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I am just about to embark on my latest scratch build project which is of Hatch Court that has a lot of windows. I have previously bought laser cut windows. but post Brexit that is not really an option thanks to a flat rate £25 handling charge by Danish customs. There are about 50 windows that need to be cut for this model. So, I was wondering about whether this is now the time to invest in a laser cutter. I can get this one for a reasonable price. https://www.xtool.com/products/xtool-d1-pro-5w-higher-accuracy-diode-diy-laser-engraving-cutting-machine But is it any good for modelling needs? There are also a lot of ornate window decorations and balustrades, so it might be better to buy a 3d printer or (borrow my son’s printer). But could I use a 3D printer to print windows as well, or would they be too delicate?

Thanks for that link. Congratulations to Joe Crean. I was also interested to see that the next two videos that automatically played where both about women drivers who really liked their jobs and thought that there should be more women drivers. One was a shunter for Freightliner and the other a Driver on the Thameslink services. Who knows, if more women have jobs on the railway, then maybe be more women will start modelling railways in their free time ... Gulp. are we ready for that?

Oh no, not again.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!

Wow, what a car! To use an rmweb metaphor. A Tesla 3 compared to Nio ET5 is 'design clever' compared to Acurascale!

I test drive what I hope will be my next company car https://www.nio.com/et5 later on today. My regular 400 mile round trip to Copenhagen will work out fine as there is a battery swap station on the way. 4 minutes to get a 90% charge!

Experiences with Solar energy and the cost benefits are very dependent on which system of charging is in use. Looking at the posts here, it seems to be very complex in the UK. Over here (Denmark) the same has been true earlier as there were all sorts of government grants that restricted how much you could produce and sell and to what price. I bought my system almost exactly a year ago with no grants at all. (That is to say I bought it 18 months ago. But it was connected to the grid in mid May last year). As I have no grants, there are no limits to how much I can produce and sell. I am treated like all other power providers. I buy and sell my excess power at the hourly set market rate (minus 1 øre which is about a one penny!) Using the current currency exchange rate, I have sold 6.7 MWh which earned about £1130. If I look at what I have paid in bills and divide that by the number of Khw I have bought, I can work out that if I had had to buy all the power I used, then I would have paid just over £3000 pounds more than I actually did. So, in the first year the solar panels have generated about £4130. They cost about £20500, so if the electricity prices stayed as high as there were in 2022 ( which they hopefully won't) it will have paid for itsself in just under 5 years. I should add that we have to plugin in hybrid cars so we use about 10Mwh a year.

When I discovered that my birthday is closer to the start of the firstworld war than it is to today.

Thats what I was looking for. Thanks

I have a program BrickArch that can generate bricks and Window headers in different sizes. I 'm sure I downloaded it from a Model Railway Clubs website. It was free to use, but I would not pass it on here without their permission. But I can not remember which site it came from,

Since Corona I rarely use a till. Not even self-service. I scan the items with my phone. put them straight into my carrier bags, Use a QR code at the door on the way out. payment is done instantly directly from the phone. No standing i queues. No "unexpected items" message in self-service tils And no handling of items by people who pick everything everybody else has touched on a conveyer-belt.

Quite, I was forced to do some actual modelling:

Probably nothing at all, but I do wonder about the power on surge. If the capacitor stores power for 60 seconds as opposed to for example 5 seconds. then it must need to store about 12 times as much power that it will draw form the track on power on. A rake of these coaches might cause a power overload, depending on how many other locomotives, dcc point motor units and so on, are also drawing current. I might be oversensitive on in this area. but I have just spent months trying to trace a ‘short circuit’ which turned out to be too many DCC solenoid accessories starting up.

Acurascale Mmodified Ggenetically A souped up version of some else's base model... I'm sure I have seen that before.

I can see that I should have seen that somebody else had already answered. I am feeling that i am a bit

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shockingly good pun

Where as these squirrels are probably more intelligent than me

This club site has a brick paper generator http://www.bwwmrc.co.uk/bricks/index.shtml . While it is not quite as good as the paperbrick website. (which went offline just after I sent them a paypal contribution :-)), is still better than the stuff I can produce i Corel draw

I have read this very interesting analysis https://www.amazon.com/Driverless-Cars-Road-Nowhere-Perspectives-ebook/dp/B078VCLXH4/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1O93IY8VX7YV7&keywords=driverless+cars+on+a+road+to+nowhere&qid=1675181420&s=digital-text&sprefix=driverless+cars+on+a+road+to+nowhere%2Cdigital-text%2C178&sr=1-2 People have be proclaiming that the age of the selfdriving car is just around the corner. I do not believe they will arrive in my lifetime, and probably not even in my childrens, if ever! This anaylsis looks not just at whether they will come, but why carmakers are so insistent that they are just about to release them when obviously they are not able to do so.

you get to know what it can and can't cope with. After some time you learn its driving style. Just like you know how your partner reacts to traffic. For example. I know that on the 35 mile drive to work, there is one swing lane where my Volvo is uncertain about what to do. I know that when a car pulls out to overtake in front of me on a motorway that it will react. Even if i would have been braking a second earlier. I do regular 200 mile trips, and get out of the car a lot fresher than when I had to drive the whole drive 'manually'. Very few of the silly things I see on the roads are done by cars themselves. It is the idiots behind the wheels that do the damage. That being said. I did for the first time experience the Tesla in front of me do one of their infamous phantom emergency braking stunts. My car reacted before I did. It braked hard enough to stop from a speed if about 25 mph and even turned on the Hazzard warning lights.

I don't think that that it is the car manufacture's job to tell a customer whether they have bought a diesel og petrol car. I would suggest a better analogy would be that you might expect a car handbook to tell you that your brand new modern motor is not designed to run on leaded petrol or two stroke

I blame train simulator. I would love to take a joyride in an HST 😁

I use UHU stick to glue the whole sheets of paper to the thick and medium cardd, I have found it a good idea to glue all the pages I will use for at kit at the start and leave them to fry between two hardbacj books with heavy wieghts on top overnight. This prevents warping- I then spray the whole sheets with matt varnish. When gluing card together I use Bostik pva wood glue.