Early Risers.

[John Wass]

18 minutes ago, jamie92208 said:

A warm welcome to two new ER's,  Florence Locomotive Works and Johnny Wass. Having worked in South Leeds I read that as Tommy Wass, a famous Pub on Dewsbury Road.  We look forward to hearing more from you both.  If you can stand the sense of humour you'll do well.  However we are generally a very supportive bunch.  The one thing we try not to talk about, not always successfully, model railways.

 

Jamie

Greetings young man but I'm not a new member. I think thanks to these  newfangled systems mine decide to put me back to zero. I've been a member for a good many years now.

As to the Tommy Wass, I was in it on August 20th 1968, the night my daughter arrived. I was in the middle of a Government training  coarse and I was only able to go home to Hull at weekends.

[Chris116]

25 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I won’t be re-enacting Le Mans next week but could perhaps manage 24 minutes rather than 24hours. 

When I was at school I had a five lane Minic Motorways figure of eight track that I ran three cars on each lane using a transformer for each lane. All the cars were numbered as the then top stock car drivers and it produced some very good racing.

 

In my thirties I got one of the Scalextric Stock Car sets plus a couple of extra cars. I found that I broke the front bumpers rather too easily for my liking and so ironed them up with real metal chassis and bumpers. All was OK until I visited a friend and took my cars to race against his! He landed up with two very smashed up cars and was most unhappy when he found out about the ironwork on my cars which he had not noticed due to it being painted to look like the original plastic.

[Happy Hippo]

4 minutes ago, John Wass said:

Greetings young man but I'm not a new member. I think thanks to these  newfangled systems mine decide to put me back to zero. I've been a member for a good many years now.

As to the Tommy Wass, I was in it on August 20th 1968, the night my daughter arrived. I was in the middle of a Government training  coarse and I was only able to go home to Hull at weekends.

You use the same Avatar as Judge Dread!

[Happy Hippo]

1 hour ago, J. S. Bach said:

Hmmm, mine started today at 0545 or thereabouts.

Are we related?

[newbryford]

9 hours ago, JohnDMJ said:

 

Sounds like an appointment system should be implemented!

 

 

We are looking into the practicalities of that.

 

In the past, we have had customers "just coming for a look around" and then pulling out plans for a West Coast Main Line layout in 00 with 4 tracks and 10 coach trains and minimum four foot radius curves to fit in the spare room - which is only 10 feet x 8 feet....... (it takes awhile for them to realise that there is a flaw in the specification......)

[Chris116]

4 minutes ago, newbryford said:

 

We are looking into the practicalities of that.

 

In the past, we have had customers "just coming for a look around" and then pulling out plans for a West Coast Main Line layout in 00 with 4 tracks and 10 coach trains and minimum four foot radius curves to fit in the spare room - which is only 10 feet x 8 feet....... (it takes awhile for them to realise that there is a flaw in the specification......)

When I worked in Platform Two on Wimbledon Broadway in the 70s I had one guy come in with much the same requirements but wanted to do it in 8ft by 4ft with 3ft radius curves! One of my more amusing afternoons followed as I sorted out what he could do in the space he had.

[TheQ]

18 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

You use the same Avatar as Judge Dread!

What is it about buccaneers about to deck..? 

 

 

 

[Happy Hippo]

Just now, TheQ said:

What is it about buccaneers about to deck..? 

Because they can.

 

The only aircraft that was built as if it had come out of a Glasgow ship yard.

 

Imho the finest of the British built carrier borne aircraft.

 

 

[Tony_S]

4 minutes ago, Chris116 said:

He landed up with two very smashed up cars and was most unhappy when he found out about the ironwork on my cars

When I was a teenager we used to race at the Rover factory slot car club in Solihull. We had to be vouched for but occasionally a gateman would deny entry. However there was a really long straight and if someone replaced a car onto the wrong lane it could achieve escape velocity. Now I had an unusual car to race in the saloon class where size mattered and had converted a kit of an old Rolls Royce (separate driver and passenger compartments. ) it used motor and chassis components from the larger 1/24 cars. It got banned after taking off and hitting a track marshal in a sensitive area. He wasn’t wearing a cricket box. Car wasn’t damaged, probably due to the bumpers being firmly part of the chassis rather than than cosmetic items on the body. 
There is quite a slot car “scene” round here but I don’t think I will be joining any clubs after the end of the virus restrictions. I was in a model rail club and perhaps my personality isn’t right. I really liked it when we met, put up the track and played trains but after a move the club (as voted for by members, so not complaining) became more about preparing for exhibitions and doing everything to a deadline and it seemed like work not fun. Slot car racing clubs look very competitive, not surprising really, and I am not at all competitive so racing at home against a pace car (thank you, modern technology) will have to do both now and after the end of Covid 19 controls. 
l must edit my iPad calendar, it keeps reminding me that I was to go to Southampton later in June. We were going to Iceland on a cruise but my heart diagnosis meant we were going to have to cancel. However as we were about to do so Cunard due to coronavirus allowed deposits to be transferred rather than lost so we are now booked for October 2021. Hopefully I will have been replumbed by then. 
Tony

 

[grandadbob]

Evenin' each,

Sunny this morning so I did a tiny bit of gardening  (tended my tomato plants!) and then the rain came.  Decided against visiting The Shed so spent the afternoon watching a few episodes from the first series of The West Wing.  Would it be too political to say that Jed Bartlett wasn't a bad POTUS?

Now supping Tribute and will shortly visit the kitchen to cook some sirloin steak, chips, peas and mushrooms.  Well, I'll do the steak, The Boss deals with the more mundane stuff.  A Californian Shiraz has been selected to accompany the meal which will take place about 18.00hrs as we're Zooming at 19.00hrs.

Farewell for now,  I need to lubricate my steak.

 

Edited June 7, 2020 by grandadbob

[Barry O]

49 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

You use the same Avatar as Judge Dread!

That was his old name.. and just ask him about Buccaneers built in Brough ..next door to Hull!

 

Baz

[newbryford]

2 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:

 Redundancy can sometimes have a silver lining although it's not like that for everybody

 

It worked for me 18 years ago.

I was in the process of looking to leave anyway and the chance to be "paid" to do so was too good to miss!

OK - so it did mean that I didn't actually have a job to go to, but the reduction of my stress level was priceless.

Time for a career change and self-employment served me well for the next 14 years until I was enticed into my current employment.

 

As hinted at yesterday - it may also be a silver lining for Mrs NB in a few months - we're just trying to confirm a few things.

 

I will do a Chris F - this weekend would have been my favourite annual gathering of like-minded folks who are particular at recreating miniature versions of items running on parallel strips of metal, but not powered by the direct burning of coal. Burton-on-Trent was the intended destination. Although I wouldn't be partaking of local ales at the evening get-togethers, I would be there in drinking spirits........

 

Zoom family quiz will be interrupted with ebay buying/selling to fill some of the evening.

 

Catch up later.

 

Cheers,

Mick

[Barry O]

Rolls Royce and Bentley used to belong to Vickers when I worked for them. One year they sold exactly 0. cars as in none, not a single one, not even a modified one. That was when they built proper cars..Bentley Mulsanne Turbo RL type cars. The managers at Crewe could take them home for the weekend as a runabout. We used them at The Army Equipment Exhibitions as "VIP Taxis"

 

When the City decided that it would more money for them ---aided and abetted by a mad Belgian Asset stripper - they were sold on as part of the break up. In between times RR had bought an Italian firm "Cantiera Riva" who built beautiful boats, RR then found out they knew not a lot about boats so Defence Systems ended up running the company. A friend became the UK based Finance Director and promised me a trip out there. Never made it unfortunately..

 

Baz

Edited June 7, 2020 by Barry O

[Ozexpatriate]

10 hours ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

I have never watched any US TV series because of the canned laughter.

Many of them (though not all) are filmed in front of live audiences.

 

A recent trend is to broadcast individual episodes live - though most of these are recreations of sitcoms from decades ago.

[Joseph_Pestell]

The "real " laughter is not much better than the canned variety. All sounds very forced and unnatural.

[Tony_S]

Not only former British luxury cars are German, so are Lamborghini who are an Audi subsidiary. 
My car’s manufacturer is part of the Tata group. I think the input to the Jaguar Land Rover group is mainly financial as the development work is still UK based. 

[Barry O]

9 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

Baz,

 

Plastic-weld is dichloromethane (or methylene chloride), which is readily available on ebay for about £10 a litre. I last bought some a few months ago.

 

Dave

juts ordered some ..thanks Dave!

baz

[Ozexpatriate]

7 hours ago, BoD said:

I don't remember 1984 being at all like the way he described it

Maybe not EASTASIA, but nevertheless I live in a place where we are still at war with Central Asia.

 

Ever since 1941 the US has been in a war, declared or otherwise, be it WW2, The Cold War (and it's "hot" proxies), the GHW Bush declared "War On Drugs" / "War on Crime" and since 2001, constant conflict in the Middle East or central Asia.

 

The UK was on board for much of the ride.

 

Edited June 7, 2020 by Ozexpatriate

[newbryford]

15 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Not only former British luxury cars are German, so are Lamborghini who are an Audi subsidiary. 
My car’s manufacturer is part of the Tata group. I think the input to the Jaguar Land Rover group is mainly financial as the development work is still UK based. 

 

Just found out that my new steed may have been manufactured in the same town that built some very dodgy diesels for British Rail! (56001-030 from Craiova, Romania.

[Tony_S]

16 minutes ago, newbryford said:

 

Just found out that my new steed may have been manufactured in the same town that built some very dodgy diesels for British Rail! (56001-030 from Craiova, Romania.

Did you go for the diesel option? Though the engine could have been made in a completely different country to the place where the car was assembled. 

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Absolute zero done on finishing emptying the garden store. It started to rain when I was ready, so I'll have to keep an eye on the forecast. My car was built in India, delivery was delayed by a strike.

[Happy Hippo]

1 hour ago, Barry O said:

That was his old name.. and just ask him about Buccaneers built in Brough ..next door to Hull!

 

Baz

I thought so, but wanted to make sure.

 

Obviously the Buccs were not made by the East Riding Finescale Group........... Their work was/is for too delicate.

 

 

[Happy Hippo]

47 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Many of them (though not all) are filmed in front of live audiences.

With floor managers running around with various placards saying 'Laugh now'!

 

(Well that's what the BBC and ITV used to do.)

[Ozexpatriate]

21 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

With floor managers running around with various placards saying 'Laugh now'!

Most of the US studios I've seen (on TV) have illuminated applause signs.

[John Wass]

39 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

I thought so, but wanted to make sure.

 

Obviously the Buccs were not made by the East Riding Finescale Group........... Their work was/is for too delicate.

 

 

I hope enough time has gone by to tell all this on the subject of carrier landings. When the Buccs from the Arc came back to Brough there was one which didn't look very "right". The rear part of the fuselage was bent to put it mildly. Where on one side of the tail plane should have said "Royal Navy", it had been altered to "Fly Navy" and on the other side it said "Crash Navy". The aircraft was straightened and sent out to the R.A.F.