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  1. Morning Tony

    I have enjoyed watching your demonstration videos and although I’ve built 50/60 locos one’s always open to new ideas . I like the way you do your pickups and have just used it one my latest chassis, so easy compared with my previous way of doing them.

    I mentioned a while ago that I use Fry powerflow flux  ( yellow tube ) as it works on both brass and white metal , as you said at the time it does need a lot of cleaning after to remove the green sludge . I think that you mix up your own solution of liquid flux ?  Are there any ready mixed liquid fluxes available apart from Carrs  ? which I think have different coloured labels for different uses . 
    Dennis

  2. I’m purely a DC modeller , to many engines to go DDC and no desire for sound , I have a friend who did go down the DDC road and he hasn’t a clue how to re-program anything and I would bet he’s not on his own.

     

    As for my D6703 absolutely lovely model . Along with my Deltic the best RTR loco I have ever bought .

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  3. 20 minutes ago, Phil Bullock said:


    Not unique …. Stands for no boiler. Although as modelled the boiler port is plated over the safety valves … the two small protruding items in front of the port … are still present. The reference photo Here still has a steam heat bag too so it may well be that NFB would be more accurate …. No functional boiler … although that could be open to misinterpretation… 

     

    Thanks , just something I don’t remember seeing in the flesh or on photographs.

  4. On 04/11/2023 at 08:53, JeffP said:

    There's a refinery at Saltend.

    Or did you mean where did the tanks go?

     

    Please excuse my  ignorance I didn’t know there was a refinery on the north side of the Humber .

    I take it that trip 13 was from the refinery to the exchange sidings ? So yes where did the tankers go to , you don’t see many photos of tanker trains around the east coast main lines . 

    The ones around the Leeds area , didn’t they all originate from Stanlow or was there some from Hull ?

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  5. I started an apprenticeship at an Engineering company in Manchester in the mid sixties , Francis Shaws specialised in making machinery for the rubber and plastic industries.

    Francis Shaws won the contract to build American car tyre producing machines for the UK market but also for export to Eastern Europe that Americans wouldn’t deal with . So in the early 1970s we had a very large order to supply  Romania with all the equipment to set up tyre production over there. 

    I think in those days companies went through a overseas government agency in regards to payment , my point being it was all about two way trading .

    I just missed out with the chance to go over to Romania to join the crew installing the plant , they were liking like kings out there on our wages .

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  6. 1 hour ago, JeffP said:

    Waiting to go to Drapers for cutting up.

    He scrapped several A1's...and preserved ANOTHER black five.

    Not in 1963 .  ( bit surprised that they don’t have their nameplates on in 1963 ) 60145 would go on to become the last A1 in service . I do take your point of all the locos that past though Drapers it was a black five he saved .

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  7. My first visit to York model exhibition for quite a few years  , C&L finescale was one of the draws that made me go .

    So glad I did along with my good wife , we have both really enjoyed everything that was on offer , I got what I wanted from C&L plus Langley models and Dart castings .

    Enjoyed a good meal on the 3rd floor which I thought was very reasonable priced (I know how to get the wife on board )  And today I didn’t se any problems with friendly staff , and a good menu on offer .

    Layout wise as you have seen had a good selection covering all gauges. I had to stand at the Chapel -en-Le -Frith layout for a while until the strange unrecognisable loco came out ... a garret engine that was never built ! Brilliant looking model .

    So thank you to all you organisers , I hope that’s it’s been a successful year .

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  8. Hi Philip

    Just to say that I really enjoyed the exhibition yesterday , I had no problems with food , we stopped at Wetherspoons on Oxford Road for a full English.

    Would have liked a few more specialists traders but it looks like them days may have gone , I’ve just read about the demise of Eileen’s Euphoria.

    Sorry to read that it may not have broke even, I thought with the crowd yesterday that it was a winner . I do hope you are able to put the exhibition on next year at the same venue.

    Dennis

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