RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted November 12, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 12, 2023 2 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: I continued to overhaul various wagons. this included the refitting of 3 link/instanter and screw couplings to various locos and wagons that had previously been fitted with Dinghams. The creation of the magnetic shunting poles have made these very 'so yesterday'. A pal of mine a few years ago found a box full of 3 link and screw couplings already assembled and blackened going for peanuts at a swapmeet and immediately snapped them up, using them on quite a few locomotives and other stock. It wasn't until he recently acquired a magnetic shunting pole with high hopes for it making life easier that he discovered that many of them are made of brass. 🤥 Dave 3 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted November 12, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 12, 2023 7 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said: Make a new underframe? Dave I was hoping to start from a kit I have rather than from scratch to save a lot of faffing about. I don't trust myself to get a scratch build square A new V hanger at least is accepted as required. Maybe a 10 ft wheelbase version will be a better option or just cut 1mm out either side of the V hanger and hope no-one notices the wheelbase is actually 8' 6". Andy 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 (edited) 13 hours ago, iL Dottore said: On a serious note, I think that because Switzerland abutted both German controlled France and Vichy controlled France. The POWs - having arrived from Nazi occupied Europe - transited through Vichy controlled France and thence to Spain and Gibraltar and then back to the UK. I know little about the various escape routes through Vichy France, but a clandestine boat trip from a southern French port to the closest Spanish port might have been one way. Pickup by Lysander in rural Vichy France might have been another. Courtesy of people like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Caskie He was a friend of my mum and dad and I met him at The Scots Kirk Paris in the early 60's. Edited November 13, 2023 by AndyID gramer 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted November 12, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 12, 2023 Night Owl from the Piedmont. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted November 13, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 13, 2023 On 11/11/2023 at 20:23, Flying Fox 34F said: Fifty Sheds of Grey!!!!!! Paul I have the book.... With lines such as "Take me to your shed and hurt me" So I bent her over the workbench and said "your ankles are fat".................. 1 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 Reading accounts of struggles with 3 link and screw-link couplings (wot! No instanters?) and all the associated stress, I have but one question: Why? If Hornby or Triang tension-lock couplings were good enough for our Dads, they should be good enough for us? And if you insist on having prototypical distances between rolling stock - go modern image - and a handful of kadee #17 will give you a reasonable Scharfenberg Coupling experience! Sheesh, talk about first world problems.... 2 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted November 13, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 13, 2023 4 minutes ago, iL Dottore said: Reading accounts of struggles with 3 link and screw-link couplings (wot! No instanters?) and all the associated stress, I have but one question: Why? If Hornby or Triang tension-lock couplings were good enough for our Dads, they should be good enough for us? And if you insist on having prototypical distances between rolling stock - go modern image - and a handful of kadee #17 will give you a reasonable Scharfenberg Coupling experience! Sheesh, talk about first world problems.... I'm going for magnetic couplings. With ageing eyesight and arthritic fingers even tension locks are difficult now. 4 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium SM42 Posted November 13, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 13, 2023 1 hour ago, iL Dottore said: Reading accounts of struggles with 3 link and screw-link couplings (wot! No instanters?) and all the associated stress, I have but one question: Why? If Hornby or Triang tension-lock couplings were good enough for our Dads, they should be good enough for us? And if you insist on having prototypical distances between rolling stock - go modern image - and a handful of kadee #17 will give you a reasonable Scharfenberg Coupling experience! Sheesh, talk about first world problems.... I don't like the tension lock in general as there is no standardisation All over the place. Happy to stick to another coupling where any shunting is required, and indeed use the Bachmann style tension lock ( still a bit of a mess but better than some) to attach a loco, to the train but kadees leave me unimpressed, especially the delayed action feature It's not about the distance between stock, for that I'd use something better, not an over scale version. I just think they look better on wagons and can be used as a coupling as a bonus. For coaching stock I'm not going to be using 3 links. That way madness lies. As for what was good enough for dad, leaded petrol and coal fired heating were too but I ain't using them. Andy 5 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted November 13, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 13, 2023 On 11/11/2023 at 20:40, SM42 said: How about some musicals Seven sheds for seven brothers The phantom of the shed Joseph and his amazing technicolour shed Shedcago Shed pacific The shed of Mormon Paint your shed Annie get your shed Andy You forgot what was/is the best of all the musicals/Broadway plays: My Fair Shed 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted November 13, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 13, 2023 1 hour ago, J. S. Bach said: You forgot what was/is the best of all the musicals/Broadway plays: My Fair Shed I prefer "The Sound of Shed".... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted November 13, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 13, 2023 I notice there's also, And 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted November 13, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 13, 2023 I still prefer Its much more practical! 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted November 13, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 13, 2023 42 minutes ago, Hroth said: I still prefer Its much more practical! That looks a bit like New Bryford. I think it must be the hat. 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted November 13, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 13, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, Happy Hippo said: That looks a bit like New Bryford. I think it must be the hat. If you want to get ahead, get a hat! It was a popular advertising slogan from the late 30s... Edited November 13, 2023 by Hroth 5 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted November 13, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 13, 2023 38 minutes ago, Hroth said: If you want to get ahead, get a hat! And in my former profession the saying was, if you can't fight wear a big hat. Jamie 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 3 hours ago, J. S. Bach said: You forgot what was/is the best of all the musicals/Broadway plays: My Fair Shed Fiddler On The Shed? 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Dave Hunt Posted November 13, 2023 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 13, 2023 I recently received a letter from the travel insurers changing the list of medical conditions that were deemed not to require screening before the policy was issued and a requirement to advise them of any visits to a hospital, either as an inpatient or out patient, since the last renewal. I rang to say that Jill had seen a heart consultant as a follow up to her fainting last February in order to rule out any heart issues and was cleared. This resulted in them wanting to raise the premium by £116 simply because she had a consultation, even though I told them repeatedly that there was no abnormality detected. The term thieving barstewards came to mind and I told them I'd think about it. Half an hour later I had the pleasure of ringing them back to tell them to stick their policy where it may act as a suppository as I had found someone who had a more realistic outlook on the matter. Tw*ts Dave 4 11 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 Mustn't forget the Enid Blyton classic: Shed of Adventure 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyID Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 2 hours ago, Hroth said: If you want to get ahead, get a hat! Wrong way round Old Bean. It's: "If you want to get a hat, get a head." 2 1 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted November 13, 2023 Share Posted November 13, 2023 Nor should we forget W.E John's thrilling adventure of Biggles In The Shed! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Dave Hunt Posted November 13, 2023 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted November 13, 2023 In contrast to my previous post, I received two messages of appreciation today; one was from a model railway club thanking me for a talk I gave earlier this month and the other from our priest thanking me for reading the opening prayer and names of the fallen of the Parish at the Remembrance Sunday service. Eight of the fallen were Polish and it took me a fair amount of research and practice to get the pronunciation correct. Dave 11 10 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted November 13, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 13, 2023 8 minutes ago, iL Dottore said: Nor should we forget W.E John's thrilling adventure of Biggles In The Shed! I think I feature in that. Dave 1 3 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted November 13, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 13, 2023 Just how did you land that F-4 in the shed? 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted November 13, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 13, 2023 36 minutes ago, iL Dottore said: Nor should we forget W.E John's thrilling adventure of Biggles In The Shed! Was that the prequel to Biggles Flies Undone? 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted November 13, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 13, 2023 3 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said: Just how did you land that F-4 in the shed? I'm going for vertically. Dave had exited it with a great sense of urgency, very shortly beforehand. 1 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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