Nick C

I think I remember seeing that, possibly at Warley? If it's the one I remember, it was only about 2ft wide, and framed like a painting, so you could only view it from the correct position.

Another method of making an inclinometer is to cut a suitable length of wood and add a spacer on one end so it looks like this: ¬ in this case a 1/4" spacer on the end of a 16 3/4" timber, as per your calculations above. Then rest that on the incline, and place a spirit level on top, and adjust until that's level.

There's also one floating around on YouTube where one of them pushes his scooter out into the road, then drops it and throws himself across the car bonnet, while his mate appears from the pavement to be the 'witness' - then you hear the driver wind down their window and say "err, I've got a dashcam..." or similar, at which point they hurredly pick up the scooter again and run off...

Eminently sensible in my opinion - better to find out at this stage if you've done something silly like making one of the loops half a coach length too short, or not left enough clearance somewhere, rather than discovering after you've laid all the track...

A common one on those videos seems to be the camera car accellerating onto a roundabout so that they can complain that another vehicle (usually a bus or lorry) pulled out on them - when it's quite clear from the footage that the large vehicle started it's move well before they got there. Frequently a lack of situational awareness on the camera driver's part too.

I often get the same if I'm driving my wife's Micra - people assume Micra = slow and are desperate to get past or get out in front, even though I'm driving at or near the limit...

Agreed - I spotted one the other day, which I need to go back to with a camera - the end wall of a Victorian terrace just outside Thorneycrofts with rectangular 'ghost' marks where it must have had enamel advertisements attached.

Looking at the distances between them, and the 5 on the next structure, I suspect it might simply be car lengths for the adjacent carriage siding? All long gone now, as are most of the buildings behind - now a bunch of blocks of flats...

@MrWolf is your Stuka pilot open to commissions, or does he just do buses? There's a really irritating ice cream van round here...

Spotted on the way to the tip the other day - unfortunately couldn't stop to take a photo Council sign: Caution - Road liable to flooding Homemade sign underneath: Scuba diving lessons <-

It looks closer to the very early Urie green - but for that I believe it should have an 'A' prefix number.

I presume that it worked correctly before, and that the other taps still work correctly now? (Thus ruling out supply issues). If so, most likely problems are either the valve has broken (I.e. you turn the knob but the inner bit that controls the water doesn't turn) or there's a blockage somewhere. Does the control feel normal when you turn it? I had it with a mixer tap on a bath where the splines on the plastic bit wore down and wouldn't grip the inner bit anymore. It still worked with a pair of mole grips, so I ordered a replacement outer control knob online - there's a website called 'shower doctor' who seem to have all sorts of spare parts, and we're quite helpful at identifying the maker to know which bit to order.

Isn't that more of a modern thing? The more traditional method, I thought, was a foothold set into the front of the platform face.

Could be an early Kirk kit maybe? This site lists a few Minks in that range - http://www.gwr.org.uk/kits4wagons.html

I think this is the best so far, makes good use of the space at the end of the yard that would otherwise be empty.

That's interesting, shows that the office doesn't actually need to be anywhere near the coal storage area - which makes sense, the office is the merchant's shop and advertising, so he wants it to be as visible as possible to anyone visiting the yard (especially where there are multiple merchants, so he wants to be more visible than his competitors!)

option 1, it's your railway after all! I've been having a look at some old maps online to see what the GWR did (I'm not all that familiar with Swindon matters), and can't see any coal bins at any of the stations I've looked at - so either the GW didn't provide them, or the OS didn't bother to map them.

They've done W13 in Malachite - and the forthcoming 32646 would be pretty easy to backdate to W8 to match (I'm wondering if I'll be brave enough to attempt post-dating it to the later Hayling Island condition, lined out, with the low coal rails that were unique to '46, toolboxes and spark arrestor) I may have just aquired a W10 in olive...

Here's a couple of ideas, not sure if they would work with the geometry available though...

The problem with touchsceen based instrument panels is that you need to look at them to do anything - say the windscreen starts misting up on a cold morning and you need to quickly stick the demister on, you have to take your eyes off the road to find the right place to press. Wheras with a physical control you can do it without looking - e.g. turn all the dials to the right (demist, hot, max speed). It's something I dislike about my current car as the heater controls, while still physical, are flush buttons, making it harder to control it by feel.

The smaller 90's Peugeots (205, 106) were like that too - with a very light rear end on torsion beam suspension, they were very susceptible to 'lift-off oversteer' - though some of the more skilled rally drivers I knew were able to make full use of that, gettting them to oversteer into a corner and powering out of it.

Agreed - you didn't buy it, you made it, from raw materials - that's scratchbuilding. The 3D printer is just a tool you used to help you, just the same as a craft knife or steel rule...

We're on our 5th year with the allotment, no prior experience before that. Last year we weighed some of our crops, and worked out that we got over £100 worth of raspberries alone, enough spuds to last us nearly 9 months, and we're still eating the garlic - in fact every year since we started we've had enough garlic to last until the next crop. You've obviously never tried home grown tomatoes or cucumber either, the difference in taste from the watery supermarket stuff is immense.

The latest South Western Circular has an article on the differences between the different batches of G6. It seems they really are a minefield, as the later Drummond locos had second-hand boilers from new, and so had various differences to cope with these - including a different wheelbase on one batch...

Nor did I until one of our allotment neighbours pointed it out to us...