RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted September 21, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 21, 2016 Spent the last two nights building this piece of kit Anyone know what it is? Potential model railway usage immediately apparent....! Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted September 21, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 21, 2016 Passing a cup of coffee down the length of the layout? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 21, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 21, 2016 Spent the last two nights building this piece of kit Anyone know what it is? Potential model railway usage immediately apparent....! Fiddle yard.jpg Phil Hmm, something new looming in the household? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 You intend to transport upside-down bicycles? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted September 21, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 21, 2016 You intend to transport upside-down bicycles? Hee hee what are you taking horsetan? Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady_Ava_Hay Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Post #3 rather gives it away doesn't it? It is a piece of your fiddle yard, possibly a type of sector plate. You are Lobby Lud and I claim the News Chronicle prize. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted September 21, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 21, 2016 Post #3 rather gives it away doesn't it? It is a piece of your fiddle yard, possibly a type of sector plate. You are Lobby Lud and I claim the News Chronicle prize. Yup I thought it would be good for exactly that purpose! SWMBO has other ideas however so railway usage on pain of death - MR SM knows us only too well, very warm... Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter220950 Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Track gauge and first track panels for your new 1/4 scale Broad Gauge Exhibition layout? Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayfield Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Yup I thought it would be good for exactly that purpose! SWMBO has other ideas however so railway usage on pain of death - MR SM knows us only too well, very warm... Phil Does your wife have a knitting machine? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady_Ava_Hay Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 In that case it must be a fabric weaving loom. That is the shuttle on top? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted September 22, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted September 22, 2016 Swmbo has two knitting machines but she gave up knitting ages ago...! Knitting and loom not quite correct... Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Hee hee what are you taking horsetan? I thought it was some sort of roofrack. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted September 22, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 22, 2016 It looks not unlike the device used in an old Hornby Dublo publicity stunt which enabled a small boy (amongst others) to be hauled along by various numbers of Ringfield-motored Deltics. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter220950 Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Knitting and loom not quite correct... Phil Any warmer? Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Any warmer? yardage printing.jpg Peter What a waste of a good baseboard! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted October 1, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 1, 2016 OK time to fess up SWMBO loves her fabric work - so many guesses were warm Its a quilting machine - I am told the rolls Royce of the breed is a long arm, this isn't quite that but more a way of using a large domestic sewing machine on an X-Y axis table over a wide bed. Has some canny attachments such as sensors to detect speed of movement of the table to keep stitch length constant - seems to have much in common with sophisticated model railway equipment... Came flat packed, took about 5 hours to assemble including all the electronics...I had to get it done before I disappeared for a weeks fishing last week! So needless to say SWMBO was busy while I was away - heres an example of the output... Mind you I had a frantic phone call on the second day of my fishing week, the table had derailed....!!! But breakdown crew soon had it sorted. Apparently all such machines have to have a name.... this has rapidly acquired "Big Bertha"! Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derekstuart Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 You do know that you can get medication to help with that, don't you? OK time to fess up Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted October 2, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 2, 2016 OK time to fess up SWMBO loves her fabric work - so many guesses were warm DSC00886.JPG Its a quilting machine - I am told the rolls Royce of the breed is a long arm, this isn't quite that but more a way of using a large domestic sewing machine on an X-Y axis table over a wide bed. Has some canny attachments such as sensors to detect speed of movement of the table to keep stitch length constant - seems to have much in common with sophisticated model railway equipment... Came flat packed, took about 5 hours to assemble including all the electronics...I had to get it done before I disappeared for a weeks fishing last week! So needless to say SWMBO was busy while I was away - heres an example of the output... DSC00885.JPG Mind you I had a frantic phone call on the second day of my fishing week, the table had derailed....!!! But breakdown crew soon had it sorted. Apparently all such machines have to have a name.... this has rapidly acquired "Big Bertha"! Phil Crikey Phil - she's now got a machine to do it for her - will this mechanisation catch on? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted October 2, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 2, 2016 Hmm - not sure - the Luddites are twitching Mike... Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted October 2, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 2, 2016 Can it print Bobol E's? Mile. PS. Picked another one up last week whilst over on a raid, you're slipping Phil! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted October 2, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 2, 2016 Now that would be useful....!!!!! Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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