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DCC conversion for N gauge locomotive (Renfe 269)
This week I’ve been busy converting to DCC a RENFE 269 - N gauge loco, that I bought last Sunday at Madrid Railway Museum flea market .
The first thing to do is to conduct a general maintenance. If loco works erratically at DC, it will be worse at DCC. Then, we need to clean the energy collection system from the track, check that engine works fine, clean the gears, and replace the traction tyres.
read moreRailways Museum Flea Market
This weekend (3/12/17) there have been the model railways flea market that is organized each first Sunday of month.
As a good shopaholic, I’ve come back with hands full of things:
A warehouse building with loading bay from Kleiwe. A first class carriage RENFE serie 8000 An electric locomotive RENFE 269. An electric locomotive RENFE 276 (7600). These two pre-loved locomotives are not digital, then I also bought two decoders. There are different decoders from Uhlenbrock (I want to try it).
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Concrete stop buffers 3d printed
Today I shall put forward some details about the building of a concrete stop buffer with the 3d printer. These are the stop buffers as I remember at old Atocha Railway Station.
We start working at computer. As I’ve said before, I use SketchUp to draw 3D models. The stop buffers are a really simple design. I’ve designed them simple, but we can complicate it with an accurate form of buffers.
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