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If you want a really strong magnet find an old hard drive and take it apart. The magnet in them are super strong. I have one which, while I don't use it for uncoupling, used it to find screws in the drywall when I moved the wall. I was able to reuse the drywall and save some money. I also...

Here any peice of paper which says no junk mail or no unaddressed mail is good enough.

Makes me wonder that if a black and white photo of a model looks more realistic than the colour version does that maybe mean that when we model we're not getting the colours quite right?

Here's my experience for what it's worth. If you ship UPS ground you will get charged brokerage fees. I haven't yet been charged brikerage by anyone else but I'll watch purolator for sure now. I've shipped FedEx (international economy) several times and always payed $7 + gst.

I just noticed that I have that site with the DCC uncoupler bookmarked so here it is: http://www.rr-cirkits.com/uncoupler.html

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Passing over the coffee can creek...

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Better late than never. It's been a month since I took these but here they are. Heading into town...

A criminal act got me started. I almost died! Ok I'm exadurating. It was when I was at school when I was about 11. Someone set fire to one of the classrooms. I was in the classroom right above it. Anyhow, due to all the smoke and flames everyone who lived near the school got sent home...

I've heard of people making DCC uncouplers before. They used mussle wire, which contracts when a current is passed through it, to pull the knuckle. They just hooked up the mussle wire to one of the function outputs on the decoder.

Actually you wouldn't even need to do that. All you'd need to do is take the first 5V (5.6V if you include the drop over a shockley bridge rectifier) to run the electonics making sure that the motor doesn't run if the track voltage is less than 5.6V. If the power pack can deliver 18V then...

Seeing you said you wanted to run electonics of the 5V then you'll need a bridge rectifier (or 4 diodes to make a bridge rectifier) otherwise the 5V will flip polarity every time you change direction which at the lesat will stop the electonics from working when backwards and at worse destroy...

If you need any help moving, Steve, I can probably lend you a few hours.

Sorry but I've got to clear some of this stuff up. That sounds like the sub-7 virus to me. It'll allow you to pretty much do anything with someone elses computer even listen through their microphone of flip their screen upsidedown While it is possible to for some one to break into your...

I'd look into software first. I'd uninstall anything that you've installed around the time that it started happening. Preferably uninstall (or stop running) anything that starts up with windows. An even better solution would be to format the hard drive and reinstall windows then you're back...

Make sure the fan is pluged in properly. most computers are clever enough not to do anything if it senses that it doesn't have a fan. Also try reseating the memory although it should do something if it's not in right it won't always.

The boxcar arrived today. I'll try and get some pictures up within the next few days.

I just do the layout design using 1" larger radius curves than I'm actually planning to use. Then I have plenty of room to fit the easements in when I actually lay it. When I draw it out for real I always draw the straight track 1/2" out from the curve. and make a mark between the two. I...

I have photos of my layout at http://members.shaw.ca/paul_davis/MRR/photos.html They're all construction photos as that where I'm at right now.