RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2022 Hmmm, if Brunel is going to be electrically powered, would not a pantograph on the roof be better than dragging miles of extension cord around? Just think of the voltage drop! 1 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 1 hour ago, J. S. Bach said: Hmmm, if Brunel is going to be electrically powered, would not a pantograph on the roof be better than dragging miles of extension cord around? Just think of the voltage drop! But there is a small-scale prototype: https://railpictures.net/photo/361108/ 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 5 hours ago, Florence Locomotive Works said: I got home from school this afternoon and decided to fire up ye olde Toyo and make some bushings for the crank bosses When you have a lathe and get the hang of it you'll find it hard to imagine how you ever got on without one 7 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 On 20/01/2022 at 21:18, Winslow Boy said: Don't you mean LD. It's terrifying seeing a bear high on concentrated Lemon Drizzle. It’s only a short (chemical) step between LD and LSD - which explains a lot. Just thought that you’d like to know… 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 19 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: My latest food related pastime is making biscuits.… Well done that pachyderm! Which reminds me, in my cabinet of culinary curios I have some biscuit stamps/cutters and I should get out the bourbon biscuit stamp. I promised Mrs iD some chocolate bourbon biscuits this weekend 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2022 (edited) Last night we had some awful decisions to make. For supper we had to choose between, A) the slices of cake bought at Gateaux that afternoon B) A slice of a lovely moist banana and ginger cake made by Beth C) A fruit scone made that morning, sliced and buttered. It's a hard life but in the end we chose C, as scones are best eaten the day they are made and the cake hasn't been iced yet. Jamie Edited January 22, 2022 by jamie92208 8 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2022 On 20/01/2022 at 20:18, Winslow Boy said: Don't you mean LD. It's terrifying seeing a bear high on concentrated Lemon Drizzle. That's nothing compared to the day I got hold of some Blue Smarties...... 1 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2022 On 20/01/2022 at 22:31, br2975 said: She was only the Admiral's daughter....................but her naval base was full of seamen ? So, while we are at it : She was only a ganger's daughter, but she knew how to examine your length. Or She was only a ganger's daughter, but she knew how to keep her P Way clear. 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 27 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: So, while we are at it : She was only a ganger's daughter, but she knew how to examine your length. Or She was only a ganger's daughter, but she knew how to keep her P Way clear. We may have touched on this before (*ahem*) but compare the last, with Malvolio's description of Olivia's distinctive handwriting in Twelfth Night... 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted January 22, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2022 3 hours ago, AndyID said: When you have a lathe and get the hang of it you'll find it hard to imagine how you ever got on without one I just love making swarf from previously useful lengths of metal. 2 2 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2022 I haven’t used a lathe for years, since leaving school. The next time I wanted to use one was when I was a science teacher at a school in Essex. The CDT department head said I couldn’t use one to make some model railway item without going on a County approved course. The next time was when I was working as an advisory IT teacher. I suspect quite a few of the CDT teachers would have let me go after school but I hadn’t really got time for trains then. However our Applied Computing CSE had a section on CAD and CAM. The Borough advisers for CDT objected strongly to our purchase of a small lathe and insisted that all such things should be in the resistant materials curriculum. However they could only ever produce the test item which was a chess pawn. The entry of codes seemed to be the sticking point. I know a couple of colleagues offered to help. The CDT teachers at the sixth form college where I finally worked had all sorts of traditional and computer controlled stuff and knew how to use it. 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canal Digger Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 6 hours ago, jamie92208 said: Last night we had some awful decisions to make. For supper we had to choose between, A) the slices of cake bought at Gateaux that afternoon B) A slice of a lovely moist banana and ginger cake made by Beth C) A fruit scone made that morning, sliced and buttered. It's a hard life but in the end we chose C, as scones are best eaten the day they are made and the cake hasn't been iced yet. Some days life life is so hard 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Canal Digger said: Some days life life is so hard Decision making has progressed. The very last two scones were eaten with coffee after wood chopping late morning. The slice of Gateaux cake was eaten for lunch. I am awaiting a friend to arrive then we plan to quality control the ginger and banana cake which has now had lemon icing drizzled over it. A fish pie and plum crumble are ready to eat with our friends this evening. Life is almost unbearable. Oh just as a bonus we had a very good hour chatting with Emily and her mums this morning. Jamie Edited January 22, 2022 by jamie92208 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2022 11 hours ago, pH said: But there is a small-scale prototype: https://railpictures.net/photo/361108/ From the photo description: "During operation, they occasionally ran over the cord." I would like to have seen that! 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 9 hours ago, polybear said: That's nothing compared to the day I got hold of some Blue Smarties...... Is this a euphemism for small blue tablets made by Pfizer?? 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted January 22, 2022 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2022 20 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said: Is this a euphemism for small blue tablets made by Pfizer?? Good Lord, I've had three injections from Pfizer. No wonder my arm was so bloody stiff afterwards! 2 1 1 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2022 21 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: Good Lord, I've had three injections from Pfizer. No wonder my arm was so bloody stiff afterwards! Only one of mine was from Pfizer. I am not supposed to indulge in their blue tablets due to a slight risk of nasty effects arising from cancer treatment a number of years ago. Darn - that's all the fun spoiled 1 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2022 (edited) 22 hours ago, J. S. Bach said: From the photo description: "During operation, they occasionally ran over the cord." I would like to have seen that! Anyone who has used a mains electric lawn mower knows what it is like. Edited January 23, 2022 by PhilJ W 2 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 15 hours ago, pH said: But there is a small-scale prototype: https://railpictures.net/photo/361108/ I used to think the Tri-ang dock shunter was highly improbable but now I'm not so sure. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 TNM is well represented in MRJ 288. Our Squadron Leader has penned an obituary of Bob Essery. Also our constabularic representative has written an article on Modelling Overhead Line Equipment for Lancaster Green Ayre in 7mm. Well worth an acquisition. Bill 7 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2022 11 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: I just love making swarf from previously useful lengths of metal. At Bear's previous Model Engineering Evening Class (held at a different College) there was one guy who the Instructor described as "The only guy I know who can turn a perfectly good piece of metal into a pile of f****** scrap" Personally I think that was being a tad generous.... 5 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2022 38 minutes ago, polybear said: there was one guy who the Instructor described as "The only guy I know who can turn a perfectly good piece of metal into a pile of f****** scrap" It is alleged that the same was true of [insert name of your most hated] loco works. 1 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2022 Good evening TNMers. I've been a bit absent recently due to a plethora of family and personal issues, the latter involving an unwelcome visit from the black dog, but I'm hoping that there is a spot of light at the end of the tunnel that isn't the six fifteen coming the other way. Anyway, today I had a good day out at the Museum of Making in Derby where they had a theme day titled Full Steam Ahead that was, as can well be imagined, all about railways in and around Derby and which was very well attended. I was there as part of the Midland Railway Study Centre team and thoroughly enjoyed myself, not least because of meeting and chatting with friends, two of which I hadn't seen for over ten years. Dave 9 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 22, 2022 1 hour ago, polybear said: "The only guy I know who can turn a perfectly good piece of metal into a pile of f****** scrap" I may have caused a woodwork teacher to mutter something similar. 2 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 22, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2022 My woodworking teacher said I made the best firewood. 1 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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