smallbrother
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Post by smallbrother on Apr 5, 2019 10:24:45 GMT
My van has proved very useful taking all the crap to the tip, but tomorrow it will be doing its proper job as I will be loading it up with my Holmside and coaches ready for running on Saturday. Pete. I have Van envy! I only have a little Volvo C30 (my girlfriend has a far more practical V50), I suspect its a decision I may regret if/when the Brit is done! I bought myself a Vivaro crew-cab. 6 seats, and a "boot" 5 feet long. Very handy for this hobby, and my wife can take several of her cycling pals and their bikes to events. I am not into cars really, I much prefer a steady pace with a good view of the road. A lot of people successfully use a trailer - I thought it could be a bit vulnerable if you parked up somewhere for any length of time. Pete.
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chrisb
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Post by chrisb on Apr 5, 2019 10:36:55 GMT
I used to use a trailer when I lived in the UK. When I moved to NZ last year I decided I was going to have a van instead. I now have a Toyota Hiace with second row seats, so it can carry 5. With the second row seats folded up I can comfortably get my Triumph Trident and BSA Rocket3 comfortably in the back. My loco and driving truck have room to spare in the back with the second row seats in place.
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Post by andyhigham on Apr 5, 2019 11:28:41 GMT
Toyota Hiace are the best vans ever made. 2 bikes, fuel, tools, starter rollers with batteries and 2 x 40 litre aquarolls full of water plus caravan on the back is effortless. It has over 270,000 on the clock and runs like clockwork
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Post by David on Apr 6, 2019 9:58:39 GMT
I drilled some tender platework as explained in my CNC thread. Took all day and I had to remodel the curved line of rivets when I noticed they didn't look right just before drilling! They were workable but they just didn't seem to look like mine, the original, or the drawing. I'd spent an age on them when doing the original model so don't know why I didn't notice back then.
I deleted all my imgur images with 2 or 3 clicks and no warning. I was trying to delete one, and did so. Then I didn't realise I was still in a delete mode, tried to uncheck an image, then clicked 'all images' thinking it might take me back to the gallery... but it deleted all the images without a confirmation dialog. Awesome design. They were only there because you can't post images directly to this board (saving on space for the board I guess) so no great loss.
I also found out PayPal has denied my refund on a dodgy phone I bought my son for Christmas (advertised as an Australian model, new in box - it was a Chinese phone, 'refurbished' and not working). I sent it back but they claimed they never got it. I was too dumb and stingy to pay for an internationally trackable parcel. So I'm out $250. That was a bad start to the day.
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Post by delaplume on Apr 6, 2019 14:20:16 GMT
Had started the day by working on The Bear....came indoors just after lunch to check on the time ( My watch battery is u/s ).....Having turned the TV on I noticed that Brief Encounter was about to start so made some tea and watched it instead....
So now it's back to filing Bronze !!
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Midland
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Post by Midland on Apr 6, 2019 17:38:40 GMT
I wish I could tell you of great efforts, creating superb items, perhaps building a Flying Scotsman in an afternoon but alas no, my workshop weeps in despair at being neglected while other duties demand my presence. So here is the fruits of my labour, a frigging 6 x 6 potting shed for her who demands such things. I could make it a 3 1/2" gauge specialty workshop but the latin names of plants won out. Well back to the bottle!!! IMG_1392 by David Goyder, on Flickr And to add insult to injury she has torn up the rotten deck infront of the summer house!! Help. David
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jma1009
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Post by jma1009 on Apr 6, 2019 18:26:13 GMT
Hi David,
I do like the new potting shed! And somewhat reminiscent of a small signal box/level crossing box.
Cheers,
Julian
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Post by delaplume on Apr 6, 2019 18:31:57 GMT
Hello David,
Looking on the bright side ----- that's a lovely shade of early GWR Green !!.......... I'm impressed..
If it helps any I have a similar task planned for me by Joyce in a month or two's time....The recent high winds took the roof off the current shed ( 25 years old !!) so money earmarked for The Bear will now be funding an 8ft x 4ft BUT}-- it'll be bigger than the current one and---surprise, surprise --- one internal bench will be able to store stock metal etc on it......Serendipity or what ??
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Post by dhamblin on Apr 6, 2019 18:42:48 GMT
Set up my new ER25 collet chuck in the lathe this afternoon ready to turn down some bronze tomorrow to form the small studs for Britannia's top feeds.
Regards,
Dan
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Post by Oily Rag on Apr 6, 2019 20:52:08 GMT
Saturday 8.00am start, sanding and polishing the new brass back head cladding for 967's new boiler. Knocked off at 6.00pm. Two big pieces to go so that will keep my Sunday filled, which I am about to start here at 7.00am. With the Handmade Bicycle Show Australia coming soon, my weekends at the Rattler and then the other weekends doing jobs for #967 rebuild, it has been long days and 7 day weeks of toil. No ME at all. I am chaffing at the bit to cook up my boiler and get on with my garden steamer but that will be a couple of months away. The garden railway has disappeared in the waist high weeds. Queensland Railway locos all had this formed brass work on the back head, so John (project leader) had some new brass made up to fit over the new all welded boiler. We can make boilers here! Not like the silly mob running the 3801 project, their new boiler from Germany is a complete failure and cost them a couple of million dollars and was never steamed. That is a tale of woe of how not to supervise a major project. Just because Tornado had the boiler made there ................................................................ You can see the brass in this pic of me wetting down the coal in #974 to give an idea of what this is all about.
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Post by David on Apr 7, 2019 3:57:08 GMT
I wish I could build a shed like that! Very tidy.
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Post by ettingtonliam on Apr 7, 2019 8:11:16 GMT
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don9f
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Post by don9f on Apr 7, 2019 17:43:14 GMT
Boiler photos Finally, I think I've cracked how to post photos using Imgur, so here are some showing Locomotion's boiler as a work in progress. Richard, well done for sorting the photos....that boiler certainly has a lot of holes in it! Cheers Don
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Post by franstrein on Apr 7, 2019 21:33:12 GMT
We had a club meeting today at our Model Engineering Society "Rading Spoor" in the Netherlands, see www.radingspoor.nl (in Dutch). I took the Britannia I am building out from the dark winter workshop into the spring sunlight to see how the motion work moves on a real track. Here she is after the test in the sun on our club track: Frans
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Post by Oily Rag on Apr 7, 2019 21:42:27 GMT
Sunday, 8.00am till 5.30pm. Finished off the brass work and I also made a start on "Fritz" the dome cover for 967. Monday morning will be three hours cleaning up the bike workshop before I can start work, sigh! What is interesting is the dome cover is made in sections and brazed together with castellated joints, this intrigues me. Not sure how these are made else where in the railway world, anyone shed some light on this for me ?
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Midland
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Post by Midland on Apr 9, 2019 8:19:38 GMT
Hi David, I do like the new potting shed! And somewhat reminiscent of a small signal box/level crossing box. Cheers, Julian Julian It is now known as the signal box,thanks! D
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jma1009
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Post by jma1009 on Apr 9, 2019 20:12:56 GMT
Hi David,
The old ground frame box at Hayling Island (Town) station looked like a potting shed, as did Ferring crossing box. Southbourne was a bit more elaborate, and I think Nutbourne was a modern shed in my day. Another signal box that looked like a potting shed was the Freshwater signal box now at Wootton Isle of Wight, and the old Smallbrook junction box on the Isle of Wight.
Cheers,
Julian
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JonL
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Post by JonL on Apr 9, 2019 20:56:04 GMT
Hi David, The old ground frame box at Hayling Island (Town) station looked like a potting shed, as did Ferring crossing box. Southbourne was a bit more elaborate, and I think Nutbourne was a modern shed in my day. Another signal box that looked like a potting shed was the Freshwater signal box now at Wootton Isle of Wight, and the old Smallbrook junction box on the Isle of Wight. Cheers, Julian I do love a good signal box. I think I'm drawn to the secrets of anywhere I'm not allowed. I guess thats why I'm so interested in underground bunkers.
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Post by danlank on Apr 9, 2019 22:33:50 GMT
These are a couple of pics I took when I was cleaning Bluebell (SECR P Class at the Bluebell Railway) - looks like much the same as you described... It’s not too clear (I was just taking the pics to show off my brass polishing), but you can definitely see the castellated joints...
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Post by ettingtonliam on Apr 10, 2019 7:14:43 GMT
Just to be pedantic, I suspect these lovely joints are not castellated, but are the earlier form of coppersmiths joint, which involved cutting slits about 1/2" long into each sheet edge, every inch or so, scarfing down to a knife edge. then interlocking the edges, one under, one over and hard soldering the joint. The result was then planished down to a smooth surface and polished. See Alec Farmer's book, page 46 for a fuller explanation. The castellated joint we use now was introduced to model boiler making by Alec in the 1980s.
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