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  1. Siberian Snooper
    Hi Pete Would that be tap dancing, perchance? SS
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    Hi Gordon Which bit is the fiddle & storage yard please? Have a good Christmas. SS
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    Is blue the right colour? SS
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    It will require some severe weathering before it's fit for BCB use, or should that be abuse? SS
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    A bloke got on me bus this afternoon and pulled two packets of Senior Service out of his pocket before he could get his ticket out, I hadn't seen them for over twenty years. SS
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    Does this mean a large number of ethnic takeaways appearing on the layout? As per the '70s
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    How many tinnies will it support? SS
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    (Entering the minefield) If it's an all airbraked train you might get away with applying the hand brakes to a number of vehicles to stop them running away should the air leak off whilst detached from the loco. Where as if a brake van is used the brake on that should hold whatever vehicles are left on the main. I don't know what the rule book and local appendix says on this point. Hopefully someone with local knowledge will help with this point. (exit minefield) SS
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    I don't think that it was a good and proper load test as I was unable to count the number of tinnies used and later emptied, unlike a Ron Heggs bridge load test. SS
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    Hi Chaz Some sort of jig might help to hold the turnout whilst setting about making the changes. Cheers SS
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    Any wagons left on the main will need to be attached to a brake van. SS
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    Wasn't Linda Lusardi one of the Sun page 3 girles back then? Of course if it had been a garage or tyre fitters it would have been the Pirrelli calender. :sungum: SS
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    Hi Chaz It may have been a struggle, but the end result looks superb, so I would say that the effort was well worth it. Cheers SS
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    Hi Ron Power for operating the screw thread could be provided by a battery powered electric drill. I have seen this used somewhere, but for the life of me I can't remember where. Cheers SS
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    Hi Gordon I have only used 20mm verticals to produce a 'T' section under a 4mm thick plywood track bed see this thread with photo's on the Templot forum. http://85a.co.uk/forum/view_topic.php?id=2077&forum_id=6&jump_to=13834#p13834. No sign of sagging yet on 20 year old baseboards. Cheers SS
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    It works for me now. Cheers SS
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    Ditto SS
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    Hi Chaz It might be tedious and boring but the end result will make it all worth while in the end, what you have produced so far is excellent. I imagine that a never off the boil kettle would help in such circumstances or a few cans of beer. Cheers SS
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    Have you ordered your asbestos fire retarded / heat proof fingers yet? SS
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    Steel plate / sheet is usually stored almost vertically in an 'A' frame this way a couple of blokes can move it relatively easily or for the thicker Plate a crane or gantry can pick it up using a couple of snail dogs on the end of a pair of strops. If the sheet is really thin then a bit of wood shoved in the cam helps to get a bite. Cheers SS
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    Hi Gordon Not the eastern I'm afraid but on the western the retaining walls between Birmingham Snow Hill and Jewellery Quarter a pretty high, not sure exactly how high though. Cheers SS
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    Most of the scrappies I visited in the 60's for bike bits or prams for soap box trollies usually had old caravan as an office. SS
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    Must be Cornish then
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    Hi Dave I saw the buildings at Scaleforum and have to say the were marvellous. Cheers SS.
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    When I first got my PCV license ('96) I worked at Stratford on Avon for 4 months but was in digs at Warwick, there is a pub at the bottom of the station approach, the name of which escapes me but that was the first pub I had ever seen brew XI on draught, I'd only seen keg before that, the draught is slightly more palatable than keg. SS
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