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Gibbo675

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  1. Hi Monty, That would be an aircraft style repair patch, either rivetted or patch screwed into place within the structure of the stressed skin construction of the locomotives body shell. No cowboy did that ! Gibbo.
  2. Hi Corbs, You know its present condition is termed as: "Nearly Started". Anyway, how is your Metro-Camm coach getting along ? I haven't seen it since I posted it. Gibbo.
  3. Hi Mark, That is interesting as the container box is a 20' insulated container and it would seem that it is being used for the beef traffic of William Donald and Son's. The cement traffic in Presflo tanks had similarly sized logos attached to them to shew usage. Gibbo.
  4. Hi Folks, Posted before but to the mention of Kitson-Meyer types, here is my one: Gibbo.
  5. Hi Hroth, Imperial College's nuclear reactor isn't far from Windsor as it happens. Gibbo.
  6. Hi Northmoor, Its a start I suppose. I see you are expecting some serious power with those great big sand boxes !!! Gibbo.
  7. Hi Folks, No pictures as yet, is this because you are all armchair theorists ? Gibbo.
  8. Hi Folks, I think we need less talking nonsense about funnily fueled locomotives and see some drawings of what all these funnily fuelled locomotives might actually look like. Gibbo.
  9. Hi RJS, The trouble is you cant tell them, they don't want to hear it. Better yet below 150ppm all plants WILL DIE period. Gibbo.
  10. H Rodent, That is precisely what plants do, surely you have heard of photosynthesis ? The bad news is that it requires huge amounts of power. The good news is that it is solar power, its free and it works best when its not raining. Gibbo.
  11. Hi Johnster, You somehow missed out, WELSH !!! Gibbo.
  12. Hi Johnster, I see that you have putting the Seven Liberal Arts to good effect there. Gibbo.
  13. Hi Mike, You are quite well observed with the above and you are indeed correct about stable supplies generally and also for railway traction. My main point about greenwash is that the only truth I've ever seen in a newspaper was fish and chips ! Gibbo.
  14. Hi Martyn, I might pull my finger out and deal with some of my nearly started examples. Gibbo.
  15. Hi Denys, It really is refreshing to read a post that has been written by someone that has read a physics book rather than the greenwash that is printed in newspapers and broadcast by the television stations. Gibbo.
  16. Hi Bill, I would suggest that the differential of the volume of flame in a locomotive firebox to provide traction to a train as compared with your soldering torch may well provide the problem of scaling such a contraption. Gibbo.
  17. Only if you account for smelting of the steel and all of the alloying elements that go into the manufacturing of the massive spring, and also take into account all of the cow farts from the amount of beef you will have eat to be able to turn the key that will wind up the spring.
  18. Hi Suzie, It would seem to me that to separate out the nitrogen form the combustion atmosphere will take even more energy than to to just acquire the hydrogen in the first place. Where does the energy for that process come from, where does the energy to acquire the hydrogen come also as this never seems to be quoted in the efficiency or environmental calculations? Gibbo.
  19. But Dave, what if they are of different variants ?!?!?
  20. Hi Kieth, I would say if it only a three car set it is no less of a trouble than unfitted goods, also that there is a brake van at the head and likely one at the other end. Gibbo.
  21. Hi Martyn, Is the reason you are resin casting the details because you have more than one locomotive of any particular type to produce ? I can see the pint if there are few to do rather than just one, although I suppose you have got the master for another day. Gibbo.
  22. Hi Paul, A super body of work and credit to all of you that contributed. Unfortunately as I was in my early to mid teens at the time, and 17 when MRC ceased, the more detailed aspects of model railways were lost upon me at the time. Is there any way the work could be republished as a volume or as a website ? Gibbo.
  23. Hi Folks, I used to get Model Railway Constructor every month and thought it was great, my friend David took the Railway Modeller and so we had the best of both worlds. We did however have our own names for magazines that being the, Model Railway Destructor and the Railway Meddler, it amused our teenage selves ! The datafile series has been mentioned and I have to say I found articles such as that very informative although I perhaps should have taken more notice at the time. It is fair to say back in the 1980's I was much more interested in locomotives than wagons, probably a function of age. Gibbo.
  24. Hi Dave, The RAL equivalent for Rail Grey is 7038. I have got a RAL chart and I may post some colours when I have a comparison session. Gibbo.
  25. Hi Folks, Here is one from 1977, the very year that Hornby released their venerable class 25, Gibbo.
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