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Il Grifone

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    Essex next to the LT&SR and Sardinia Costa dei Grifoni
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    GWR, DSB, FS, ATSF and SP. and trains in general.

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  1. I was wondering how she managed tp shift 3 Farish Pullmans*, but then realised they are the later product from the sixties. I should have realised at once - they are nice and straight! * As well as being invariably curvy - the one I had as a boy showed signs of this after a very short period - they are exceedingly heavy and suffer from high friction bearings. I must finish remotoring my King and Black 5. My Prairie has a later chassis and I'm still looking for a Merchant Navy. I have a Rivarossi NYC Hudson, so don't need a Farish one.... (Plastic Kitmaster and Revell kits don't count!)
  2. I thought that was what glue or nuts and bolts were for! 🙂 Remember too that Mk 1 coaches are only 2 feet apart when coupled - more or less with the gangways touching. Of course they won't go corners* with rigid gangways and require flexible ones. * The drawing states these are 3 chains radius , but fails to mention if this is coupled or not. Sorry off topic... This is my first RMweb post on my new laptop. It runs Windows 11 which drove me mad asking for paswords and other nonsense, but seems OK now. Next Ii've got to tame its habit of shutting everything down and hiding it. Surely Everyone wants theiir previous pages and settings restored at switch-on?
  3. Beware you are warned not to eat them! 🤔 Also watch out for customs charges. Or rather the exorbitant charge for collecting these! There used to be allowance for small orders, but this has been abolished. I must do my two GF locomotives (Black 5 and King), but there are other calls on my time.... I'm trying to sort out my Meccano collection. I didn't realise I had quite so much!
  4. Fascinating! I was unaware of any Tinplate 0 gauge produced by Rivarossi, so I looked it up and found this:- http://www.rivarossi-memory.it/Scala_0/Scala_0_1950.htm (Google translate may be of assistence here!) It would appear to have been 'bought-in' by Rivarossi and adorned with automatic couplings of obvious Hornby inspiration. I have the H0 Rivarossi version or rather their model of the earlier compound* Gr.680 class. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FS_Class_680 *It seemed like a good idea at the time!
  5. It looks Airfix to me, as fitted to the GWR 0-4-2T.
  6. Any buffers seem to be expensive these days! I can remember buying K's turned brass ones for 10d a set back in the fifties.
  7. Both models were stretched upwards to make space for the spring. However, unlike the N2, they are reversible.
  8. I've just noticed the instanter couplings are shown in a state of unstable equilibrium! I trust this will be corrected in the final models. Not that it really matters, as they require to be removed to not interfere with the working couplings. The buffers should be rusty too! Pedantic points, but I feel at 25 quid a shot.... I see the wheel back to back dimension appear to conform to NMRA standards. Does this mean a wheel flange thickness of 0.6mm?
  9. A clapped out wagon has brand new wheelsets? Very unlikely I would think! Not that I should comment; £75 for 3 wagons is way out of Grifone price range.
  10. I intend to order some from Replica when I return to the UK (later in the month I hope). so should be able to confirm.
  11. According to one review, it doesn't do continuity. I'll stick with my €4 meters that do. (I bought another one as I can never find the things!)
  12. Dublo and Wrenn screws were/are B.A. except for the large screw which is used to secure the bodies' which are Meccano thread B.S.W. (Actual Meccano screws in some cases - 4MT tank for instance. A Meccano nut can replace the small (and expensive!) nut used on the Duchess and A4.) It is possible that Wrenn switched to metric towards the end, but I do not see any advantage in so doing.
  13. I think I'll get one of those when I'm next in Airstrip One the UK (January if all goes well). I ordered a cheap 'scope* kit from China before they decided to scrap the zero VAT import allowance. (It was noted that the UK copied this EU imposition despite Breks Brexit.) I have still to put it together (I don't think my eyesight will stand it anymore though - micro circuitry!) I initially kicked mysel for noticing after I'd placed the order that it was available already assembled for only a few pounds more, but soon realised that it wouldn't have been a few pounds more as over the limit and liable to VAT & import duty plus an exorbitant fee for the collection of same. * It's not a lot of help for model railways (unless one indulges in DCC (I don't - I have too many locos to even think of equiping them all) and probably not then, but it would be for my other hobby of Hi-Fi. It might have saved me from the disastrous failure of my Kenwood amplifier which killed a speaker - I never was too keen on direct coupled output stages!
  14. I'd change the battery! 20 years is pushing your luck and burst batteries can/will leak corrosive crud all over everything! Our local Chinese emporium has digital meters at €4* including battery. They are good enough for model railway electrics and not the end of the world if you blow them up! I don't think they have audible continuity testing, but a low voltage buzzer will provide that function (or a lamp bulb will serve). * I have seen the same thing at €10 at their less honest competitors.
  15. Would a Märklin crossing be amenable to insulating the running rails for the two rail route? Most of my Märklin track is 3 rail, so I'm not qualified to speak about it. I do have an odd stud contact point with the operating direction indicator. The Italians call these 'marmotte' (marmots) as theirs (at least the earlier ones) bobbed up and down, but I don't know the German name. It is in the process of conversion to three rail and repair of the indicator which works, but waggles about.
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