robert17649

poltergeists throw stuff about, my railway is in a shed and I often find things on the floor,sometimes things I didn't know I had.

The problem is simple really.If you only test people admitted to hospital,you can have no idea as to the number of actual cases and therefore no idea as to the recovery rate. dealing with an out break of any virus depends on knowing what is going on. I lived in Uganda during one of the not infrequent Ebola out breaks , which was held in check by identification , isolation and treatment of victims and keeping the rest of us away from the epicentre. Note that the disease was not sent packing it is still there , just quiescent.

Seasonal flu is controlled, sort of , by vaccination , it never goes away.

Viruses are living things and if evolutionary theory is correct they compete to survive as well.

It is by the way an Hippocratic aphorism that a disease identified is a disease on its way to a cure (for cure read control).

Whatever the rights or wrongs we is where we is and the best thing we can do is what we are advised by the people who advise us, so stay away.

Living in Cornwall  , which at the moment has few cases,I find myself wishing that the second homers and potential  isolation holidaymakers would stay away, Our hospitals can only just cope with the standing populations needs

this reminds me of a BBC programme called The War Game, made in the 60's or 70's if i remember aright. Man offered ten pounds for loaf of bread turned it down as he could eat the loaf of bread.

probably deployed to tackle covid-19 a task for which a multi billion pound aircraftless aircraft carrier could be really useful,  stil think Portland looks really lovely in the spring.

Portland looks good but where is the aircraft carrier?

50 minutes ago, Joseph_Pestell said:

 

One thing that this episode certainly teaches us is that equity markets have no valid place in the modern world. They do little or nothing to serve their original purpose of raising finance for business. Mostly it is just a transfer of wealth from one body to another. Some people will make huge fortunes from the stock markets during this period. Most of us will lose greatly.

 

The markets should have been shut down for a long period until this blows over.

all markets are is but relatively sophisticated and stonking expensive gambling

Just heard that China are sending a plane to Italy to fly their citizens home.

On  a slightly more serious note, herd immunity cannot work if about 15% of a population are removed from the equation.' My understanding is that somewhere in the region of 90% confers enough.

What will happen if I go out ' maybe I'll get arrested' perhaps fined but then maybe by shutting all the over 70's away the can at least know where they all are and............ ( see Warsaw 1943(

small steps dedicated space nice warm radiator and an extra layer of clothing, that coupled with a small dose of the late Carl Arendt's website and the realisation that the space is needed for the modelling not the layout!

cool thanks Ill get one and give it a go

On 26/12/2019 at 09:25, hayfield said:

Alex

 

I do enjoy reading your post, I to am building my first EM gauge layout. So whilst I have built EM gauge track before, the dark arts of building EM gauge chassis are being learnt. Rigid is quite straight forward especially as I now obtained a Hobby Holidays chassis building jig, but sprung at the moment is defeating me. I am also in a quandary over which method of turnout operation to use, the trouble is I know too many, plus do I buy point motors or relays ?

 

Still this is the fun of building a layout, one which you seem to really enjoy. I look forward to seeing how Pott Row evolves and wish you both a happy and prosperous new year

I too have troubles with EM chassis, four coupled no worries but 6 seems to result in the middle wheelset doing hops and skips even though unpowered it rolls easily, I try to use the fleichas bits , maybe springs would be better.

merry Christmas and Happy New Year .

this thread is great.

Now theres a problem , I cooked the sprouts with bacon !

Last year I did a whole load of vegan stuff, it was not unsuccessful but frankly not terribly exciting, the problem is that this year my son and daughter in law nephew and partner have returned expecting the same.

Sadly they failed to tell me they were arriving on Christmas aday and guess what th shops was closed and we were eating turkey with all the trimmings so all they could have was the carrots.

you could try a paperhangers table, the deluxe ones from Wickes are a bit more stable than the cheapies but are about 20 squids a throw.

there is a kit of parts that can be got through shapeways, no experience of one.

I agree that some form of flexibility in a chassis helps, although Peter Denny ran a perfectly succesful EM gauge system with v. heavy locos, I think his tracklaying was way better than many.  Getting round sharpish curves is easier with flexible chassis .

Never really got on with sprung hornblocks , now at 70 with rubbish eyesight and clumsy mitts I tend to throw the springs around a lot so dont even start from there,  went back to flexichas construction as the four locos I built years ago with that system still eork and go round  the dodgy bends.

also noted was one character asking the other what had been said about it on the wireless

1 hour ago, Mallard60022 said:

Yup, but no freight AFAIK.

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there was at least one such when I travelled on it last month , actually the boss and I have been on that journey a few times recently and have only ever seen one freight(ish ) working , small diesel shunter with a flat wagon of some sort, it may have been making for the historic railway bit at Yeovil junction.

most of the line from Exeter to Salisbury is single or singled.

6 hours ago, Ruston said:

Thanks, Robert. I've just looked on the motorbogies site and I don't understand what's going on there because they show a OO 16mm dia. wheel as being a scale 5ft. 4in.

http://motorbogies.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=20&products_id=115 All the other wheel dimensions are also given with a similar oversize.

 

They also want £7.50 to post 4 wheels! I'm not paying that just for postage.

ouch! didnt cost that when I bought them , it was awhile ago though, what size do you want I have some 16mm Romfords and some of the motorbogies same size , let me know

robert

in my limited experience they are finer than Romfords not as fine as RP 25 Markits, and can actually shed a tyre from time to time.

The wheels from Motorbogies.com ( no connection)Have similar ABS centres but are close to RP25 profile and therefore finer.

scale link EM gauge axles are v. similar to Romfords  the BtB is  about16.5mm , matching EMGS gauges.

the flanges  canhit the chairs of some rtr track , which Markits ans the 3mm one from motorbogies do not. but then the older Romfords do

on the whole I would suggest that Markits are best but v hard to get hold of at the moment the mb ones are next then the scalelink ones. I have used all four types and there is no real difference if you are careful fitting them

I got hold of an old Gaugemaster feedback controller ,which appeared to not feed back < contacted them and they fixed it, IMHO it does no harm to ask them, sometimes there is a fault which doesnt seem that significant but may be.

17 hours ago, caradoc said:

 

As a callow English youth I made the mistake in the early 80s of catching the Glasgow-Inverness overnight train the same evening Scotland had played at Hampden. I was surprised that the majority of songs from the hordes of fans aboard were not about their own team, but celebrated England's lack of success the same night ! I huddled quietly in my seat.......

 

After moving to Scotland in 1984, and having lived here since, I now have a better understanding. IMHO the majority of Scots have nothing against the English, or their sports teams, but get fed up of the arrogance shown, mainly by the media, who often treat England interchangeably with the whole of the UK. It is worst when football is involved, but other sports are included; In fact this morning my (Scots) wife, who is obviously not particularly anti-English, remarked on the overkill coverage on BBC Breakfast of the Rugby World Cup Final. I don't suppose irritations such as hijacking the UK National Anthem for England help either (surely Jerusalem should be the English National Anthem ?!)

 

Anyway, back on topic, South Africa were the better team today and are World Champions on merit. Well done to them.

 

really of interest is that the English national anthem sometime imposed on the rest of the UK is about an individual and what a jolly good thing She(interchangeable with he) iswhereas the other countries I would suggest in the world have anthems about their countries and what jolly good places they are.

By comparison with many the English anthem is a bit of a dirge.

Mind you a translation of La Marseillaise reveals filling furrows with the blod and ground up bits of our enemies'

good fun eh?

But then the ball weighed half a ton and when it got wet you could break a foot kicking it.

I refereed for thirty odd years in UK  and as a guest in France.

I think that a return to the good old days when if the scrum half had hands on the ball he was a fair target would put a stop to a lot of the problems there.

Mind you I do not advocate a return to steel toe caps and legitimate hacking even though it did make you get off the ball a bit quick.

seriously though calling a mark anywhere on the pitch with the option of a kick to touch which retained possession ( another return to prehistory) would put a stop to the pointless aerial tennis

they aint rules theys laws, and there is a difference.

I wonder if some of the comments are made by people who have actually refereed I would defy anyone to judge 50cm in the heat of a game,

taking into account parallax error and TV distortion the off side line is not too often broken actually . furthermore the line speed of defences is way faster this year than in the past..

leave the referees alone that sort of criticism should be left to the soccer pundits and the constant TV replayers who I am sure make way better referees than the guys who actually do it.