http://www.sbsignal.com/

Reasonably priced US signals.

Thanks for this - the site will be passed on to other USA modellers here in SA.

Another Equipment Index fattener. Cheers boilermaker.

soon be more index than forum Bob !!!

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Yes it's amazing how fast they grow but if the members didn't post the information and the links then I wouldn't have to Index them.

Some of the links come from the Barchester pages so there is a certain amount of duplication but not much.

Boilermaker69, thanks for the link, very interesting. The company is located in Niles Michigan, about 7 miles from where I was born and 20 miles from where I grew up. Had no idea they were even there.

Wayne

Signals are even cheaper when you make them yourself…

Here is my method which still needs refinement but here goes

http://www.xdford.digitalzones.com/construction%20of%20a%20model%20railway%20signal.htm

or ground signals whcih are now lighted the same way

http://www.xdford.digitalzones.com/modelrr11.htm


Cheers

Trevor

BTW The Searchlight signals cost about $1.30 Australian… This might even help Bob… (Latin Description by his own account "Titus Officius"… like myself really) make the plunge!!!! Ground signals about 40 cents plus the switches…

Thanks Trevor

Good simple signals you have shown :thumbs

Hi All, 

And in a first, a view of the signals which does not appear on my web site yet but you can see what the signals look like.

And as I said Bob, the price is in both our ranges…

Cheers

Trevor

 

The Signal to the Yard entrance at "Ridgehaven"  The bottom one only goes from Red to Yellow which saved a switch





The Single aspect signal governing the exit to the yard


PS Sorry about the blurriness of this one… but you can see the ground signals work! If you check my web site, you will see these were made from some scrap styrene and Kadee coupler pockets. They were dummy signals for years before I drilled and fitted LED's to them… Cheers  Trevor

You can't beat cheap Trevor and those are cheap, cheap.
Please let us not have any posts about cheep, cheep, Sylvester, canaries, or any other birds.

Hopefully Bob, you are not going to use the word "nasty" in the same sentence as "cheap" with the signals! My website shows these ones in position but unpainted.

Regards

Trevor

Indeed not Trevor. The whole of Barchester was built cheap with everyday objects and at a deliberate low cost to see what could be achieved. Cheap becomes even more important in these hazardous financial times.

I know the signals are minus ladders… even a long way away the ladders on the prototype are I am thinking of using some form of mesh at roughly ladder spacing but has anyone ideas what material could be used?

As for the signal disks check the following method. You will need someone with a lathe if you have not got one yourself. I take a styrene lid from a butter and/or margarine container and drill a series of 3mm holes about 12 mm apart in any direction you can. The holes are cut so that they are very roughly 5 or 6mm square with the hole as close to the middle as possible.

I then have a 3mm thread and a nut which I cram as many of the squares ( don't be too particular about the rough shape) as I possibly can. I usually get about 35-40 on a 1.5 inch long thread. Squeeze them as tightly as you can with the nut  which will misshape the outer ones on your thread.

Use the remnant thread and place it in the lathe chuck and turn the mass of styrene to just under 9mm or whatever. The outer ones will misshape a bit but you should have a large number of disks which you can then paint before mounting the LED's on.

Now Bob,  you can cut your costs down by .0001 Euro cent or P by squeezing out an extra disk or two per thread… only kidding mate but seriously it is a material we throw away frequently and as modelers we should be able to use it and give it a further life. Check my web page and you can see a styrene track side shed made from a yoghurt container… it looks as though a stick of gelignite has gone off inside it but it showed what could be done! The fact that that batch of MEK was a bit past its use by date might have had a bit to do with it! Anyway, hope this description helps!

Cheers

Trevor