The Night Mail

[Happy Hippo]

Not quite right No sheds.

 

My Powercab will control the loco perfectly well when the throttle is opened or closed. 

 

The supercaps only keep the loco rolling in the event of an interruption of the digital signal to the loco decoder, such as a dead frog or dirt on the track.  As soon as the signal is restored, the command unit can slow down or speed up the train according to the throttle setting.

[AndyID]

17 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

Am I reading this correctly.

 

Big H has had capacitors fitted that allow him to travel for a further thirty six feet even after he has turned the power off?

 

And due to the flexibility of silicone tubing wheels will keep turning even when the capacitor is at maximum discharge.

 

Please help.

 

Ian still with out A shed.

 

It's hard to shed a little light on this if you don't have one.

 

 

[jamie92208]

6 hours ago, Florence Locomotive Works said:

Yes the plan is to make a new tender for it (to scale from HMRS drawings if they have them, if not I shall most humbly beseech the NRM) with a tender drive inside like a 6 wheel power bogie, with only the outer axles being powered.

 

Thread started: 

 

Douglas

For drawi gs of GNR tenders try a small supplier called Isinglass.

 

https://www.isinglass-models.co.uk/

 

Therecis a drawings catalogue mentioned.

 

They have a very good reputation.  GNR tenders can be a bitbof a minefield I am told.  If you have problems I have several friends who could help you.  Good luck with it.

 

Jamie

[Happy Hippo]

Mindful of Ian having no sheds, I have to say that perhaps this is a good situation to be in.

 

I currently have three sheds, all of which are getting fuller and fuller.

 

This is because a shed is a natural magnet for all sorts of useful junk.

 

Once the garage is full to bursting, the natural instinct is to expand the storage cube by getting a shed.

 

However once the storage capacity of the new facility is reached, it makes perfect sense to expand this by getting another shed.

 

Thoughts can be turned towards the new shed becoming a workshop.  This is a fictional place, which is supposed to be used for the storage of specialist tools and a creation zone, where the workshop occupier can produce more junk to be stored in a shed after a very short period of display in the downstairs lavatory of the main dwelling place..

 

Sheds can be rather addictive, and unless you are very careful, they can become an obsession, and you end up buying sheds, not so much for the storage capacity but because you like the varying design features that some offer.

 

Who could not be enthralled by getting a shed with the more unusual Gambrel or Mansard roof style rather than the more usual gable or pent designs?  

 

Of course, as ones tastes mature, thoughts will turn to a summer house.

 

This is a sound tactical move, as previously any garden furniture would have overwintered in a shed, although if you are cunning, a greenhouse can also double up as overwintering storage.  Now you have the perfect place to store those tables and chairs, barbeques and parasols.

 

Naturally, this frees up storage space in the sheds, so your hoarding and storing passion is once more invigorated, as the opportunity presents itself to raid more skips, and collect all sorts of junk the neighbours wish to dispose of.

 

Finally the true professionals in the hierarchy of shed practitioners, move on to getting a small. medium or even large agricultural building:  Usually known as a barn.

 

It is not uncommon amongst followers of the Midland Railway, and is the ultimate goal of any true follower of Sheddism.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[PhilJ W]

2 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

Naturally, this frees up storage space in the sheds, so your hoarding and storing passion is once more invigorated, as the opportunity presents itself to raid more skips, and collect all sorts of junk the neighbours wish to dispose of.

Skip surfing isn't what it used to be. They're even selling old pallets or bits of them on E-bay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165442283658?hash=item268520e88a:g:IM0AAOSwQ4JiYBSp

I once built a fifty foot garden fence out of old pallets. Even the top and bottom rails were recovered from a skip. When it came to selling the house the estate agent waxed lyrical about the 'excellent wooden fence'. 

[Happy Hippo]

37 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

Skip surfing isn't what it used to be. They're even selling old pallets or bits of them on E-bay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165442283658?hash=item268520e88a:g:IM0AAOSwQ4JiYBSp

I once built a fifty foot garden fence out of old pallets. Even the top and bottom rails were recovered from a skip. When it came to selling the house the estate agent waxed lyrical about the 'excellent wooden fence'. 

You don't live in Pallet Lane do you?🤣

[PhilJ W]

2 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

You don't live in Pallet Lane do you?🤣

Actually I got them from work. The printing department had paper and ink delivered on them. They were none returnable and they were given away but they still had more than enough.

[SM42]

Myself and brother of SM42 spent a pleasant couple of hours on Friday building a log store from old pallets and a gate. 

 

This was to free up shed space which

hopefully will be filled with a railway once the shed is fully insulated.

A job  that requires an empty shed to start with.

 

It was real make it up as you along engineering. 

 

Dad would have been proud  

 

Andy

[Winslow Boy]

Fifty foot fence from pallets pah I say pah.

 

That's nothing. I give you a hundred feet, with trellis on top as well made fro pallets. What's more the pallets were 'sourced' - euthanisum to put in politely from the neighborhood.

 

I might not any sheds or barns but I a have cracking fence.

 

Ian no sheds but with a spectacular pallet fence.

Edited May 15, 2022 by Winslow Boy

[PhilJ W]

3 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

Fifty foot fence from pallets pah I say pah.

 

That's nothing. I give you a hundred feet, with trellis on top as well made fro pallets. What's more the pallets were 'sourced' - euthanisum to put in politely from the neighborhood.

 

I might not any sheds or barns but I a have cracking fence.

 

Ian no sheds but with a spectacular pallet fence.

Fifty feet was the length of the garden. If I'd taken it another fifty feet it would be across the fast lines of the Liverpool Street tracks through Romford. 

[Winslow Boy]

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

Fifty feet was the length of the garden. If I'd taken it another fifty feet it would be across the fast lines of the Liverpool Street tracks through Romford. 

 

Caught find the icon of me blowing a raspberry so you'll just have to imagine it.

[simontaylor484]

I hope nobody takes offence

 

 

I have some pallet boards ready broken off the blocks ready to make a couple of bedside tables.  By the time I get a round tuit the wood will be fossilized 

[SM42]

2 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

Fifty feet was the length of the garden. If I'd taken it another fifty feet it would be across the fast lines of the Liverpool Street tracks through Romford. 

 

You could make a gate. 

 

Andy

[Florence Locomotive Works]

Afternoon all,

 

 

Yesterday dad and I bled the brakes on the Spyder, a successful endeavor we think. We had to run over to one of our friends classic car resto shops for an emergency brake fluid acquisition and I was given this, completely unplanned. It’s a tiny little reciprocating air compressor. The interesting thing about it is that if you switch the inlet and output around you get a vacuum pump. Currently it’s serving as decor on me desk.

 

I think it’s from around 1920 but I can’t find out much about it. Buell makes air horns today.

 

Here it is after a some cleaning, the brass cylinder head looks much better in person. The pulley is not original I think it was a direct drive from the motor originally. 

 

 

This came from the same shop that my drill press and bandsaw came out of, and we may remember there was a spare electric motor with them which I think goes with this. Said drill and saw are currently stored offsite and are not operational. 
 

Douglas

Edited May 15, 2022 by Florence Locomotive Works

[New Haven Neil]

9 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

 

Sheds can be rather addictive, and unless you are very careful, they can become an obsession, and you end up buying sheds, not so much for the storage capacity but because you like the varying design features that some offer.

 

 

 

 

Um......yes!

 

[simontaylor484]

Douglas 

I take it that it is no relation to the firm that makes Buell motorcycle.

 

My Grandad used to make pulleys like that on the front in the family foundry 

[Florence Locomotive Works]

4 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

Douglas 

I take it that it is no relation to the firm that makes Buell motorcycle.

 

My Grandad used to make pulleys like that on the front in the family foundry 

As far as I know, it’s a different company.

 

I think the pulley is an aluminum casting, it’s been bodged onto the crank by wedging a load of brass shim stock between it and the crankshaft, making it impossible to remove without a gear puller which I do have just not at the house.

[simontaylor484]

By the way Douglas its nice to see you back posting on here

[AndyID]

I was quite pleased with my shed although in these parts it would probably be referred to as a shop. Being something of a shedomasochist I insulated it and put in all the 'lectrics myself.

 

 

 

 

That was until people bought the two undeveloped lots behind us for a "guest cottage" and a small storage building!

 

[pH]

21 minutes ago, AndyID said:

That was until people bought the two undeveloped lots behind us for a "guest cottage" and a small storage building!

 

Couldn’t afford plumbing, though!

[New Haven Neil]

28 minutes ago, pH said:

Couldn’t afford plumbing, though!

 

Ah, yes, a Turdis!

[AndyID]

58 minutes ago, pH said:

Couldn’t afford plumbing, though!

 

If we get invited to the house-warming I'll ask him if we can use his shed for a model railway exhibition. Better still, we could run a quite impressive outdoor layout between our properties. It would require a few rather large trestles but I'm pretty sure he could afford it.

[Winslow Boy]

1 hour ago, AndyID said:

I was quite pleased with my shed although in these parts it would probably be referred to as a shop. Being something of a shedomasochist I insulated it and put in all the 'lectrics myself.

 

 

 

 

That was until people bought the two undeveloped lots behind us for a "guest cottage" and a small storage building!

 

 

As I'm classed as shed less I do not feel sufficient qualified to comment on this posting.

 

I will say though that my pallet fence was longer than those to buildings combined.

 

Ian shed less not at all envious.

[Pacific231G]

Evening all

It was a joy today to attend the first ExpoEM in three years. I model in H0 and H0m so this show ought to be completely irrelevant to me but it's actually one of my favourites. It's a very friendly welcoming event and, with layout owners not under the usual pressure to offer continuous "entertainment" for the paying public, there's time to talk and discuss and, as usual, I came away with more useful ideas than from any other show I know. I also had a good intro. to resin moulding from one of the demonstrators. 

 

Congratulations to the organisers.

 

[Tony_S]

Not the Canvey Bus Museum .