Florence Locomotive Works Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 9 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: Arrestor hooks and cables! Talking of cables, can anyone here remember the 7mm scale railway that had the working wagon turntable and incorporated capstan shunting? Bullo Pill wasn’t it? That’s the only one I’ve seen or heard reference to, a very obscure railway somewhere around Gloucestershire, serving a dock that used to hold the SS Freshspring. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 4 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: Can I hold out until Christmas? It's only a morsel! I presume this is now a record of a historical artefact. That is the same dinner service as we have, given as a wedding present many (many) years ago. I can’t remember ever seeing it in use anywhere else before, in the UK or after we moved here. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted December 18, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 18, 2020 2 minutes ago, pH said: I presume this is now a record of a historical artefact. That is the same dinner service as we have, given as a wedding present many (many) years ago. I can’t remember ever seeing it in use anywhere else before, in the UK or after we moved here. No the cake is still extant. The dinner service is our best one: It's one of Wedgewood's range called Quince. (Only obtainable on the second hand market now.) We collected it prior to getting married and use it on high days and holidays. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 5 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: We collected it prior to getting married and use it on high days and holidays. We use ours in the same way. It’s very appropriate for Thanksgiving here. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danemouth Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 15 minutes ago, pH said: That is the same dinner service as we have, given as a wedding present many (many) years ago. I can’t remember ever seeing it in use anywhere else before, in the UK or after we moved here. And we had the same dinner service - "Wedgewood Quince" as a wedding present almost 40 years ago. Dave p.s. Happy Hippo ours was bought in Howells of Cardiff 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted December 18, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 18, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Oldddudders said: I couldn't say I really knew him at all, but he was a senior manager in the BR freight business. Yup, that's him. http://www.modelrailwayjournal.com/index.php?s=Chris Pendlenton&t=authors Edited December 18, 2020 by New Haven Neil 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted December 18, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 18, 2020 (edited) 11 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: Arrestor hooks and cables! Talking of cables, can anyone here remember the 7mm scale railway that had the working wagon turntable and incorporated capstan shunting? Burntisland? No, on second thought that might have been an OO layout, I think. Edited December 18, 2020 by J. S. Bach To make a change/addition. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted December 18, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 18, 2020 8 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said: Burntisland? No, on second thought that might have been an OO layout, I think. Think again and ask yourself: why is it set in 1883? 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 And I've cancelled Christmas. Just too many risks. Which means I won't have my Christmas cake until later, just don't know how much later. My Christmas meal will be a veggie burger with a fried egg on top. And sprouts of course! Bill 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted December 18, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 18, 2020 29 minutes ago, bbishop said: And I've cancelled Christmas. Just too many risks. Which means I won't have my Christmas cake until later, just don't know how much later. My Christmas meal will be a veggie burger with a fried egg on top. And sprouts of course! Bill Cancelling chrimbo is fine, but cancelling cake is a step to far.... The burger sounds pretty good 6 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Bought "just in case" from the half price cabinet in Sainsbury's. Bill 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted December 18, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 18, 2020 12 hours ago, Compound2632 said: As far as I'm aware, cassettes using ½" x ½" aluminium angle were introduced to the world - or maybe just to me? - by Chris Pendleton in MRJ, with his North Shields layout. His cassettes used the aluminium angle as the running rail and as a wall to protect the stock. Assuming the angle is ¹⁄₁₆" thick, the clearances between the inside faces are: P4 - 10'3" EM - 10'1" 00 - 9'8" S7 - 7'10" 0 - 7'8" That's getting a bit tight in 00. What do you do in 7 mm scale? Use the angle outside up? My mistake, both layouts were S7 and it wasn't half inch angle but more like three quarter inch. Dave 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted December 18, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 18, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, bbishop said: And sprouts of course! We bought some sprouts and froze them for Christmas but we have already eaten them “as they looked so nice”. The replacements never got frozen. A whole load of parsnips got turned into soup (curried parsnip if anyone is interested ). Our next food order is scheduled for 24 December. It is supposed to include turkey (not frozen) but there is an emergency chicken in the freezer just in case. It is a very small chicken. Free range, organic chickens raised by the Duke of Cornwall are not that big. Or we could just have eggs and chips which was my first choice for lunch on Dec 25rh. Tony Edited December 18, 2020 by Tony_S 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted December 18, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 18, 2020 My Christmas dinner is going to be a venison steak. Never have been a great lover of turkey and the last couple of Crimbo dinners has been wild caught salmon. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted December 19, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 19, 2020 12 hours ago, Danemouth said: And we had the same dinner service - "Wedgewood Quince" as a wedding present almost 40 years ago. Dave p.s. Happy Hippo ours was bought in Howells of Cardiff I think quite a lot of ours came from there as well. Howells was only a hundred yards or so from the model shop (long gone) that was at the bottom of the Hayes, so ordering china was not too much of an ordeal. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted December 19, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 19, 2020 (edited) Another aspect of the Torri Gwynt saga is transportation. I am mindful that should i want to take it to a railway show in the future, it needs to fit into the back of the car. At present I can get a complete air rifle range into the back of my X3, but I can't get the entirety of Splott West Sidings in. It's not so much the baseboards that are the problem, but all the other paraphernalia that makes up the supporting structure. It's a good system: Four adjustable trestles with custom made wooden top caps are placed out, then a pair of supporting beams are made up from six timber beams. These slot into the top caps and the boards are placed on top of the complete assembly. drop in locking bars prevent the boards sliding around/off. It's bulky but very quick to assemble as it's first out of the van and is usually up and ready for the boards to be placed on top by the time the van has been unloaded. But you'll notice the fact that it's bulky and also requires a van. I think TG will require some careful design in the packing and storage department. It's a given that the four boards will bolt together in two pairs for storage. due to the height of the scenery, it will probably be one fiddle board to one scenic board as this will reduce the thickness of the bolted together package. The whole ensemble will probably end up on a variation of the South Greenfield integral leg system. four legs on the master board and then piggy backing with a pair of legs on the outer end of each of the other boards. However, with a baseboard length of only four feet, the legs may require to be hinged in the middle to enable a suitable operation height to be achieved. this will impact on the thickness of the sides of the baseboards as I hate having 'bits' hanging down below the protection offered by the baseboard side frame. As with all these plans, it's a case of try it and see, but be prepared to have a couple of alternative fallbacks. Taking measurements and having dimensioned scribblings often helps. Edited December 19, 2020 by Happy Hippo 2 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted December 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 19, 2020 28 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: I am mindful that should i want to take it to a railway show in the future, it needs to fit into the back of the car. The modules I took over from AndrewC fitted perfectly into a Freelander. When I took them home from the club premises I had quite a job fitting them into my Freelander. The interior of my Freelander 2 was about an inch narrower.than the first model. It made a considerable difference. Later on when we replaced the Freelander with an Evoque we had the same problem with suitcases being just a bit too big. 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted December 19, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 19, 2020 26 minutes ago, Tony_S said: The modules I took over from AndrewC fitted perfectly into a Freelander. When I took them home from the club premises I had quite a job fitting them into my Freelander. The interior of my Freelander 2 was about an inch narrower.than the first model. It made a considerable difference. Later on when we replaced the Freelander with an Evoque we had the same problem with suitcases being just a bit too big. Perhaps I just need to buy a van. A VW Transporter with a dsg gearbox would be nice 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted December 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 19, 2020 12 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: Perhaps I just need to buy a van. A VW Transporter with a dsg gearbox would be nice VW vans seem popular with my neighbours. Though this year I have noticed a few other make vans appear. My neighbour said this year he has just had to get what is available. The blue Transit with racing stripes he often brings home is quite pretty. Aditi was interested in vans earlier this year but of the motorhome variety. I think I managed to divert her from thoughts of acquiring one. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted December 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 19, 2020 17 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: Perhaps I just need to buy a van. A VW Transporter with a dsg gearbox would be nice Apparently Volvo estates have fallen out of favour with funeral directors for the same reason. Slightly too short for a standard coffin. My V70 will take any of the baseboard crates for LGA. Most of them with with just the seats folded up. The trapezoid main line end boards need the seat squabs taking out. The layout as a whole needed something a little larger. Here after the first pick up from Peter's farm where South Greenfield was built and tested. Then with everything else after the last pick up at the clubrooms. Jamie 10 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danemouth Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 3 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: I think quite a lot of ours came from there as well. Howells was only a hundred yards or so from the model shop (long gone) that was at the bottom of the Hayes, so ordering china was not too much of an ordeal. Ah! "The Model Shop" in Mill Lane, and of course Bud Morgan in the Castle Arcade. Dave 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted December 19, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 19, 2020 58 minutes ago, Tony_S said: VW vans seem popular with my neighbours. Though this year I have noticed a few other make vans appear. My neighbour said this year he has just had to get what is available. The blue Transit with racing stripes he often brings home is quite pretty. Aditi was interested in vans earlier this year but of the motorhome variety. I think I managed to divert her from thoughts of acquiring one. A Transit with a mattress in the back and a bucket in the corner. Motor home on the cheap! 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted December 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 19, 2020 A people carrier can carry a lot of layout and operators. About 20-25 years ago I had a Nissan Prairie and it was remarkable how much could be packed in considering that the external dimensions were the same as a Ford Orion except for the height. A fellow club member had an Escort estate that his layout would just fit. One day someone rear ended him (the layout was not in the car). When he got the car back after the repair he found the layout was difficult to load into the car. There was it turned out an existing dent that had been removed and that had enabled the layout to fit. 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted December 19, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 19, 2020 4 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: A people carrier can carry a lot of layout and operators. About 20-25 years ago I had a Nissan Prairie and it was remarkable how much could be packed in considering that the external dimensions were the same as a Ford Orion except for the height. A fellow club member had an Escort estate that his layout would just fit. One day someone rear ended him (the layout was not in the car). When he got the car back after the repair he found the layout was difficult to load into the car. There was it turned out an existing dent that had been removed and that had enabled the layout to fit. It doesn't matter what you have, it's always a case of wanting a few more inches. 3 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 15 hours ago, bbishop said: And I've cancelled Christmas. Just too many risks. Which means I won't have my Christmas cake until later, just don't know how much later. My Christmas meal will be a veggie burger with a fried egg on top. And sprouts of course! Bill Sounds like some obscure medieval flagellant rite.... I’m quite enjoying all this, in an odd sort of way. We have been spared the frantic round of present shopping and distribution which my good wife regarded as essential. We have definitely had more contact with people we don’t see often, but would like to. I went carol singing on the Green last week, and enjoyed it. I’ve got tickets for the Cathedral carol concert on Xmas Eve, and the feud between No 1 Son and my daughter appears to abating, and about time too. Interesting things appear on the doorstep daily. I will probably have to buy aftershave in the New Year, for the first time in living memory, but it’s a small price to pay. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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