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  1. billbedford
    But what was the register port of the two drifters in the foreground? PGW doesn't look like a British registration.
  2. billbedford
    The Boston photos, and others taken in Lincolnshire, are in the George Washington Wilson collection.
  3. billbedford
    Maybe. The story I've heard was that since the GW main line ran more or less east-west the corridors were arranged on the south-facing side so that the sun didn't fade the seating upholstery.
  4. billbedford
    It's because a worldwide market sets the remuneration of directors of international companies such as P&O for executives rather than a local UK one.
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    I've just had a look at an MR horsebox GA (D.401). The hinge strap width is not dimensioned but scale at 2", which surprised me as I expected 2 1/4" or 2 1/2". It sounds as if the tooling is about to fail, on the other hand, etched louvres never look right so maybe I should print these as well?
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    I would check that drawing against a real Brighton GA. The nearest GA I have is a SECR 0-4-4T and this gives 4ft 3in over the outside of the frames and 1ft 1.5in for the width of each splasher. Making a total of 6ft 6in over the splashers, ie 26mm in 4mm scale. The width of an EM wheelset is around 21mm, so you should have enough room for everything.
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    What do people make of this? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/375412868969 LMS? SR?
  8. billbedford
    I think you will find that 30" letters will fit on wagons with four or more planks, while the Colwick and other special wagon had smaller letters.
  9. billbedford
    Which part of you won't be there? Inquiring minds an all that.
  10. billbedford
    I found this, this morning
  11. billbedford
    But if you bend the stem of the brass etchings through 90º and mount them on the wagon with the stem at the top, you would get a good representation of a sheeting ring. All it would need is a tiny spot of glue at 12 o'clock to represent the real eyebolt...
  12. billbedford
    Sheeting rings were about 4-6 in diameter and were held in place with an eyebolt whose hole was only slightly bigger than the wire thickness of the rings. They were arranged so that the rings hung down below the eyebolt parallel to the timbers they were fixed to. This was usually the solebar, but on iron framed wagons the curb rail was used.
  13. billbedford
    Yes, but the original post observed that the inner sides of wagon planks had no chamfer on the top edges, so a scribed line is inappropriate and the edges of the planks are better represented by lines made by a pencil.
  14. billbedford
    No, the odd-legs are engineer's tools, but it may be possible to replace the point on a draughtsman's compass with a home-made odd-leg end. I suspect this would have to be made of steel. Keeping the drawn line parallel to the edge is a matter of skill and practice. I once made a marking gauge from a length of 1/8" steel rod and an old gear wheel that had a screw fixing. It had a scriber point which was a force fit into a radial hole. Making one with a pencil lead would be slightly more complicated
  15. billbedford
    Yes, but try and find a pair with a pencil rather than a sharp point.
  16. billbedford
    So about the same as the £12,000 million a year we pay for useless windmills?
  17. billbedford
    ...Or just take the floor out.
  18. billbedford
    Not if you use a compass or a miniature marking gauge. Set it to the plank depths and run the point rod around the top of the planks. Actually, I print grooves on the inside of the planks, but at only two-thirds the width of the outer ones. This should be just enough to show when weathering, but not noticalble otherwise. That's the theory anyway.
  19. billbedford
    The Welsh Welsh had a way of dealing with such incursions, they just set fire to cottages owned by English incomers.
  20. billbedford
    It's worth remembering that most northern American cities had district heating systems, which made coal deliveries by hopper wagons efficient.
  21. billbedford
    But what beard game did he play?
  22. billbedford
    A pair of solenoids in the cylinder housings?
  23. billbedford
    How many decades? SLR is <3mm/year around Britain.
  24. billbedford
    If you have rivets on the bottom of your prints these are very good places to land supports on. Better still, always think of your prints as 5-sided objects.
  25. billbedford
    The curing station I have heats to 60º and the cures for an hour with the heat on. I don't think I've ever seen breakages along layer planes. If the elephant's foot can be controlled then the best orientation is likely to be with a long edge on the bed and the rail gaps in the chairs vertical.
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