Micro-Trains makes one. I'm sure most of the dealers carry it.
For posts use phosphor bronze wires, they're more rigid. Painting is near impossible without clogging. Chemical "blackening" is the easiest to...
There is some confusion going on. As I understand the Snail controller will be used only for operating the trains, so that's a non issue. Relays...
There are multi layer plywood products, like apple-ply, fin-ply and various marine grade plywood that very stable, but fairly heavy. More advanced...
Here on the Left Coast most of us (Z-Bend module guyZ) used Arizona Rock N-scale, even Woodland Scenics fine ballast. You can't tell it's N-scale...
After some time nickel silver develops a layer of oxide, regardless. Imagine a couple of unsoldered oxidized joints inside of the tunnel under the...
I didn't try without soldering. In my books soldered rail joiners never fail and it's proven for many decades. To make sure the solder joint is...
Electric motors used in Z-scale locomotives are designed for 10V maximum DC. The reason for that is physical limitations of windings within the...
That means, your Z-scale engine is getting 14V "kicks" with the frequency of pulses. Not good.
It still could fry your locomotives, because of the low frequency pulse, that works with larger scales, but kills Z-scale motors, especially...
I looked and measured the shell of the 8805 and doesn't look too hard. The only issue is tooling. You need a small milling machine, a 1/8" and a...
That was the first thing my brand new eyes noticed at the show. Very nice, indeed.
Very nice, hard to believe it's Z-scale. Congratulations.
Be careful with grinding anything on a Marklin crossing or switch. Because the non Marklin wheels are not running on the designated path via the...
I remember, long time ago, our great friend the late Bill Kronenberger mentioned, the first versions of Marklin crossings worked OK with MTL cars...
Correct. The problem is the wheel itself. The Marklin crossing and switches are not designed on the traditional way. To improve better electric...
Thanks guyZ for your kindness and patience, looks like I'll escape some serious beatings :0)
After a long disappearance from the scenes of the hobby, I'm replacing all the big and ugly things accumulated on my workbench with fine little...
