dscott
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Post by dscott on Jan 16, 2008 13:33:01 GMT
On some railways starting with G the back part of the bunkers were made out of many parts riveted together and the top part formed from a complex set of curves, I shall have to resort to a press form tool or two to make them and being bunkers can be from mild steel.
All my mistakes are now carefully rusted and carefully saved for my scrap truck all to scale so there is a use for everything in our hobbie.
David.
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Post by Shawki Shlemon on Jan 18, 2008 0:01:21 GMT
If i tried to recall my mistakes and start putting them down in writing ,a page or two will not be enough so to speak but like everyone I have a recycle bin and today's scraps are tomorrow's new parts .Experience is a collection of mistakes. The bottom line is are we enjoying what are we doing ? I guess the answer is YES .
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Post by ron on Jan 18, 2008 10:15:55 GMT
I find that the longer I do model engineering the better I get at rectifying my mistakes, my old woodwork teacher [remember them?] had a great saying, 'measure twice, cut once', if I'd remember that more often I wouldn't make many mistakes. Ron
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Post by spurley on Jan 20, 2008 16:40:02 GMT
My old woodwork teacher, Mr Diplock, once said to our disbelieving and competely disrespectful (after the quote) class of 14 year old boys
" Do not waste this wood lads...........it doesn't grow on trees!" ;D ;D
Needless to say the class didn't achieve much that day!
Cheers
Brian
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Post by Boadicea on Jan 20, 2008 19:14:41 GMT
my old woodwork teacher [remember them?] had a great saying, 'measure twice, cut once', if I'd remember that more often I wouldn't make many mistakes. Ron And a quote from my woodwork teacher - "How are you going to do that - we don't have any putting-on planes!" And just for good value - one from the English teacher "When crossing out - draw a neat line through the word. You draw a gate and I shall take offence!"
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Post by havoc on Jan 20, 2008 19:54:44 GMT
Don't remember where I got it: "measure with a micrometer, mark with chalk and cut with an axe"
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Smifffy
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Post by Smifffy on Jan 21, 2008 12:09:08 GMT
..or a cracking one I heard from a nice Gentleman at Ally Pally on Friday: "I haven't got time to do it properly, but I do have time to do it twice". :-)
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simonwass
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Cecil Pagets 2-6-2 of 1908. Engine number 2299. Would make a fascinating model....
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Post by simonwass on Jan 22, 2008 23:58:24 GMT
Teacher to student; Is it spot on? S; Its near enough.... T; Not good enough, must be spot on. S; Ok, its spot on. T; Thats near enough then!
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Post by ron on Jan 23, 2008 12:59:43 GMT
Another from my woodwork teacher, 'the first boy that cuts off his hand with the bandsaw will get the belt' must have worked, nobody cut their hand off ;D Ron
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Smifffy
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Post by Smifffy on Jan 23, 2008 15:45:25 GMT
...and going back to my days as an Isntrument Technician calibrating various devices:
"Near enough is not good enough".
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Post by barryk on Jan 23, 2008 16:09:22 GMT
...and going back to my days as an Isntrument Technician calibrating various devices: "Near enough is not good enough". Another Instrument tech favourite question - "How do you 'frig' it?"
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paul
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Post by paul on Jan 26, 2008 21:55:22 GMT
Haha, you lot are a bunch of rank amateurs, my box of mistakes is smaller than the average sandwich box!
Ah, I just realised, your models are 1000x bigger than mine <sheepish grin>
Seriously, I love my little scrap boxes - making a bracket from a failed cylinder and leaving enough for a piston or two is soooooo sweet!
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