Layout maintenance
Dust Busting... Cleaning the layout
Hey Everyone...
How do you clean your layout without damaging fragile details like trees and static grass?
I mean, removing the layer of dust that inevitably builds up over time.
Or do you have a magic method of keeping dust off your layout to start with?
- Bill (wishing I had a layout to clean right now)
bachmann n switches
my two swiches work ok but one will swichoff the power to the track whilst the other one wont. they look different on top any suggestions as to why. being able to swich one of enables me to set up on this line whilst running on the other so tks bshs7086
Observations on Soldered Connections
Today I performed some maintenance on the layout to deal with seasonal expansion and contraction. With all the discussion that occurs on soldering rail joints and feeders, I thought I'd share what needed fixing...
Hidden Trackage and Multiple Shelves
Hi folks,
I'm still in the drawing/tinkering phase of layout design and wanted to pose a couple of questions (I'll try hard to explain things clearly).
Malware and its results
About a month ago my computer was infected by one of those Trojan Horse viruses. It wasn't detected by my security software either. Well I had to send my computer out to be cleaned so I was dependent on other computers to run stuff that I needed to get done. It cam back last night and Decoder Pro had disappeared. The consultant tried to get it but it didn't work primarily because he really didn't know what he was doing.
Deseronto Yard Turnout Operations Update
It has been an interesting couple of weeks with very little progress being made on connecting the Humpyard cables to the turnouts. Superficially it looked pretty simple but due to a combination of the benchwork height and a slowly healing knee injury it has proved to be pretty challenging. The documentation provided by the Humpyard folks quite decent, in my opinion.
Use it or lose it?
Use it or lose it - so the saying goes.
I did sneak back into the layout room to run some track cleaning cars around the layout and discovered something very interesting!
It seems that of the twelve locos sitting in the Matthews freight yard that four of them wouldn't run - and they all ran when parked there about 6 months ago! Of the four locos three of them did nothing - no sound or movement. One of the locos the sound only worked but it wouldn't move.
Masonite track cleaners - an old idea that WORKS!
Many of you know about this and use this type of car already. This is a reminder for those that haven't tried it, and for the new modelers who may not have heard of or seen such a thing yet.
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