Nearholmer Posted March 11, 2023 Author Share Posted March 11, 2023 Playing trains isn’t the issue; doing messy woodwork indoors is the issue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schooner Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 Could someone else not purchase a saw on your behalf? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 11, 2023 Author Share Posted March 11, 2023 I’ve made contact with the seller direct, and proposed a “cash on collection” arrangement. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schooner Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 Exciting stuff! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 11, 2023 Author Share Posted March 11, 2023 It is! I’ve arranged to collect it from him next time the old toy train group assembles. Many thanks to Hroth. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRASinBothell Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 Glad to hear of progress. Can the car not be (temporarily) evicted from the garage to allow a carpentry session? Gordon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 11, 2023 Author Share Posted March 11, 2023 (edited) I didn’t think anyone had kept their car in a garage since about 1947, except people who have old cars of some sort as a hobby. Ours was until last year a utility/model railway room, but is now a utility/working from home room. Our neighbour’s is a fully fitted gym; the people we sold our previous house to used the garage to create a snooker room; one of my brothers has use of multiple garages, two being a marvellous restoration workshop, and the rest crammed of restored cars, motorcycles and motor scooters; and, so forth. Ordinary cars live outside. Edited March 11, 2023 by Nearholmer 3 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 One lathe (1940s), one small milling machine, a Porsche, three pedal cycles, two motorbikes and a laser cutter. the Landrover lives outside, it’s free range… 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRASinBothell Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 Oh well, it was a thought. Ours hosts two cars, a work bench and prodigious quantities of "stuff", some of which has not seen the light of day in decades! Gordon 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted March 11, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2023 13 minutes ago, GRASinBothell said: Oh well, it was a thought. Ours hosts two cars, a work bench and prodigious quantities of "stuff", some of which has not seen the light of day in decades! Gordon Mine also hosts loads of "stuff" - under the railway baseboards. The car lives in the carport on the front. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 17 hours ago, Simond said: One lathe (1940s), one small milling machine, a Porsche, three pedal cycles, two motorbikes and a laser cutter. the Landrover lives outside, it’s free range… I forgot. One Radar, one 6-man liferaft, one Suzuki 40hp oil inject outboard, and four British Seagull outboards of varying descriptions. All of which are looking for a good home as surplus to requirements. The probably don’t fit in a large letter, so collection, I think. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Metropolitan H Posted March 12, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2023 On 10/03/2023 at 19:41, Nearholmer said: I’ve been having a pure Bassett-Lowke session, continuing to “test” the layout, and some more faded old pictures came to light. The clock is now ticking, because this little lot is meant to make a public appearance on 10th June, and although track, electrics, and trains are ready for the big day, there is a lot to do in terms of structures. There isn’t a lot I can do until the weather becomes less horrible though, because I don’t like doing woodwork indoors - I find wood dust gets absolutely everywhere. Trouble is, of course, any fine days when I’m not otherwise busy tend to become bicycling days. I think a hobby clash is coming on! Does "...this little lot..." have a title / station name yet? Possible options might be: - Lesser Birlstone - Birlstone Parva Regards Chris H Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRASinBothell Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 Or perhaps Birlstone Road. Then you wouldn't need any structures (other than railway ones) as it would be out in the sticks miles from civilization... Gordon 3 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 12, 2023 Author Share Posted March 12, 2023 I’m more drawn to Paltry, in view of its size, and was wondering about calling the two stations (yes, two, in this ridiculously small space!) Paltry Junction and Paltry Town. Or, I could go in completely the opposite direction, and follow the example set by people in the old days, labelling one Clapham Junction and the other Waterloo. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted March 12, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2023 Paltry Junction and Paltry Town sounds good to me. Don 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 13, 2023 Author Share Posted March 13, 2023 I’m even toying with the idea of making Paltry Junction look like a junction, by adding some false tracks, but that is a Very Low Priority. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 22, 2023 Author Share Posted March 22, 2023 (edited) Strange things happen when you are playing trains. In 1948, one of these and four wagons filled with coal fell backwards to their doom down the shaft of the Armstrong Lift to the Waterloo and City Line (miraculously everyone jumped clear), so maybe there is a precedent (although that, like a problem, was NW, rather than SW). All caused by lighting ‘pick ups’ on the train bridging an isolating gap. Edited March 22, 2023 by Nearholmer 4 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 22, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 22, 2023 Happens on even the best-regulated railways: 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRASinBothell Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 Well, you were lucky there. My Ace M7 took a real dive to a concrete floor at a train show. I've managed to fix it, but if you look really closely there is a very slight curve to the footplate on one side that I couldn't completely eliminate. Gordon 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted March 22, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 22, 2023 Is this an M7 thing, then? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 22, 2023 Author Share Posted March 22, 2023 About a trillion posts back up-thread I related how I’d (mostly) repaired my Yankee Tank after it leapt off the layout and bounced on a chair, so no, more a carelessness thing. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 (edited) There was an unofficial saying when I worked in road transport - "If you're going to crash, try & hit something cheap". In model railway terms, I suppose the equivalent is "If you're going to crash, make sure it's a cheap model".... Like one of my old Atlas Plymouths, that took a nosedive off my old layout up the shed - terminal velocity onto concrete. The motor & chassis is still in service, under another body. Edited March 22, 2023 by F-UnitMad Spelling 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 22, 2023 Author Share Posted March 22, 2023 My name is Soo, how do you do? 3 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 10 hours ago, Nearholmer said: My name is Soo, how do you do? Never heard that one before.... 🙄🙄🤦♂️🤦♂️ ...much.... 🤣🤣 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sncf231e Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 11 hours ago, F-UnitMad said: There was an unofficial saying when I worked in road transport - "If you're going to crash, try & hit something cheap". I did not know that, so I used an expensive brass model: Regards Fred 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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