Off at a tangent once more.

Hi Paul,

Just back from GlenDochart. These magnets look pretty convincing to me. I've ordered up a bulk pack of 25. They should be here by next weekend so. I'll test them out too. Certainly looked like they done the job.

I'll need to lift the track to get the others out but no big deal. It will be worth it if they work as good and reliably as the video.

Cheers

Toto.

I'm thinking of going into decoder mode now.

Hi,

Went out into the shed earlier tonight. I was looking at Highbridge and playing around with what the new scheme was going to be like. Sort of preparation for tomorrow.

I've decided to buy a cheap table saw out of Machine Mart tomorrow. I have a reasonable amount of 3mm ply etc to rip to size and it will also come in handy for the next phase of Rosebuddy when I am doing the second level baseboards and ripping up for retaining walls etc.

Nothing fancy, just a cheap ( but safe ) table saw. It should speed things up a bit as well. Some photos will be posted tomorrow as it will be getting pressed straight into action.

Took the large Kadee magnets out in anticipation of the rectangular doofer magnets that I have ordered for trialing. I feel a busy and productive shift coming on.

Cheers

Toto

G`day Toto,
 I`ve just watched that video Paul posted about the magnets and the Kadees.
 If that`s not the way to go I`ll be a monkeys uncle.
 That`s a brilliant, simple, elegant solution and surely that has to be the way forward.

 Now my friend……be careful with that table saw. Safe operation must be uppermost in your mind. Read and understand all the safety stuff and then please, please read it again.
These tools can be dangerous. I have one…..a Triton work center……many years ago I was using it and the blade caught hold of a piece of 4"x3" timber by about 12" long, that I was cutting, and it literally threw the timber at me. It hit me in the chest and knocked me to the floor.
It all happened so quick there was not time to avoid the bullet. I was just lucky it was not my face that was hit.
Every time I use the thing now, that day comes back to haunt me, but more importantly to warn me, to be out of the line of fire.
So please be careful!!!

:cheers  Gormo

Edit………maybe I am the monkeys uncle???……..just realized ( it takes me a while sometimes?).……it`s not selective uncoupling……it`s uncoupling in one sweep past the magnets, therefore if you had say 6 wagons, would it uncouple each one as it passed the magnets and basically rob you of choosing which one to select????………where are the bananas????:oops::oops:

:hmm

Would it not still require the " dance " Gormo ? The key thing is that the Kadee won't work under tension, only compression. It may determine how I bring the wagons on initially. However, I think my idea is to bring them on loco first into the longer siding which means the wagons would all be under tension as they pass the magnet at first. Then, the loco backs up and releases one wagon at a time and the local shunter picks them off, reallocates them to one of the two storage sidings until they are all allocated and therefore releasing the incoming " delivery shunter " to leave the scene again. The local shunter would then take them from their sidings to the main platform / dock siding for unloading.
The sequence is then reversed again with the wagons being taken back to the storage sidings ( after unloading ) and await the main delivery shunter to come back and pick them up again.

Don't know if the above is clear enough. I babble some crap at times.

Cheers

Toto

Sounds feasible Toto when you put it that way.
:cheers  gormo

 Toto

You would need to do the Kadee two step for each wagon being cut.

Can almost hear the fiddles and banjo's warming up.

Paul

Hi Gormo,

A sketch might help explain it clearer but I think it may be ok.

I'll see if I can't do a sketch later as it would be good to know if there is any perceived issues before taking it forward. I agree that it may not work in all cases depending on how your individual layout works. There again maybe not.

Still worth looking at though as I think it's the most effective system ( for Kadee's ) yet.

Cheers

Toto

fiddles and Banjos…now I'm seeing Tom in his Kilt doing a twirl whilst trying to couple…..? NO !!  I meant uncouple. Some wagons..???   To much Whisky methinks…. Or not enough ???  :shock:

Not enough Matt …….. You can still spell. have another ……… You know you want to.

Toto

There's no evidence of the shuffle in the video, Tonto.  (The one with the magnets on the sides).

Anyhoo - if you need banjos/fiddles etc, let me know . . .

Thanks Max.

Very impressive photo. Any more ?

Cheers

Toto

Max behave I watched some of the videos of you lot you let slip in another thread…. Well impressed , wish I had a thimble full of your talent to hold a toon…but I'm one of them that tone deaf guys when it comes to actually making a sound

OK Tom    just the one then ;-)     I've earned it !

Hundreds, Toto.

Here's a scary one of me at the Melrose Festival last weekend . . .



Looks like the drugs have kicked in.  :lol:

Thanks, Matt.   :cheers

Scary ……. Not at all. One cool dude. Fantastic photos. Very clear and vivid colours. Just need Gormo up there now. ……… Without the white suit.

Thanks for posting Max. The locks have grown a bit since the photo in you avatar. Don't tell me it's a syrup of fig.

Cheers

Toto

We have a pro photographer who follows the bands around.

https://picasaweb.google.com/104270286940582723366/2015092527MelroseMusicMuster

These are all low resolution.

We buy the ones we need/want in high resolution for CD covers, posters, etc.

We are in that lot somewhere.

You've got me interested now Max. I think you know what's coming next. Some video links to hear you guys playing.you may even get a CD sale out of it.

Toto

Our latest CD "Hand Picked" is being mastered as we speak.  Hopefully it will be released in time for our trip to the Dorrigo Festival 23rd - 25th of this month.  I understand that this will be the first one available on iTunes.

Apparently there are YouTube recordings made by audience members.  They tend to be hard to watch, as live performances don't usually record well.  I tried a search on YouTube, but no luck.

We are called The Cherry Pickers (have been for ten years), but it seems that it wasn't an original idea.  :lol:

I'll keep an eye open for it.