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Going off at a tangent, which has never happened before om RMWeb, One of my son’s friends was taking his driving test in Denmark where the test is run by the police. The car in front did a hit and run on a cyclist, The uniformed police officer then uttered the immortal words “Follow that car, don’t worry about the speed limit. At the next set of traffic lights (which were red) stop in front of him at an angle” He passed his test!

I suspect that you may soon change your mind. I am still new to this 3D reason printing. I started off using my son’s printer, but soon found that even though it was free for me. The turnaround time from trying a print, waiting for the post ( or a 200 mile drive), discovering that I need to tweak the result meant that I soon bought a 3D resin printer. I have absolutely no experience of FDM printing. But I imagine that it is somewhat easier, With resin prints I often find that I need to tweak the supports, and change printer burn settings to match the items I am trying to print. I also find that printing 6 identical items, sometimes result I 5 that are fine and one that for some reason fails. It is no problem to just try again. I imagine that if you use a commercial supplier then you are at their mercy as far as what setttings, resin and so on they use. Who pays for failed prints?

Hi I bought a resin printer a few months ago. One of the things that you have to get used to is washing and curing your prints. This takes some time. I bought a one of these https://www.elegoo.com/products/washing-and-curing-station-v2-0 to do that job, and it saves a lot of mess and time spent breathing fumes while cleaning small items

The same thing is true in Denmark. The lack of brakingpower is quite frightening. They only make sense in countries where they are separate cyclelanes. Since bikes with only this type of brake have the same stopping distance as a supertanker. Even more worrying when you consider they can be used for transporting quite heavy loads:

It seems to have turned into a what I don't wish list. That is much more original.

Hi Hayfield I have already seen one of the videos, James Walters has a lot of amazing videos, and his point motors are billiant. I am planning to try and use them on the points that I hope to build soon. Although 'soon' i always relative!

This is really interesting. I last used Templot several years ago, and still need to build about 6 turnouts fpor my current layout. I will have a go at doing these as 3Dprints. But I will need to do a bit of studying first to see how to do this. Time to start reading threads in the templot club.

Very well written post. In my own personal experience, it is when one of the heads that needs 'banging together' belongs to me, that it is vital that I trust and respect the person doing the act. Respect and trust between management and workers is vital in any workplace of any size. The smallish company I work in has mastered this. Two days ago, we were merged into a much larger company rather than being a self-governing daughter company. It will be interesting to see whether we can keep the same ethos. I do hope so.

This sign is at the station. It would translate to english freight customer service

I'm the other way round. I have already bought a resin printer and begun to produce windows with it for scratch-built buildings. But trackbeds will not print well on a resin printer. As far as I can work out, the larger the base area is (and therefore larger track sections), the more difficult it is to get a flat level baseplate. I have an Elegoo Mars3pro resin pinter which I am very pleased with. and I also bought a Elegoo Mercury Plus wash and cure station. Which makes the whole process og cleaning the resin prints much easier. I am thinking that an Elegoo Neptune 3 Pro might be tne next thing to get. It has auto base leveling, which I hope will save alot of hassle

I think that there is also a gowing market for these 'classic' albums amoungst younger music lovers, who realize that autotune and quantization have destroyed all that is worth hearing in music. They are buying them for the first time. Almost all new music is created / repaired on a computer. I have two sons who are scratching a living as professional musicians. Both I am pleased to say, perform live and in the studio with no use of klik tracks, or pitch correction. Their music is vibrant and living as a result. No recording company will touch them because they spend too many hours getting things right, rather than fixing them in software. The eldest lad’s band was invited over to record in Abbey Road by a Danish student producer there who used them as a project in his studies. That was an amazing experience, and the result was brilliant (OK I’m not totally objective). But they did make Abbey Road history, they recorded the first Danish Language songs in the studio’s history.

Was the fly anywhere close to the urinal?

That's more than 900 well done for the white text! I salute you, sir

I quite agree that it not for all. But I would say exactly the same thing about building a white metal kit. It is totally beyond me. More positively I would have said the same thing about building my own points a few years back. But now I have hand-built points on my layout... and some of them work really well. I have actually just ordered a Elegoo 3D printer. I started designing windows and door and balustrades for a model of a large country house. To be honest I would say that if I can master learning to useTEMPLOT to design points, then Fusion360 to design 3d object is also possible. WHo knows where it will lead me.

For a few weeks I have been playing around with FUSION360 to produce Windows for a model of Hatch Court. I am lucky enough to have a son who is a professional 3D designer and up to now I have used his printer. But he lives about 200 miles away, which does make trial and error printing a very slow process. I can see that this is going to be something I will use more in the future. So, I have just taken the plunge and ordered an Elegoo Mars 3 pro printer and an Elegoo Mercury Wash and cure station. Up to now I have been using his Anycubic Eco Resin as the printing material. Does anyone have suggestions about using alternative resins for strength/rigidity? and what about painting? Do I need to prime models first, and what sorts of paint are best acrylics or enamels? Will they damage the plastic?

Reminds me of this classic clip:

It is you who is responsible for all those storms! Stop flapping.

For goodness sake, how hard can it be to make sure your figures are glued upright, rather than sloping in two dimensions. Especially with his center of gravity!

I have just worked out why there is no viaduct under the locomotive. AI was 'doing' a 'Flying Scotsman' We are probably quite lucky it at least chose a train, otherwise we might have been able to see whether it is true about what they wear under their kilts.

And also for the EU to avoid the standard £25 + 25% vat charges I get on anything I buy from the UK. Even on goods sent free of charge to replace defective goods!

You could try using A latex Copdex glue. I find that it allows for a bit of movement.

I think that at this junction, it is time to switch the subject before it catches on. we are crossing the line where it become a trap point, and the quality of the puns slips. Wye do we do it?

You might come to regret that idea : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/05/kai-cenat-inciting-riot-charges-giveaway-new-york, The thought of loads of 'mature' men all demanding that they are first on the list frightens me, I have read the threads about behavour at exhibitions.

While the delivery driver then throws it over the fence, because there is no one at home.

They are a pretty standard construction in Denmark for two motorways crossing each other. Once you get used to them , they work fine, especially as all motorway juctions have slip roads with 'merge' rather than 'give-way' for traffic entering the motorway. Mind you we do not have quite the same traffic density as the UK. One other side benefit is that in case of a closure due to a crash on the middle section of the simple left ( UK) hand route, (righthand here i Denmark), it is possible to bypass it by going round all the other three loops to get to the same endpoint. i had never thought of this untill my GPS suggested it in just such a situation !