Every so often at an exhibitions, if you're listening closely while watching Bron Hebog you'll hear the tell-tale sound of a hand held controller clattering to the floor, swiftly followed by some imprecations from Himself, either directed at his own clumsiness or someone else's (usually mine...).
The Glasgow show last month was no exception, so he's returned home and decided to try yet another potential solution.
We already have velcro fixings on the back on the controllers, and on the fiddle yard edge, but that's not been successful enough at defeating gravity, so now he's knocked up these neat little shelves where the controllers can be rested.
Keep your ears open at the show in Perth in June to discover whether these have worked or not...
Other items on the post-show snagging list have also been attended to.
The buckled rail in the fiddle yard has been sorted.
We came to the conclusion this was caused not by the heat inside the hall but by the highly efficient ventilation drying out the wood in the baseboards, causing them to shrink slightly over the three days.
He's also replaced the point motors (plural) which failed over the weekend when the throwing pins sheared.
This is not the first time we've had this issue with the Seep / Gaugemaster points, although the salesperson on the Gaugemaster stand at the show swore blind it was the first time anyone had ever mentioned that.
Just us?
I have the same problem with HSS motors at Westerleigh with failures every few weeks !! I think trying to throw SAR points ... the seep motors are however very good and not known a sheered one on any of the Warley club layouts in the 20 years been a memeber -so might be a special feature of BH!
ReplyDeleteA Seep motor sheered while exhibiting Glenbrater at Taunton in 2010, ten years after the layout was built. After that I carried a pre-wired replacement as the one that failed was on the passing loop in the station and soldering in the replacement was no fun! So they do sheer, but not very often.
ReplyDeleteI've used SEEP motors for maybe 25 years and never had a pin shear. Only one failure, where the coils separated from the base. Maybe I don't use them very intensely but some have done two layouts and several exhibitions. Maybr old ones are better? Still, a pre-wired spare is a good idea.
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