edcayton Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 As far as I remember I was happy with my small train set and it never got much larger. A bit more track, one extra loco (the 2-6-4T), a few more wagons, and the operating TPO set. I never had a tender locomotive or any passenger coaches. It was never fixed to a board because the pleasure was always in rearranging the tracks. Martin. So that's why you have spent 33 years developing Templot! Ed 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium martin_wynne Posted September 25, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2012 While we are all back in short trousers, here's every issue of Meccano Magazine in PDF format: http://www.meccanoindex.co.uk/MMpdfs1.php All your favourite issues are there. Don't click if you haven't got an hour to spare. Martin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 My parents had, and still have a Teasmade. Having said that, the last time they had to buy a new one, it was somewhat difficult to find. It would seem many people don't see the attraction! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Fingers crossed then Nidge - rumoured to be a major Reading blockade coming next Easter (for the 'ski jump' flyover I believe) with diversions via Banbury again. I'd best put in for a refresher from Aynho to Old Oak then... . In the meantime we've got the HOBC thingumy to play with, I've got to take it from Bescot to Willesden tonight, then tomorrow I'm booked to turn it round via Mitre Bridge / Sou' West Sidings / Acton Wells and Wembley. All go isn't it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 when Goblin were making a bomb from selling the Teasmade. When I moved to the 'States and my folks were still alive I bought them a TeasMade for Xmas. It only lasted a couple of weeks - what they never mentioned in the blurb was when it went off it was like being next to a B17 (not the bomber) when the safety was blowing............ In the Winter of 1963 I remember waking up and my glass of water on the bedside table was frozen solid. Best, Pete. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium martin_wynne Posted September 25, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2012 All this talk of tea making, means I'm off to kitchen right now. This posting of the first drivel that comes to mind is strangely addictive. Not forgetting that once posted, it is on the web forever. What future historians will make of the news that Martin Wynne made a cup of tea at 15:27 BST on 25th September 2012 is a bit of a mystery. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Ok, your 15:27 is my 10:27. My Wife just yelled at me to make some tea..... Best, Pete. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted September 25, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2012 (edited) Well, that's nearly 48 hours of continual heavy rain. * There is an awful lot of red on the travel info sites. East coast (not so) main line http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/additional_info/ECML.jpg https://mobile.twitter.com/networkrail/status/250578459447922689?photo=1 *other weather is available (but not at this location or at this time). Edited September 25, 2012 by BoD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Still not Noon in NYC............Sunny as well......(your weather may vary). You remember the song "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell? The lyrics that probably set every English teacher to tearing their hair out? "Don't it always seem to go? That you don't know what you've got till its gone... They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot" Despite what it says on her own website (the lyrics are an amalgam) it was actually based on a lot in the North Hollywood section of Sunset Boulevard where an old dear of English descent planted a garden on some land she owned some time in the thirties. The garden included paths and some seats and was open for everyone to enjoy. When she died in the sixties her grandson promptly sold it for development and it is still an ugly "strip mall" and car park. There used to be a sign which someone kept putting up pointing this out (it was always removed and then replaced). I think that the sign won out when the owner realized it drew people to the place. Keep an eye out if you are visiting. My old base there was the Capitol Tower (and studios) on Hollywood and Vine. This rather beautiful landmark building (but not very ergonomic for offices) looks like a pile of old fashioned records complete with a needle sticking in the top one. It has an uncertain future too since EMI was sold a few weeks ago to Universal. I hope it survives. I once gave an interview on the roof of it to a few college kids. Love the place. Best, Pete. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium martin_wynne Posted September 25, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2012 "The device is not to be used by persons with reduced physical, sensory or mental capabilities, or lack of experience and knowledge, unless they have been given supervision or instruction." Guess the device? Click down and drag your mouse over the space below to see the answer: Doorbell push button. Martin. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted September 25, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2012 That's quite incredible, but then they are dangerous pieces of equipment... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted September 25, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2012 (edited) You remember the song "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell? I don't think anyone has written a song about anywhere I've lived unless of course we allow "A13, Trunk Road to the Sea" though Mr Bragg misses out Benfleet in the lyrics! Edited September 25, 2012 by Tony_S Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 25, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2012 Ok, your 15:27 is my 10:27. My Wife just yelled at me to make some tea..... Best, Pete. Ah, so you've also got a wife like that (however most mornings mine does get up to make the tea so reciprocation later in the day is no bad thing). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 That's quite incredible, but then they are dangerous pieces of equipment... The only danger is to any salesperson that dares operate that piece of equipment in my vicinity. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDolfelin Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 100 vehicles stuck on the A1 in floodwater oop North. Here the weather has moderated to heavy rain. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted September 25, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2012 "The device is not to be used by persons with reduced physical, sensory or mental capabilities, or lack of experience and knowledge, unless they have been given supervision or instruction." I think the writing of instructions for such devices is probably one of the few career opportunities for conspiracy theorists suffering from paranoia. To be serious I have a friend who works in insurance. His speciality is providing cover for "unknown risks". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted September 25, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2012 Ah, so you've also got a wife like that (however most mornings mine does get up to make the tea so reciprocation later in the day is no bad thing). Aditi often asks if I'd like a cup of tea. If I say yes, she will suggest I go and make it. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted September 25, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2012 I don't like tea. I do like chocolate (have I said that already ? ). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 (edited) Had an offer to go on a golf trip with my brother to Royal Lytham this week. They went up Sunday. He's just phoned to say they came home early as they were there two days and didn't hit one golf ball between them as it never stopped raining. I feel for them as it was £300 plus fuel and food and they never played a shot.... Spent all day on my back soldering wires on ET. Always a dangerous thing to do as gravity and molten solder don't go together. Managed to escape unscathed and a couple of hundred wires are now in place. Edit: It's still sunny and I'm still in shorts. We don't know we're born really. Thinking of all you guys 'oop north. Edited September 25, 2012 by gordon s Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Meant to say thanks for the Mark Knopfler recommendation Pete. Shangri-La turned up today. Currently playing and got as far as 'The Trawlerman's Song' and it sounds right up my street.... Shades of Hank Marvin in the guitar solo... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted September 25, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2012 Tea made with iffy milk is disgusting! My tea is pretty disgusting whatever the state of the milk !!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted September 25, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2012 Meant to say thanks for the Mark Knopfler recommendation Pete. Shangri-La turned up today. Currently playing and got as far as 'The Trawlerman's Song' and it sounds right up my street.. I don't seem to have Shangri-La in my collection. My favourite post Dire Straits Mark Knopfler album is the one he did with Emmylou Harris "All the Roadrunning". 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 45156 Posted September 25, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2012 Evening All It's raining Regards to All Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted September 25, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2012 Spent all day on my back soldering wires on ET. Always a dangerous thing to do as gravity and molten solder don't go together. SNIP It's still sunny and I'm still in shorts. So, knowing about Uncle Isaac (Newton) and the dangers of molten solder, you lay on your back wearing SHORTS? Such bravery! Phew! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted September 25, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 25, 2012 So, knowing about Uncle Isaac (Newton) and the dangers of molten solder, you lay on your back wearing SHORTS? Such bravery! Phew! I was impressed too. I'm not sure I could solder upside down now. I need to get my spectacle choice right for the distance involved and it is difficult enough the right way up. I'm not making any board I can't invert for wiring now. I really did do something model railway related today. I've got a couple of( very) unfinished layout projects but what I really need is a fiddle yard so I started something but of course not the fiddle yard. I've started the curve that will connect any layout to the proposed storage tracks. It has got to be light and portable (I may use Matthew's room for trains while he is away!) so I'm going for a bendy MDF / Styrofoam sandwich (a curly sandwich). The outer crust of the first quadrant has been glued and I shall refrain from doing what I usually do and investigate too soon. I don't do modelling for ages and then I rush things so I'm being good (or trying to be). I've also compromised on radius in the past. This time I'm using about 1metre radius for the curves. Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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