RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted January 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 4, 2021 Hi Gordon, Wishing you a Happy New Year. The turnout building should speed up now that you've got your eye in again and now that the holiday period is over the sport will return to normal levels of distraction. I hope that the wait is not to long before you get your results and the latest covid news doesn't throw a spanner in the medical works. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted January 4, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 4, 2021 Just keep getting the points built Gordon.. the medicos take a lot of time but generally get the right answer! Baz 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jukebox Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Happy New Year, Gordon. Lovely to watch those crossovers mature! Sending you very best wishes for good health outcomes in 2021. Regards Scott 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 (edited) 19 hours ago, gordon s said: One C10 crossover which takes up all of 45" in length ... That's nearly the length of one of my baseboards . Edited January 5, 2021 by aardvark Spelin. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37Oban Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 1 hour ago, aardvark said: That's nearly the length of one of my baseboards . And two thirds the length of my layout without the fiddle yard! Ah, to have the space! Roja 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted January 8, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 8, 2021 On 28/12/2020 at 09:39, gordon s said: Picked up some useful info on stone sheet material on another thread on RMweb...... Do you have a link to the thread & stone sheet info please Gordon? Sounds interesting..... Thanks Brian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted January 8, 2021 Author Share Posted January 8, 2021 (edited) These were the two threads. The paper I referred to was available via eBay and is certainly different to anything I have seen before. It appears to be an embossed wallpaper, but the back of the sheet bears no relation to the front. It seems to sit between the Slaters and Wills offerings. One of the things I admired on Tetleys Mill was Dave’s use of Slaters 0 gauge dressed stone. It always looked great on his layout, but on ET it somehow looked slightly over scale, probably because Allan Downes buildings were predominantly brick, whereas as Tetley’s were stone throughout. I like the basics blocks of the Slaters sheets, whereas the Wills sheet looks more ornamental. I may order some of the 0 gauge block stone sheets to play around with as the H0 sheets look more like the Wills stone sheet. Early days, but worth a punt....... Edited January 8, 2021 by gordon s 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post gordon s Posted January 10, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2021 (edited) Morning lads....My whole life is on repeat right now. Another week gone. Another two round trips to Oxford. Another arm full of blood taken and still no biopsy results. I rang them Friday and apparently it can take 7-10 days to get meaningful results so I don't expect to hear anything until next week. Another Oxford trip planned this week, so hopefully the ducks will fall in line and I might get to know what's going on. Bile levels in my blood are now four times what they should be but no one seems particularly alarmed, so I'm taking my lead from them. I'm still fine but sadly my BiL is slowly slipping away and may not make the next seven days. His family have all been there for the last few days, so the house has been full of happy memories and a mix of laughter and tears. In between all this I've managed to do a bit of soldering and what should have been four hours work has taken the best part of a week as I've had to push myself to do a bit now and again with all that's going on. Having crossed over from the down fast to slow at one end of the layout, there was was always going to be a need to reverse that route at the other end and half an hour ago saw this lifted from my work board and dropped roughly into place. Of course, now I've run out of all my good C & L sleeper strip, so I'll probably have another go at cutting my own strip from 1mm PCB sheet. The quality of strip from C & L is always high, but with 5 packs of sleeper strip now costing the best part of a £100, I'm going to have to consider cutting my own again. Certainly not the fault of C & L as the price of the raw material has gone up dramatically. Thinking back, I'm fairly sure I was only paying £6 per pack around 8 years ago. With a large radius turnout using one pack of strips alone, plus the rail and solder etc, the new kits from Wayne are looking more attractive every day. So two more to do and then I can start finishing all the boards and make a start on retaining walls etc. There's a traverser to build plus the whole shed board, so the good money is on a completion date around 2030...... Had to look up Marine FC for the game this afternoon as I had no idea where they were. The web came back with Crosby, Merseyside, so I hope there won't be a cup upset this afternoon. Enjoyed watching Chorley play yesterday, so they'll do in the fourth round if we can get past the lads from 'oop north..... Covid appears to be getting worse and the NHS are under tremendous pressure. Saw this first hand last week as one appointment with respiratory was cancelled as they clearly needed all doctors to treat Covid patients. I really feel for these guys as they are working under enormous pressure and yet you still see people who seem to be completely oblivious to the whole thing. Just all keep safe and well or I'll be talking to myself..... Edited January 10, 2021 by gordon s 2 1 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Agree Spurs are on a roll right now but good that a small club gets a chance in the limelight. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted January 10, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 10, 2021 Sad news about your BiL, Gordon. I hope he is made to feel comfortable in what appears to be his last days. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted January 10, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 10, 2021 Gordon, as usual your point building is first class. I hope the medics get it all sorted asap as it gets in the way of layout building. Baz 1 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 2 hours ago, gordon s said: Had to look up Marine FC for the game this afternoon as I had no idea where they were. The web came back with Crosby, Merseyside, so I hope there won't be a cup upset this afternoon. I just loved the bit about the house numbers being on the fence bordering the ground so they know which door to knock on to get the ball back. Can you imagine Harry Kane doing that? (I know it'll be the reserve reserve team and all that but it's a lovely image) 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Fisher Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Just now, LNER4479 said: I just loved the bit about the house numbers being on the fence bordering the ground so they know which door to knock on to get the ball back. Can you imagine Harry Kane doing that? (I know it'll be the reserve reserve team and all that but it's a lovely image) They had one of Footballs longest serving managers if not the longest for many years (33) By trade a window cleaner it was joked he would take advice from many of his clients in the Crosby area, area with many Merseyside based footballers calling the Crosby home.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted January 10, 2021 Author Share Posted January 10, 2021 Having sat and watched Crawley Town thrash Leeds 3-0, I hope that’s the only shock of the day, but who knows with the Cup. Love the house number story...... 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted January 10, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 10, 2021 On 08/01/2021 at 19:51, gordon s said: These were the two threads. The paper I referred to was available via eBay and is certainly different to anything I have seen before. It appears to be an embossed wallpaper, but the back of the sheet bears no relation to the front. It seems to sit between the Slaters and Wills offerings. One of the things I admired on Tetleys Mill was Dave’s use of Slaters 0 gauge dressed stone. It always looked great on his layout, but on ET it somehow looked slightly over scale, probably because Allan Downes buildings were predominantly brick, whereas as Tetley’s were stone throughout. I like the basics blocks of the Slaters sheets, whereas the Wills sheet looks more ornamental. I may order some of the 0 gauge block stone sheets to play around with as the H0 sheets look more like the Wills stone sheet. Early days, but worth a punt....... Many thanks Gordon - I'll have a read..... 8 hours ago, gordon s said: Of course, now I've run out of all my good C & L sleeper strip, so I'll probably have another go at cutting my own strip from 1mm PCB sheet. The quality of strip from C & L is always high, but with 5 packs of sleeper strip now costing the best part of a £100, I'm going to have to consider cutting my own again. Certainly not the fault of C & L as the price of the raw material has gone up dramatically. Thinking back, I'm fairly sure I was only paying £6 per pack around 8 years ago. With a large radius turnout using one pack of strips alone, plus the rail and solder etc, the new kits from Wayne are looking more attractive every day. Do you have any experience of the Wizard Models sleeper strip? C&L is £19 for 4.4m, whereas Wizard is £12 for 6m..... HTH Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted January 10, 2021 Author Share Posted January 10, 2021 Thanks Brian, but fairly sure they only have 1.6mm thick and not the 1mm to 1.2mm I use. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post gordon s Posted January 12, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 12, 2021 (edited) Afternoon all.....Had some reasonable news this morning in as much the biopsies I had came back clear, so whilst cancer is not ruled out, the swingometer has at least moved a fraction towards inflammation causing the problem. Loads more tests to do yet, but I'm in good hands. ET wise, I'm still sticking bits of paper together. This is the board across the stairwell which has deliberately been left in a lashed together format as I knew there would be some changes. The crossover you can see has to be moved back towards the right to generate the space to add another crossover between lines 2 & 3. I'm sure this will break every rule in the book, but I need the facility for anti clockwise trains to traverse the main lines out to the goods relief road or platform 6 in order to access the shed and lower level storage. Of course this won't happen continually, but without the option. it would mean numerous back and forth movements to gain access. Out came the sticky tape and A4 paper to create this drawing. I always knew the kitchen worktop was there for a reason.... The angles and photography mean the whole thing appears quite condensed, whereas the reality of this section is that it is around 10' long overall. I shall check it out this afternoon, but suspect the whole board will need to built again from scratch. At least it keeps me occupied during lockdown...... Keep smiling.... Edited January 12, 2021 by gordon s 9 4 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 That's really good news. 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted January 12, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2021 Some good news on the health front, Gordon. I hope you're able to salvage some of the track components if the ones on that board should need to come up. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted January 12, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2021 (edited) Positive news Gordon.. great! Hopefully once you have rebuilt this board the rest of the layout will be completed fairly quickly. BUT Lesson 1.. always leave at least one operable circuit so that testing can still be undertaken! Baz Edited January 12, 2021 by Barry O 2 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted January 12, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2021 Great news on the biopsy and I hope that further tests have a similar outcome. On the modelling front, could you use diamonds to cross from the main lines to the goods line? This would reduce the number of facing turnouts. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Bus Driver Posted January 12, 2021 Share Posted January 12, 2021 Great news about the biopsy results. Fingers crossed for all the results and its something completely harmless. Those crossovers are looking delicious too. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 12, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2021 9 hours ago, gordon s said: suspect the whole board will need to built again from scratch Here we go again! 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium eldavo Posted January 13, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13, 2021 More firewood! 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold farren Posted January 13, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13, 2021 (edited) Really good news on the medical front and fingers crossed they get to the bottom of your problems and sort you out ready for your golfing season (dose it have a season I don’t know) and if your back to chopping wood it’s got to be a good sign. Eastwood town just isn’t the same with out new wood being cut and bits of paper stuck all over the place. Edited January 13, 2021 by farren 3 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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