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Got five feet of flex track from the friendly local hobby store today. Was delighted to find out that flex track is more like elastic track! Always thought that it would be like forcibly bending copper wire or something and that it could never, ever be bent back to it's original shape. Was a...

Houseboat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia You need one. I know people who live in one and it is almost like a regular home. Good luck in getting your valuables to dry ground and stay safe!

Thanks for your encouragement! I might even head to the shop to pick up some flex track and track cutters tomorrow. Had takeaway Chinese today for supper. Should have been pizza.

Funiculars are often seen in pairs, with both acting as a counterweight to the other. Hanging them on a cable on two sets of tracks would be the easiest way, but a much more realistic solution would be to construct a gauntlet track, but I doubt it'll be an easy task finding unflanged and...

Anyone care for a nice slice of pizza? Toppings include a most delicious hill, a highly entertaining tram loop (free tunnel included!) and a most extraordinary funicular climbing up the hill. Add a road snaking through the lower part of the layout, a couple of beautiful trees, maybe even in...

TrainNut - that reminds me of the my first layout that my dad built me when I was a wee kid. Wasn't nearly as nice as that one though :) Gary - never underestimate the associative quality of the human mind...great ideas come at the most unexpected moments. (but why is it that for some reason so...

Don't know how cute you want them, but there are many 1:48 and a little bit smaller elves and dwarves available. Some more suitable than others. Thunderbolt Mountain some very beautiful stuff. .:Hasslefree Miniatures:. another range with very good sculpts. Much won't be what you're looking for...

Have been gone from the Gauge for some months and suddenly the layout and the name changed. The shock! Well, I guess it's all acceptable and all, especially after finding out that the core has stayed the same. Figured I had to post something, as the forum pushed a feeling of guild upon me with...

Interesting to see that the 1-30 locos category is growing compared to just when the poll started. I believe that this means that the people with most locos also frequent the Gauge the most.

I'd be inclined to agree with LoudMusic...but maybe a simple poll like this just illustrates the number of average railroaders and the accumulators (at some point you can't speak of collecting anymore...it turns into the accumulation of more 'train') :-) Oh, and I have two diesels.

Russ - double the ohmage and halved wattage, right, with the serial option?

Andy - Adding and substracting...hadn't thought of that yet. Now I think I'm more needing some additional resistance. Using my logic which may or may not apply in semiconductoria, the resistance should double if I were to put two resistors in series.. Two 500 ohm transistors making 1000 ohm...

Well, I was at the electronics shop today and given the same information they sold me something which apparently might be still wrong...should just have asked for 1000 ohms. When keeping the voltage low, around half power at most, the resistors don't heat up and the LEDs seem to burn bright...

Thanks for solving this puzzle for me! :-) A useful answer in little more than half an hour! Will be going to look for these next week, hope it'll work.

I have them in series. Transformer ---- resistor ---- long leg of the LED ---- LED ---- Short leg of the LED --- Transformer.

About reading the resistor - is there a direction and should the bands be divided evenly? (As in: Two in the middle thinner bit and one on each of the thicker bits at the ends?) It could also be: yellow, orange, black, gold.

The package only says that they're white light emitting diodes. Might this imply that purchasing LEDs from Thailand isn't the best idea? Looked up the ebayseller's current, similar offerings, and chances are that they are the following: 3,5 - 3,8V, 20 mA, 60 mcd (I believe the resistor should...

And it's only the resistor that gets hot - the LED stays cool.

Source voltage: 12v, straight from the DC-side of the transformer. The LED is supposed to be for 12 volt operation...5mm bright and white...Don't know the details. The resistors seem to be gold-green-black-orange, but I can't be completely sure. I'm not literate in electronese.

I was toying around a bit, wiring up some LEDs and connecting them with the resistor that came with them to the transformer. Well, the LED works and I found out that LEDs are a nifty little way of determining the polarity, but I happened to burn my fingers when I touched the resistor - It was...