Snowwolflair

I think we have to keep in mind that its been Chinese New Year for the last month, like Christmas + New Year+ Easter and a few bank holidays thrown in for good measure and nothing will have happened since late January (and probably since before Christmas), so probably nothing to report.

It is sold as a generic chemical from chemical merchants just do a web search.

Heptane removes the wax completely, which you have to do to get good paint adhesion.

Absolutely it is still the case.

You deliberately misunderstand. I order a cake and pay for it. When it’s ready the baker says it the cost we agreed plus the cost of three extra eggs and although I made the mistake of giving you the wrong price you have to pay for the extra eggs.

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You are partially correct, however, In most of the world the additional authorised work to complete the work as specified in the contract is at the factories risk (the client must be asked for approval for the additional work). In China its at the clients risk even though the client does not authorise the additional work to complete the contractually deliverable product.. You can easily see how this can be abused. Its a bit like a cost plus contract.

They are unpaid for work they did not get authorisation to carry out.

Any contract agreed in China (and Hong Kong) even if it is stated as primarily lawful in another jurisdiction is subservient to Chinese law.

Experience, I used to run factories in China

The game in China is. Thank you for paying up front for the work we quoted for. We have completed the work, however it has cost us more than we quoted. We were not obliged to tell you this or ask your approval under Chinese contract law. Under China's contract law we are entitled to surcharge you for the extra work and we are not prepared to release anything until you pay the surcharge. You can take legal action but you will loose in a Chinese court of law. There is no legal limit to the amount they can surcharge and it generally varies based on how desperate they believe the customer is.

Dave has been attending shows (photos have peen posted) and has been anticipating magazine coverage, which is typically unreliable and has a three month lead, as his promotion methods. Without paying out large amounts for advertising he really does not have many alternatives. Top this with the amount of deliberate bating he gets by a few Trolls (fortunately now subsided) when he does post you can understand his reluctance. I always refer back to the Troll post last year on the NGF forum saying his class 14 was going to be released by Dapol.

A quick Google search also found this quote "Do not be misled by 'model railway experts' saying the GWR always put assistant engines on passenger trains inside the train engine - that is a very misleading representation of a far more complex picture which depended on the size of engine of driving wheels, the engine's wheel arrangement, and whatever sorts of assistant were authorised at particular places. Gradients were particularly relevant in that generally - and I suspect with only very rare exceptions or only over very short distances - it was not permitted to assist passenger trains from the rear over falling gradients. Equally there were restrictions on the manner of assisting freights if there were any particular sections of rising gradient which involved a falling gradient."

And running with a pilot loco Or two kings or three kings

This has already been covered several pages back and it wont be a problem.