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If it comes into your house, it will be illegal for you to release it back into the wild.

The photos here, http://cooper-craft.co.uk/Pages/2/About-Us.html afaik are from Tony Brown's works. I visited Mr Dunn's cow barn (with leaking roof and loose stone floor) after he had started, and there were two injection moulding machines of a similar style, one not working, He complained about how much it would cost for an 'expert' to repair it. The other machine, after he ran it over night, moulded about 20kG of plastic around itself. The stryrgon pantograph mill, in the other image on that page, was a pile of rust - al;though I knew Tony Brown looked after it when he had it. It was completely apparent to me that Mr Dunn had absolutely no idea about this type of machinery. I have no idea what price he paid at the time, I don't think he has added any value, and I don't know how much he'd pay for someone to take it off his hands. I think this would be a useful place to start https://scrapmetalprice.org.uk/#:~:text=Scrap metal prices fluctuate due to the demands,better rates for metals they specialise in recycling. Of course, if you think some of the names are of value, then fine, but if you want to produce items, in plastic, then I expect you'd either have to buy fresh machinery, or outsource the manufacturing.

Kenneth Tynan, 1965, according to legend.

It's never been Christmas since they stopped showing 'The African Queen'

They have a few successful model railway businesses for sale, they probably can only list successful businesses.

It's pretty easy to remove the ethanol in relatively small batches, if you're concerned about your garden machinery fuel, for example.

In case you're wondering why we are having to use ethanol in our fuel

The problems at the DVLA were laid bare at meetings of the transport committee in Westminster in January and July.

But, in turn, I expect most of them pay it forward, and are able to help others. That is the way in which fora generally operate. If this forum is looked on as more akin to training tutorials, then the tutors should be paid. I'm not sure how many members just sign up to ask a question, and then disappear or only ask questions, never giving back anything. I'm not sure if any of that approach is desirable or not, I suppose from a commercial point of view, every click on an ad helps. Personally, I maybe log in once or twice a day, but I'm not looking very often at what I 'signed up for', I've moved away form model railways a bit, over the last five years or so. I will not be paying any subscription, nothing against those who, or those wanting a payment, but it is just not worth it to me. I've just checked - the last model railway magazine I bought was June 2016, and it's still unread.

If you look on this forum as a club, which I, and many others view it as, I expect, then in every club I know of, then the members have a say, at least once a year, in how it is run, at the agm. The attraction here, in the forum, is the membership, we are truly the product, not a tin of beans, a football team, whatever.Seeing what folk are doing, asking for information, etc. from each other. As far as I'm concerned, Warners are providing the venue, but not much of the forum content. They need to cover the cost of the 'premises and caretaker', They can recover some of those costs by putting up paid advertising posters for other companies, selling subscriptions to their products to the members at reduced rates/whatever, etc. But the forum is the membership, and many of us generally just want to chat. The product being sold is the ramblings of the membership. It is one thing to give free advice, (it being worth the paper it's written on) It's quite another to expect the giver of the advice to pay for the privilege of giving it, unless they have a vested/monetary interest in what they are discussing..

Cannards Grave?

Or like grown men wanting to put sounds in toy trains that they play with, if you're talking about childish. Maybe getting a bit off the topic, this was a windoze thread..

I'm pleased that M$ causes amusement. In the current era of wokeism, thought police, whatever, it is rare to find much humour. On some fora, they are so 'up themselves' that they edit such abbreviations out of the posts, perhaps you should join in there. fwiw, a search for 'M$' using Bing, brings no obvious result, google has a reference to stack overflow, maybe more, but in any sort of technical context, most folk understand the acronym. To me, MS would possibly mean Marks and Spencer, or most likely the first hit on Bing - Multiple sclerosis. .

Talking about civil wars, which tend to be anything but civil, at one of the current Queen's jubilee round Britain trip, she went by train to the west country, and many folk in Taunton kept there curtains drawn, as the train passed through because, they had ancestors who had died that many years ago, at the hands of judge Jeffreys. That's progressive thinking, at its best.

It is listed on the current coopercraft web site, that is why it no longer exists, I expect. Most likely, it was only the stock, if any that was bought from the previous owner.

It was the guy in London, mentioned a few posts back. I bought a few O gauge kits back then, from a supplier. I wanted to find out more, so i phoned him up a couple of times, he knew what he was doing, which is probably why he got out of model railway kit manufacturing..

The story I heard was that Kildall was out flying his plane. At the time, every user of an ibm mainframe was waiting for ibm to bring out a pc, because folk were breaking company rules and buying any pc, no continuity or control within the companies. The ibm pc put progress back by two or three years, Zenith and others had far better pc type machines. i remember reading in Byte , how ibm selected the machine, and the two guys in the garden shed making the first colour screen driver, green and black text and brown smoke. You never made a mistake if you bought ibm, except a few years later, if you bought the 'luggable'.

I visited his 'works' some years ago. It was a cow barn with leaking roofs. It was apparent that whatever he had bought, he had no clue. There was a strigon pantograph machine, I have a later model. My intention was to show him how to use it. The condition was such that I suggested he traded it in as scrap metal. There was quite a decent myford lathe, in the corner, rain dripping on it. He didn't know how to use - he tried to demonstrate it to me by grabbing a rusty 6 inch nail, shoving it in the 3 jaw, and jamming in the tool. Stacks of soggy cardboard boxes for kits, two injection moulding machines, one not working, the other 'leaking a bit', numerous brass mould plates, with nice green patinas. The floor of the shed was the usual stone and compressed cow muck, in the usual agricultural setting. Back then, what he had was pretty worthless, and I expect he's made it more so. There is no way that you can earn a living from any of it. From the very beginning, it was completely beyond help, imnsho. The photo on his website, was either a stock photo, or from a previous coopercraft. I dread to think of how much of his and other folks' money was wasted.