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    Embarrassed to ask but - What happened?

    Is there still a contingent of Gauge chat groupies, getting together in the evening, like Spitfire... and where is the location if they are?
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    Embarrassed to ask but - What happened?

    Thanks for the info David - not sure what this means: "to remove some of the other hobbies' forums from your screen." I My profile is pretty basic, not sure what I would change.
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    Embarrassed to ask but - What happened?

    I feel like the only straight at a gay party, but what happened to the gauge forum?:violin1: Here's my story of tragedy and woe; okay I exaggerate a bit. I've have been away from the hobby for quite some time now, a combination of surgery, hobby burnout and the fact I can't get close to the...
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    Looking to buy a digital camera

    CAS, you learned a photography lesson that we also learn in model railroading, most often you get what you pay for. Here is a camera on Ebay, being sold by a store, that will do everything you want and is digital; it is the camera I own. The Canon Digital Rebel (also called the 300D in Europe)...
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    Looking to buy a digital camera

    For newbies, here is an excellent site for a short but very effective tutorial and it happens to hit what I talked about in my long missive post above, F stops and ISO. Go to the site and have some fun with it, but watch the picture as you input changes to the f stop and ISO; this site is great...
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    Looking to buy a digital camera

    I am writing this for other newbies to read as I realize you might have purchased your camera already. First, for model railroading purposes, what are the issues you need to know and plan for in photography, digital or otherwise? I will list them in point order so that you can see what you...
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    Canadian National 6060

    The engine wheels have large flanges and can bottom out on some tracks. My niece just married a DJ on one of the pop radio stations in Kelowna this past January. Kevin is the name of the DJ and I think he is on in the afternoons in Kelowna. He took my wife and I on a tour of the radio...
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    New DCC????

    The Digitrax's engineers throttle (simpler throttle/cabs for newbies on the layout) have the large wheel, if that's your thing. I have Digi but I'd tell you to check out Lenz and NCE; the three most popular DCC systems. The reason it is nice to get a DCC system that is popular in your area...
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    2% grade

    A lazier formula and provides a grade below 2.1 (actually 2.083 percent) is 1 inch per every four feet or 2 inches per 8 feet. So if you need a 20 inch separation for a "rough" 2 percent grade a quick calculation provides an answer of 80 feet. For newbies reading this, one of the harder...
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    I was caught !

    Another rule is not to use the expensive vacuum baking pans to bake rocks to sterilize them; apparently this can ruin the surface of the pan.
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    What is a good size small N layout ?

    Consider a "water wings" arrangement in your layout; the ends is approximately 38/39 inches wide narrowing into the waste of the layout where it is only about 26 inches wide - where the bulk of your switching will take place. At least 8 feet or more in length would make it a "sweet" layout and...
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    Soldering onwards

    You can fill gaps with styrene and super glue, used with a "kicker" to speed up set time. I've used this on my railroad as each flex track is its own block, the styrene isolates the track from one another. But I've used the same technique on other folks layouts where the track is gapped a...
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    Spitfire #4000

    Congratulations from the Wet West Coast!
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    What kind of tripod ?

    Use the tripod with time count down for shutter release and you will have sharper pics than tripod and you tripping the shutter. Everything is static on the layout so long timed exposures for depth of field isn't a big deal, and using the timer to shoot the frame isn't either. I have a good...
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    tortoise and hair users - advise needed

    I designed my layout with reversing loops approximately 6 years ago knowing that eventually a product would come out allowing the turnouts to be thrown automatically, thus allowing a reversing loop layout to become a continuous run layout. And lo and behold, God made the hair to run with the...
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    looking for an idea - wire mesh strainers

    Woodone, I hadn't thought of old nylon hose, I'll give it a try; sounds like a good idea, but it must take forever to sift the sand; it did with the tea strainer. I would have three levels of silt if I do that: 1) flour sifter 2) tea sifter 3) nylon hose sifter; I would keep all three for use...
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    chat down?

    What chat are you using, I've gone a couple of nights to face an empty room. :cry:
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    looking for an idea - wire mesh strainers

    I tried out a tea strainer last night and it worked well. :thumb: I used a flour sifter first but for N scale the results were still too large; the tea strainer took it down a notch. I kept the left over slightly larger sand (silt) as I decided it might work really well as siding ballast...
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    looking for an idea - wire mesh strainers

    River silt is slightly different than your average dirt out from the woods or back yard. By nature it is already some what fine with no clumping, the colour is uniform and generally lighter in colour than regular dirt. I definitely will try the tea strainer and I'll check out the pet store...
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    looking for an idea - wire mesh strainers

    A friend of mine turned me on to river silt as a base through out the layout, nothing like dirt to represent dirt. Now before I have posts warning me of impending doom using the river silt, a friend of mine has had his on his layout for 6 years now and it is working fine. Yes I not only baked...
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