"Arrietty Clock is a Borrower, although actually, when this story starts, she's never been borrowing in her life. She lives with her father and mother under the floorboards in the kitchen of a rather large, old house. Her father, Pol, regularly goes off borrowing, for the things that the family needs.
Have you ever wondered where all those little lost things go to in a house? All the bottle tops and pins and needles and string and matchboxes and reels of cotton and a hundred and one other things? Well, someone like Pol has probably been round collecting them." _________________ Get off the line Bobby!
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It was Pod until I altered it. I read all 6 Borrowers books in one night when I was a kid because every book ended on a cliffhanger and I couldn't wait to find out what happened. _________________ Get off the line Bobby!
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OMG if i read six in a year my Mum would have fainted Still the same now , book are for looking things up in to find out things for me . _________________ Experience is something you don' t get until just after you need it .
I read all the Biggles books in the library and Jennings, Submariner Sinclair (he says they don't sound the klaxon and shout dive, dive, dive. The enemy would hear that 10 miles away), James Blish, Hugh Walters etc. etc. etc. Couldn't keep me out of the library. _________________ Get off the line Bobby!
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You could never get me in a Library , unless it had a big reference section , I would spend hours looking things up , never took many books home to read . _________________ Experience is something you don' t get until just after you need it .
Is it just me . but when I am working on alterations every time I require a certain tool they are nowhere to be seen, although I have just used them, think I have Spooks in my Loft
It's just age, Dave. We all suffer from it. Chances are that what you need is right in front of your eyes but you can't see it. (That's usually the case for me! )
Funny you should say that Tom, they usually are there in front of me, shall have to keep taking the tablets _________________ mine is a pint of J Smiths Smooth please
Is it just me . but when I am working on alterations every time I require a certain tool they are nowhere to be seen, although I have just used them, think I have Spooks in my Loft
It's just age, Dave. We all suffer from it. Chances are that what you need is right in front of your eyes but you can't see it. (That's usually the case for me! )
Just been working on my layout for the last 2 hours and 3 times looking allover for certain tools, and as you said Tom there they where right in front of me. It is wierd _________________ mine is a pint of J Smiths Smooth please
Looking for your glasses when you have them on already is the worst.
That takes some beating Doug, although last week I took a sock off to put a plaster on, put the sock over my shoulder then spent 10 minutes looking for it.
The wife called me a dozy old twit _________________ mine is a pint of J Smiths Smooth please
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There's trouble at' points. Derailments and jumpiness. Can't quite see where the probem is. Looks like lcos are rising over the fishplates. Will have to take a section out and examine closely on a table.
I also have been having problems with loc`os and rolling stock on the points I have been re-laying, but with a bit o tweeking on the guide rails and again re setting on the board so they are absolutley level I have now (touch wood) got them running smoothly over the points. Funny thing I have 1 rake of carriages that kept getting de-railed on one set of points and then aother rake which gave no problem, and both lots are Hornby and not very old stock. Where would the fun be if every thing went smoothly _________________ mine is a pint of J Smiths Smooth please
Not the weight Nick. My Arnold BR80 0-6-0 with heavy metal body jumps like a kangaroo over the points. Can't see the track end on while it's in situ. _________________ Get off the line Bobby!
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Not the weight Nick. My Arnold BR80 0-6-0 with heavy metal body jumps like a kangaroo over the points. Can't see the track end on while it's in situ.
Hi Poliss,
Is it a side to side or up & down jumping ? could be the Back to backs that dont like the change in point line up with the rest of the track my Kato locos run smoothly over the points at the front of the layout crossing from outer to inner tracks but Life Like E7/8 units dont go over well and at times derail think its the wheel flanges not taking to the code 55 track ........ maybe need to replace them with Kato units _________________
Changing them with Minitrix fishplates might solve the problem as they are finer but still fit on Tomix track.
As the mini Tomix points are designed for trams it looks like only old models with a large turning radius and four wheeled locos will run through the points. Which means my layout will be just like the real thing with each loco having a Route Availabilty restriction. _________________ Get off the line Bobby!
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I don't know if this will help Pol but on my OO layout there was a section of track (including points) that gave all my rolling stock some grief whether they were approaching, going over or even leaving the section (for no apparent reason). The track looked perfect, totally flat etc. In exasperation, I went at them with some screws between the sleepers to make damn sure they were flat.
Guess what happened?
Yep, you are right - all worked perfectly. Added some more glue/ballast, let it dry and removed the screws. No problems since.
I'm guessing N is even less tolerant than OO so it might an idea to give this a try. _________________ OK, so now what do I do?
I can see better now your problems .... like Tom i used servo screws to hold in place Code 83 on the HO layout while the glue was drying the same could be done with your track butt it all up perfectly in line & then glue /ballast soldering the joins where needed a touch of flux on the join solder flowed into the joint & a touch with some desoldering braid to clean any excess of the side of the rails if needed.
The screws allow you to level out any track as Tom said, either up or down WS trackbed can make the track sit proud of the next rail. _________________
Waiting for some more Kato points to arrive before I fix anything down. The whole layout tends to move when you undo a piece of Kato track.
Lack of space is the problem. If I had an extra 4' length I could use 15 degree crossing/slips etc. _________________ Get off the line Bobby!
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True Poliss crossings take up a lot of room when space is limited i know after trying various combinations here in planning. i have seen use of a reversing module on crossings but have been told if all 8 rails are insulated and feeds in the crossing & after rall 8 rails the crossing will work ok without the need for a reversing module _________________
I just add points wherever and have never needed insulated joiners on anything, not even on the scissors crossover. No shorts (apart from when locos fall over). Must be clever chappies over at Kato HQ. _________________ Get off the line Bobby!
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Revised track plan with loads of points deleted. Had to or there would be no room for buildings. The straight line to the turntable should be a curve, but I don't know how to draw one with PSP.
All points have arrived and are now in place. All I need now to complete the track is a curve to the turntable, some buffer stops and a magnetic uncoupler that sits on the track.
Fingers crossed I can fit my roundehouse in. _________________ Get off the line Bobby!
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Well thought out plan though doug, not like me I just lay it pull it up and re lay about 4 times, by about which time the track is bu...rd and have knocked the spring out of the points. _________________ mine is a pint of J Smiths Smooth please
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think its the lamps need adjusting 
I read all 6 Borrowers books in one night when I was a kid because every book ended on a cliffhanger and I couldn't wait to find out what happened. 
OMG if i read six in a year my Mum would have fainted 
i know after trying various combinations here in planning. i have seen use of a reversing module on crossings but have been told if all 8 rails are insulated and feeds in the crossing & after rall 8 rails the crossing will work ok without the need for a reversing module 
