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| Posted: 12:27am 19 Nov 2021 |
Its like a lot of other things people do, cars, old engines and machinery, make something you can't buy, or others don't have.
I didn't know they had run it on veg oil, Just looked it up there are some of those Baldwin locos in NSW, there were quite a few oil burning locos about, I don't see a reason why they couldn't convert a few others to use it, shouldn't have problems with sparks setting fire to the grass.
They might not have the bellowing black smoke they used to do for the public with the cameras.
For these small model trains, RC cars RC excavators and RC Tanks, they can have smoke units in, the smoke fluid is horribly expensive for just a small amount, found an Australian supplier for this stuff RC smoke oil Can see a few other uses for this stuff.
The sound cards are still expensive several hundred dollars or more and mostly for DCC system's that I don't want to venture into, its partly the reason that got me going in to this, most of us just wanted something simple that just worked with the little pwm controller, So went with the "My Loco Sound" cards, they do the job nicely for just under $100 and easy to use.
Actually I just looked up his Loco Sound Card today and he now has a sound box to fit in a wagon behind a loco, I showed him the one I built about a month ago, never saw it on his website before.
Now I want to build my own sound card, and record my own sounds to use for a few other projects as well.
Edited 2021-11-19 10:44 by Revlac