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For my Epson scanner, they have no 64 bit drivers, as I said (and the helpful web blogs, etc., suggest installing another Epson driver, and selecting that - and that doesn't work either, for this scanner.) The Epson site actually suggests VueScan. However the cheap, lightweight Canon scanner I'm now using is much quicker (but does not allow film scanning), and is powered from USB. It uses an LED light-bar, instead of a fluorescent tube, and I think that will give better long term colour consistency, as well as virtually no warm-up time.

wrt Epson scanners, I've had three over the years, because drivers were not updated. My latest, when I went from 32bit to 64bit win10 has no 64 bit drivers. However, VueScan http://www.hamrick.com/ will drive most, but my son has given me his old canon scanner which works fine in win10 64bit.

very pretty https://www.youtube.com/embed/3xWW4sTp4wA?rel=0

Looking for my double angle clamp thingy (which I previously mentioned), I came across something I'd made earlier. A length of 1inch ali angle with the corner cut out for most of it's length in the centre 3 or 4 inches. The angle is the sort of stuff sold by B&Q, and others, about 1.5mm thick web. This still had a few wooden clothes pegs, with the pointy ends cut off, clipped onto the ali. Said angle is easily adjusted to be exactly at 90degrees, and it can be fitted either inside or outside of the bits you want to glue or solder and allows easy access to both sides of the corner/edge you want to join. If needed, the aluminium is thin enough that magnets could be used both sides, or fix a bit of steel/tin can to it. Not quite as stable as a steel block, I guess, but easy enough for anyone to make/use, at minimum cost. Plenty of ways to skin a cat.

Yeh, maybe, but you can't get the glue/solvent down the inside of the corner, with your block in the way. Anyway, I use a couple of slotted angles, probably like the EDM device that Leigh mentioned, allows access to both inside and outside of corner, more or less.

Hi Melmerby, You mentioned a few posts back - What did you find different in Cortana? Best wishes, Ray

obviously, that's why I said stick on some bits of steel....

A length of angle (ali/brass/steel) with a piece of steel or washers glued or screwed on each inside face could be useful, magnets on the inside of van body.

What's changed in Cortana? I find I'm using that much more than I thought, to quickly get to open programs, find drawings, etc. (but not with voice recognition)

I've a feeling that if you have not disabled all the info. they want you to send back to them, that updates, etc., are installed quicker. I've not really noticed any thing different with the 1511 update. I have an intermittant video driver problem (intel, iirc) screen blanks, mainly in firefox. I'd written a more detailed reply, which just got wiped. Had a problem with an update, which took a while to resolve, but everything runs as expected.

It doesn't matter what you collect, if you collect as either a 'fan boy', or as an investment See here -http://www.ted.com/talks/josh_luber_the_secret_sneaker_market_and_why_it_matters

Hi Rod, The triang drums had two tabs on the circumference of the drum, which press fitted, iirc, into the bed of the wagon. I'm not sure, but I may be able to find mine. There may well have been an elastic band over the top of them, and around coupling at each end. The drum was open, the cable being a length of red plastic tube, iirc. Here's another full size image. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8179/7977221752_c3765af8ee_z.jpg

The plastic syringes I have, afaik, are made of a polypropylene type plastic, and are completely undamaged by the solvent, but the solvent is not stored in them, and they are emptied after each session. Cheap enough, too, https://www.medisupplies.co.uk/Syringes-Needles/Syringes/BD-Discardit-Luer-Slip-Syringes edit to add - the solvent I use is dichloromethane, which is the best I've found for sticking PLA, a plastic used in 3d printing.

Paul explained my lack of vision, so to speak. I didn't realise the model was t'other way round. btw, Chaz, have you tried using a syringe instead of a brush for applying solvent? You can dispense a small amount right into the corners, and much less waste and vapour. However, you need to to be careful not to inject yourself with nasties, The needles are not magnetic, either. The solvent will flow out of the needle without plunger pressure, you just tilt the syringe to regulate the amount deposited.

why are the brakes wrong in the model? fitted to the wrong side?

Hi Rob, you posted b4 my reply, so seems you are almost there - just upgrade/downgrade your w7 pc to w10. If it's any consolation, Bill gates et al owe me about 5 years of my life - timespent upgrading/reinstalling, etc over the past 40 years.

Hi Rob, Perhaps you should search on the web to find a solution. I do not use outlook, nor did I ever use windows live (which is now apparently discontinued). but i had a similar problem as I have I have an hp windows home server, also well past it's sell by date. It will not accept passwords/user names with special characters, '@' etc. But, w10 tries to get you to use your email address, which contains an '@'. It took me a while to sort that out, and can't remember how, so not much help to you, I'm afraid. Fwiw, I have used thunderbird as my client since when it first came out, and have all my emails back to 1998. It's been relatively easy to transfer between various machines and operating systems. I have always ignored the 'free' email services, gmail, hotmail, yahoo and the like. I forward my incoming emails from my various addresses to my isp's mail system, and download them from there.onto my desktop pc. I can access them before downloading by using their webmail system, if I'm away from base. This gives me maximum control, and if it goes wrong, it is my fault. Other people think differently. Sometimes windows tries to be too clever, in order to make it easy for most. For example, Passwords would automatically display capital first letters in some versions, not be case sensitive in others, and they display folder names that do not exist -'e.g. 'my documents', 'my music', etc., but that's the way it is. Best wishes, Ray

Nicely put https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY4uWLOLKzU (smile when your batteries go flat?)

I use Cutwel most often, generally the throw-away/weldon 6mm shank stuff http://www.cutwel.co.uk/milling/milling-cutters and they have good offers from time to time (for example 3 for 2 today) For some special items, I have used WNT http://www.wnt.com/uk/ These are both (there are others) specialist tooling suppliers, aimed at large scale users, but Cutwel will happily supply one-offs, and are generally helpful. Tracy, Axminster, rdg and the other general tool suppliers, aimed at the hobby user, do not carry a large range of milling cutters, and in my experience the specifications are lacking and the quality can vary, but obviously their stuff is good enough for many folk. Define your question better, or use google/bing, if you want a better answer, because as it stands your question is far too general and price/quality is always a trade off. Best wishes, Ray

A bit of history http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/19/9759874/microsoft-windows-visual-history-30-years

Hi Randall, I hope you are joking. Background sounds should obviously emanate from the background - separate speaker for station, another for woodland bird song, another for traffic, etc. At a tenner a time, and free software/sound files, you can outperform any sound produced in a compromised loco speaker/sound system. If it ain't moving, you don't even need bluetooth - just a cheap mp3 player or three would do that. Best wishes, Ray

I think they have bots that scan the questions, then in response cut and paste standard replies. The bots are only capable of picking out key words, not grammar. Either that, or some sort of reward scheme for answering questions, whether right or wrong, maybe both, and then half of the so called 'Microsoft engineers', are from sunnier climes, so to speak, and are a bit thick..

Land Rover is a car brand, in the same way as Ford, bmw whoever (but better ).

Vauxhall recalling cars http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34743833

Things have moved around a bit, but I think the new locations make a bit more sense than in w7, once you realise why it is different. File explorer is different for example, and task bar operation, etc., etc.