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  1. Steve Taylor
    I too will watch this with interest. (while avoiding the accusing "gaze" of the j24 I've so far managed to inexplicably not build). I cycled a large part of the Rosedale complex about twenty years ago and have used Ruddland Rigg a fair few times for work - I've some very atmospheric pics shot in snow on that lane, that make it clear how bleak a place the west edge of the North Yorks Moors is when the weather decides to close down.
  2. Steve Taylor

    house sold, so why am i browsing here and not looking for a flat?

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    2. Axlebox

      Axlebox

      ...or a flat to fit the layout idea and having found none big enough you have taken to hard drink and the interweb for comfort...oh no, wait a minute, thats what I'd do...sorry Steve...

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      hehe, given the amount of Laphroaig sitting here..... that plan has a lot to reccomend it. Didn't want ot go into work this week anyhow. Oddly there is a certain amount of speculation based upon the horror of having to sleep in butanone fumes. Where do they get off charging sooooooo much?

      Btw Duncan.... be afraid, be very afraid: there's a chance I might be migrating to your part of the world!

    4. Axlebox

      Axlebox

      no fear, Northumberland is a big county and there is plenty of room...in fact its so big there are parts I've yet to explore and I've been here 15 years!

  3. Steve Taylor

    well, new year looms, new phase of life too. Would anyone care to wager whether I can survive without a telly when the new solo palace is finalised?

    1. SHMD

      SHMD

      Easy. I lived with out telly for 10 years - but the licence people mythered like hell every year.

    2. Porcy Mane

      Porcy Mane

      I never got any bother. First year they called invited her in. Asked if she wanted to look around and check the laptop. SHe declined. Get an annual letter ever since asking if my situation is still the same. Funny thing is, there is still an aerial on the chimney. Do you need an aerial in these modern times?

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      i'm also proposing a mininimum 6 month broadband withdrawal!Not quite certain where myself and the rat-catcher might end up - there is a possibility I may end up within earshot of Mr Axlebox's kettle if some job stuff goes to plan!!!

       

  4. Steve Taylor
    and proof it works...... Broomielaw in P4, track reverse-engineered in templot over the engineers 1:500 OS sheet: so what? Well its templot on crossover on a macbook pro running el capitan. Use a very lo-res version of your map to overlay btw - it slows things down a little at times. I have building templates from this but what you see is the board planning sheets where the templot scheme was exported as a pdf and overlaid onto the correctly rescaled OS scan in photoshop and then re-exported as another set of pdfs for printing.
  5. Steve Taylor

    Dissecting a WTT.... it occurs to me that compiling these in the pre-excell age was a black art

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    2. The Stationmaster

      The Stationmaster

      Really Mr Re6/6 - coloured pencil please (although I did do some using coloured pens). And as for using Excel for timetabling - it was tried a long time ago, no use at all.

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      am now trying to cross-reference against the carriage roster book and my brain has just boiled. I haven't added in freight at all yet....... wince

    4. Maurice Hopper

      Maurice Hopper

      I still have some coloured pencils with BR stock numbers on them that found their way out of 222 Marylebone Road at least fifty years ago. No doubt the timetablers used the same stock numbers. I can remember when the Southern first used a computer to devise a new tt sometime in the mid 1960s. I think there was a period of human adjustments in the weeks after the introduction. But no doubt the computer had only done as it was told!

  6. Steve Taylor
    seeing the prototype like that in colour and down at heel, certainly puts the scale of your project into perspective. More power to your arm and thank you for sharing those.
  7. Steve Taylor

    having to do job applications again is proving a real chore - its getting in the way of building gearboxes for a start.

    1. muddys-blues

      muddys-blues

      Good luck

    2. Peter Kazmierczak

      Peter Kazmierczak

      I know the feeling..............

  8. Steve Taylor

    Into the wheel shop, tap, jig and blueing at the ready.

  9. Steve Taylor

    awful weather. Fire up the soldering iron

    1. DougN

      DougN

      Weather is not bad on this Side of the earth... Still the soldering iron was going hard at a Finney kit!

    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      jealous - just finishing off the chores before i melt a bit of bradwell

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      brew ready. Rob Newman playing on the i-player. Soldering iron warming. RSU excavated. I'm going in.

  10. Steve Taylor

    /me bites my tongue tightly about some aspects of today.

  11. Steve Taylor
    I couldn't agree more with the enjoyment of making things. Having an art college background and trained in the pre-digital era, there is nothing to beat getting stuck in..... even on days where momentum and willpower quickly runs out. The digital era may have much to offer in the way of convenince and productivity, but sometimes I'm not certain if the lessons sink in. At least a real world experiment remains somehow more memorable. Having returned to the hobby after many years "improving" landrovers, I always look at a project with an eye to not just renewal or repair but improvement too, and find that aspect to be just as, if not more, enjoyable and enticing than the eventual outcome of a running day. Perhaps its a sop to my aging ego that I think i can still problem solve. Whatever it may say about my own psychological make up, more power to the arm of Tim and all the other aspiring improvers and problem solvers say I.
  12. Steve Taylor
    ooh now that is tasty. Any chance of a more modular version that could work with Bill Bedford Axle guides? I could be tempted to go with Bradwell spring plates on this and not mess about. Would it work in P4?
  13. Steve Taylor

    A 6-30mm cone cutting bit: ideal for the job that require ....... finesse?

  14. Steve Taylor

    A 6-30mm cone cutting bit: ideal for the job that require ....... finesse?

  15. Steve Taylor

    cutting plastic. Dome off. Now, who hid the drill for opening chimneys up?

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Et tu, Brute?

  16. Steve Taylor

    WEll that day was complete 4rs3. New job offer proccess terminated. Feels like I'll never get out of this rut.

    1. 3 link

      3 link

      Start your own business, at least you can't sack yourself, and you don't need a CV either.... :)

    2. mcrook62

      mcrook62

      It's always the darkest before the dawn Chin up you can do it have faith in yourself

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      I've had my own business, and got fed up of being belittled and underpaid. This one I really wanted to do, but the medical was reassesed and the grading changed. I'm about to have a fight over standards, procedures and equality methinks.

  17. Steve Taylor
    ta muchly. I shall keep an eye out for one of those.
  18. Steve Taylor
    I'm liking the look of that cattle wagon. Whose kit is it?
  19. Steve Taylor
    Alan, sorry to here about your recent troubles and glad to hear that things are resolving themselves for the better. Blimey - put me down for rodding stools (before anyone says it...... that is not a euphemism). What are you using for the rodding? Out of interest..... I can "probably" lay my hands on mechanical S&T fittings without too much difficulty (legally on loan) would you be interested in scanning those? I'm thinking of a variety of cranks, lamps, finials, wheels, pulleys, tubular post fittings, possibly some block instruments etc.
  20. Steve Taylor

    now this is how a grey bank holiday should go: 6music on, tool bags out, bench up and j39 making progress

  21. Steve Taylor

    hmmmmm - j39...... or cattle wagons?

    1. backofanenvelope

      backofanenvelope

      J39 every time :)

    2. bgman

      bgman

      J39 pulling some cattle wagons....it's only money!

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      i have both and plenty of the latter....... just very little decisiveness this weekend

  22. Steve Taylor
    Nice to see an informative piece of work, well thought out and carefully explained. Having a fere morning today..... I may just excavate the 4mt collection and assess what I've got. Thanks for stirring the brain cell. Steve
  23. Steve Taylor
    It does also give room for a big motor and flywheel combo in the tender. I've just stumbled across this project and will be following with interest, as I too have a small collection of std4 s and Ivatt 4mts to attack. You have given me cause to dig out the kemilway wreck I was passed and have a closer look. Looking forward to reading the next installment and thank you for presenting your story in an informative way, relating to the prototype and without assuming the reader is as informed as the builder (as so often seems to be the case). Steve
  24. Steve Taylor

    Medical passed. I am FTR.

    1. steve22

      steve22

      Is that Fit To Rust?

    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      fair point - now where did i leave the waxoil? Fit for work makes such a poor acronym and thinking about it "fit to run" is not encouraging either since I can't stand running

  25. Steve Taylor
    Errr wow. Any chance of doing S&T figures? A signalman holding out the staff/tablet pouch, walking back from exchange, working the frame, working the instruments, stood at the box door etc. A lampman or maintainer at work or acknowledging traffic, lookout man, p-way work gang etcetc. I too like the idea of figures capable of standing up to close up viewing for cameo images.
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