Scotland Area ScOONs meeting Saturday 27 August

[Ian McAulay]

Hello ScOONers!

Our next meeting is one of our occasional Saturday ones. It's at 3pm UK time (1400 GMT) on Saturday 27 August. The Zoom details are below.

See you there

Ian

Ian McAulay is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: 009 Society ScOONs online meeting
Time: Aug 27, 2022 15:00 London

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87161304675?pwd=TVhmQzBFeTZoVnI4UGtKRW9GK1VaZz09

Meeting ID: 871 6130 4675
Passcode: scoons27

[Graeme Dunbar]

Our meeting was a cosy bijou affair as might be expected given the time of the year with people making what they could of the remnants of summer; just six in attendance. There were several notes of apology and my apologies for not acknowledging your emails individually - and for the late arrival of these notes.

News:

We have learned that unfortunately the Aberdeen Model Railway Exhibition at the end of October has been cancelled. The hotel is currently housing Ukrainian refugees and the club have been unable to find alternative accommodation.

Ron Martin reported that he has not heard yet from the Renfrewshire club about a possible ScOONs/009 Society stand at their show in December (3rd & 4th):
https://www.renfrewshiremrc.co.uk/paisleyshow.html

Someone (sorry, I forgot to note who) asked about the Falkirk Model Railway Exhibition in November (19th & 20th):
https://falkirkmrc.com/falkirk-model-railway-exhibition-2020/#:~:text=Our%20own%20exhibition%20will%20be,of%20Exhibitors%20are%20shown%20below.

It seems that there will be two 009 layouts present: the Waller's Dduallt and Castle Caerinion by Martin Harrison.

Meeting summary:

Hugh N gave an update on his Angst Lesspork animated Discworld with a smoother running motor and ideas to make the teeth 'chomp'.

Paul, joining us at breakfast time in the USA showed his very nice Bachmann Plymouth switcher conversion on his Baskerville layout.

Ron has been working on his dual gauge OO/009 layout that will incorporate some of the scenic details from the brickworks layout he showed at Model Rail in February.

Tom has developed his 3D printed 009 grain hopper wagons, having scaled them down a bit more to match his locomotives.

Ian has been testing and reviewing couplers for his layout. He is keen to use knuckle type couplers and compared the Dapol and Microtrains (Kaydee offshoot) ones. His conclusion was the Microtrains were superior and more reliable. He was also experimenting with 'stacking' digital photos to increase depth of field and the results were very effective.

We discussed streamlining the publishing of meeting dates and arrangements to reduce the frequency of posts and  Ian has posted the next all the details for the next couple of months in this section of the forum and I have emailed them out to members on the distribution list. Our next meeting is on Wednesday the 7th.