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    Playing with trains, teaching myself keyboards and riding my bike. I am however definitely not a Cyclist.

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  1. A few years ago I got a couple of reels of red 1" masking tape from Wilko which was to some extent "plasticky": sort of halfway between the paper stuff and electrician's tape.. It still tore easily, but was slightly stretchy and more robust than the usual white crepe paper type. It was the dog's danglers for labelling wires and whatnot. If anyone recognises what I'm on about and knows of an online source of it (any colour), I'd be very glad to know of it.
  2. I thank you sincerely for taking the trouble to post that, but frankly I simply couldn't be doing with all that faffing. At my age, life's too short. I now know that I was thinking of BreezeBrowser, which is exactly what I need. Unfortunately it's no longer free, but at least there's a free trial.
  3. I must be missing something here. I cannot see how with Win 11 and Edge I can drag and drop a folder of image files into my desired order, select all, and have them renumbered for me consecutively such that next time the folder is opened, they appear in my chosen order. How exactly is it done?
  4. OK ... the real problem here is that I used to be a professional snapper, and I can't for the life of me remember the software we used for doing this. Essentially the problem is this: say I have folder containing 5 jpegs. The file names are A, B, C, D and E. When I open the folder, the thumbnails are in that order. What I want to do is drag and drop them into the order C, A, D, E, B, select those five, click on "rename" and Bob's your uncle - next time the folder's opened, there they are, numbered consecutively but in the new order that I wanted them in. We did this all the time, but I don't now know what we used to do it ... 🙄
  5. I need software which will let me view a folder of images as thumbnails, drag and drop them into a custom order, then rename them sequentially so that thereafter they open in that order every time the folder's opened. Is there anything available free which will do that, either for Windows 11 or Chromebook?
  6. OK, so maybe I'll give FB a go. Anybody care to suggest a group to try for selling my 00 early/late BR steam locos and rolling stock, including 70-odd private owner wagons, many of them being less common/limited editions as well as controller, scenics etc etc?
  7. Apologies for moving back onto topic, but has anyone experience of flogging stuff on Gumtree or via a Facebook group? I am right now having to part with my railway and need to decide which way to go. Ebay is a non-starter AFAIC. ETA - I'm minded to flog the lot to the local dealer. But ... I know it's a business and he has to make a decent profit, but it irks me that when it comes to boxed 00 wagons I understand he offers a fiver each. My problem with that is it takes no account of a lot of uncommon/limited edition PO wagons, all of which are pristine, which could be expected to go for considerably more than what he charges for his normal run-of-the-mill wagons!
  8. Anybody know how they converted a steady supply of steam into a controlled regular pull/release cycle on the end of a string? What was the mechanism?
  9. On the North American steam locomotives, what was the mechanism by which the bell was rung? I know it swung on pivots, but was the rope pulled manually, or what?
  10. How exactly did they work? I'm only familiar with the ordinary short lamp irons, so I've never understood how the lamp was fixed to them so it stayed at the top (as I assume was the intention). How was it done? Any why? Why the need for a "high level" lamp?
  11. Thank you gentlemen. Every day is indeed a school day here ...
  12. I am reading the June 1961 issue of "The Railway Magazine" (as you do), wherein is a fascinating article titled as above. I learn that "Every three months, the section permanent way inspector, in addition to his normal examination, takes calipered depths of rails, notes expansion joint openings, corrosion, chair-gall, and other relevant features." What, pray, is "chair-gall"?
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