Your problem sounded familiar as soon as you said, "My Club." if you have someone who uses their own throttle it probably wasn't attached to the layout and was not affected by a software change and sh

Ken, If you lighten the pressure on the stapler it will penetrate less. It takes very little practice and you can test with a piece of scrap. If you want a piece of plastic between, put a piece of tap

My Ace Hardware sold them from arrow and I think a store brand, I shop at Do It Best hardware now and they carry them. Some T-25 staplers have a guide to keep your wires in the center of the staple, d

On Friday, August 6, 2021, 07:37:52 PM EDT, Blair <smithbr@...> wrote: Hi Ken I have a T25M stapler which successfully fires Arrow T25 staples. Both are made by Arrow. The T25 staples are "#256"

There are two holes in the frog, run a tap into the hole and use a screw, looks shabby but it works and a dab of black paint disguises it. I don't know the size of the tap, i fudged it. Atlas should p

I have some 4 and 5 inch drill bits that are from 1/16 to 1/8 of an inch. There are available but they sometimes melt foam with friction and mess up the bits. I have used pieces or steel wire chucked

Turntables generally reverse their own polarity at halfway through their rotation. If you pull onto a turntable bridge, then rotate 180 degrees your bridge will be at it original N / S orientation. Yo

Could you be talking about automating a reverse loop or using occupancy to throw an approached switch. At my club (Crossroads Rail Road Club, Vandalia, Ohio), i automated two switches (Tortoise) one a

John, I have found in the past that some engines will not tolerate a rise and some not a dip in the rails. It isn't uncommon were road bed pieces are joined. The other thing that is not uncommon is el

I found that the problem with both the new and the old Walthers Turn Table is not the programming or the operation. It actually works if you follow the instructions, Unfortunately it is slow and users

On Thursday, September 10, 2020, 07:52:00 PM EDT, john <john.p.dunn@...> wrote: Do you know that you can paint the axle from wheel to wheel with silver or resistance paint. Just paint it on, if to

Do you know that you can paint the axle from wheel to wheel with silver or resistance paint. Just paint it on, if too much resistance more paint, if too much scrape some paint. jd

There are three lead, two color LEDs available and you bias each lead as necessary. You can use two diodes in series (one reversed), with the bi-color LED and also series an appropriate resistor to di

Gentlemen, The only place a short should occur is at a reverse loop or at a "Y. It doesn't matter if the polarities are reversed or not because your reverser, your PM42, or separate booster will make

Inside the pit there is a circle of track. It consists of two almost semi-circles with two small insulated sections, the size of the bridge, opposite each other, in an unused area. Each semi is powere

I may be giving away my age but once upon a time, to jumper a rail joint, a jumper was soldered from rail to rail avoiding the rail joiner. The rail joiner could be soldered but that would condemn the

Don, do you have a drawing for that, I am presently using one relay per Tortoise Motor and a diode matrix. jd

Brett, First, you can look up old articles of Model Railroader on line. There are some amazing articles on all sorts of wiring and they have the staff to make very understandable drawings. Wiring for

Switch machines are not high current so almost any rotary switch should work. It does need to be Brake before make so it doesn't activate two switches at once. If more than one turnout is going to ope

Twist Again, that is rich. Here is the deal, if you run wires in parallel what ever is on one will to some degree cross over. It is exactly the way a transformer works. If it is just AC or DC there is