I am interested in buying (1) or (2) 5 amp boosters & power supplies that CVProducts used to sell (now out of production). Does anybody out there have or know of someone who would like to sell them.

Richard Superintendent CNW Peninsula iv.

Model animation—bringing models to life—adds enormously to the interest and enjoyment of any layout or individual model! This time I show how The Crane Critter finds its way, using a simple application of a terrific magnetic sensor that modelers of all kinds should really understand. I’ll point you to some parallels in robotics—now don’t get scared off – that might give us modelers some new ideas for our layouts, and why scale model animation is different… and the same! Maybe scale model animation taken to the limit is Micro-Robotics?

Okay, I can't be the only one who's recieved an e-mail from TCS with the link to their new product video.  Looks exciting.  I'll be curious to see how it competes/compares with the Tsunami and LokSound (roughly comparable price & size, from the look of things).

http://www.tcsdcc.com/

As I mentioned in another thread, I have a couple Mantua engines to rebuild.  Both of them have open frame motors, like the one below (photo from ebay) and both of them run surprisingly well for not having been cleaned or run in years, if not decades.  I'd like to keep the motors, if possible.