Will L

Further on Travel While the train strike on Saturday means most service are cancelled, train services to Crewe provide by Transport for Wales are operating on Saturday. In theory train services will be operating normally on Sunday. For those arriving by car, while Crewe can be accessed by two junctions off the M6, its worth noting that it is easier to get to the stadium whether travelling north or south is by leaving at junction 16 signed posted A500 to Crewe. Take the A500 towards Crewe. Ignore the main turn to Crewe Congleton and the station on the 2nd roundabout, and take the 3rd roundabout signposted B5071 Crewe Commercial Park and follow the B5071. This becomes Gresty Road. After the low bridge under the railway the stadium and the car park is on the right before you get into the town.

I did wonder how long 22 meter worth would take to print. I make that 2200 sleepers, or amusingly just half an hour short of 18.83 hours printing time (18.33 hours if printing thin sleepers). That is actually rather more reasonable than I was expecting but could prove a bit tedious. Would a cheap printer be up to that? Also turn round time between each print will also be significant in the final overall printing time.

It was good you gave it a go Dave, but I still think old dogs and new tricks don't go well together. Similarly, while I find CSB simple to do and very effective, your favourite split chassis construction strikes me as anything but keeping it simple. And I am very aware that trying to adjust individual springs by the "bend it" method is, lets say, inclined to be more problematic than you suggest. It very true that to make CSB (or any method) work well means acquiring the necessary skills and knowledge. Like your problem threading the CSB spring. There is a simple way of ensuring all the fixed fulcrum points are the same distance from the frames as the ones on the axle bearings. Do it that way and all the fulcrum points line up nicely and you'll be pleasantly surprised how easily the wire threads through. Get it wrong and trying to get the wire to zigzag from on end of the chassis to the other can be a bit fiddly. I agree your advice to Emma, and I'm always willing to help but I'm much easier to find on the Scalefour forum than here were the are copious (probably rather too copious) words of mine on the subject at http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=96&t=3605

Frankly Dave I think your confusing simple with familiar. Your description of your favoured design doesn't sound overly simple to me, but then I'm not familiar with it. I wouldn't really expect you to want to change horses at this stage in your building career, but I think your comments are more to do with an understandable desire not to want to change the habits of a lifetime, than any inherent problems with CSB.

Sorry but the side skirts footsteps and panel details, are right for a J70 not a Y6, and they are about the only easy way to tell the difference between the two, A Y6 look like this, It has only 2 steps in one hole at each end, no obvious access panels/cylinder covers through the skirts, which go strait up from the bottom edge A J70 looks like this. Note three separate steps at each end and the extra access panels. The J70 skirts are "tucked in" along the bottom edge while the Y6s aren't. I'd have said that six wheels is definitely the right number for dcross22's loco. Will