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  1. Tim Dubya

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  2. Tim Dubya

    Finally got the lighting permanently installed on the trainset 🙄

     

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    2. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      If you don't want to solder there are snap connectors but they all looked pants.  That's not to say you won't find a decent set 👍

    3. Dungrange

      Dungrange

      Thanks - I'd been wondering about the cross baseboard connection.  Obviously these are just inserted into the cut tape.

    4. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      Yes, I soldered mine as you can see, the other ends are just a push fit with the tiny 4 pin plug.  Tim will supply your boards with a hole cut in the lighting pelmet as standard (if you choose that design).  

       

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  3. Tim Dubya

    A new revelation to me is shrink wrapped pallets, never had a delivery in this new format before.

     

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    Of course, it being Friday afternoon and me not having a knife to hand, it looks like a Monday job to me 😜

     

    Have a lovely weekend people 👍

     

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    2. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      All the red ones 😁

    3. Northmoor

      Northmoor

      That's what I did in my first job!  Shrink-wrapping pallets of bagged dried milk powder at the creamery.  Put the big bag over the top and used a big propane heat gun to shrink it on, then add the strapping to hold it the load together (which you needed to, I think it was about 700kgs on a pallet).

    4. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      Ah, that's how it's done.  We used to get them in bog-standard pallet wrap until now.  They're wrapped so tight there's no strapping, just a sheet of hardboard on the top of the boxes 👍

  4. Tim Dubya

    If the speed of light is 186,000 miles/sec, what's the speed of dark.  Doing my swede in 🤯

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    2. Kylestrome

      Kylestrome

      "what's the speed of dark"

      Does it matter? ...

    3. Northmoor

      Northmoor

      Douglas Adams said the dark must be faster, because it's always got there first.

    4. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Einstein once said that the Speed of Dark is in inverse proportion to the sum of the hypotenuses of four equilateral triangles contained within the gravy of a meat pie.

  5. Tim Dubya

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    2. 57xx

      57xx

      Richard Scarry!

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      I think the character in the town hall window is a particularly devious and umpleasant property developer.  Just look at the reaction of the mayor in the top hat behind him!!!

       

    4. 03060

      03060

      The dog in the orange car is definitely on something ... even the car is levitating !

  6. Tim Dubya

    Anyone living in B&NES and North Somerset.

    Free bus travel during your birthday month, apply here:

     

    https://www.birthdaybus.co.uk/register

  7. Tim Dubya

    So do apes have a coccyx?

     

    It's doing my swede in, I need to know!

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    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Do apes use Copydex?

       

    3. Hroth

      Hroth

      Only if they watched Blue Peter when young.

    4. NHY 581

      NHY 581

      I have it on good authority, apes use gorilla glue. 

  8. Tim Dubya

    Happy Birthday Waterloo Station, 175 today 👍

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    2. Northmoor

      Northmoor

      And to think I walked through it twice today without paying any attention to that fact.  I should be ashamed to call myself a railway enthusiast.

    3. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      Not at all, I think the onus should have been on Network Rail to have got the bunting out!

    4. Northmoor

      Northmoor

      There were some small floral displays but I wasn't paying much attention; I assumed the anniversary was this week or month, not this exact day.

  9. Tim Dubya

    Maturing is realizing you don't need fun to have alcohol.

     

    Happy Friday folks!

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    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Is this a comment on the disgraceful lack of Art in forum debate at the moment?

       

    3. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      Absolutely Captain, it's all got rather dreary of late, one could almost say monochrome (if one had one's teeth in).

      To make amends, here's a Vermeer to cheer us all up 👍

       

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    4. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Pity Vermeer had to spoil it by putting that woman in the painting.

       

  10. Tim Dubya

    I am Gary Lineker 😉

     

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    2. Hroth

      Hroth

      Hush! You don't want to risk a red card here too?

       

    3. Free At Last

      Free At Last

      I Am Weasel

       

    4. Liam

      Liam

      No, I’M Gary Lineker! 

  11. Tim Dubya

    Every time I pick up one of these

     

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    I can't help but think about G Bloke

     @bgmanfor it was he who introduced me to them.  I only met him once and we laughed all day long!

     

    cheers mate 👍

     

     

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    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      A very sad loss to all of us and still sorely missed.

       

    3. Re6/6

      Re6/6

      Indeed. Grahame is very much missed. Fortunately I have some lovely reminders of his exquisite work with the scratchbuilt Italian buildings for his planned 'Lisanno' FS layout, which 10800 and myself are going to build.

       

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    4. Re6/6

      Re6/6

      Post duplicated.

       

  12. Tim Dubya

    As I was going up the stair

    I met a man who was not there

    He wasn't there again today

    I wish that man would go away

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    2. DonB

      DonB

      Halloween was last week... do keep up.

    3. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      I hallucinate all year round.

    4. bgman

      bgman

      'ave another Thatchers ! 

  13. Tim Dubya

    as a mobile user I never get to see the videos but today on a pc I'm thoroughly enjoying the bullfinch video.

     

    1. bgman

      bgman

      Did a little bird drop you link ?

  14. Tim Dubya

    What does the panel think of using swede (that'll be neep to viewers up top, but who cares as they're rutabagas anyway) in a veg curry?

     

    The Mrs has gone off to meet her daughter in Malta for 10 days and left loads of veg that isn't pies, sausages, white bread or chips and I'm bu99ered if I know what to do with it!

     

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    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Mikkel, doesn't their ambassador have anything to say about this practice?

       

    3. Mikkel

      Mikkel

      They seem to be more than content! Anyway Tim D, I was only joking about the Carlsberg. That stuff is only fit for Swedes, not swedes.

    4. bgman

      bgman

      Ask Wurzel Gummage !

  15. Tim Dubya

    Gonna nip down Okehampton and start laying some track towards Plymouth...

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    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      'Good luck with that'

       

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Actually, wasn't that the title of a Bee Gees' song?

       

    4. M.I.B

      M.I.B

      New track's just laid from the Parkway to the original station..........

  16. Tim Dubya

    I haven't got a LSWR road van but I have been feeding the mouse that lives in the shed.

    1. Tim V

      Tim V

      OK, so the 'shed' is a Midland 10T van?

    2. Porcy Mane

      Porcy Mane

      Feeding it Cheddar? That mouse'll turn into a rat  (in the kitchen?) then what ya gonna do?

    3. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      No, sunflower hearts mate. I'm not going to fix the rats but they do climb the trees and eat the fat balls, which I leave hanging out for the tits.

       

       

       

       

  17. Tim Dubya

    @NHY 581

     

    Is this RMWeb hosted advertisement anything to do with you?

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    1. Hroth

      Hroth

      As was noted in Brave New World

       

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      Rams wrapped in Thermogene beget no lambs...

       

      I bet you the recipient felt rather "ticklish"...   ;)

  18. Tim Dubya

    Is this the dating section of rmweb?

     

    :dirol_mini:

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    2. Tim Hall

      Tim Hall

      Just a figment of your imagination.

       

       

       

      That'll largely fall on stony ground.....

    3. Clive Mortimore

      Clive Mortimore

      Sadly Tim I am already taken, but nice of you to offer. 

    4. Hroth

      Hroth

      Only when inadvertently (and embarrasingly) revealing your age.

       

      Otherwise you're pretty well plumb out of luck!

       

      :senile:

  19. Tim Dubya

    Richard Harper's Sidmouth is still my favouritist trainset.  

    1. chris p bacon

      chris p bacon

      I made the stockboxes for Richards Sidmouth stock,  so technically I'm a P4 modeller now....

    2. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      Me too I bought some stuff from the stores the other day, non-gauge specific, just to keep 'em guessing what I'm up to*

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

      *not that I know myself at this stage

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      They know what you're doing.

       

      They know all about you.

       

      Nothing is secret.

       

      They're on to you, sonny.

       

      You'd better be caught counting rivets when they come calling.

       

  20. Tim Dubya

    So.... having lovingly spent the afternoon chopping up an Airfix min (my first) to play with detailing (?), I now realise that I have destroyed everything below the sole bar and I do not have the correct etched W irons, springs or oil boxes to replace them...  like what I fought I did. 

     

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    2. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      I thought I had them but yes turns out I have LSWR, BR Plate, BR Roller, RCH (both patterns) but no BR oil.  

      I've fired off an order to EMGS for two packs of 3 sets now, but having destroyed the springs and boxes, I am a little lost as what to do until I have enough things for a MJT order... if they do BR oil boxes.

       

      P.A.N.T.S.

    3. Porcy Mane

      Porcy Mane

      Go-go Billy Bedford.

       

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    4. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      Cheers my babber.

      I have actually got three sets of Billy's brass jobbies (and the mineral underframes) but I'm building my way up to 'em, having not played with my sticking and gluing toys for a couple of years.  I thought I'd start simple with the Airfix mineral but got carried away.

      I've ordered some EMGS dubya-irons* today (I expect to find the 10 + packs I must already have tomorrow) but what I does need is springs and boxes :(

       

      * see what I did there?

  21. Tim Dubya

    I think I've lapsed into a coma or two whilst reading the section on the Brighton in Mr King's latest book, and I've only just reached the 54 footers!

     

    God Save The King

     

  22. Tim Dubya

    is still trying to recover from the joke at the end of yesterday's Kernow newsletter

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      I'm still trying to recover from seeing an ice cream van come up our road just now, melodiously warbling for some custom that unfortunately didn't materialise.

       

  23. Tim Dubya

    This is utter filth!

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    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Not from your usual supplier?

       

      NOT FROM YOUR USUAL SUPPLIER??!!

       

      WASH YOUR MOUTH OUT WITH SOAP AND WATER!!!!

       

    3. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      I am sorry, I made a mistake, which I hope I'll never repeat again... ever.

       

      Mr Titfield will be alright this month, I can't let the old boy starve can I.   I've got three in the basket already and there are definitely more books to add.

       

      I am sorry.

    4. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Well then, let that be a lesson to you, young man.

       

  24. Tim Dubya

    Has been furloughed for another month... gutted :D

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    2. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      I stared out wfh, but they soon realised it would cause less damage, paperwork, alcoholism etc if they just got comrade Sunak to pay.

       

      So hear I am, led on my sofa saving the planet. 

    3. 57xx

      57xx

      Damn shame. In the same boat here. Current 4 week stint (3rd one so far) due up end of next week. Pretty sure it will extended again to take full advantage of Sunak's generosity!

    4. Ian J.

      Ian J.

      Furlough, what's that? (Or, if you know Farscape, who's that...)

  25. Tim Dubya

    Not wishing to hassle them by email when they're busy, but does anyone in the know, know when Hold & Folds will be back in stock at Eileens ?

     

    Cheers

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Not sure, Tim, but I'm sure that they'd be happy to respond to your e-mail at a convenient time?

       

       

    2. Tim Dubya

      Tim Dubya

      Thank you Sir. 

      I have one on order with a lead time of about three weeks at that time, which I believe was upish last week.

      This is, however, good news for any of the flat brass shapes in the special things cupboard.

      Cheers

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