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Hello Steve Do you treat the cork with any sealants or diluted P V A . A very interesting video than You.

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Where are you

What size cable do you use for leads

Found your videos brilliant straight to the point. Being inspired for my next layout to build multi height boards different levels and wondered how you make the baseboard to do that. Thanks in advance as I know you are always busy.

Great video Stephen, I have two locations on my layout planned that will need to auto coupling etc and this system perfect, thanks for demo. hope your keeping well, good call for the man cave ha ha

Good to see you back Steve . I am thinking about changing from my lever frame to a control panel, so this is very timely. Stephen

Great to see you back Stephen, Well explained and informative you have a good style of presenting your videos to people of all skill levels and ability's keep up the good work and keep safe

Stephen first of all glad to see you back. Very interesting mate, like what you have done but I am a long way before I get to that stage. I have worked out that just for my terminus and yard I will need crossing double slip x 2 and turnouts x 30. So a lot of wiring and headaches ahead for me. Again glad to see you back. Regards Chris

Hi Stephen, do the peco brick edges come as you have them or have you added plasticard and corbels to them? cheers Paul at Sandling Junction

Dear Steve, just to say I have very much enjoyed your videos and found a great deal of guidance and inspiration from them. They must have taken a lot of energy to shoot them! And to add, sorry not to have had anything from you since the above but, if the right kind of mojo hasn't returned that gives you the incentive to enjoy your hobby as well as making videos, I understand! I just hope you're still enjoying the hobby and that life is still allowing you enough time in the loft. I've been kidding myself I have time to build an N gauge layout in my loft and after three years, I've just -just about- got some track laid and working- and I bottled out of fitting point motors with polarity switching because my soldering' still so ropey! And it's only a simple end to end job.. Anyway, all the best and hope all's well.

Hi Steve, hope all is well? Nothing from you in a while. Has the mojo not returned?Interested to see how Whitelegg has progressed.

Hi Steve, thoroughly enjoying your series of videos, especially as my layout will also be in N Gauge. Been watching tons of videos on TH-cam along with reading up on it for the past 30 years or more but just never got round to building one myself. So a lot of what you show to a degree most people are aware of but it never hurts to remind and already I have picked up a number of excellent tips from your good self. Like you I am going over to DCC and I have already decided to get the NCE control system but being a complete novice I am having problems getting my head around quite a lot of the electrical parts. Struggling regarding the circuit breakers. I understand how they work and why you need them but I get confused why you need four and why one will not suffice. I have looked at a number of diagrams but they are even more confusing and only show you in sections where they go as opposed to a diagram showing you a complete layout. I dont intend to go to technical with my layout but I do need to safeguard my trains. Any assistance would be gratefully appreciated. Regards Chris

If you solder both sides of the track to the copper board edging ,how do you avoid creating a short between the positive rail and the negative rail?

excellent video

looks good

Good to hear from you Steve, it was me you spoke to at the SPC stand at TINGS. I've moved on slowly, all wired up and ballasted and now getting on to the scenic. Great to see you back and hope to see the progress of Whitelegg throughout the next year. Have a great Christmas.

Welcome back Steven,we all lose our mo - jo now and again,just nice to see you are Ok.Have a relaxing Xmas,looking forward to seeing the progression in the new year.

Welcome back Stephen and looking forward to your videos especially the how too ones, I hope you and yours have a great Christmas and a happy and healthy new year

Hi when are you going to publish the next part

Would something like this not do the same thing ? www.floodland.nl/aim/info_module_connector_en_1.htm

That is some amount of wiring. Enjoyed this video and look forward to the next ones. Stephen

Hi Stephen. It was a pleasure to meet you are Warley. You mentioned buying these when we spoke. I have finished wiring in all my point motors and switches, but I am begining to wonder if I might return to them at some point to put the point indicators on them. I am already confusing myself with four double slips. Trains are going all over the place! Merry Christmas to you and your family and best wishes for the New Year. Stephen

A great video, some top tips !

Evening Stephen. Interesting to see how to make the legs and good news that you will be a Warely this year. I will be making the trip down for the two days and I will drop by to say hello as you suggested

Would you use the cork on storage lines behind the backscene ?

I have to say thanks for mentioning about using the different types of glue. I know what you mean about borrowing from others to improve your own layout. No one that I have been watching has mentioned about using waterproof glue. Something that I didn't think about either. But, I can picture it down the road, when I start to ballast my track, seeing my track floating away on me! Keep up the good work!

Thanks Steve, another informative and useful pair of videos. Your loss of footage didn't affect the overall demonstration of techniques but it must have been darned annoying!. Your time spent on these is well appreciated and what I really like about your videos is you leave no stone unturned in the detail which is really useful for newcomers to the hobby Look forward to your continued videos Cheers Steve

Hi Stephen, Thanks for these excellent videos, they are full of useful tips for newcomers to N gauge like myself. I particulary liked the one in the previous video where you moved the insulating joiner away from the V to the end of the short straight section to allow an easier solder point for the V section- simple but I had not thought of it before! Cheers Steve

Hi Steve, another couple of great Vids this time on platforms,

Certainly helping me. Thanks for sharing.

is that an SB3a? I thought it was a 3 amp booster

How do you avoid a dead short at the copper cross pieces?

Hi steve were did ya get the fuse breakers from m8 and how much was they!

Hi Steve Your Vids are great mate, I'm just starting at the age of 69, I'm enjoying watching and learning, Thanks a lot and please keep them coming mate, cheers. Reg

I will b e building my own layout with DCC never done it before always had DC. Its mind blowing and being paraplegic its going too be hard enough so when we move I will be starting from scratch and I have watch quite a few you tubers but I'm trying to find one that's easy to understand and yous is the one so far I am building it in 00 gauge will that matter if its not n gauge and I'm no good at electrics and never put decoders in locos so I have got a lot to learn so thank you Stephen for your helpful videos I shall keep watching then and if I have to watch them over and over again I will do till I get it right thanks .........Chris

Hi Steve, Thanks for sharing your videos - perfect timing for me as I'm about to start the n guage journey very soon. A simple question for you re glueing the track down . If you need to lift the track how do you do it ? Hot water ? I hated pinning my old 00 gauge and I think n gauge pinning, for me, is a non starter. Thanks again . Alan

hex frog juicer marvellous piece of kit I used one on a scissors cross over. works perfect and saved a lot of wiring.

very informative and entertaining ... though it would have been helpful to newcomers to show how you cut the seep wire rod so it doesn't foul stock passing over the point

Just watched the two wiring videos. I'm just at that stage with my layout and your videos were very helpful. Always better to see it done than to read about it. So thanks for that. I'm looking forward to catching up with your earlier videos.

Hi Steve, very helpful. Have you an update on how things are in your loft with regards to cold and heat? I potentially could put my layout there - it wouldn't be an exhibition layout, so won't need for all of your tips, but more just about space and heat and cold if using a loft. Looking forward to an update Many Thanks

Nice video

Stephen I work in OO and use Kadee magnetic couplers. Like you I use two magnets beneath the track. They are 20 x 5 x 1.5mm. I use double sided selotape to stick them & separating plastic strips to 1mm card. This means that the tops are level with my cork track bed. Generally everything works well. However, there are two problems. 1. The strength of the magnets can 'drag' an uncoupled wagon forward. 2. When moving forward at a pro-typical slow shunting speed the tension on the couplers is often not enough to prevent unwanted uncoupling. In OO the solution to both problems seems to be adding rolling resistance to the wagons. I have seen this done with a little soft foam between the axle and body or, better still, a small piece of square section styrene glued to the underside of the body and resting on the axle. I am not sure how this would work in N, it might be worth a play. Off topic - I am helping get the LMRG N gauge layout looking a little spruced up for the open gardens weekend. Did you provide the arched stone retaining wall at one end. I need to source some more to carry it further round the scenic area. Can you tell me what the source was? Also the model number - stone type or whatever I need to order some. meltonpieman

Thanks for the upload! #AddItHere

Steve How about a bit of video showing your fiddle yard on Loughborough Derby Road? Are you using cassettes, a turntable or just holding sidings then switching loco positions? David