Early Risers.

[Coombe Barton]

43 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

I can assure you that Mick does not wear a yellow bikini top

A number of maybe interconnected questions here:

1. How do you know?
2. You imply that his chosen colour is not yellow?
3. If it is not yellow, what is the preferred colour?
4. Or does it just, as in the 1960s ballad, have polka-dots?

The world should know.

 

And probably cringe.

[Dave Hunt]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

You mean “melt back down to pig iron” put right?

 

A fitting kind of iron for Swindon products?

 

Dave

 

(can't help feeling that I live a bit too close to the Muddy Hollow to carry on with this thread)

 

[New Haven Neil]

Sneaking in, probably not under the radar though.  One of Mrs NHN's trees, with an industrial loco in the background, which do not all look the same. Hunslet 16" in this case.

 

[iL Dottore]

1 hour ago, Barry O said:

..., fear not  the Great Wander Round tribe  (incorporating the Dirty, Noisy and Slow) forget when their kings failed locos from proper railways found the trains these pulled not exacting to say the least...

Sirrah,

You have grievously insulted me and my beloved GWR and I demand satisfaction!
Shunter’s Poles at 06:00, Old Oak Common. The win is on first touch and the loser buys the beer!

I Remain

Your Faithful Servant

&tc., &tc., &tc.

[iL Dottore]

50 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

Sneaking in, probably not under the radar though.  One of Mrs NHN's trees, with an industrial loco in the background, which do not all look the same. Hunslet 16" in this case.

 

Nice forest husbandry.

Does she do bespoke orders?

Edited June 29, 2020 by iL Dottore

[iL Dottore]

58 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

A number of maybe interconnected questions here:

1. How do you know?
2. You imply that his chosen colour is not yellow?
3. If it is not yellow, what is the preferred colour?
4. Or does it just, as in the 1960s ballad, have polka-dots?

The world should know.

 

And probably cringe.

Damn, time to reach for the brain bleach again.

That’s an image to wash out of ones memory....

Edited June 29, 2020 by iL Dottore

[Happy Hippo]

1 hour ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

A fitting kind of iron for Swindon products?

 

Dave

 

(can't help feeling that I live a bit too close to the Muddy Hollow to carry on with this thread)

 

Left a bit.............Left a bit....................

 

Bricks gone!

[Happy Hippo]

1 hour ago, Coombe Barton said:

A number of maybe interconnected questions here:

1. How do you know?
2. You imply that his chosen colour is not yellow?
3. If it is not yellow, what is the preferred colour?
4. Or does it just, as in the 1960s ballad, have polka-dots?

The world should know.

 

And probably cringe.

He is a covert fan of the Gresley A4 Pacific.

 

Therefore he does not wear a yellow bikini top, its...........................

 

STREEEEAK!.......................................................

 

And that does require brain bleach!

 

Especially if he's pleased to see you.

Edited June 29, 2020 by Happy Hippo

[Happy Hippo]

1 hour ago, iL Dottore said:

Sirrah,

You have grievously insulted me and my beloved GWR and I demand satisfaction!
Shunter’s Poles at 06:00, Old Oak Common. The win is on first touch and the loser buys the beer!

I Remain

Your Faithful Servant

&tc., &tc., &tc.

Bunter seems to have forgotten that Baz  was responsible for the testing of the multi barrelled Awl 'chukka' for the Awlmighty Debs.

 

How many poles at once Baz?

 

And from how far?

[Barry O]

Before you all get agitated by the Great Wander Round.. I did live in Didcot and was a member of the GWS for a time. I even managed to get some paint onto a coach interior.. but my mate who tried hard to fettle the steam things there was not always positive about the engineering of them. To me the best they had was the Hunslet 0-6-0 Diesel shunter.. possible one of the most powerful engines on site..

 

Baz

[TheSignalEngineer]

2 hours ago, TheQ said:

No different to the military,  every time a junior officer is posted in, he has to prove himself. So he starts changing things around,  making vast amounts of work.........,

It could be just the same on the railway. I remember one S&T man promoted beyond his brain power into a post in our office.

When his new No.2 passed him some work he had completed he said "It's done like such and such in Nottingham. I want it changed to that way". No.2 snapped back at him "You're in Birmingham now, all of our depots like it presented this way, so that's the way it's staying."

[Barry O]

1 minute ago, Happy Hippo said:

Bunter seems to have forgotten that Baz  was responsible for the testing of the multi barrelled Awl 'chukka' for the Awlmighty Debs.

 

How many poles at once Baz?

 

And from how far?

on the  Multiple Launch Pole System.. or MLPS? Well 24 in the first salvo, reload within a minute and. whoosh.. there goes another 24.

 

Of course with the new Multiple Pointed Spears  each spear carries a canister of 4 little hypersonic spears.. they make it sting a bit...

 

baz

[tigerburnie]

I kinda feel sorry for all you guys stuck with one region of locos, whereas those of us from Great Central land got everything passing by, especially in the summer with cross country specials that ran from Edinburgh to Penzance and the daily Newcastle to Bournemouth amongst others. When a peg went up on a summer Saturday we'd try to guess what region the next loco would belong to, never got bored, they definitely shut the wrong railway.

[Sir TophamHatt]

Well, another day over.

 

And another day of no contact from work, despite them saying they would let me know by Monday.

 

Have a plan to buy some elusive 45L boxes tomorrow. I need about 10, which is a big investment but they're to store stuff in the loft. Trying to shift everything I have that's temporary into cardboard boxes and leave the plastic tubs for long term storage.

Yes I know we should all be reducing plastic waste but these are long term and I doubt I'll be getting rid of them for the rest of my life.

 

Got to pick up some stuff for Mrs STH - she's doing the best with Little STH as he's just hit a grumpy stage. She's amazing!

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. Whats all this arguing about kettles and what colour they should be. My kettle is black, the only copper is on the three pin plug and it goes by the name of Russell Hobbs. Its been in action to make a pot of tea that is now being drunk. Proper locomotives should be rail blue with yellow ends. 

Tin hat and flak jacket donned and I'm off.

[New Haven Neil]

Not currently iD, or certainly not until the 7mm scale Forest of Dean is indeed forested!  Our coffee table is covered in the things!  There are 18 in view.....

[Florence Locomotive Works]

Afternoon all,

 

Shock horror, 

The globe calve and flywheel arrived today. But there’s a catch. The valve is completely the wrong size, and the flywheel arrived corroded and wasn’t even supplied with a grub screw! Unfortunately I can’t rethread the inlet port as the steam inlet on the valve is huge when compared with the main steam line, so suggestions as to where to go from here are very welcome. 

[BoD]

Evening all.

 

Haven’t posted for a good while although I have dropped by occasionally.  The sheer volume of posts is difficult to keep up with.

 

 

Generally life is sh!t.  

 

Mum, who is 89 keeps falling over and it looks like some form of support is needed. Being fiercely independent, she won’t accept this.

Son and partner’s Covid episode is, thankfully, over with no ill effects.

Daughter is still furloughed and redundancy looks likely.  
Brother in Law, and dear, dear friend, is on  McMillan end of life support.

The daft mutt, who is fourteen and a half and has been really fit up to now has, over the last few weeks, aged visibly.

I am missing my volunteering and not being able to do the things I normally take for granted, although this in the overall scheme of things is a minor irritation.

The layout has had a fair amount of work done on it and is, just about , keeping me sane. (Sorry, your Debship).

 

As Marvin would say, here I am, brain the size of a planet...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Happy Hippo]

27 minutes ago, Florence Locomotive Works said:

Afternoon all,

 

Shock horror, 

The globe calve and flywheel arrived today. But there’s a catch. The valve is completely the wrong size, and the flywheel arrived corroded and wasn’t even supplied with a grub screw! Unfortunately I can’t rethread the inlet port as the steam inlet on the valve is huge when compared with the main steam line, so suggestions as to where to go from here are very welcome. 

 

Get hold of a suitable bit of brass hex.  turn one end down until it is the correct size to use the appropriate die to cut a thread.

 

This deals with the one end.

 

Now drill a hole in the other end and run the appropriate sized tap into it, so that you can connect your globe valve.

 

Now drill a small hole through the whole caboodle  to allow steam to pass through.

 

You can  decrease the bore of the union on the outlet side  of the globe valve by soldering some brass rod which has been drilled a sliding fit for the correct size copper pipe to connect to the lubricator.

 

Because of the low pressures involved, you can safely soft solder the pipework between the globe valve and the lubricator.

Edited June 29, 2020 by Happy Hippo

[BoD]

2 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

 

Get hold of a suitable bit of brass hex.  turn one end down until it is the correct size to use the appropriate die to cut a thread.

 

This deals with the one end.

 

Now drill a hole in the other end and run the appropriate sized tap into it, so that you can connect your globe valve.

 

You can use decrease the bore of the union on the outlet side  of the globe valve by soldering some brass rod which has been drilled a sliding fit for the correct size copper pipe to connect to the lubricator.

 

Because of the low pressures involved, you can safely soft solder the pipework between the globe valve and the lubricator.

 

.... and change those white shoes.  They don’t suite you at all.

[J. S. Bach]

3 hours ago, Florence Locomotive Works said:

In my personal opinion, all things Southern look the same, he says whilst he’s rebuilding a LC&DR Small Scotchman.

Hmmm, yes, the Southern Crescent!

[Barry O]

5 minutes ago, BoD said:

 

.... and change those white shoes.  They don’t suite you at all.

are they shoes or socks.. if the latter.. well one doesn't wear white socks unless one is playing the best game in the world.. cricket!

 

Baz

[J. S. Bach]

4 hours ago, Coombe Barton said:

 ...snip... Or does it just, as in the 1960s ballad, have polka-dots?

True, it was an "itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny yellow polka-dot bikini"!

Edited June 29, 2020 by J. S. Bach

[Florence Locomotive Works]

7 minutes ago, BoD said:

 

.... and change those white shoes.  They don’t suite you at all.

Those aren’t shoes, those are socks! I was wearing house slippers at the time.

[Florence Locomotive Works]

12 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

 

Get hold of a suitable bit of brass hex.  turn one end down until it is the correct size to use the appropriate die to cut a thread.

 

This deals with the one end.

 

Now drill a hole in the other end and run the appropriate sized tap into it, so that you can connect your globe valve.

 

Now drill a small hole through the whole caboodle  to allow steam to pass through.

 

You can  decrease the bore of the union on the outlet side  of the globe valve by soldering some brass rod which has been drilled a sliding fit for the correct size copper pipe to connect to the lubricator.

 

Because of the low pressures involved, you can safely soft solder the pipework between the globe valve and the lubricator.

That might be rather difficult as I don’t have a lathe, and any machinist round here will charge an arm and a leg for even that work. But thank you anyways.