I just tried to order some kits, and he said “all out”. Nothing else, quite terse. I assumed he meant those two kits. Mick ________________________________ Mick Moignard m: +44 7774 652504 Skype: mick

Have you tried PSC themselves? I ordered some parts a few weeks back, they had the, all I stock and they were here in the UK in a couple of weeks. My order included markers but not 31334. Mick _______

Another option is just to use a larger - higher wattage - regular soldering iron. I wouldn’t go anywhere near a brass model an iron smaller than 50watt, and regularly use a 75watt with a large bit (la

My 43 and their accessory decoders are all powered by the track outputs of my DCC command station. Track is powered from seperate Boosters. Mick ________________________________ Mick Moignard m: +44 7

Mine (a -36, 481) was a a pure DC loco on arrival. Bulb head and tail lights, LEDs in the markers and number boards. I think the cab light was also a bulb, but I didn’t perpetuate that. It also has a

Drilling holes in KD 58 shanks is what I’ve been doing for loco pilots for years, so I’ve been hopeful that the 705 would be amenable to the same treatment. Way better looking than an entire 714 box a

I needed some gears making recently. I have several PSC/MSM brass models which were made with very soft brass worm gears driving a nylon-type plastic gear. The brass worm wears badly - though it took

I converted an HO vacuum car (UK Dapol brand, but it’s essentially the same car as the Atlas one ) to HOn3 by merely regauging the wheelsets and adding appropriate Kadee couplers to the NEM Coupler so

The "something wrong" was me. In measuring these locos, I missed the issue of the scale rule starting at 0 one foot from the end, so all the measurements I noted below should have 1' added to them. So

Um. I think something is wrong here. Carefully measured from the railhead, I get: Westside K-28: 8'7" inches PSC/MSM K-28: 8'6" inches United/PFM from way back: 8'7" That's a long way from what Jim Sp

Brian It’s probably a mid-60 one. There is no real comparison to the Westside, the Westside is a far better model - spoked drivers - finer motion rods - better castings - and more of them - properly d

I have one of those early K-28s. I think mine is early 60s. Mixture of castings and turnings for detail, some good, some a great deal less than good. Ran ok, but it got remotored, retailed, new cab in

I’ve found lacquer type paints are available in the UK made by Zero, here’s a URL to some of their range. https://www.zero-paints.com/RAL_Paints_European_Standard_Colour_Range_60ml--product--34.html.

For a reasonable list of Rotaries, see http://membrane.com/~elmer/rail/units/rotaries.html . This is an old list, and there may well need to be corrections applied. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/w

That missing seam line is very obvious. Strange thing is that it is on some DP tenders but not others, according to the photos at Brasstrains.

Dale Your experience of decoder/motor hum is exactly opposite mine. Loksound 4's that I have make the motor on an ESU test stand hum at small throttle openings, and make the motors hum in some 4mmm sc

The Maxon motor in my DP 36 has P/N 301942 and RE-Max series on the case. This p/n is not listed on the Maxon website (http://maxonmotor.com) so it is possible that it was some sort of custom. I think

Jim is right about the Overland 36s. I have two, and they’re basically as good as the PSC 2002 ones. Same builder, same design, but PSC updated the details a bit, and offered all 10 factory painted. T

Actually, based on the DP 36 I have, they’re not exceptional models. They’re good, yes, but not really any better than the PSC 2002. I agree with Dale about the green boiler colour, and there are one

You can remotor Westside K-36s very easily with a Mashima 1624, 1626 or 1628 for a lot less than the Locodoc kit and for very good results. Takes all of 10 minutes to do and the only hard bit is unsol