Greetings fellow Valeasians, This evening marks the beginning of a new phase in the new layout adventure...troubleshooting! This afternoon I installed a wood...
Greetings fellow Valeasians, This evening I unstoppered the tiny vial of Busch silver conductive paint, dipped the end of a very fine paintbrush into the...
Good evening fellow Valeasians, This evenings tasks were not too demanding and fun at the same time. I finished silver plating the remaining point frogs on the...
Happy Mothers' Day, fellow Valeasians, I will be taking a break from dabbling at the layout to spend the day with my Mother-in-law. Yes, there are other...
Good evening fellow Valeasians, After a week on the road for work, I am back in my study and have done a couple of small jobs on the layout. 1. I moved the...
Good morning, fellow Valeasians, Since most of the major,if not all, of the major projects on the layout have been completed, I spent most of my play time over...
Good afternoon, fellow Valeasians, Well, yes I did manage to dash off to the train show after taking the better half to brunch, by accident of course, a...
Good afternoon, fellow Valeasians, First a correction to the value of the electrolytic capacitor supplied with the "Flicker Free" kit. It is 200,000...
Good afternoon, fellow Valeasians, I am on vacation until June 6 so I have naturally been doing yard work, taking nice long drives to explore rural Ontario and...
Good evening, fellow Valeasians, No, I have not started weathering the rails on the Neuburg section...but almost! I put some time into light sealing the...
Good evening, fellow Valeasians, My fertile imagination has taken firm hold and won't let go! Following many hours of Web and eBay searching, I have discovered...
Good evening, fellow Valeasians, I thought it might be fun to update you on my June activities. As of yesterday, I have officially started work on the garden...
Hi Gang, What a gorgeous summer day we had today. Hot, humid, sunny...a perfect day for a Sunday drive. About 60 km from Ottawa, there is a lovely country...
Great suggestion, Ron! See the update below... ... Hi Gang, I finished up the trestle project yesterday. I used a total of 300 brass screws shoring up all...
Gosh Jeffrey, I leave for less than a week and come back to find out the exciting news that you've started on the new garden railroad. Can't wait to see...
Good morning fellow Valeasians, Yesterday's mail delivery brought a much-anticipated package to my door. As you may recall from a previous posting I planned to...
Good afternoon fellow Valeasians, The Canada Post strike backlog has finally been cleared and I have received the final two packages that I was expecting. The...
Hi there, fellow Valeasians, I got back from a fun summer weekend in Montreal with a few goodies that I picked up at Hobby Junction the hobby shop in Dorval,...
Good evening, fellow Valeasians, A few days ago I wrote the following, Quote... Never one to hesitate a daring solution to a conductivity problem, I ordered an...
Thank you for the tip, Jeffrey. I just placed my online order for a tube of "Never Stall" and can't wait to see the improvement on my layout. Best wishes, ...
Hello Eileen, One further observation...it only takes a very little amount of Never Stall liquid on wipers and turnout point contacts. It is easy to apply too...
Any feelings for how well this might work on a garden railroad? Probably not very well, since you would need a lot more of it and it would probably get washed...
This is a quote from Dave George, aka Mr Dave, of the Golden~Blackhawk: "Same stuff. I did not use in engines. I only touched some on one of the balky...
Hi Bob, The literature that comes with the tube says that it works to remove and prevent oxidation at electrical contact points. That is how I used the stuff,...
Hi Don, It's hard to say if the turnout had a mechanical problem or oxidation at its electrical contacts. All I can attest to is that the 0-6-0 locos in my...
