Peter Iles

Thanks Dave.

Thanks Gareth.

Hi, I have a new (to me) vane 36 and it has some of the fittings for a spinnaker, but no actual spinnakers/spinnaker boom. Where do I start in making up a boom and getting hold of a spinnaker or two? There doesn't seem to be any restriction on boom length of sail size, so I could just slap on my vintage marblehead stuff, but its probably rather big for the boat! Thanks in advance Peter

Hi Darin, I have updated my status to note my R6M ownership. Can I be sent a voting form please? Peter

I'm afraid that I must agree with Shaun and Olly above, this isn't a step I would welcome. My boat (like many others) has a groovy carbon mast hand-made from two sections of tube. Even if I was able to obtain more groovy carbon tubes of the same sizes and modulus (how do I check the modulus of both sections of my existing built-up mast?) as the existing mast, it is unlikely that I would be able to match the exact overlap of the tubes used by the original builder, or to use exactly the same amount of resin, tow, etc in exactly the same places in making the join. This would make the mast behave differently than the original, even if it looked and weighed the same. The same applies to the boom, and how do I identify, let alone obtain, an identical goosneck? The only fair solution would be to buy two new masts, booms, etc. If I can't get identical groovy tube, I would also need to re-tailor or replace all my sails. I've never had to ask twice for someone to help me change a sail at a meeting in any class (and if I've tried it alone and was struggling, people have come up and offered to help), so this is an expensive and unnecessary solution without a problem.

Sorry, "at the same time" not asylum ...

Hi Mike, John is quite right. You don't have to do anything to clear the old bind, just bind the receiver to a new transmitter and it wipes the old bind asylum do it. Peter

This is the sort of thing. The blue one is a Triang "Big Big Train", battery powered, about 18ins long. The others are tinplate clockwork - he's got a good few of these too, but no control is possible!

Thanks guys, at least I know it's possible. The locos in question are O-gauge (8mm scale) not anything bigger or more expensive. The steam ones are simple things like Mamod or Bowman (didn't the latter also do yachrs and steam ships?) that generally have simple on/off regulators, not proper controls. He used to run them in the garden, where crashes with the lot going over creating a pyre of meths seemed to make him laugh a lot!

This is about my dad nagging me to find a reasonably cost-effective method of controlling multiple steam or battery-powered locos on his outdoor railway layout, rather than using a separate tx/rx per loco. It occured to me that each of the 4 main channels on a normal transmitter are operated from individual pots in the tx, and as you only need 1 channel per loco you could run 4 locos on 1 tx, either from the sticks,or with a bit of dismantling, direct from the pots. There were some commercial products to do this, but they were expensive or ceased production during lockdown.

Does anyone know if it is possible to bind multiple receivers onto a 2.4 GHz Tx so that the work at the same time, so e.g. you could have 1 receiver operating on channels 1 and 2 and another, separate receiver operating on channels 3 and 4, so you could operate 2 models at the same time?