Popular Post MrWolf Posted February 13, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 13, 2023 After trying to cram all kinds of bits into the garage, I was determined to have a removable roof. I also got round to fitting the flat belts to the machines. A job which took longer than the real thing! There is of course a scruffy bench for assorted repairs. I might see if I can squeeze in a wooden ramp for bikes as recommended by the book "The motor cyclist's workshop" but I might struggle as the building is a kind of low relief job that's 40mm shorter than I'd like. 23 8 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted February 13, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 13, 2023 Show off 🤣 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted February 13, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 13, 2023 That is fantastic! 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted February 13, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 13, 2023 I hope a photo through the doors will be appearing on Realistic Modelling sometime soon? 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Limpley Stoker Posted February 13, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 13, 2023 (edited) Those flat drive belts remind me of a holiday job, as a student in 1963, at Youngs brewery in Wandsworth where the powere source was an 1835 steam beam engine. In contrast the floor was pretty spotless ! Edited February 13, 2023 by Limpley Stoker Corrected date ! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 13, 2023 Author Share Posted February 13, 2023 16 minutes ago, Limpley Stoker said: Those flat drive belts remind me of a holiday job, as a student in 1963, at Youngs brewery in Wandsworth where the powere source was an 1833 steam beam engine. In contrast the floor was pretty spotless ! https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ram_Brewery_beam_engine_-_geograph.org.uk_-_688577.jpg Apparently those engines have survived. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Limpley Stoker Posted February 13, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 13, 2023 (edited) Yes, they are still in situ and preserved. Unfortunately Youngs Special Bitter isn’t and has been outsourced! Edited February 13, 2023 by Limpley Stoker Grammar! 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmditch Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 18 hours ago, Limpley Stoker said: Unfortunately Youngs Special Bitter isn’t and has been outsourced! I didn't know. Shocking! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Limpley Stoker Posted February 14, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 14, 2023 44 minutes ago, drmditch said: I didn't know. Shocking! Youngs Beers are now produced by Marstons at its Eagle brewery in Bedford. At Wandsworth we cleaned out all the copper pipes and brass unions with Tartaric acid between brews. I wonder what they use these days. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 14, 2023 Author Share Posted February 14, 2023 (edited) Is it now that stuff which makes your beer taste like fairy liquid / screenwash? Edited February 14, 2023 by MrWolf Werdz 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted February 14, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 14, 2023 Just now, MrWolf said: Is it that stuff which makes your beer taste like fairy liquid / screenwash? I thought that was lager... 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 14, 2023 Author Share Posted February 14, 2023 Just now, Stubby47 said: I thought that was lager... That's made from chilled horse pee and gives the greatest amount of adhesion to lino floors and night club carpets. Recently we have voted the carpet at Bolton Stadium as being closest to a 1980s nightclub carpet, with the hospitality suite at Haydock Park racecourse coming in a close second. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted February 14, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 14, 2023 One of the main nightclubs in my home town was known by most of us as "Sticky Carpets". 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted February 14, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 14, 2023 In the NE it's the claggy mat. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 14, 2023 Author Share Posted February 14, 2023 After a disastrous, sticky and strangely semi gloss experiment with 3 parts Railmatch GWR brown to 1 part LNER bauxite the LSWR van almost got tied to a foil helium balloon and floated over an RAF base.... But a coat of Humbrol 160 saved the day and it's indistinguishable from the above mix except that it doesn't look quite as #£@*. Now I know that we aren't supposed to model a model, but I saw a picture of Kernow's 7mm version and I think that I will use that as my livery yardstick! 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 14, 2023 Author Share Posted February 14, 2023 5 hours ago, Graham T said: One of the main nightclubs in my home town was known by most of us as "Sticky Carpets". 4 hours ago, Rowsley17D said: In the NE it's the claggy mat. As I've not seen her for twenty years I can probably share a similarly grim tale about going to see a couple of bands with my then girlfriend. She had discovered the delights of snakebite and black, a concoction that pubs, clubs and the students union have long since refused to sell. But this was a typical greaser bash and the clock had stopped about 1962. The exit from the building was down a set of concrete stairs, flanked by whitewashed walls and the night air coming up from the doors had an unsurprising effect on someone who had drunk (about half her body weight!) half a gallon of snakebite. Whitewashed walls now purple. Time to leave methinks. Luckily the cold air and running a little sobered her up. She made me promise not to tell anyone... Damn... 5 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 15, 2023 Author Share Posted February 15, 2023 Back to railways and I really must - stop - buying - old - junk... But it's all for projects... Well apart from the 2251 which annoyingly is in much better condition than the one I converted into number 2291, it was just ridiculously cheap from someone I know who generally deals in prewar toys. 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MrWolf Posted February 15, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 15, 2023 (edited) One last shot of the junk pile. Once the main garage is in, this view won't be possible. I'm up to something fiendish with the garage project that might just mean I can get back to finishing the 517 at last. Edited February 15, 2023 by MrWolf 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Graham T Posted February 15, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 15, 2023 A dangerous variant of snakebite was available in Hereford - local rough cider (known as scrumpy to the cognoscenti...) and Stella. Or if you wanted the adult's version, Gold Label Barley Wine and rough cider, referred to as "a pint of dynamite" for some reason... 5 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 15, 2023 Author Share Posted February 15, 2023 On 13/02/2023 at 13:29, chuffinghell said: Show off 🤣 You started it! 🤣 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted February 15, 2023 Author Share Posted February 15, 2023 4 minutes ago, Graham T said: A dangerous variant of snakebite was available in Hereford - local rough cider (known as scrumpy to the cognoscenti...) and Stella. Or if you wanted the adult's version, Gold Label Barley Wine and rough cider, referred to as "a pint of dynamite" for some reason... Bleghh.... I tried drinking some barley wine once. And once only. It's in the same category as Special Brew and other tramp's champagne. Stella is known as "wife beater" in the northwest for some reason. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted February 15, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 15, 2023 1 hour ago, Graham T said: Gold Label Barley Wine and rough cider, referred to as "a pint of dynamite" for some reason... I'm not surprised! 1 hour ago, MrWolf said: Special Brew Known in my Uni days as SLO (I'll have to leave you to work that out for yourselves, otherwise my future on RMweb might be rather short). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold melmoth Posted February 15, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 15, 2023 5 hours ago, Graham T said: A dangerous variant of snakebite was available in Hereford - local rough cider (known as scrumpy to the cognoscenti...) and Stella. Or if you wanted the adult's version, Gold Label Barley Wine and rough cider, referred to as "a pint of dynamite" for some reason... A very similar drink was available in Aberystwyth, where it was known as an Orbital. The application of a three syllable name is inherently self-regulating. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 7 hours ago, Graham T said: A dangerous variant of snakebite was available in Hereford - local rough cider (known as scrumpy to the cognoscenti...) and Stella. Or if you wanted the adult's version, Gold Label Barley Wine and rough cider, referred to as "a pint of dynamite" for some reason... I was introducted to a varient known as 'diesel' in the militray - a bottle of Diamond White, another of Stella, a double vodka and a dash of blackcurrant. Lethal 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopher Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 We had Old Roger barley wine in my local when I was a lad. It used to obliterate us, and we could not drink much of it. Should be banned under the COSHH regs 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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