Bucoops

57 minutes ago, Geep7 said:

There's only ever been one good adaptation of the book, in my opinion, and that doesn't even have any moving pictures....... And even then, it has to be the Richard Burton narrated version, not the more recent one with Liam Neeson (as good as he is).....

I have listened to it many times, but by far the best was when there were meteor showers due, and the local commercial radio station played it in one go, with no advert breaks, and we had camp-beds in the garden listening whilst watching for the shooting stars. Didn't see any but what a way to listen to it!

Enough already, the Tench-ion is killing me.

9 minutes ago, AY Mod said:

 

Having a whale of a time?

 

Don't listen to these urchins and minnows; they're talking pollocks. You can try and winkle it out of me but my lips are seal and I won't tell a sole. 

 

It'll all fall into plaice tomorrow.

Methinks you are fishing for compliments?

1 hour ago, Willie Whizz said:

What baffles us with our Samsung TV with Sky dish is that when watching “ordinary” programmes in real-time the sound volume is fine if set around 20. But watching a recorded programme needs turning-up to about 28-30 to be satisfactory, and using our connected DVD player means having to go right up to a volume setting of 40. Weird. 
 

I suppose I might be able to find a rationale and a remedy in the Instruction Manual - except that these days all you seem to get is a Quick Start guide …

Dynamic range I believe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range

DVDs can "carry" more detail whereas regular broadcast audio is compressed.

I suspect the set isn't in stock and instead of removing the listing they've bumped the price to ludicrous level so nobody buys it, when back in stock the price goes down again. Not unusal on ebay annoyingly. 

28 minutes ago, JohnH said:

Could they use the RMB with stewards on each door?

As that is the method they said they would use previously, and then repeatedly did not, I don't think the ORR would agree to it.

11 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

It doesn't say

 

L@@K RARE!!!

 

either...

 

I'm not sure he has ever reached that level?

18 hours ago, PieGuyRob said:

Searching the bay looking for cheap diesel multiple units, I found this from a regular, guess who? Wow.....

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/333284533795?

But.. but... it doesn't say kit built?!

On 11/04/2024 at 14:25, woodenhead said:

But you've nowhere to put your feet now 😄

It's OK, I have short leggies 😁

18 minutes ago, Hacksworth_Sidings said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285805740653

 

 

So… Who has the bleach?

85 sheets of Plastikard are now sitting under my desk. Lovely jubbly :D

No tell tale on full brakes is one that traps people sometimes.

49 minutes ago, JIJ said:

To those comparing this to other countries which may run without doors, approximately 10 years ago, I was a passenger on a very full voyager heading south on the MML late at night. Due to the full train, several of us were travelling in the vestibule.

 

At one of the station stops (possibly east midlands parkway), one of the doors didn't close fully and opened as the train was leaving the station (I'm not sure how any interlocking was working). The four or five of us in the vestibule huddled around the other door, and some moved into the corridor connection. At the next station, the door closed and locked properly. 

 

I've since wondered how the train continued despite the door being open; but at the time neither I or the other passengers pulled the emergency lever, as we all wanted to get home. 

 

It certainly felt unsafe, but the hazard was obvious to the passengers because we all saw the door not closed and could move away while the train was at low speed. Had the door have come open while we were traveling, it would have been a very different situation.

Something similar happened with a 321 not that long ago - IIRC the bolts that held the sensor activator that allowed the system to recognise a door was open had been left out, so the door moved, but the activator didn't. so the system thought the door was shut. Wonder if the maintenance guys then moved to Boeing. Allegedly 🙃

1 hour ago, Morello Cherry said:

I think the only MP responding to a local business going apoplectic is the MP for Morecambe.

If it wasn't Morecambe, perhaps it was Wise?

Think it's been posted on here before but 24:50 - post privatisation nationalisation but still in original livery.

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-great-north-of-scotland-railway-films-1963-online?play-film

On 13/12/2020 at 08:46, delticfan said:

Here is food for thought don’t pre order this and don’t buy it when it comes out and you’ll be able to buy it 6 months later for at least 20% off when Hattons reduce their price.....simples.

Not sure quite so simples now 😜

2 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Should keep you busy for a couple of weeks!!

 

Mike.

I may well end up wrecking the lot in an evening  - Got a cheap Cameo 4 on the way now as well. I foresee many ribs for roofs in my future, along with interior partitions etc.

The circuitry s built in, you just have to add the actual capacitor(s) - although you may need to change a CV to enable it, not sure on that,

https://www.youchoos.co.uk/Index-Detail.php?L1=Detail&Item=MX645 - there's info on how and what to connect here.

1 hour ago, MJI said:

We were chatting in the office back in pre covid era, a youngish lad who goes to see bands was raving about the guitarist (not sure who), saying best he has seen and best there is.

 

Anyway I have see some of the best in the world, so mentioned seeing Van Halen in 1984, at the time Eddie Van Halen was probalby the best guitarist there was. Others including Gary Moore.

 

Then I mentioned that the older boss, can out do that. He mentioned going to a festival with friends, and who was there? Jimi Hedrix.

So I outdid with EVH and I was outdone with Hendrix.

Just need someone to say they've seen George Formby and you're all top-trumped. Best guitarist? I'd say Knopfler personally. But it's largely down to personal taste. Clapton, technically, superb guitarist - but just too "technical" for me, not enough "feeling". 

If I've understood the listing correctly, then I think I just got 120 sheets of Plastikard for 29p each delivered.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315245693683

edit: Oh. the thicker sheets have 5 per pack not 10, so 85 sheets for 41p each. I'll still take it as a bargain.

No worries :)

Not sure if they have announced when code 100 may get the unifrog treatment, I believe they intend to move everything over eventually (I am picking up electrofrog as and when as that is my preference).

Incidentally, cdn stands for content delivery network rather than Canada - although I can see why you would think that especially as you rightly say Shopify is Canadian. CDNs replicate data all over the world and it picks the closest location to where you are to display it from to keep things as fast as possible.

Surely their website can't be that bad. Hmm, it is.

Best I can come up with is SL-xx where xx is a number are insulfrog, SL-Exx are Electrofrog and SL-Uxx are unifrog.

https://peco-uk.com/collections/product-wishlist/peco+streamline+narrow-gauge+oo-ho-16-5mm+100

Looking at the pricelist, there's no code 100 unifrog from what I can see -https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1541/1303/files/PECO_Retail_Price_List_NEW_2024.pdf?v=1709113021

2 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:

Has anyone tried flagging up stuff that is actually dodgy? You'll see how they operate if you did.

 

 

Jason

Yup, not just rip-off wheels, but stolen property (and provable), counterfeit high-value collectables, all sorts of things. Outcome? Diddly squat. I keep telling myself not to bother any more but muggins still does it.

On 29/03/2024 at 16:14, Ollie K said:

Hopefully the brake / kitchen third pair with destination board mounts moulded into the roof is a symptom of LNER and BR period model bits being mixed up for the undecorated prototype. As far as I can tell there were no roof board mounts during LNER days. 

Only on the spare set I think.

I worked for a couple of weeks at a place that specialised in sourcing electric valves - one of my roles in the brief time I was there was to unbox cheap Chinese made valves, use wire wool to remove the branding, and pass them to someone who used a little machine that re-branded them as Mullard. Impressed, I was not. In hindsight I should have gone to trading standards, but I was in my late teens and just wanted out. I don't think they are still trading thankfully.

Don't forget there is also the current issue of fake parts in jet engines, traced back, allegedly, to a London based company.

"Rife" comes to mind.

Ebay would appear not to be interested in fake goods being sold on their site, despite what they say. There's a UK based seller that has wheels on sale using one of the major brands, but they are clearly the cheapo ones included in the monthly magazine type build a whatever. They have been reported countless times, including by the genuine manufacturer, but they're still for sale.

Hopefully someone has one of these in their "spares stash"? For some reason, the Finney kit I have came with two double chimneys. Far too long ago to ask for Brassmasters to replace it. Happy to use one or both of the doubles in part-ex.

Thank you :)