F-UnitMad Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Thanks for all your support I will wear it well Updated Exhibition list for 2015.(P)= Primrose Hill. (RG)= Reely Grate G0G Kettering 7th March(P), GlosGOG 29th March(P), NewGOG 18th April (RG), Sutton Coldfield25/26th April(RG), Warley 7mm Open day 17th May (P), Lichfield 19th September (P), Cradley 17th October (P), Birmingham 31st October (P), Solihull 14th November (P), Warley NEC 28/29th November (P+RG). I'm sure you were saying something funny a while back about giving up exhibiting, Mike!! My Mrs moans about me doing just two!! Will come & say Hi at Kettering. Barnaby - you need to do a Thread about your Gentleman's Activity Bunker!! (unless I've missed it already?) .....oh and for those of us who model American trains, unfortunately there is such a thing as "American english"... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 In the description of my Reely Grate Layout I refer to the Reely Gate Fulminator and I have often been asked what one of those is. Well.......It’s about 18ins high and 4ins in diameter with an N type connection on either side including a Resonator 50 ohm with a 1/4 wave coaxial cavity. The length of the centre line can be altered within the mechanism which supports a 2m bio-plasmic optical reader in port1 and an antenna in port2. The device was used almost exclusively in anti-submarine warfare in conjunction with Asdic in both Wars. There is no photograph of the device in the public domain and no drawings are kept in the factory as it still remains on the most secret list. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnaby Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Oh! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonOfMike Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 In the description of my Reely Grate Layout I refer to the Reely Gate Fulminator and I have often been asked what one of those is. Well.......It’s about 18ins high and 4ins in diameter with an N type connection on either side including a Resonator 50 ohm with a 1/4 wave coaxial cavity. The length of the centre line can be altered within the mechanism which supports a 2m bio-plasmic optical reader in port1 and an antenna in port2. The device was used almost exclusively in anti-submarine warfare in conjunction with Asdic in both Wars. There is no photograph of the device in the public domain and no drawings are kept in the factory as it still remains on the most secret list. Invented and originally developed by R.J. Pulson in 1912. The prototype only had a single port. The Mark 2 had an additional Q type connector on the left. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 Invented and originally developed by R.J. Pulson in 1912. The prototype only had a single port. The Mark 2 had an additional Q type connector on the left. Quite correct, however the version that first went into production was the Mark IV quickly followed by the Mark V which had a vastly improved thermo-coupler and Interocitor making for a 0.5 - 1w mW interface with Asdic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sp1 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Weren't the castings for this fulminator made at Noah Hingleys?, or am I thinking of Eliza Tinsleys? Edited because the auto correct changed fulminator to fulminate! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Isambarduk Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Mornington Crescent! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonOfMike Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Quite correct, however the version that first went into production was the Mark IV quickly followed by the Mark V which had a vastly improved thermo-coupler and Interocitor making for a 0.5 - 1w mW interface with Asdic. According to my grandfather, the flange on the edge of the rear interfracitator could, in an emergecy, be used for getting boy scouts out of horses' hooves. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 According to my grandfather, the flange on the edge of the rear interfracitator could, in an emergecy, be used for getting boy scouts out of horses' hooves. Oh so true. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sp1 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Oh so true. According to my grandfather, the flange on the edge of the rear interfracitator could, in an emergecy, be used for getting boy scouts out of horses' hooves. What size was this flange.... Just wondering if it could be accurately modelled in P4? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 What size was this flange.... Just wondering if it could be accurately modeled in P4? Only in S7 plus or minus a modicum of decorum, as it's all down to the physiological propensities of the differential of fulcrums. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnaby Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 You're all bonkers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 24, 2015 Author Share Posted February 24, 2015 You're all bonkers. True, but isn't modeling fun. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 26, 2015 Author Share Posted February 26, 2015 I'm sure that you all will have spotted that there is no mark III mentioned. This was an absolute disaster due to the first trials of solid state electronics by the encapsulation of the circuit in a solution of dry casting resin,especially and secretly produced for us by I.K.B, no not Isambard but Isiah Kenneth Buffey.The Reely assembly technicians had to be quick though, as they had little more than 100 nanoseconds before the potting compound went hard. So any re-work of faulty units would have been a real challenge that would have required a hand held machine especially developed for the job resembling a P4 jackhammer. Subsequently this version was quickly dropped and dare I say from a great height. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnaby Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Resin casting or potting electrical components I think you're all going POTTY in the head and the marbles have left the head. ♈ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Boucher Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I'm sure that you all will have spotted that there is no mark III mentioned. This was an absolute disaster due to the first trials of solid state electronics by the encapsulation of the circuit in a solution of dry casting resin,especially and secretly produced for us by I.K.B, no not Isambard but Isiah Kenneth Buffey. The Reely assembly technicians had to be quick though, as they had little more than 100 nanoseconds before the potting compound went hard. So any re-work of faulty units would have been a real challenge that would have required a hand held machine especially developed for the job resembling a P4 jackhammer. Subsequently this version was quickly dropped and dare I say from a great height. For some reason, all this talk about the Reely Grate Fulminator reminded me of the classic "Turbo Encabulator" video... Well worth the 2 minutes to listen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beatty 139 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Oh they should have so gone over the hill to BIP in Langley... It could have even been delivered by rail. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnaby Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 That's so good MDB it reminds me of another knowledgeable fellow. >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7uykB6wGG4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Dougal Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Watched both videos, barely understood a word in either, especially the first. Was that english? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 27, 2015 Author Share Posted February 27, 2015 According to archive documentation at the BBC a Mark IV Reely Grate Fulminator was encapsulated in the navigation system of the very first model of the Tardis. The Mark IV was still relatively unstable at that point in time and had much to do with the Tardis's rather erratic navigational performance which was probably due to the flux invertor and differential vane linkage. Stabilized power in the Mark V is via a system of magneto variable turblogic instead of the more usual intro-confibularitory inverse lexiphonetic generator. Work continues to improve the pandodermic novotrunion encapsulation using amulite and carbohexophenol. - I really need to get out more. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnaby Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Places finger horizontally along lips and says the word bubble while lifting the finger up to the nose and down to the chin . . . . . . keep doing this until a sense of normality resumes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonOfMike Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 According to archive documentation at the BBC a Mark IV Reely Grate Fulminator was encapsulated in the navigation system of the very first model of the Tardis. The Mark IV was still relatively unstable at that point in time and had much to do with the Tardis's rather erratic navigational performance which was probably due to the flux invertor and differential vane linkage. Stabilized power in the Mark V is via a system of magneto variable turblogic instead of the more usual intro-confibularitory inverse lexiphonetic generator. Work continues to improve the pandodermic novotrunion encapsulation using amulite and carbohexophenol. - I really need to get out more. They are also brilliant for propping a fire exit open Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted February 27, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 27, 2015 According to archive documentation at the BBC a Mark IV Reely Grate Fulminator was encapsulated in the navigation system of the very first model of the Tardis. The Mark IV was still relatively unstable at that point in time and had much to do with the Tardis's rather erratic navigational performance which was probably due to the flux invertor and differential vane linkage. Stabilized power in the Mark V is via a system of magneto variable turblogic instead of the more usual intro-confibularitory inverse lexiphonetic generator. Work continues to improve the pandodermic novotrunion encapsulation using amulite and carbohexophenol. - I really need to get out more. Has Sir Humphrey Appleby been giving you lessons? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 27, 2015 Author Share Posted February 27, 2015 Has Sir Humphrey Appleby been giving you lessons? No Stanley Unwin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 .... isn't modeling fun.I dunno... it's got pretty complicated on this Thread..!! Is the Fulminator still in production, & what is the current Mk number? Has it gone DCC yet? We need to know!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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