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Klarna monthly payments are available on orders over £35. Last week we had our highest number of orders ever using Klarna as the payment method. We wouldn't want anyone to use it to over stretch themselves financially, but its great for spreading the cost of items which you were going to buy anyway. A payment is taken now, in 30 days and in 60 days, and it's completely free to use. You won't be charged any interest or additional fees. We receive all the money straight away meaning you receive your items at the normal speed. To use Klarna go...

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This model was sent to me by a customer who had take it to a local model shop to be fitted with a stay alive. It didn't work unfortunately so he sent it to me to investigate. I found that the shop had used a stay alive with a capacity that was too low to give any noticeable effect, they had also routed the wires in a way that the body didn't fit back on properly. I fitted a stronger stay alive and a new speaker as well as tidying up the wiring and fixing a broken buffer. Find the stay...

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This was sent as part of a GWR collection for sound fitting this week. its quite a tight fit because of the low tender, so I had to utilise the space below the weight to fit the speaker. I used a 27mm round bass enhanced, which i had to file the edge of slightly to follow the profile of the coal bunker. A Loksound micro was used because of the lack of space. Find the decoder and speaker here 28XX

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I have been using RMweb as a blog for the last 4 years but as of yesterday I won't be using RMweb as a business any more as they wanted quite a large amount of money to allow me to continue posting on there. I was already starting to go off the RMweb community, with bigger companies being able to bully the small ones, and certain people spamming the DCC sound pages with multiple posts about the same thing repeatedly. So it seemed like the right thing to step away from it. I already have a well established Facebook and...

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