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The past 3 days have been very positive, 34.3 kwh produced. On Monday My export income was £1.70 after using 66p of our own production and I imported power to the value of 86p leaving me with surplus of 84p more than covering the daily standing charge Yesterday we generated £13 kwh (0.9kwh less) and imported 3.5 kwh (0.1kwh more) so I expect our exports for yesterday to at least cover the power we consumed and daily standing charge Or looking at it in a different was the first four days of this week export income has equalled import costs and my only costs have been daily standing charges Looking forward to sunnier days

I am giving this request a bump in the hope added detail in the title may assist I emailed Chivers in the hope they could shed some light on this loco, but never received a reply, I am just hoping someone could both confirm its origin and if it is a Chivers kit, what Bachmann chassis is used to run this loco. At worst I could counger up a simple brass bar chassis using both the kits outside frame and plans for the positions of the bogies I have a limited source of the prototype so all information will assist me in building/motorising it Thanks

I am being really boring in that I cannot find anything I fancy at a price I think is worthwhile. Neither am I selling much. In the back of my mind is wanting a Springside 4-6-0, but the ones that come up are far too expensive. Plus I am building/finishing off two locos and have a third waiting to be started

The change hopefully will be that we have accepted an offer on our house and we have put a offer on another house that we like. We have not heard back if our offer has been accepted yet but at least we are moving in the right direction. The house we like isn't 100% perfect but it does fit most of our needs. There will be some work to do if we do go ahead with the purchase but it is pretty close. There is a small boarded loft as well as a garage for big boys toys. My good lady has given permission for the small bedroom to become a workshop for myself. We just have to keep our fingers crossed for a good outcome. So with this future looking a little brighter I am going to the S7 meeting on Saturday. Were you at Albury ? I think we may have had a brief chat, did you bring your wagons ? Good luck with the house hunting, we moved/downsized 8 years ago, I guess its almost impossible to find exactly what you want, somethings almost always wrong. We found a house that fitted almost all we wanted in a lovely Essex village close and surrounded by National Trust woodlands and common land, but it was too small and had no shed for a workshop/layout room. As most houses had extensions, we wrongly assumed a small extension would cost 30k. In the end we settled for a complete redevelopment of downstairs 3m wide wrap-around extension costing an awful lot more, but having something so much better than we expected with an internal (small) railway den Good luck with your move and I hope you find what you both are looking for

Patrick I have one of the 1-6 jigs, designed for c0de 75 to 100 flatbottom rail, but also code 75 bullhead works in it. Very easy to use if expensive, but repays itself in time saving and accuracy Templot 3D is for bullhead rail, however the reusable filing jigs for both common crossings and switch rails are some of the best around, certainly the most versatile and cheapest, but bullhead only

Some none-Insulated wheel(s) ? Check whether one wheel has lost its insulating ability if all are insulated, or it may be the pickups ?

The missing castings for both locos arrived a couple of weeks ago, the gears for the Manning Wardle arrived earlier this week. We have had family staying plus I have now been asked to do some track 3D printing and assist someone plan their layout in Templot, so my mind has been elsewhere First off the missing step has been built and fitted, after this photo I primed the area, so now I need to get the airbrush working Alsi I have replaced both the worm and gear wheel, since the motor mount was set up for the other gear set I now need to mesh these new gears

I think you will find many of the K's wagon and coach kits which when offered up back to back do not match With the exception of the lowmac I have found (especially as most have no floors) to rebuild the chassis by making a new floor, fitting etched W irons, saving the axleboxes and springs. In many cases depending on which gauge is being used it may not be necessary to compensate the chassis, but the difference using pin point axles and bearings makes is enormass. I have just opened one of these sand wagon kits I brought over the last 12 months for £5, it was still packed up in tissue paper in a sealed plastic bag, it has the same deformity

Looking at my last 21 days of this month each 7 day period my net cost of imported energy was lower than the weekly standing charge. I have paid in total after export payments £8.85. However the standing charge for the 21 days was £10.05 The value of power I have used these past 21 days was £39.38, my solar panels reduced the cost to £8.85 (plus standing charges on both figures)

As far as I am aware none of the whitemetal wagon kits ever came with either bearings or wheels with pinpoint axles, I am certain neither did the latter plastic range which were introduced in the latter days of K's I remember whilst I was still at school a neighbour brought a K's terrier and two or three SECR coaches, the loco struggled to pull the coaches on the flat. These days were before parts like etched W irons and wheels with pinpoint bearings were available from main stream sources (mainly retail in those days) I have to great affect fitted etched W irons to both whitemetal wagons and coaches

Round here most EV are either SUV' s or similar size

Not where I live

Nick I think in this case its an experts view on known values. Will my Nissan Micra do more damage than a vechial 3 or 4 times heavier?. We all know the answer and with known information available to an expert, it would be quite close to the correct figure, real world will give the exact numbers

Agree HGV's are normally bulk delivery, more like ban the school run and make the little ones walk with their parents as we used to do

I was referring to pot holes within the first few lines "The Asphalt Industry Alliance has claimed that smaller roads could be vulnerable to increased pothole formation, " Within a few paragraphs "Heavier vehicles mean there is more friction between tyres and road, and more stress on whatever is below the car. That means roads deteriorate quicker. Academics at the University of Edinburgh in 2022 calculated that there could be between 20% and 40% additional road wear – think potholes, the driver’s bane – associated with battery vehicles compared with internal combustion engines." Hardly a myth As for carbon emissions, I would like to see the difference between buying a nearly new small petrol car verses a brand new average size EV, as far as total affect to global warming.