Dolly Trolley

Suggest or recommend suitable tools for use in constructing your model railway.
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I spotted this in Aldi yesterday for only £8.99. I am doing a lot of rewiring under my layout and thought this would be useful. Let me tell you it is fantastic! I wish I had got one years ago. I have put a cushion on it and it can be used as a seat or a mobile kneeling pad.
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Very useful, but it will not stop hot solder dripping down, ouch!

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Looks good. Can see kids buying them to sit on and go down the nearest tarmacked quiet street as I used to do when making my own carts and other wheeled inventions in the past.
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I bought the Lidl one which converts from a padded flat crawler to a stool. In hindsight I should have paid more and got the MachineMart one that also converts to a reclining lounger, better suited to working under my layout height.
The Lidl one could likely be modified to make it a recliner but it may not be worth the effort for the limited amount of under layout work left to do.
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Tricky Dicky wrote: Sun Nov 16, 2025 10:06 am Very useful, but it will not stop hot solder dripping down, ouch!
Very true, that is why I now use these:

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Mountain Goat wrote: Sun Nov 16, 2025 1:34 pm Looks good. Can see kids buying them to sit on and go down the nearest tarmacked quiet street as I used to do when making my own carts and other wheeled inventions in the past.
Ours were an old metal wheeled strap on roller skate and a Beano or Dandy annual as the seat. The big carts were called bogies and used a plank of wood fore-aft with cross planks mounting old pram wheels, big at the back, small at the front.
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