RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted February 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21, 2019 1 hour ago, BlackRat said: Man flu here Did he land in the garden? Seriously, I hope you and all the others suffering this cold and subsequent viral infection recover quickly. We all had it over Christmas, so you can imagine what five sickly adults were like, especially as they were trying to cater for two sickly (grand) children. Please don't make me play with the Duplo trains again: You know how the children keeping changing the track plans. Much external clearing has been executed around the perimeter of the hippodrome. Muddy Hollow (Forward) provided welcome wading and now the twigs and branches have been evicted from the bottom of the hollow, much wallowing is now on the cards as the puncture risk has diminished. After considerable thought, the spirit of Beeching is to visit the South Horton Irrigation Tramway. However, like the L&B, it will sleep, until awoken in a new format. 12 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted February 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21, 2019 A Juno it trying very hard to dislodge the few remaining leaves of our oak trees. One is so grateful it isn't a Chinook. 9 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post New Haven Neil Posted February 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted February 21, 2019 Having just scraped the thick off in the shower, a visit to the bathroom scales has revealed an upside to the week of lurgy - better than half a stone lighter. Which probably just means I am badly dehydrated. Can't face coffee currently as my taste buds are deranged, so it's boring water. To be fair though I haven't eaten much this week. 1 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon G Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Wishing all ERs suffering with various lurgies a swift recovery. I thought we were here due to start getting the warmer weather today, but it hasn’t materialised. Today has been breezy, cool and a little damp. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. I have done a detailed car inspection in advance of its MOT tomorrow, so am hoping that it passes OK. Then part of the afternoon has been spent working out wiring diagrams for the first of my two layout control panels. This panel is the one that will allow switching between DC and DCC, and also control of a shunting yard by either its dedicated controller, or by either of the two main circuits. The diagram is now down on paper, and will hopefully convert easily to the actual panel. 10 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted February 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 21, 2019 40 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: A Juno it trying very hard to dislodge the few remaining leaves of our oak trees. One is so grateful it isn't a Chinook. Once in the Falklands a Wokka (RAF speak for Chinook) pilot thought it would be a really amusing idea to hover over the building in which our crewroom and offices were situated. It was............. until the roof started lifting off that is. Fortunately we managed to call air traffic and get them to move him before it became a real disaster. Boy, did he owe us some beers! Dave 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted February 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21, 2019 (edited) 46 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said: A Juno it trying very hard to dislodge the few remaining leaves of our oak trees. One is so grateful it isn't a Chinook. During the what I suppose was Gulf War 2, two or three Chinooks used to fly near our house each week before heading south across the Thames. On one occasion they were lower and nearer the house. I was talking to a neighbour, looking at the helicopters and lots of stuff fell off the shelves in his garage. Edited February 21, 2019 by Tony_S 1 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Abel Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 BIN day, BINs already serviced! So, "RECORD SMASHED" according to the local rag. Indeed, yesterday we got around 9" of snow (mileage varies between 8-11" depending on locale) and we beat the 1962 standing record for February snowfall by 5+ inches! Those complaining about no snow in January better blqqdy well get out there and enjoy it now In other news, Long Island client ramping up changes/additions to "everything" as the auditors plow their way through the mess books. Nowt much else to report, choir practice tonight will get me out of the house but not much else will! -11 and cloudy as I struggled to find the paper in the snow banks expecting to reach -4 for the high. Carry on... 8 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 21, 2019 Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Picked up my Euro-lottery winnings today, £4:40, so I'm going to spend spend spend. Didn't notice any bin wagons dawn chorus this morning but the bags have gone so they must have been in stealth mode. Dinner to get ready so I'll be back later. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Beautiful day here. A nice shirt sleeved walk on the beach in the sun. Repairs are happening on the sea wall and on the cliffs above with 3 orange clad workers dangling on bits of string whilst fixing netting to the cliff. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium AndyB Posted February 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 21, 2019 Evening all, Attended a former colleague's funeral today - a mix of sadness and a celebration of someone's life well led. Among many other achievements, her contribution to military aviation medicine ("Ut secure volent" ) was celebrated and remembered by remaining colleagues; albeit we're a dwindling number now. And our labs, long gone, are now under a housing estate. 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post jamie92208 Posted February 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted February 21, 2019 Contrary to scurrilous rumours posted above the joints that I made were not rolled or roaches. They were mortice and tenon joints in 3" square timber and here is the evidence to prove it. I had a good afternoon in the shed hitting a chisel with a mallet and using a saw. The end result was five more tenons and 2 of 4 mortices needed to complete the third leg unit. Here's the two units I made earlier. The bench will be on that wall and here is the third one being made Two cross members done, leg no 1 well on the way and leg 2 waiting to be marked out. Before I finished Leg 1 was complete and leg 2 had it's top tenon cut and the marking out done for the mortices. I'm enjoying a bit of carpentry. Once the legs are done then they need a bottom shelf to tie them together then the top frame of 6 x 3 will go on, 12 more mortices and 6 more tenons to do. I'm now planning the layout. My plan, cunning that it is, is to put my drill press in the centre with a woodworking vice to the right and my metalworking vice on the left. I did find a second wood workers vice today so may fit both. Jamie 7 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 81C Posted February 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21, 2019 What are you building Jamie a pocket battleship. 1 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 21, 2019 Evening all (again) from Estuary-Land. Planning our trip to the Tenterden show this Saturday. Of course I've checked that the K&ESR is running, it is but buying tickets for what will be half a day is not viable but theres plenty of events later in the year that should do. You can use your tickets twice, that is for two different dates if you book on-line but its a bit late now for this weekend. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted February 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21, 2019 PhilJW has mentioned the occasional slug ingress but the local news has reported a snake in the loo incident in Basildon. 9 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbishop Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Evening all, Well I now have another BR 50 sitting in front of me - I think I had better stop at three! Also a Prussian van with an almost flat roof, which together with the Abteilwagen will break up the profile of the Thunderboxes in the local train. Funny how the Germans like order and symmetry, whilst the British are the converse. Also a lot of flexitrack, so I spent the afternoon in the garage painting it "weathered wood". Keep well all, Bill 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Premium BSW01 Posted February 22, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 22, 2019 Good evening everyone It’s been a beautiful sunny day here in the northwest, it’s been so warm that I’ve had the workshop door open most of the day. More progress has been made on the L class loco, mainly working on the loco’s two bogies. However, I’ve now come to the conclusion that I need to do a bit of work on my test track, it was made a few years ago utilising some old second hand Hornby track and points and. Think the points are well past there sell by date, as the bogies keep derailing on the frogs. I have some new Peco stuff in storage and I tested a couple of new points the other day and everything seemed to run fine. So, I’m going to rip up all the old track and replace it all with some new track over the weekend. Hopefully then, I’ll be able to get the engine to stay on the track a bit better. Other than that I’m very pleased with the progress so far, but it does seem to take me a lot longer to build a kit than I first thought. Goodnight all 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 22, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 22, 2019 Goodnight all. 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted February 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 22, 2019 Hmm - undershelf light unit in the kitchen duly replaced this evening after the tube in the old fitting went phut. So why replace the fitting you may logically ask and not just the tube? Because we had only a spare new LED unit and that meant a new fitting which meant removing the clips for the old fitting, putting in the clips for the new fitting, finding the new fitting was shorter than the old one so one clip was now in the wrong place, getting a screw for another clip into the rather tough underside of the unit (that Dremel is a really useful bit of kit), and finally clipping in the new fitting. It worked! And many thanks to the Good Doctor for her assistance but does anyone know of a suitable training video for a ratchet screwdriver because my explanations and demonstrations seem not to have entirely registered. Now who'd have thought it Ian (Roundhouse) - a Bristle boy but obviously from a posh part because you can pronounce 'area' without leading people to think of part of a receiving apparatus for radio or tv signals 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted February 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 22, 2019 G'night all 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted February 22, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 22, 2019 Very late visit..apologies been off grid as part of the walkabout. Our c ough and b ark continues despite various potions being taken. Hope Chris is enjoying the Antipodes. Thoughts are with all who ail Baz 3 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted February 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 22, 2019 2 hours ago, The Stationmaster said: Now who'd have thought it Ian (Roundhouse) - a Bristle boy but obviously from a posh part because you can pronounce 'area' without leading people to think of part of a receiving apparatus for radio or tv signals Closed in 1959. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitchurch_Halt_railway_station I wasnt born in Bristol as Dad's work relocated him from another city to the Bristol office. We lived 12 miles south in a village that had no railways so Whitchurch was one of the closest but closed ones. We then moved when I was 10 so very little accent picked up. Good morning all - off to the L & B today to have a ride on it then some research at Blackmoor Gate for the new layout. Quite handy that the old station is now a pub. My other half may have to do some driving from there. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Morning All, It is a fairly balmy 10°C this morning. Maybe the first signs of Spring? Time for a coffee. Have a good day everyone... 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post BoD Posted February 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 22, 2019 Morning all. Im afraid I have broken all the rules and have just had a shower before heading off to Model Rail Scotland. Sorry. 4 15 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted February 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 22, 2019 Morning all. Foggy here. Tony 10 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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