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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2014 17:49:29 GMT
Just spoken to the powers that be and people will be able to start arriving from 9.30am onwards. The kettle will be on! Weather looks ok so far.
John
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Post by cplmickey on Sept 3, 2014 20:55:36 GMT
Planning to come along Sunday - no loco, just for interest. I'm looking forward to it as never been to your track before. Ian
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Post by ejparrott on Sept 5, 2014 21:11:01 GMT
All being well I'll be there Sunday morning, looks like the weather will be nice so we'll have a trip out on the bike  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2014 0:56:18 GMT
Sunday looks to be the better day weatherwise. Cooked the onions for saturdays hot dogs last night!
John
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Post by ejparrott on Sept 6, 2014 7:21:58 GMT
Where do you guys normally park? Can see the access road down the left hand side of the court but there only seems to be a small carpark by the lake?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2014 8:26:08 GMT
There's a car park at the end of the access road just outside the track compound as well which we use. There's normally car parking all along the front of the 5 aside as well but unfortunately the pitch is being relaid and that is blocked off. The work was supposed to be finished by now but you know how council jobs are! This weekend though we can use the field next door which is pretty big and should provide more than ample parking.
John
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Post by waggy on Sept 6, 2014 17:08:35 GMT
Evening all,
Attended today, not as many turned up as was thought but a good day. A very warm welcome and first rate hospitality.
Michael Breeze was there, looks no different to when I first met him twelve years ago!
John Cottam had his 5" 'Wolf of Badenoch' in steam, lovely engine, pulls away with no fuss, just a gentle note from the chimney.
Let's hope there's a better turn out tomorrow.
Thanks to all involved,
Waggy.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2014 17:30:56 GMT
You just beat me to it Dave! Yes, a bit disappointing today but hopefully will be better tomorrow. Only two visitors - Our own Waggy and John Cottam. Dave's immaculate Duchess. Unfortunately he couldn't run it due to sticky balls! (in the clacks!)  Geoff Elliot driving John's lovely P2. John and Michael watching.  Geoff Elliot's K5 nearing completion  Dave Waldram's V2. Hopefully he's been disgraced into giving it a good clean! It is 19 years old though and I think the first completed.  More tomorrow. John |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2014 18:30:53 GMT
Lovely pics! I would love to have been there to meet the man himself, unfortunately we had a family do already booked. (I have pre booked the next Michael Breeze rally with SWMBO already!) More piccies please chaps!! Cheers Ben |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2014 19:04:40 GMT
Ben,
I can get photos of the V2 anytime as it's a regular at the club. Is there anything you would particularly like photos of? Dave's going to run the V2 tomorrow. He didn't bring his lighting up kit today.
John
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Post by cplmickey on Sept 6, 2014 21:21:17 GMT
Nottingham's visitors rally was quite poorly attended today too, probably only half as many engines as usual. The forecast wasn't great but that doesn't usually put off many model engineers. Wonder why both events were down on support.
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Post by RGR 60130 on Sept 6, 2014 21:46:34 GMT
With the option of attending today or tomorrow I checked the weather forecast early this morning and decided to wait for tomorrow. With a 150 mile run each way it's much more relaxing to do it in the sun than in the rain so I hope to be there tomorrow morning towards lunch time.
Reg
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2014 18:18:56 GMT
A bit disappointing again today but the weather was glorious with a few more visitors than yesterday. Barrie Purslow came from Warrington with his Duchess and ran for several hours. This was the first Duchess completed and had passed through several hands before Barrie acquired it and rebuilt it.  Geoff Elliot ran Dave Waldrams V2 all afternoon just to prove it does actually run (still needs a good clean though!) ![]()  It was good to meet Reg (RGR 60130), Ian (cplmickey), Ed (ejparrott) and wife Holly, and Dave (vulcanbomber) in person today. Thanks to everyone who came. Michael seemed pleased with the weekend and we all enjoyed it so we are thinking of holding it again next year. As the saying goes, large oaks from little acorns grow! (or something like that). John |
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Post by ejparrott on Sept 7, 2014 18:54:36 GMT
Had a lovely time, great weather, lovely tea thanks John! Oh, and Luna enjoyed her sausage too! Called in at Leicester North on the way home to see the 8F taking out the last train of the day.
Let us know if you plan another one!
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Post by RGR 60130 on Sept 7, 2014 19:36:51 GMT
I really enjoyed my day out and meeting everyone. My thanks to the club for their hospitality and I hope this can become an annual event. Michael has produced some cracking designs for big powerful locomotives and it's great to see them together.
Reg
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2014 19:43:02 GMT
Hi John,
Sorry for delay in replying, glad to see the pics from today, I have to say I quite like the V2 in it's used guise, it's very realistic!
Photos of everything would be fantastic! But the tender is my first port of call, one thing I have wondered though is the centre big end, I can't see from the drawings how it's oiled, it looks not to be a split bearing and if it is there seems to be nothing to stop it moving in the big end itself, could Dave shed any light? I was planning on borrowing the big end from "Doncaster"
Gutted I couldn't make it this weekend, these are the conversations I'd have loved to have had face to face.
Looking forward to the next!!
Cheers
Ben
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Post by cplmickey on Sept 7, 2014 19:57:34 GMT
Thanks to everyone down at the track today. Enjoyed my couple of hours, and with the sun and a really relaxed atmosphere it was a great morning. Not sure if I'll ever get round to building a Breeze design myself but the 2-4-2 tank sounds interesting, and in metric too so maybe one to encourage the younger members into the hobby (in fairness Michael seems to have a few of his designs in both metric and imperial but the tank engine would be a good starter loco I suspect).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2014 23:13:09 GMT
I don't think I will ever build one of Michael's locos either but I'm very impressed with both him and his designs. From what I have seen they all run extremely well straight from the drawings and, unlike some, Michael is happy to help if you have a problem and will do his utmost to sort it as soon as possible. I've heard that if you find an error on one of his drawings he will correct it immediately and send a new drawing virtually by the next post!
Ben - Dave's going on holiday on Thursday so I won't see him until October but I'll ask him about the inside big end as soon as he's back. There's another V2 in the club now so I may be able to find out from the other owner. We had a bit of a discussion on the inside big ends for the Duchess. They are very hard to get at to oil and it seems Barrie cut a hole in one of the frame stretchers so that he could get a long nose oilcan to them! Waggy may be able to comment on that.
John
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2014 6:28:05 GMT
Brilliant, thanks very much John!
Ben
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Post by ejparrott on Sept 8, 2014 7:21:14 GMT
That's where 3D drawings won't help - it'll show the bits fit, but not whether you can get at them!
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