John Isherwood

Phone call from Kernow Models - mine is awaiting collection !! Regards, John Isherwood. PS. Please excuse the froth - but I have been waiting for that call - albeit unknowingly - since I last saw the prototype back in the 1960s.

You're correct - closer inspection shows that it has a figure 8 screw hole arrangement; but it'll need a third hole drilling for what I need. Regards, John Isherwood.

Of course I can - and have done many times before. I just wondered why I should have to in this day and age. Now the (Bachmann?) system of an adjustable sliding pivot point is infinitely better, IMHO. Regards, John Isherwood.

I've just taken delivery of one of the latest Royal Scots from Hornby - that must take the biscuit for loco / tender gaps; (and there's no alternative hole for closer coupling)! Copyright Collett's Models You'd need to be an Olympic pole-vaulter to be a fireman !! Regards, John Isherwood.

A bargain - IMHO. Regards, John Isherwood.

.....you are assuming the process of justice is 100% perfect..... ....the whole process of investigation and prosecution is NOT perfect - AND NEVER HAS BEEN.... Of course it's not - who suggested that it was? On the other hand, I'd sooner have what we've got - even made a bit more severe - than a system whereby nothing effective is done against convicted felons just in case there's a miscarriage of justice. Nothing is perfect - in fact, what is perfect is highly subjective. The best that we can hope for is a system that the majority feel is reasonable and proportionate; living in a democracy, we should get that if we all take the trouble to make our views known. The disapproving minority will just have to lump it - or go elsewhere to find a system of government and justice which suits them !! Regards, John Isherwood. PS. ".... a recent ECHR judgement ...." The sooner we're out of the jurisdiction of that body the better !

As you well know, it is the role of officials ranging from noise abatement officers to the police, the judges and government to determine what constitutes adverse impingement. In our democracy I am happy to allow those authorities to make that judgement, at least for the timebeing. If at some point I feel that they are being either too lax or too prescriptive, I am fortunate to have the usual resorts of a democracy to make my views known. Regards, John Isherwood.

Dead easy - the norm should be behaviour that does not impinge adversely on fellow citizens. This could apply to anything from playing loud music or allowing your dog to bark incessantly at one extreme, to mass murder at the other extreme. I'm sure that there will be those who will plead the case of the loud music fan or the besotted dog-owner exercising their individual 'rights', as there will be those that will argue that the mass murderer is a victim of an unfeeling society - but they won't convince me however long they try !! Regards, John Isherwood.

Sorry - I can't go with the 'fluffy' approach. IMHO, if you don't want to conform to the generally accepted norms, go somewhere (or be put somewhere) where your unacceptable behaviour will not impinge on those self-disciplined people who do conform. Simples !! Regards, John Isherwood.

Fine - let's accept for a moment that you are correct. Presumably, you have an alternative to imprisonment that will, in time, significantly reduce offending? May we know what it is - with credible evidence that it works? My view? There is a small portion of society who just can't / won't be bothered to conform to the norms that the vast majority of us accept and respect. The vast majority would be better served if this recalcitrant minority were out of circulation. By all means offer rehabilitation, but if that fails - they should have to face the consequences. Obviously, keeping them out of circulation costs money - more money than we currently provide. Solution? Increase prison sentences, and increase taxes to keep those who still aren't deterred out of temptation's way. I, for one, would gladly pay up. Most of us will experience hardship at some time, and we could all take the easy way out by resorting to crime - but we don't. There has to be seen to be undesirable consequences for those who choose to take the apparently easy course. Regards, John Isherwood.

See #4 above - I believe that you are referring to Diagram 44. Regards, John

The nearest would appear to be LNER Diagram 44 - but I have that down as an eight plank wagon. Regards, John Isherwood.

..... and he'd got it from Louth !! (Did you see what I did there)? Regards, John Isherwood.

For what it's worth, this was how I was going to drive the A1 kit - before I discovered how inaccurate it was !! Regards, John Isherwood.

"Perhaps because the one you have highlighted has tapered buffers when they should be straight ..." Not necessarily. Regards, John Isherwood. PS. in the interest of not publicly prolonging this discussion, I did attempt to respond directly to Gulliver - but it seems that he doesn't accept PMs.

Why? You can't go far wrong with https://railsofsheffield.com/search?searchTerm=1365 ; and £15.00 or so cheaper than the opposition. Regards, John Isherwood.

The problem, I think, is similar to that with the Emperor's new clothes. Regards, John Isherwood.

I now have 470 ohm resistors to hand, plus a dual wiper 5k pot; I will have a trial soon and report back. Thanks, John Isherwood.

So convenient, these smartphones, aren't they? Says he, who has an ancient Nokia that .......... makes phone calls and sends / receives texts !! Regards, John isherwood.

Yes - I'd like to know the answer to that; especially as the Heljan one has no splashers, scale diameter wheels, and buffers at the correct height. Regards, John isherwood.

Thank you for that explanation - I take it that the 240 ohm resistor is the blue component with the black / black / black / yellow / red stripes, above to the 1000uf component? In order to replace the pot, I assume that I will need to obtain either a desoldering pump or some desoldering braid? Regards, John Isherwood.

No - my chassis has still to be completed !! I built it in brass and steel from original BR / manufacturers' drawings, and measurements taken on a withdrawn example at Slough. I needed a 'learning curve' project when I bought a Unimat lathe / milling machine, and this project required working steel pull-out stabilising beams with working bottle-jacks on their ends - talk about jumping in at the deep end !! Anyway, it works and is equalised, running on two internal frames bogies - at which point I was diverted onto other projects and there it has rested for twenty years or so. It WILL be finished - eventually. Regards, John Isherwood.

Junctionmad - below are two images of the regulator - I trust that they will provide the information that you need. dhjgreen - you indicate that I should replace the pot; junctionmad seems to be indicating that I should replace a resistor between the pot and the output. I'm easily confused on matters such as this - are you both talking about different modifications? Thanks, John isherwood.

Will do - thanks. Regards, John Isherwood.

Having measured the prototype, and built a scale chassis, I can say that the springs / axleboxes appear to have been reclaimed MR tender fittings. As such, Slaters can supply glass-filled nylon mouldings https://slatersplastikard.com/others/4mmParts/4mmfittings.php . Regards, John Isherwood.