Baseboard no longer needed, make ideal portable/exhibition baseboard, Designed to rest on trestles or table top. Joining screws and aligning pins held in place, no bolts etc to lose/find. Non descript watercolour sky backscene, each half stacks on the other in aluminium channel to make a box 4ft x 2ft x 1ft - 4in which will incidentally fit in the rear of a Citroen C3 Picasso with half the split seat folded down. Radiused internal corners, some v. slight cosmetic damage, touch-up paint supplied!















For sale, £60 o.n.o., buyer collects, S.Devon. [Tea and sticky bun offered]

Doug

Looks like a bargain, Doug.   :thumbs

I think I saw it, or one very similar, when it lived in France ………… :roll: :roll:

Extremely well made (as you'd expect from "Engineer Doug"  :thumbs)  

Thanks guys, looking for enough to buy a dual track analogue controller,

Doug

Hi Doug,

I was tempted, but then I had to add the $950 airfare to have a look at it and kick the tires, and then there is the shipping cost back to the US (plus whatever import tariff gets slapped on - made in the EU? Coming from the UK? And it's wood? Hmm.).

Nice looking board with all the hard work done and a real bargain at £60.00. And it would fit in the back of the 'Onda with the seats up.

Nigel

Hi Doug. An excellent design, I wish that I had thought of that first. My idea was a toolbox, with two lids? the bottom one to keep the wires safe from the weather.  Best wishes Kevin 

You mean one of these Doug

Twin track with braking inertia
GMC-DS Gaugemaster Model DS Twin Track Transformer Controller
I have one of these i dont use Brian is thinking possible swapsy maybe

Brian

Sounds good to me!

D

i will find the box it is in and get out and fire it up to check it all working properly Doug to be fair it pretty deffo will be fine the gaugemaster controllers are pretty solid.


Brian

Don't forget that Gaugemaster controllers come with a lifetime guarantee!

Wow, I didn't know that. Mind you, my 1980s twin track unit still works as good as it always has and just as well, as I've no idea where the original packaging or invoice is!

Hope it all works out well for you Doug.

Bill

All works fine Doug got it out of the storage box and fired it up .

Percy assisted in the testing that it all works fine he executed all commands sent to him from the controller both sides.



Brian

Hi Brian.  Percy, is he a friend of Thomas ? A proper job then.  Best wishes Kevin 

Yes Kevin Percy is a friend of Thomas plus i do have a Henry which is a 4-6-0 tender engine which has a decoder fitted especially for visiting children.

Brian

[user=2137]Briperran[/user] wrote:

All works fine Doug got it out of the storage box and fired it up .

Percy assisted in the testing that it all works fine he executed all commands sent to him from the controller both sides.



Brian

Huzzah!

Swapsy  complete met Doug and his wife at deepest darkest Liskeard  we managed to get out before being eaten.

Lovely well built baseboard very pleased with it.

Really nice to see Bisto still going strong he is a lovely little dog who was the mascot at the YMR show all those years ago.

Now i have the problem of exactly what i am going to build on the baseboard it will be N gauge i have for years thought about building Perranporth station but to date have not done it i need to do a bit of research to check dimentionally i can fit it in which i think i can.

Brian

Well done Brian and Doug and honourable mentions for other cast members there present!

So good to see a happy ending, not forgetting a new beginning, as a germ of a western layout sees a light at the end of a tunnel  :)

Onwards both.

Best,

Bill

How very Poop-poop!

So glad it didn't end up at the tip, seeing Brian again brought back some great memories.
 Better get on and drill some more holes in the walls for more brackets….

 [Thanks Bill]

Doug

I have great memories too.   Wonder if we could do it again?   A few new names but some of the old team would probably turn out.

I doubt if anything on that scale and size could be done again Reg that was really a one off and bear in mind we did get a lot of trade support assisting in making it happen.

That said there is no reason why a village hall somewhere could not be hired for a weekend and it could be a members and friends weekend where members could bring some layouts and you could have workshop and instruction sessions as we have many experts in different  fields of the hobby within this group.


Brian