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This is a glorious piece of pedantry, and I congratulate you on it - especially the aviation part. Aviation enthusiasts are easily as finicky about details as railway ones On your 'tieing to the RR tracks point' - ISTR there is an early film in which the tiee is male, and this may come before There are some terrific whiskers in that film Richard

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Could you throw me down a rope?

Isn't is because they sort of subtract current from one wire from current in another. The difference should be zero, if it isn't the residual from the sum triggers the switch

Nicely put. Being at the social outcast end of model railways (009 NG modeller), I'm now toying with ideas around this: https://www.tramwayinfo.com/Tramframe.htm?https://www.tramwayinfo.com/trampostcards/Postc136.htm Richard

Which no doubt Churchward learnt on his visit to Crewe works (his signature is in the visitors book) Or some other similar shite Richard

Master and pupil Richard

And that's fair enough, you gave it a try. Can't argue with that Richard

Thank you for the link Richard

Gresley pacifics have an irregular crank spacing, something like 120/115/125 degrees* I wouldn't change the loco you have, chances are it will run badly if you do. At 120 degrees you'll exaggerate the free play in the chassis and connecting rods, making it more likely one wheel will get itself out of sync locking up the chassis Richard *There's a good reason for this

I doubt you could get a patent for two Ramsbottom safety valves side by side. Ramsbottom patented the original in 1855 Richard

Not really my subject, however it looks like the 'inline' ones anchor a conductor, the pendant type just hold it up. The anchors occur at sharp changes of direction, and I guess there is a limit to the length of a conductor Now we need an expert to give a better answer Richard

It was call Pure, I think Richard

In my opinion as a railway modeller, I enjoy it! I find it hard to talk about what modelling means to me - it was something likely to get you picked on growing up so I don't talk about it. Here is a programme that, although desperately superficial due to being crammed into a competition format, is still actually about railway modelling. And it is entertaining even if the standard of modelling is often necessarily basic, so non modellers watch it. If nothing else, it is a starting point for a conversation abut how what I do is different from what is on the telly. I must say those short shots of Clarendon do help illustrate the contrast And I'd still be proud to have made that beach and cliffs Richard

I've melted iron but never boiled it. I've vaporized zinc though* - I wouldn't recommend that either, gives you a terrible headache Richard *welding up a galvanized quench tank for blacksmithing

I think it depends how you approach the theme. The entries this week went for a linear narrative (this happened which caused that, then something else) which doesn't lend itself to continuous viewing. Corby seemed to get closer with the lava mining for the lamp factory Richard

It is - I didn't dig back far enough through the thread to find the correct title It's quite true. I remember doing this as a young teenager in a friends cellar. The boiling point is around 350C so not too hard to achieve I would strongly recommend people don't do this Richard

TBH, I don't know how many posts have gone, the whole start of this thread now reads very strangely Somewhere I have an Autotransformer H&M controller - I wonder where it is? Richard (who boiled mercury as a child)

Which is likely to become a self-defeating behaviour. Why respond to someone who has what you say deleted? Richard

I have been pondering this (a bit) Do the effects have to be repeatable? The sink hole wasn't particularly More to the point, would a more spectacular volcano that destroyed the surrounding countryside be a higher scoring model? Uncomfortable for a modeller, it would be a superb piece of theatre - much like a film explosion Richard

Here: http://www.lwmrs.co.uk/clublayouts/clarendon.html Richard

Indeed Well, nearby on a UK scale anyway Richard

Isn't that by Dire Straits?

I shall make a note to not eat an H&M Clipper That was a close call... Richard

Mornington Crescent!