Vistisen
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When I started mine up for the first time I am sure I could hear someone say something about turning something down
Is that what F16 does? Tell you to shut that thing up!
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The wife said I love my APT more than her,my silence was golden:)
So you can hear her still? start another of the 10 turbines, at some point they'll drown out the background noise!
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What was wrong with that cow?
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Just a little ego trip folks but I don't know who the old poser is !
Cheers.
Allan
1/ https://www.flickr.com/gp/nevardmedia/vh00k7
2/ https://www.flickr.com/gp/nevardmedia/aT75R3
Not a windmill in siight
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Here it is, parked next to another iconic multiple unit. It's definitely 1/76 ???
The other iconic one I got to ride on a couple of times in Denmark, amazing sound as it pulled out of stations
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The model's fatally flawed - It's not fast enough......
Timed over a 1.8 metre straight at max speed on a number of runs, time taken was averaged out at 2.25 seconds(note, variation from that average was no more than 0.04 seconds -/+). So...
1.8 x 76 = 136.8 metres scale distance. 136.8 divided by 2.25 gives a speed of 60.8 metres per second. 60.8 x 3600 seconds gives a speed of 218,880 metres per hour, which is obviously 218.88 kms per hour. 218.88 divided by 1.61 to give the mph equivalent gives a figure of 135.95 mph. Must be the first time a model has been slower than the prototype....
However, there IS a solution: if you pretend it's 1/87 scale then the speed works out at 155.63 mph!
Is yours faster than mine, mister???
Cheers! (must take my anorak off when I'm indoors..)
The only OO gauge locomotive I've ever seen do a scale 155mph is the 0-4-0 smokey joe, actually that does almost 150 mph i 1:1 scale
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Because he's confusing it with the N gauge Pendelino?
He's certainly wrong see the post 1066 on this page of this thread:
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/87114-the-official-rapido-apt-e-thread/page-43
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Typos or evidence of illiteracy? Either will do, I blame my parents.
The combination of dyslexia and bad hand eye coordination hampers me a lot, but as an expat now living in Denmark : i det mindste er jeg ordblinde på flere sprog! ( google translate that
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Maybe Sandra should spend a day or two contacting everyone who has ordered one (or two) and ask if they intend to sell them, if they answer yes then they go to the bottom of the list.
As long as everyone is honest there wont be a problem, of course while she is doing this she wont be packing anything!
<edit Reevesthecat has made the same point>
Or Sandra can just get on with packing them and get them out the door as quick as she possibly can.
Why does everyone expect things instantly these days, I am Sandra wants to see the last one of these out the door as much as we want to see them in our hands, Locomotion is a very small team who they are doing their very best and I bet they get just a little peeved at peoples impatience!
I have to say that unless we signed a contact to promise that any purchase of the APT-e was strictly for personal use, then no one has any right to get upset by people who see the APT-E as an investment, rather than a model to be used on a layout, Personally I actually understand them more than than I understand someone who buys it (especially the sound model) and then keeps it in a display case, or even more extreme in the unopened packaging as a collector.
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Today's edition was a bit of a waste. I understood that Engine Shed was all about product development. Seems that it is now about model shows as well.
Waste?! I thought it was probably the best yet contribution on the thorny question of how does Hornby survive beyond the current pensioners' 'golden age' when they have both the time and the money to buy things. If how to create / contact and develop a future customer is not a part of product development, then I don't know what is! After all there are 1000's of posts on her complaining about Hornby being 'out of touch', 'not listening to customers', and so on. But when they take the time to tell us how they are doing it, it is a "WASTE"!
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As an engineer, I find calculating to be much easier in metric or, more accurately, SI units. As a human brought up in a country whose metrication was decidedly halfhearted until quite recently I find visualisation and approximate description of things much easier in imperial units.
Here is the complete guide to imperial measures: Simple really:
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It is really simple for me, If I could, I would build hand made 'OO' gauge points. Anyone who say I could learn to, has not seem my ham-fisted attempts at soldering. I would therefore like to buy ‘OO’ gauge track including points. If I can’t, then I’ll carry on buying Tillig HO points that are SO beautiful to look at compared the current PECO streamline range, and sod the track work I’ll attempt to distract the viewer with decent ballasting and scenery.
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On this rather infamous pic that I've posted before you can see the ground power cable in the left foregreund actually plugged into the open hatch mentioned above.
Look's to me like you all were receiving power shock at the time of the photo, judging by the hair
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Fortunately no lasting harm done -- just an alarming screen covered in several dozen warning messages about file time-stamps changing.
After the millions of man-hours spent developing Windows over 25 years, you would think a simple message saying "It's time to update the system clock to daylight-saving - do it now?" wouldn't be too much to ask for.
Martin.
There is, you can just turn the automatic update to summertime off.
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I'm sorry Martin but why would you expect any self respecting computer carry out such an update at a time other than that calculated to cause the greatest possible annoyance to its user.
To be honest. It has nothing to do with the computer (or the software to be more accurate). Changing at any other time would be just wrong as it IS here that time changes in Europe. It would be distorting the dimension of time to do it at any other time. and I'm sure that nobody here would ever dream of distorting dimensions!
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No, they use a sort of resin based glue instead I believe (presumably PVA isn't sufficiently weather proof?).[/quote
Really? I did not know that
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and is only for sale due to a change in circumstances since I paid for it (£325) some time ago.
Could you not have just cancelled your order and let someone else pay the going rate, but I guess that you wouldn't have been able to profit from this then?
That's what I did, when I came to my senses and decided that as a non collecter who wants to actually run trains, it simply would not run on my present layout. I found someone on this forum who had missed out on ordering, I hope he is very happy with my/his model.
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That makes me one too!
Do we get numbered certificates? 
Yep. but are with or without sound?
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You will need to look long and hard. The full-size railway noticed many decades ago that foam ballast deteriorates into a gooey mess and has since replaced nearly all of it with stone ballast.
But the real thing is not perfect yet, they still have not got the trick of using PVA glue to hold it in place.
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That seems to make sense Joseph but it was equally true in the opposite direction when Peco introduced Streamline effectively to H0 scale at a time when all "serious" OO pointwork including their own Pecoway points used the much wider BRMSB sleeper spacing.
But the problem here is surely not about the rail. What will be glaringly obvious is a mismatch in the sleepering. So the new track is really not much use until there is compatible pointwork (whether from Peco or elsewhere).
'or elsewhere' Please tell me you are proceding :-)
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But the problem here is surely not about the rail. What will be glaringly obvious is a mismatch in the sleepering. So the new track is really not much use until there is compatible pointwork (whether from Peco or elsewhere).
The sleepers are one glaring fault, but for me, the joints in the blades are just as big a problem. That is why I have used Tillig track on my railway. What I really want is tillig points with 'OO' gauge sleepers.
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We want to see the sandwich
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I can see a new competition staring here, Not who is the first to receive their package, But who can put it together quickest! We need the stopwatch timing Andy.
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What surprised me with their 'last chance to buy' was seeing the lms non corridor stock there. Especially since have only just recently come out. Did Hornby over produce or overestimate the demand for such coaches?
Or did it just mean that they were the last few in stock, almost sold out, so it was you last chance to buy?
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The Official Rapido APT-E Thread
in Rapido Trains
Posted · Edited by Vistiaen
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