martin_wynne

0.6mm and 0.8mm nuts available here: https://prime-miniatures.co.uk/catalog/full-nuts-open/brass Plus a big range of miniature fixings and parts. Martin. (no connection)

Files from Templot can be sent to a laser-cutting firm to produce a physical guide. Any gauge or radius or a transition curve. Here's how to create such track aids: https://85a.uk/templot/club/index.php?threads/laser-cut-trackbed.629/ Set the width to match the track gauge to produce "tracksetta"-style curving aids. cheers, Martin.

Forget the doors. Look at those brand new bullhead chairs and sleepers. Bullhead track is alive and well and living in Exeter. 🙂 Martin.

They are just doing a quick check in the HS2 design office: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64717605

Templot can do the designing and create the file for the laser-cutter. Here's how to create straight and curved strips at any width or radius: https://85a.uk/templot/club/index.php?threads/laser-cut-trackbed.629/ Set the width to match the track gauge to produce "tracksetta"-style radius aids. Martin.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-64640215

How about making them wait for several hours on a station platform while a succession of long freight trains roll by?

Not everything happens in an office. AI will soon do all that stuff. This is work: Martin.

No point in visiting a site, if everyone there is working from home too. HS2 bridge being built from home: Martin.

. What is all this "work" which folks claim to be able to do from home? No-one is building HS2 in their back garden. It won't get built if they all stay at home. You don't get bricklayers, bus drivers or brain surgeons working from home. Martin.

All welcome to join in the Templot Club Zoom meetings. Next one is this Wednesday 8th Feb at 8pm UK time. Meeting details here: https://85a.uk/templot/club/index.php?threads/zoom-meetings-access-links.620/latest To join the meetings or watch the recordings afterwards you must be a member of the Templot Club forum. If not already, it's easy to register, here: https://85a.uk/templot/club/index.php?register/ But please register well in advance if you intend to do so, I won't be able to deal with new registrations once the meeting is under way. Thanks. Looking forward to seeing you 🙂, Martin.

. More tunnels.

Canute didn't find it very dilute.

Q1. How much energy can we extract from the total winds blowing across the UK, before the reduced downstream wind energy affects the climate? Q2. Would the effect be anywhere commensurate with the expected climate change? Q3. Are these sensible questions? Martin.

Emergency pumped storage in winter up on the hill?

Is it time to do-it-yourself? The water turbine in this garden generates 14.4kW for local residents: Martin.

The wind might stop blowing, the sun might stop shining -- but the tide still goes in and out. At known and predictable times. Why aren't we doing more tidal? How many Swanseas would it take to not need nuclear? https://www.tidallagoonpower.com/projects/swansea-bay/ Martin.

Agreed, but that system applies to almost all governments world-wide. It would still apply even if some different proportional system was used for electing individual MPs, which is where the term "first past the post" is normally used to describe the present system. Actually, I have worked it out. The post in question is the one holding the microphone at the election count. The winner gets the first chance to use it to thank his mother-in-law's next-door neighbour and everyone who knows who they are for all their help. And then walk on past it. Martin.

No it isn't. In a horse race you know where the post is before you start, and it doesn't move. In an election there is no way of knowing how many votes you will need to win. You don't know how many votes will be cast, and you don't know how many of them your opponents will get. There is no target, post, winning line, or any other fixed object or number that has to be got past. The saying "first past the post" is utterly meaningless. The question is, do those who use it know this and use it anyway, or do they not know it? Martin.

Thank you for repeating my question. But I was actually looking for an answer. Where is the "post" that has to be got past? A post occupies a fixed position. Martin.

Can someone please explain the term "first past the post"? I have never understood it. There is no post, it is only necessary to get more than anyone else. You could win with only 10% of the vote if there are so many candidates that no-one else gets more than 9%. Where is this mythical "post" that you have to get past? Martin.

It might. The Tories know they are very likely to lose to Labour at the next election. The party they really fear is Reform UK, the cuddly version of UKIP. If that party gets up a head of steam similar to what happened with UKIP, the Tories will be utterly decimated at the next election. Reform UK is currently on 7% and growing, and snapping at LibDem heels. If those two get 20%+ between them, the Tories are done for in their heartlands. So it's potential Reform UK voters they need to appeal to, and just look at Reform UK policy on HS2: https://www.reformparty.uk/this_by_election_a_referendum_on_hs2 Martin.

HS2 coming along nicely after revised Treasury costings: Martin.

Try https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-64421168 Scroll down to The Sun. Perhaps that's the BBC's source?