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Joined: 17 May 2009 My Line: PCLR 5inch and 45mm Posts: 342
Location: Buckinghamshire England
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 6:11 pm Post subject:
i am fiting rc to mine mortimer in the coming moths but have you tryed the actice on the g scale mad forum click actice on the home page i belive the person who posted that is on this form to under the name of Doug
hope it help i will post picture if procress
michael _________________ Buckinghamshire Railway Centre !!
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Factory standard is reverser only. The GSM website closes today but I've the article saved. Doug, the author, has indeed just joined this 'ere forum.
Apparently fitting full (regulator) r/c to a Mortimer is harder than a Caradoc, but I'm not sure why- less space possibly.
New Haven Neil, an occasional poster, has fitted 2 channel r/c to a Mortimer (and is a very nice chap too), try sending him a PM. _________________ Matt: Some of us like it dirty...
... Grubby steamers with wasp striped buffers hauling grimy coal wagons in the South West. Well, when it works anyway. eBay is a bad, bad place.
Joined: 16 Jan 2008 My Line: Afonglas and Nant Llywyd Railway Posts: 1781
Location: Morecambe
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 9:27 pm Post subject:
DLRdan wrote:
thanks, Ratty can you post a picture of how you have done the regulator servo please ?
What, is that for Caradoc? I'm afraid that with the arrival of 2 R/C locos in the ANLR in 2009 I removed the radio from Caradoc. However the reg servo was a bit of a cobble up, I just epoxied it to the floor of the cab, connected to the regulator with a length of wire. The best thing to do I think would be make up some form of mounting bracket for it. _________________ The Killer Bunny's on the loco - Don't Panic!
L shaped brass bracket to mount the servo to, bit of wire, and if you are feeling fancy chuffed 2 bits sell a noggin to fit onto the regulator valve that you can attatch a wire to a servo. _________________ Matt: Some of us like it dirty...
... Grubby steamers with wasp striped buffers hauling grimy coal wagons in the South West. Well, when it works anyway. eBay is a bad, bad place.
Well done Pete.
I'll be fitting single channel to my Edrig fairly soon, two channel soon after, and will serialise it here. _________________ Matt: Some of us like it dirty...
... Grubby steamers with wasp striped buffers hauling grimy coal wagons in the South West. Well, when it works anyway. eBay is a bad, bad place.
Adding R/C to Caradoc is quite easy. The regulator servo on mine just uses a brass bracket to mount the servo, and new brass arm on the regulator itself and a thin bit of brass wire to link the two. Have to have the regulator open a crack, as it is very stiff to start with and would burn out most servos. The rest of the travel is fine.
Joined: 15 Jan 2009 My Line: the Mid-Derbyshire Light Railway Posts: 319
Location: Derbyshire, UK
Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 5:43 pm Post subject:
Looking at the picture, wouldn't it be neater to shorten the regulator spindle, put a new flat on the end and put a normal arm like wot Roundhouse use on the end? I can't tell how your new arm is fixed to the spindle but it doesn't look too robust to me.......... _________________ Brian L Dominic
General Manager & Receiver
Mid-Derbyshire Lt Rly
The arm is indeed silver soldered to the brass collar. Brass collar came from model aeroplane shop and very slightly opened up to fit on the spindle. First try at silver soldering, was very easy really.
The large plastic control knob has now gone, replaced with a nice scale regulator arm from Milton Locomotive works.
I will eventually do something about the large brass arm for the servo linkage, probably when i convert it all to 2.4GHz and throw away the servo smoother in the tank.
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