Early Risers.

[TheQ]

1 hour ago, JohnDMJ said:

Happy POTS day! (Yes, I know it should be poEts day, but my lot don't understand the concept of Early!)

 

I never even got as far as CEng and remained AMIMechE throughout my Engineering career. I have now relinquished that as, since 2002, my career has taken a few different paths. However, with my background in Control Systems, I felt it appropriate to include the BSc (Hons) bit in my current works email signature although it missed my business cards.

 

To put a perspective in here, medical equipment used by doctors and surgeons is usually designed by Engineers!

And the equipment that calibrates that, is calibrated at other companies using equipment calibrated,  by our guys in the two outer labs,  and I calibrate their equipment,  at each stage the calibration has to be at a more accurate standard.

Thirty years ago working for GEC Marconi  I carried a test,  inspection and quality set of stamps I supervised a team of engineers from our factory and two others,  grades 7- to 9 ,  to hold such a set and use them, the companies owns rules stated only a senior engineer could do so,  that was grades 10 to 12..  me.... I was a grade 6 technician. 

 

Mooring awl,  inner Temple Hare, 

Ben the" I'm knackered" border collie is still in his pit,  anyone would think he did the driving down here. 

Shortly when I've finished typing this,  I will drag Doggy out of his pit for patrol,  then I'll have breakfast.

 

 Then drag a trailer out out its spot hook, up then after checking the essentials,  which lighting connection is not working this time , have another Muggacoffee.  Then head to the MRC,  to start loading up for our show.

Our show,? Glad you asked,  Aylsham jubilee Centre NR11 6JG 10:00 till 16:00 disabled parking at the hall the rest at the Bure valley railway Aylsham,  or if you park at the BVR Hoveton and Wroxham station,  get a return ticket from there to Aylsham, you get into our show for free. 

Edited October 4, 2019 by TheQ

[Coombe Barton]

Folk.

 

Nearly half a century ago a friend wrote, for a student freshers guide, of a pub in Coventry which had a certain reputation.

 

Knife fights, Fridays, Bottle fights, Saturdays, Folk Club Sundays, Magistrates, Mondays.

[Andrew P]

I'm in Amp Sher Ouse untin and more Rain forecast for tomorrow?

 

[Coombe Barton]

Engineers

 

Our water company now calls them "Technicians"

Edited October 4, 2019 by Coombe Barton

[TheQ]

4 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

Engineers

 

Our water company now calls them "Technicians"

And pays them less.. 

 

Personally I think there should be defined legal descriptions of what constitutes,  a mechanic,  technician,  engineer etc. 

Curry's PC world should not be able to call someone who plugs in your TV,  or takes it away when it doesn't work "a highly trained engineer "

 

Edited October 4, 2019 by TheQ

[Happy Hippo]

Currently hot and hazy in Incheon.

 

We had a good flight especially the hard cross wind landing.

 

The altitude had been displayed on monitors throughout the flight and just after crash down recorded -25 feet!

 

We now wait for our connecting flight to Tokyo.

[Dave Hunt]

Welcome to Friday. Ours started at 0630 with a call from Jill's sister to say that our niece's husband has committed suicide. He had Parkinson's disease as well as being treated for depression (quite possibly one caused by the other?). He was only fifty. Rather put the dampers on things at the moment. Back later.

 

Dave

[Happy Hippo]

I forgot about the time difference!

 

It's 1700 here.

[Barry O]

49 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

I forgot about the time difference!

 

It's 1700 here.

Do not try the dry shredded jelly fish and local beer! It is a very explosive mix for the digestive system!!!

 

Baz

[TheQ]

It's been raining.... In the pantry.... 

The pantry is a brick built lean to,  between  the outside toilet,  and the kitchen conservatory aka home for washing machine,  fridge freezer etc. 

It has a pantiled roof with cement haunching round the edges,  the cement has come away.  With Lorenzo on his way I've been up and bodged it with silicon gue.

Sunday,  Lorenzo permitting,  I have a roll of modern lead flashing replacement,  I'll do a proper job. 

If not it will have to wait a week. 

 

We've had a huge amount of rain overnight puddles are maximum size. 

The trailer is dry inside,  which good,  however brambles had forced their way in through the back door edges. 

The garage is damp due to a hole in the roof I knew about,  it's difficult to get to due to being in the middle of an asbestos roof.  I'll need a thick sheet of ply to spread my weight.  One of Tiree's trollies has been rolled into the garage,  covered with plastic sheet,  although it's away from the hole.. 

 

Muggacoffee to be drunk the off to the MRC to get stuff for our show...  Show did you ask?  see my post above.. 

 

[81C]

Morning All 

Its pissitating down here.

I've never been to Bedford is that where Steve (Interesting) Davis lives  

Mike I will be with my woman in the evening the same one I will be out with this Sunday for lunch and I'm out with her the following Sunday too,

just good friends.

Got collared into walking the dog later, detective daughter has been called into work note it is raining I'll get smothered in mud he jumps up when he wants your attention

I wonder where I will be dragged to today ?.

My other daughter was on facebook last night asking for help with her boiler, message sent back gas safe engineer on the way he pitch up within the hour and fixed the problem.

I better get on enjoy the rain D.O.G'walker  

 

BREAKING NEWS AIR AMBULANCE HAS JUST LANDED IN THE FIELD UP THE ROAD INCIDENT IN HORRORSONS UPDATE LATE

[BSW01]

Good morning everyone 

 

We both had a lie in this morning, it must have been all the excitement of yesterday! The rain, which started around 5 o’clock last night, is still falling! Sheila has decided that she would like to come to the Trafford Centre today, so it not only means a late start, but also a longer than usual visit with the distinct possibility of more being spent than usual too! Oh well, it could be worse, she could ask if she could accompany me to the show at Wigan tomorrow! Thankfully, this is unlikely to happen, as she came along to a show once, many years ago and has bravely successfully resisted the urge to repeat the experience, honestly, she doesn’t know what she’s missing!

 

Enjoy the day, back later. 

[Tony_S]

24 minutes ago, 81C said:

I’ve never been to Bedford is that where Steve (Interesting) Davis lives 

Another Bedford, Bedfords Park in Romford. I think it may be “used to live” there. In a house that looked like a castle. 

[PhilJ W]

Morning all from Estuary-Land. Lorenzo is expected to hit this part of the world early Sunday morning and then heading east so Q should be able to do his flashing on Sunday. I frequently used to see Steve Davis in and around Romford (my home town). There were (are?) several snooker halls in Romford. He is actually a South London lad, born in Plumstead.

[PhilJ W]

Looks as if Lorenzo has changed his mind (again).

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-uk-weather-forecast-yellow-20404417#source=push

Looks as if Q will not be flashing on Sunday.

Edited October 4, 2019 by PhilJ W

[The Lurker]

Greeting all from LBG where the clouds seem to portend a little light rain.

 

I asked a work colleague what she was doing this weekend, and she said she was visiting her parents in Bedford. I mentioned the beer festival but she didn't seem that interested!

 

Younger Lurker will get his 11+ result today. We don't think he will have passed - but as we have  taken a different route with his schooling it probably doesn't matter. It would however do his self esteem good if he passed. All his schoolmates will expect it because he is right at the top of the class, but he hasn't been tutored and we just got him to do a few papers, less than his elder brother. We decided that the stress would be too much.

 

The school we want him to go to require him to sit a test - I think it is more of a banding type test than "you can't come if you fail" type test - but they have unasked given him extra time and a quieter room to do it in; a marked contrast to his current school who failed to do that for his 11+ but will no doubt fall over themselves when it comes to his SATS; and on those, there will be absolutely no pressure from us - I know they mean a lot to the school but I cannot understand how kids get stressed about the SATS; the only people putting stress on them will be their teachers. Certainly in our area, the secondary schools ignore the SATS results ("the primary schools all cheat anyway") and re-assess their intake in year 7 in any case, so they don't affect the child's education at all,

 

The same school also want him to do an interview, the last 10 minutes of which can be with a parent. That will be a completely different challenge; he's likely to clam up with anxiety but we will no doubt talk to the school to understand the format so that we can prepare him as much as possible.

 

The weekend beckons but not a lot is planned.

 

Best wishes to those who ail and have a good weekend all

[New Haven Neil]

A'noon.

 

Flu jabbed has been stabbed, the walk-in clinic heaving with pensioners who can go at any time, all queuing up at 0800 hrs stopping folk going to work getting in early. I went for a walk and went back later - empty.  Blood clinic is the same, drives me nuts.

 

Then I went to the bike talking club, and....talked, although Dave the ex-bike copper was on a bike, nobody else was!  

 

Now to continue the battle of SPROG, Heljan 05 and a DCC decoder, which has so far taken two decoders, two evenings and a lot of language I learned in the navy to achieve nothing. Wondering if my SPROG has died, it programs OK but no movement on throttle commands.  This is only the second real DCC problem I have experienced in almost 20 years of using it, so off down to the layout in the garage to see if the Lenz system will work it.  SPROG has never failed me before!

[The Lurker]

27 minutes ago, The Lurker said:

 

 

Younger Lurker will get his 11+ result today. We don't think he will have passed -

UPDATE - we were wrong. He passed!

 

 

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

SPROG has never failed me before!

The “not an  engineer” in me would eliminate the SPROG by reading another loco and loading a throttle and driving that loco. DecoderPro has the track power turned off by default but now has an “undetermined “ setting. I have no idea what that means but clicking the red and green screen buttons seems to work. 
I programmed my recently purchased Ruston recently via my SPROG. The loco appeared to program and twitched nicely while doing so. However it didn’t respond to the chosen number. I used the “identify” option and it seemed to have a number over 14000!   I cleaned the programming track, reran the renumbering and all was fine.  I am sure you have done all that but someone may have other ideas. 
Tony

[BoD]

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

SPROG has never failed me before!

 

Are you using DecoderPro?

In the preferences it is possible to change sprog from programmer to command station.  Also check the preferences - default section and set various services to Sprog rather than internal. This has worked for me before (and settings have mysteriously changed all by themselves, as they do) but your issue may be something completely different

[81C]

Afternoon All

from an earlier post ----The Air Ambulance attended a heart attack victim he was driving a van but stopped before collapsing he was take to hospital in a serious condition 

the staff at the local GP surgery staff attended to him prior to the paramedics and the HEMES doctors arriving at the scene..

 

[tetsudofan]

3 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

Now to continue the battle of SPROG, Heljan 05 and a DCC decoder, which has so far taken two decoders, two evenings and a lot of language I learned in the navy to achieve nothing. Wondering if my SPROG has died, it programs OK but no movement on throttle commands.  This is only the second real DCC problem I have experienced in almost 20 years of using it, so off down to the layout in the garage to see if the Lenz system will work it.  SPROG has never failed me before!

 

Neil. 

 

Interesting that you are having problems with your Heljan 05.

 

Something weird is happening here to a recently purchased Heljan Cl.33 (the one that came in the Esso tank set). The loco operates perfectly on analogue and, after being fitted with a decoder,  can be programmed successfully  on the programming track on my Z21. After that it all goes haywire once the loco is placed on the layout. Touch the controller and the screen goes bananas and the loco starts surging up and down. Only way to stop things is to turn off the dcc.

 

Tried fitting another decoder and the same happens. Put those decoders in another loco and no problems so, as far as I can see, the problem is the loco so am in the process of drafting an email to Heljan to see what they say......

 

Keith

[Happy Hippo]

7 hours ago, Barry O said:

Do not try the dry shredded jelly fish and local beer! It is a very explosive mix for the digestive system!!!

 

Baz

Well, you know my natural ability to generate explosive mixtures is renowned.  I shall look this method up asap

 

We have finally got to our hotel in Tokyo. At just gone 0100.

 

Might have to go and find somewhere to watch England give the Argentine a damn god thrashing tomorrow!

 

 

 

That's your tomorrow but my today!

Edited October 4, 2019 by Happy Hippo
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[roundhouse]

evening form a showery Surrey.

 

This morning I weathered 34081 ' 92 Squadron'. nearly complete then I can start on the next one.

 

Lunchtime met up with the local On30 group for lunch. They are keen for me to build a module but I do want to do my  next layout which will be 009.

 

Back home and continued working on L & B coaches.

 

Other half got the first GW Worm out of Farringdon to ECR rather than take a chance and wait for a direct one after the weeks mess. This mornings trip was also delayed but luckily by only 10 minutes.

 

Tomorrow we were going to Cambridge but have decided to stay clear of Thameslink services as she's had enough of them this week, so need to come up with alternative pub crawl location.

Edited October 5, 2019 by roundhouse

[AndyID]

3 hours ago, Tony_S said:

 I am sure you have done all that but someone may have other ideas. 
 

 

Please sir!

 

Convert it all back to DC?