MrWolf Posted November 29, 2023 Share Posted November 29, 2023 24 minutes ago, chuffinghell said: I've made an awful lot then 🤣 Maybe, but you have a reputation for making a lot of quality models as well, so there's a good payoff. 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted November 29, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 29, 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, MrWolf said: Maybe, but you have a reputation for making a lot of quality models as well, so there's a good payoff. Are you planning on running a LCGB workshop van Special instead of guards vans...? Edited November 29, 2023 by John Besley 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted November 29, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 29, 2023 Control board MK2 and this time everything fits perfectly The main control unit and laptop are a snug fit as they should be and the hand held unit has enough clearance to take it out without causing any damage Plan is to pull the ‘shelf’ out, lifted up and tilted downward (hence the items being captive) 9 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold GWR57xx Posted November 29, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 29, 2023 On 16/11/2023 at 14:31, chuffinghell said: Is that what you were thinking? Might be an idea to add a strip along the front edge which the cassettes butt up to, to make alignment easier and to prevent them inadvertently sliding over the edge … 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 57xx Posted November 29, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 29, 2023 10 hours ago, GMKAT7 said: Good morning Chris, Having been a design engineer myself for many years I can relate to your frustration. Once of the best measurement/scaling errors I came across was a programming error by our, usually brilliant, fabricators. We had designed a set of instrumentation racks for the New Measurement Train (NMT) which were being laser cut. When the samples came back the production manager proudly displayed them on his office desk. The fabricators had produced them 5 times too small, so that instead of being full height (6 ft) they were perfect bookends! We soon had another set supplied, at no cost to us, and a good few laughs in the design team. As the design manager I was glad it wasn't our fubar. Cheers, Nigel. 10 hours ago, chuffinghell said: We've had similar when an item arrived 25.4 times smaller. After sending the CAD file the units were changed from imperial to metric by our supplier because 99.9% of our stuff is metric but they didn't realise this particular component was imperial We ended up with something 48mm sq instead of 4ft square 🤪 However in this case it was just a silly mistake but at least it was something for myself and not something for work (otherwise the shopfloor would have a field day) Additional Everyone makes mistakes, it's why they put erasers on the end of pencils You are in good company, at least you weren't trying to insert a $125m spacecraft in to Mars orbit. 1 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted November 29, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 29, 2023 30 minutes ago, 57xx said: You are in good company, at least you weren't trying to insert a $125m spacecraft in to Mars orbit. Don’t be daft!…… ….it was Saturn 🤪 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMKAT7 Posted November 29, 2023 Share Posted November 29, 2023 Good evening folks, Nobody trusts railway engineers with 125m of any currency 😂 Cheers, Nigel. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedGemAlchemist Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 On 29/11/2023 at 12:47, Graham T said: If I remember rightly the drummer changes fairly frequently anyway! Yes, usually via bizarre fatality. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted November 30, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 30, 2023 11 minutes ago, RedGemAlchemist said: Yes, usually via bizarre fatality. The wikipedia article on the band has two sections for former drummers - real and fictional! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfaZagato Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 The real drummers became fictional after large shows. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted November 30, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 30, 2023 23 hours ago, 57xx said: You are in good company, at least you weren't trying to insert a $125m spacecraft in to Mars orbit. 23 hours ago, chuffinghell said: Don’t be daft!…… ….it was Saturn 🤪 Could have been worse....could have been Uranus. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 57xx Posted November 30, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 30, 2023 5 minutes ago, NHY 581 said: Could have been worse....could have been Uranus. Well it was a climate probe... 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted December 3, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2023 I think I might ask Santa for more clamps this year….. …..because I’ve been a very good boy this year…..mostly 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 I could do with a few more small clamps. Most of mine are for metal and woodworking and entirely useless for modelling. I've been better behaved than in previous years! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold lezz01 Posted December 3, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 3, 2023 There is a multi box of clamps in the middle isle of Lidl going for not very much dosh. Regards Lez. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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