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  1. billbedford
    I can supply them.
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    The trailing axle is fixed according to the GA I have.
  3. billbedford
    John Adam: Short ride in a fast machine.
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    Parry's music already subverts the words of Blake's Jerusalem, turning a call to revolution into just another rousing Anglican hymn. Ironic, really, since the 'dark satanic mills' can be identified exactly with the Church of England.
  5. billbedford
    The Ivatt 2-6-2 tanks had one pony with spring side control and one with swing links. It didn't seem to matter which was leading, but having two ponies with the same suspension could lead to unstable running.
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    I once bought an LP of popular classics for my mother. I can't say she was impressed, in fact she hated it and the record mysteriously disappeared while I wasn't looking. I never understood her reaction, for me the band brought a refreshing honesty to some hackneyed pieces -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7eTSLUg-zU It's a pity they never tackled any Boulez
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    It's interesting how little of the music suggested in this thread has be composed in the last 50 years....
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    In 1919 the government was forced to introduce a maximum working day of eight hours after a nine day strike by the NUR and ASLEF.
  9. billbedford
    With a sg of about 4 they are not going to be tungsten. If they are hard they'll almost certainly be steel and if soft, probably a lead-less white metal.
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    That is, apart from the locos that were painted brown.
  11. billbedford
    Late 'Midland' carriage design came with Bain from the North Eastern in 1901. The 9' LMS bogie was a development of the LNWR design. The MR bogies were all either 8' or 10'.
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    Thanks, it appears, then that a block of brass would be just as effective as liquid lead for weighing wagons.
  13. billbedford
    Does anyone know the effective density of Liquid Gravity?
  14. billbedford
    Of course the van in the photo was a LNER one, though it might have been built by BR.
  15. billbedford
    On the original, the 'dips' in the lower horizontal frame was produced by chamfering the edge of the timber between the bolt heads. All the uprights and diagonals were also chamfered for most of their length.
  16. billbedford
    I think your man has this the wrong way around. There exist drawings from the Derby D.O. which show the letter forms to be used to prepare the patterns for casting the letters. What hasn't happened is that no one has made a commercial computer font from these drawings. Hence your man was not able to match lettering produced a the end of the 19th century with something that couldn't have existed much before the 1970's.
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    They do a 3D print for much the same reasons you do test etches, i.e. to prove all the parts fit the way they are suppose to. Also that the mould slides will work as intended. It is always useful to know this before metal for the moulds is cut. Of course they may also give a sample to the sales department for all the reasons that others have suggested.
  18. billbedford
    Some reference to these alleged 'tests' would be useful, otherwise your input just looks like a spoiler.
  19. billbedford
    Almost any material can be 3D printed from high temperature alloys to chocolate. Unless you have anything specific to say about the material these pieces are made from, sintered nylon/SLS/Polyamide/WSF I am going to treat it as Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
  20. billbedford
    Yes this is correct, and the gear sizes are different. As I said, give me a few days and I make new muffs and gears for these too.
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    Sorry, but I don't know which locos, beside the J72 these gears fit -- I only get a few derelict locos to play with. I have a LMS 2-6-2 tank chassis, so I draw up and post a set with that gear in the next couple of days.
  22. billbedford
    Is this the sort of thing you are looking for?
  23. billbedford
    500 is the usual batch size for livery editions from most of the Chinese factories. Minimum production batch sizes are alway bigger.
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    Or Hornby do moulded on details ( handrails, smokebox dart, etc) and Oxford fit separate ones.
  25. billbedford
    Or even use a regulator that gives 12v output with a 3.7v input.....
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