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Thomas Meets the Scrap Man and Pantograph Progress


KH1

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Some very nice friends gave us all individual Easter eggs last week and mine was particularly appropriate. After looking at it for several days and decided that nibbling a little bit off his coal bunker wouldn't do any harm - how wrong can you be! Poor old Thomas literally exploded and on gathering up the bits really did look like the pile of bits you see in photos after the scrap man had paid a visit. Only trouble then was that before I could find the camera most of the bits mysteriously disappeared - collected by preservationists perhaps? I think not!

 

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As aforementioned chocolate thief's saw fit to leave me to my own devices this afternoon I finally got around to the problem of power in the garage. After much excavation and getting very bad tempered with the amount of junk in there I eventually found the end of the cable which had previously supplied power but which had been disconnected by a thoughtful builder at some stage and never replaced. Now that we have power again I couldn't resist trying out the electric hoist I had borrowed to reunite the major components of the pantograph milling machine. Well, one thing lead to another and with the total lack of anyone to assist I now have it back in one piece - well almost. I still have to replace the vertical slide but after getting the monster top assembly back on the plinth that should be easy!

 

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Please note that total clutter behind machine is due to recent excavations and as soon as no one is looking is heading for Ebay or the tip as if we have not needed it in the twelve years since it was deposited there .........

 

On smaller modelling matters I now have some Dingham and DG couplings to play with - both very speedily dispatched and very nicely packaged in a very thoughtful but not wasteful manner. Now I only have to find the time to play with them.

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