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Hope it all goes well, Or a video tour of the layouts at the show.... 1656170292 A friend who visited the show has just whatsApp'd me a picture or two - Moors View

Yeah, we noticed that. Overall what is shocking us is not so much that prices are going up, that's expected, but more so by how much things have jumped. It's not the odd penny or two, its 10p, 20p or 30p a time.

Just done the weeks shopping in ASDA... Sharwoods Sweet and sour cook in sauce, normally £1.25, this week £1.55. Grated cheese, ASDA's own brand, £2.00 last week, £2.50 this..... Mind you there were things on Roll back. Bisto Hot Pot ready meals, Normally £1.40, down to £1.00, so I guess its...

I was in the mood to start making the control panel. A basic box was constructed from 9mm ply, with an A4 panel in 3mm MDF. The track plan for the points was drawn up and printed as a template (the final one will be laminated or printed on glossy card.) and once drilled the first fit of the...

Yeah, forgot that one, but then if you can afford M&S prices I don't think the cost of living rises would bother you that much :)

Stevenage has two Sainsbury's, two Tesco's, a large ASDA, an Aldi, with a new Morrisons to be built later this year. It also has smaller supermarkets dotted around all the community areas, from co-ops to independents. B&M and a huge Costco are also available in the outskirts of the town on two...

2ltr Milk in ASDA three weeks ago was 90p. Last week it was 95p, yesterday it was £1.05.... probably be £1.15 next week !

If you use insulfrog points for a passing loop then switching both points to the loop isolates the main straight and vice versa. Have one set to the loop and the other set to main and both tracks are powered, at least up to the opposing point.

If you are using insulfrog points the route selected is the one that get energised as the point does the switching of the power, thus, in the case of a set of sidings or bay platform, the point can be set to one route, the loco can enter the siding (or bay platform) and once fully passed the...

So you are saying that if you set the DMV to continuity and place the probes across rails A & B you get continuity between them on all points other than #3? 1654078597 As above, just set the meter to continuity (most beep when shorting the two probes) and place them across rails A and B as...

To my untrained eye, 1 is insulfrog, even though they use a metal triangle as the frog, there appears to be a gap with plastic between it and the two inner of the point. 2 is what we know as a standard insulfrog with the isolation be made by the plastic point to the frog, as does images 3 and...

Thanks Peter, quite amazing to think that and a speaker was squeezed into a Farrish N gauge 31 !!

Guys, A good friend of mine contacted me the other day to inform me that a decoder surplus to his requirements would soon be in the post (his layout is DC). He had picked up a non runner 31 which when opening was found to be a butchered chassis with the PCB missing, but this decoder and a...

You can visually see the difference between Electrofrog and Insulfrog points as the tip of the frog is plastic in an insulfrog point, so no need to use a meter. Yes, in a DC system Insulfrog points "switch" the power to the route selected, so if you have two sidings or passing loop for example...

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