Zerogee said:
As always with pound type shops its luck of the draw as to what they have, but yes i have had many of the the tiny cable tie. dont pull them too tight as they will break as they are a cheaper plastic but for wiring looms in locos
Ballenburg Query what is this for?
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As always with pound type shops its luck of the draw as to what they have, but yes i have had many of the the tiny cable tie. dont pull them too tight as they will break as they are a cheaper plastic but for wiring looms in locos
Excellent, Steve - next time I'm in town I will have to find a baseball cap, spray myself with Chav Repellant and venture inside Poundland..... 
£50? I thought that they cost an arm and a leg!Zerogee said:
I have identified that the lights flash when I press 5 (steam chest On /Off and 6 (sound On/Off) and it is set to 14 speed steps.
In fact Philsaint has offered to check it with his Massoth sysetem (In reality I think he has evil intentions on my Ballenburg. Ooh- Err Missus!:-
EDIT Just a thought, I am using MTS3, I can't recall if it happened with the MTS 2. I will try it tomorrow.
KeithT said:
Nope, you don't need to sell limbs to afford one - definitely £50 (still same price as I paid for mine a couple of years ago), including USB cable, the only extra is £11 for a power supply if you haven't already got something suitable:
http://www.sprog-dcc.co.uk/shop.htm...ware for them is free to download. Jon.
Zerogee, take the point about cable ties, however I prefer my wire option as it is easier to take off if I need to get into the wiring again. I am one of those that thinks if it can go wrong it will in the future and cable ties are such a pain to unravel. I use old Telephone Bell Wire which has just the one strand in and keeps it's position quite well. I feel that this is about the only use for this kind of wire in spite of the fact that in the past I used to use it for all my layout wiring. I got wise later.
JonD
JonD
If the wire-wrap works for you, Jon, that's great - I take your point about easy removeability! To be honest, I've never bothered to try to "open" a cable tie - I just snip it off with a pair of fine cutters and then put a new one on when I've finished. I only mentioned them because I've just quite recently discovered the very tiny ones - before that I used to make do with wrapping wire bundles in insulating tape, which is even more of a pain when you want to get it off to fiddle with something! 
Jon (the other Jon).
Jon (the other Jon).