other methods such as bank transfer, I would rather not have to deal with cheques but if that is the only method open to people I will take them. ? The price of the gauge ?7, UK postage will be 80p as I should be able to get these out as a large letter.?? Overseas will be at cost and I will confirm with those buyers from overs once I know the actual cost. ? Please do not send payment until I confirm I have the gauges. ? Thank you to everyone who ordered one and made this possible and thank you for your patients. ? Kind regards ? James Hockley ?
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Andy Binns, 21 Chalice Court, Upper Northam Road, Hedge End, Southampton SO30 4TA wish to pay by Bank transfer... please supply sort code and account number and what reference you want against it... :D kind regards Andy
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Hi All, ? Just a quick update on the status of the production of the gauge. ? I have spoken to Malcolm this week and he is going to try get these produced and posted before April 13th. ? That means I should be able to start sending them out around start of next week, it is going to take me a while to get them all posted off I suspect due to my own work commitments. ? Can I ask that all those who have requested gauges email me directly with your address details so I can start preparing to get these posted, I want to put together a spreadsheet of all those who have ordered so I can ensure I have not missed any one. ? Once I have the gauges I will request payment for them, I would prefer PayPal gift, but I am open to other methods such as bank transfer, I would rather not have to deal with cheques but if that is the only method open to people I will take them. ? The price of the gauge ?7, UK postage will be 80p as I should be able to get these out as a large letter.?? Overseas will be at cost and I will confirm with those buyers from overs once I know the actual cost. ? Please do not send payment until I confirm I have the gauges. ? Thank you to everyone who ordered one and made this possible and thank you for your patients. ? Kind regards ? James Hockley ?
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Hi All, ? Just a quick update on the status of the production of the gauge. ? I have spoken to Malcolm this week and he is going to try get these produced and posted before April 13th. ? That means I should be able to start sending them out around start of next week, it is going to take me a while to get them all posted off I suspect due to my own work commitments. ? Can I ask that all those who have requested gauges email me directly with your address details so I can start preparing to get these posted, I want to put together a spreadsheet of all those who have ordered so I can ensure I have not missed any one. ? Once I have the gauges I will request payment for them, I would prefer PayPal gift, but I am open to other methods such as bank transfer, I would rather not have to deal with cheques but if that is the only method open to people I will take them. ? The price of the gauge ?7, UK postage will be 80p as I should be able to get these out as a large letter.?? Overseas will be at cost and I will confirm with those buyers from overs once I know the actual cost. ? Please do not send payment until I confirm I have the gauges. ? Thank you to everyone who ordered one and made this possible and thank you for your patients. ? Kind regards ? James Hockley ?
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Re: Ulrasonic cleaning and pumice blasting
Andrew,
That is so useful that it deserves to be submitted to Peter Page as a space filler for Narrow Lines!!
I have just planted both my fibreglass brushes in a dish of slightly diluted PVA and will take them out after breakfast. I've gone for slightly diluted glue in the hope that it will improve capillary action up the brush so I don't have to dunk again too soon!
Cheers,
Adrian
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One tip I read, which I use to minimise the fibreglass shard problem is to dip the fibreglass brushes in PVA glue and let them set before using them, this reduces the effect surprisingly well so you get dust rather than shards.
Cheers,
Andrew
From: "heatonwood@... [O14]" <O14@...> To: O14@... Sent: Monday, 16 March, 2015 7:28:11 PM Subject: [O14] Re: Ulrasonic cleaning and pumice blasting ?Nope, Colin. None if those, I have several of them and they all shed tiny shards that stick into my fingers.
I had an 8" stick of glassfibres tightly bound in blue plastic tape which wore down till it was only half an inch long and no good. Not the AWEFUL string bound one either.
I have since sourced a red bound stick but that is disappearing too and was very expensive.
Paul
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Re: Ulrasonic cleaning and pumice blasting
Paul,
One tip I read, which I use to minimise the fibreglass shard problem is to dip the fibreglass brushes in PVA glue and let them set before using them, this reduces the effect surprisingly well so you get dust rather than shards.
Cheers,
Andrew
From: "heatonwood@... [O14]" To: O14@... Sent: Monday, 16 March, 2015 7:28:11 PM Subject: [O14] Re: Ulrasonic cleaning and pumice blasting
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Nope, Colin. None if those, I have several of them and they all shed tiny shards that stick into my fingers.
I had an 8" stick of glassfibres tightly bound in blue plastic tape which wore down till it was only half an inch long and no good. Not the AWEFUL string bound one either.
I have since sourced a red bound stick but that is disappearing too and was very expensive.
Paul
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Re: Ulrasonic cleaning and pumice blasting
Nope, Colin. None if those, I have several of them and they all shed tiny shards that stick into my fingers.
I had an 8" stick of glassfibres tightly bound in blue plastic tape which wore down till it was only half an inch long and no good. Not the AWEFUL string bound one either.
I have since sourced a red bound stick but that is disappearing too and was very expensive.
Paul
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Re: Ulrasonic cleaning and pumice blasting
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Hi Paul
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Try either of?these
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Hi John
Adding to Frank's list
S&D
Models do a white metal body kit for the Dick, Kerr & Co.,
Petrol-Electric Tractor, a BullAnt chassis would fit this a treat.?
S&D
also do a body kit for an Andrew Barclay 0-4-0WT E Class 0 which to all
intents and purposes is the same body as the 0-6-0 F Class.? When I was
in to such things I reckoned the KB Scale Hudswell Chassis could be
made to fit.
Chris Ward - CWR Railways do a number of 3D printed variants of the Baldwin 4-6-0T and an etched brass is currently in development.
There are also a number of producers of 3D printed bodies on Shapeways, although they all come without any provision for a chassis; but the 0-4-0 0-4-0 Pechot is delightful!
On the subject of 3D printing there is a range of WD wagons on Shapeways and Gram Models are about to release a scale 7mm WD bogie.
Best of luck
Cheers
David www.rhyd.weebly.com
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To: O14@...
Sent: Tuesday, 10 March 2015, 19:09
Subject: Re: [O14] Locomotive Enquiry
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Hi John
Frank and Bruce have covered the main sources. The only other i ?can suggest is KB Scale who do the McEwan- Platt baguly 10 hp loco (www.kbscale.com) He also does an O14 chassis and a couple of other bits for the wrightlines simplex Best way to contact ABS is to give Adrian a call. Dont have his number immediatly to hand but it can be found on the web. Best regards from Sweden. George!
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I am looking for sources of 7mm. Scale WW1 military N.G. locomotives. ( I have the Neil Sayer Baldwin Gas Mechanical, and a "Joffre" 0-6-0T ). ?What other locomotives ( kits ) are available in 7mm. Scale? ?I have written "Slimrails" regards the Chivers Hunslet and likewise, have written an enquiry regards the old Wrightlines range, but received no reply from either party. ?Any information will be appreciated, and likewise, any sources for "second-hand' kits or completed models which might be available for sale. ?Please contact me "off list".
Thank you.
Best regards, John A. Craig
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Hi John
Frank and Bruce have covered the main sources. The only other i ?can suggest is KB Scale who do the McEwan- Platt baguly 10 hp loco (www.kbscale.com) He also does an O14 chassis and a couple of other bits for the wrightlines simplex Best way to contact ABS is to give Adrian a call. Dont have his number immediatly to hand but it can be found on the web. Best regards from Sweden. George!
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I am looking for sources of 7mm. Scale WW1 military N.G. locomotives. ( I have the Neil Sayer Baldwin Gas Mechanical, and a "Joffre" 0-6-0T ). ?What other locomotives ( kits ) are available in 7mm. Scale? ?I have written "Slimrails" regards the Chivers Hunslet and likewise, have written an enquiry regards the old Wrightlines range, but received no reply from either party. ?Any information will be appreciated, and likewise, any sources for "second-hand' kits or completed models which might be available for sale. ?Please contact me "off list".
Thank you.
Best regards, John A. Craig
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John, ? On group as maybe a general interest. ? Try Chivers e-mail, Simon has just moved house, but the Hunslet is currently unavailable. The castings will be Chivers, but any etched, brass or other bits I think they buy in, hence do short runs, so a statement of interest might help. ? Baldwin, Wrightlines, I think you are going S/H, one made up on e-bay at the moment. ? KB Scale, Hudswell Clarke G class. Certainly used but after 1917. The first two went to India to Delhi public works dept late 1916 arriving I think after the new year. ? Sometimes some of the Simplexes which are intended for the 16.5mm (and not easily altered) SPUD are on ABS's stand at shows. The B102 chassis which had the motor at 90 degrres would make to 14mm but I think that isn't around either. ? Nigel Lawton (Lawson?) does a Simplex and a chassis to fit one of the Branchlines but not sure the dates fit. ? Branchlines have BEE etc, not in France but certainly in military establishments in the UK. ? Frank ?
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Subject: [O14] Locomotive Enquiry? ? I am looking for sources of 7mm. Scale WW1 military N.G. locomotives. ( I have the Neil Sayer Baldwin Gas Mechanical, and a "Joffre" 0-6-0T ). ?What other locomotives ( kits ) are available in 7mm. Scale? ?I have written "Slimrails" regards the Chivers Hunslet and likewise, have written an enquiry regards the old Wrightlines range, but received no reply from either party. ?Any information will be appreciated, and likewise, any sources for "second-hand' kits or completed models which might be available for sale. ?Please contact me "off list".
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Wrightlines is now part of ABS models.??? I do not know what has
happened to the line.
Nigel Lawton makes a great etched brass kit for a 20HP Simplex
tractor
Worsley Works make a Dick Kerr PE body kit
Bruce Wilson
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Life Member NMRA
Member Scale 7 Group Gauge 0 Guild 7mmNGA
Member Bird Studies Canada Ontario Bird Banding Association
Brereton Field Naturalists' Club Simcoe County Banding Group
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I am looking for sources of 7mm. Scale WW1 military
N.G. locomotives. ( I have the Neil Sayer Baldwin Gas
Mechanical, and a "Joffre" 0-6-0T ). ???What other locomotives (
kits ) are available in 7mm. Scale? ???I have written "Slimrails"
regards the Chivers Hunslet and likewise, have written an
enquiry regards the old Wrightlines range, but received no reply
from either party. ???Any information will be appreciated, and
likewise, any sources for "second-hand' kits or completed models
which might be available for sale. ???Please contact me "off
list".
Thank you.
Best regards,
John A. Craig
Austin, Texas
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I am looking for sources of 7mm. Scale WW1 military N.G. locomotives. ( I have the Neil Sayer Baldwin Gas Mechanical, and a "Joffre" 0-6-0T ). ?What other locomotives ( kits ) are available in 7mm. Scale? ?I have written "Slimrails" regards the Chivers Hunslet and likewise, have written an enquiry regards the old Wrightlines range, but received no reply from either party. ?Any information will be appreciated, and likewise, any sources for "second-hand' kits or completed models which might be available for sale. ?Please contact me "off list".
Thank you.
Best regards, John A. Craig
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Re: Ulrasonic cleaning and pumice blasting
Gents,
A?'knock off' version of the otherwise rather expensive Badger abrasive air gun was available from Machine Mart - branches in many towns and cities and online. MM also do an absolutely satisfactory?'knock off' of the Badger double action airbrush (Model 200?) at about a third of the price.
I have found that it is A Good Thing to have plenty of air pressure when using my grit blaster so I bought a proper compressor with large air tank, to use in place of my diaphragm air brush pump which wasn't man enough.
No connection with MM other than as a satisfied customer.
Adrian
---In O14@..., <rodhutchy@...> wrote : Paul, I use one of the cheap & cheerful air erasers.? I bought mine from an auto parts chain store, but it is the same as the eBay unit, just repackaged. The same chain store "Supercheap Auto" sold the fine abrasive powder.? It works quite OK. Regards
Rod Hutchinson
Australia
On Feb 21, 2015 9:35 PM, " heatonwood@... [O14]" < O14@...> wrote:
?This might be one for the nice Mr Link...? In the bumper 100th NGI Review, Roy wrote about the use of ultrasonic cleaners and pumice blasting for model preparation?and again mentioned it in these very pages on line.? Up to now I have cleaned my brass models with a fibreglass stick (also now impossible to source - any ideas) then scrubbed them in a? strong solution of Cillit Bang before rinsing, drying?and spraying with Railmatch self etch primer. The paint is still not really as well stuck as I would like though.?
I have been looking?for a reasonably priced blast gun and have found an expensive Paasche model and a cheap and cheerful ebay sourced model HS178 at around 25 quid.? This is called an aero-eraser.? Is this the same thing?? Where does one source the grit? What is best to use etc etc.? ? Then to the Ultrasonic cleaner.? Is another ebay source going to be reliable for the occasional clean - I am not building models?for a living.? The big problem is the prospect of 4 more Leek and Manifold carriages as they are 31cm long and the 6.5 litre models seem to be 30cm long.? To get one in properly would mean a 15 litre tank model and that is getting silly.? There is a 6.5 litre model available at ?125 from smartbuy.fromuk on Ebay which will take virtually everything else that I am likely to build as it has a 30cm length tank - the current build?is a rake of three Welshpool carriages which come in at 28cm.? Then to the solutions.? What does one use?
Some advice here and then a nice article in the next Review please!!!
Cheers Paul
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Re: Ulrasonic cleaning and pumice blasting
Paul,
I use one of the cheap & cheerful air erasers.? I bought mine from an auto parts chain store, but it is the same as the eBay unit, just repackaged.
The same chain store "Supercheap Auto" sold the fine abrasive powder.? It works quite OK.
Regards
Rod Hutchinson
Australia
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This might be one for the nice Mr Link...? In the bumper 100th NGI Review, Roy wrote about the use of ultrasonic cleaners and pumice blasting for model preparation?and again mentioned it in these very pages on line.? Up to now I have cleaned my brass models with a fibreglass stick (also now impossible to source - any ideas) then scrubbed them in a? strong solution of Cillit Bang before rinsing, drying?and spraying with Railmatch self etch primer. The paint is still not really as well stuck as I would like though.?
I have been looking?for a reasonably priced blast gun and have found an expensive Paasche model and a cheap and cheerful ebay sourced model HS178 at around 25 quid.? This is called an aero-eraser.? Is this the same thing?? Where does one source the grit? What is best to use etc etc.? ? Then to the Ultrasonic cleaner.? Is another ebay source going to be reliable for the occasional clean - I am not building models?for a living.? The big problem is the prospect of 4 more Leek and Manifold carriages as they are 31cm long and the 6.5 litre models seem to be 30cm long.? To get one in properly would mean a 15 litre tank model and that is getting silly.? There is a 6.5 litre model available at ?125 from smartbuy.fromuk on Ebay which will take virtually everything else that I am likely to build as it has a 30cm length tank - the current build?is a rake of three Welshpool carriages which come in at 28cm.? Then to the solutions.? What does one use?
Some advice here and then a nice article in the next Review please!!!
Cheers Paul
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Re: Ulrasonic cleaning and pumice blasting
Paul,
My first purchase was the Paasche ‘air eraser’ - for cleaning up brass masters prior to sending away for casting. The small container for the blasting medium did not, at that stage, matter much. When I came to use it for cleaning completed models however, its shortcomings showed up - you need a lot of medium for even a smallish 7mm loco body or chassis. I changed to the Badger 260 abrasive gun - and have used it ever since (nearly 20 years). It blocks less often than the Paasche unit and the jar is easily undone and re-filled when wearing the heavy gloves that most blasting cabinets are fitted with. When you are going to clean up something like a Manifold coach, you need to be able to contain and collect all that abrasive medium - not to mention stop it swirling around everywhere. Also you need a good face mask capable of dealing with very fine particles. Using pummice, or really fine grade aluminium oxide, the gun will leave the brass a matt ‘honey’ colour - and clean up solder joints to an extent no excuse though, for sloppy soldering). Once cleaned of any remaining blasting medium and flushed with etch primer thinners to ‘wet’ the surface, the primer will stick like the proverbial.
Ultrasonic baths are great for cleaning off all the flux traces, oil and finger marks etc., getting on that accommodates really big/long models such as a 7mm scale Manifold coach is not easy - and likely to be very expensive. You could try, prior to blasting, just placing the model in a plastic tub (preferably lidded) filled with a dilute acid - acetic, phosphoric or similar, and agitating from time to time. Really, this stage is just getting the model free of grease etc., which would interfere with the blasting . . .
If you do get a suitable ultrasonic cleaner, get a suitable fluid from a clock/watchmakers suppliers, not one of the types commonly available for jewellery cleaning, which are not aggressive enough for our particular purpose.
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This might be one for the nice Mr Link...? In the bumper 100th NGI Review, Roy wrote about the use of ultrasonic cleaners and pumice blasting for model preparation?and again mentioned it in these very pages on line.? Up to now I have cleaned my brass models with a fibreglass stick (also now impossible to source - any ideas) then scrubbed them in a? strong solution of Cillit Bang before rinsing, drying?and spraying with Railmatch self etch primer. The paint is still not really as well stuck as I would like though.?
I have been looking?for a reasonably priced blast gun and have found an expensive Paasche model and a cheap and cheerful ebay sourced model HS178 at around 25 quid.? This is called an aero-eraser.? Is this the same thing?? Where does one source the grit? What is best to use etc etc.? ?
Then to the Ultrasonic cleaner.? Is another ebay source going to be reliable for the occasional clean - I am not building models?for a living.? The big problem is the prospect of 4 more Leek and Manifold carriages as they are 31cm long and the 6.5 litre models seem to be 30cm long.? To get one in properly would mean a 15 litre tank model and that is getting silly.? There is a 6.5 litre model available at ?125 from smartbuy.fromuk on Ebay which will take virtually everything else that I am likely to build as it has a 30cm length tank - the current build?is a rake of three Welshpool carriages which come in at 28cm.? Then to the solutions.? What does one use?
Some advice here and then a nice article in the next Review please!!!
Cheers Paul
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Re: Ulrasonic cleaning and pumice blasting
Paul, ? First buy is a decent industrial type face mask. You don't want to be breathing in grit. ? I bought a Bottle Blaster 100 and some fine grit. I forget where I got the BB100, a UK supplier though had to wait while for it to come from the USA. I used it outside, into an old blanket it a big cardboard box, driven by an airbrush compressor. It just about managed. Grit everywhere. The grit came off e-bay, it is I think fine silica. ? I then bought a much more capable compressor, Aldi or Lidl, about ?60. On wheels with a tank. That sorted air supply. but grit blew about even more. So I then went to Machine Mart and bought their smallest grit blasting cabinet, but altered it to use the BB100. When the BB100 ceramic tip wore away I used the Machine Mart gun, I give the model a fairly quick blast at about 2 bar. I have an old vac hooked up to the air vent That pulls the lid tight shut and as long as you don't try to use continuous flow on the air keeps negative pressure in the cabinet so there's no tendency to push grit out of any poor seals. ? So that's it grit blasted. Ultrasonic tank was a fortunate buy. I was in Farnells in Leeds, they had one on offer, ?50 if I remember correctly, list price ?350. The timer was faulty. I opened it up to bypass the timer, but spotted a loose solder joint (lead free solder no doubt) and fixed it. It isn't that big, a coach would need doing an end at a time. Despite the fact that it is a proper industrial model, it doesn't take everything. Tesco universal cleaner probably works better than the fluid that came with the tank. ? Frank ?
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Subject: [O14] Ulrasonic cleaning and pumice blasting? ? This might be one for the nice Mr Link...? In the bumper 100th NGI Review, Roy wrote about the use of ultrasonic cleaners and pumice blasting for model preparation?and again mentioned it in these very pages on line.? Up to now I have cleaned my brass models with a fibreglass stick (also now impossible to source - any ideas) then scrubbed them in a? strong solution of Cillit Bang before rinsing, drying?and spraying with Railmatch self etch primer. The paint is still not really as well stuck as I would like though.? ? I have been looking?for a reasonably priced blast gun and have found an expensive Paasche model and a cheap and cheerful ebay sourced model HS178 at around 25 quid.? This is called an aero-eraser.? Is this the same thing?? Where does one source the grit? What is best to use etc etc.? ? Then to the Ultrasonic cleaner.? Is another ebay source going to be reliable for the occasional clean - I am not building models?for a living.? The big problem is the prospect of 4 more Leek and Manifold carriages as they are 31cm long and the 6.5 litre models seem to be 30cm long.? To get one in properly would mean a 15 litre tank model and that is getting silly.? There is a 6.5 litre model available at ?125 from smartbuy.fromuk on Ebay which will take virtually everything else that I am likely to build as it has a 30cm length tank - the current build?is a rake of three Welshpool carriages which come in at 28cm.? Then to the solutions.? What does one use? ? Some advice here and then a nice article in the next Review please!!! ? Cheers Paul
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Ulrasonic cleaning and pumice blasting
This might be one for the nice Mr Link...? In the bumper 100th NGI Review, Roy wrote about the use of ultrasonic cleaners and pumice blasting for model preparation?and again mentioned it in these very pages on line.? Up to now I have cleaned my brass models with a fibreglass stick (also now impossible to source - any ideas) then scrubbed them in a? strong solution of Cillit Bang before rinsing, drying?and spraying with Railmatch self etch primer. The paint is still not really as well stuck as I would like though.?
I have been looking?for a reasonably priced blast gun and have found an expensive Paasche model and a cheap and cheerful ebay sourced model HS178 at around 25 quid.? This is called an aero-eraser.? Is this the same thing?? Where does one source the grit? What is best to use etc etc.? ? Then to the Ultrasonic cleaner.? Is another ebay source going to be reliable for the occasional clean - I am not building models?for a living.? The big problem is the prospect of 4 more Leek and Manifold carriages as they are 31cm long and the 6.5 litre models seem to be 30cm long.? To get one in properly would mean a 15 litre tank model and that is getting silly.? There is a 6.5 litre model available at ?125 from smartbuy.fromuk on Ebay which will take virtually everything else that I am likely to build as it has a 30cm length tank - the current build?is a rake of three Welshpool carriages which come in at 28cm.? Then to the solutions.? What does one use?
Some advice here and then a nice article in the next Review please!!!
Cheers Paul
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Re: Military N.G. Enquiry
Many thanks to all who responded to my Military NG enquiry. ?All responses were very helpful, and much appreciated.
Best regards, John A. Craig Austin, Texas
To: O14@... From: O14@... Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 08:47:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [O14] Re: Military N.G. Enquiry
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Hello John
For the pipes try the large-scale plastic motor-bike details add-on-market.? I got some 10" lengths of 3mm corrugated flexible brake pipes in a grimy black - should be ideal for you.
For German stock there is a superb book 'Heeres Feldnahnen' by Alfred R Gottvaldt (ISBN3-613-01080-1) 1996.? There are also some weight diagrams of German WW1 stock in Sid Moir's book 'Namib Narrow Gauge'.
Cheers
David
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Hello John,
I use guitar string for mine bottom E seems to be about right.
For German side of things try 'Two Foot Rails to the Front' - Charles S Small sorry, no ISBN on it, also some good footage on YouTube which can be found via the Narrow Military Rail Forum.
Kevin.
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Paul Holmes