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Peco & Piko
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In my not infrequent eBay n gauge searches
i've occasionally come across references to PIKO.
In my ignorance I had always assumed this was another
far Eastern company trying to cash in on the PECO name.
Having now had time to do a bit of research,
(posh name for Internet browsing),
I've found that they are actually a German company,
apparently started about the same time as PECO,(late 1940's).
I just wondered if there was ever any 'dispute'
between the two companies over the name similarities.
I assume if there was it would have eminated from PIKO,
as they were the 1st company.
Also, what is PIKO stuff like, how does it compare
with PECO and Farish,and will it run with them OK
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Well I have to admit the water is quite realistic.
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Admits he(she) knows nothing about trainsTatty bargain , must have gold wheels !
but that's pretty obvious from the ref to 'coal carriage'!
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Well after 24hrs the missing network driverWell Windows 10 install completed in about an hour,
and when I logged back in and ran Open Office it even gave me the option to recover the document I was working on so not too much lost.
Only problem I now have is no internet connection.
Emailed the stepson who's a bit of a wizkid on these things.
He sent me some instructions, something about deleting network drivers and restarting to allow Windows to reinstall THEY.
I followed them to the letter, or thought I did,
deleted the driver I thought I was using and when I restarted not only did that one not reinstall, but most of the other network drivers have disappeared too!
Can see we'll be inviting him round for a meal soon,
then get him to sort it out while he is here.
In the meantime it's a good job I've got the tablet.
must have reinstalled itself, as when I turned
the PC on again, hey presto I had network access.
The only problem I have now is that Windows 10 email
doesn't seem to like blue yonder accounts.
Fortunately I already have a Gmail account
but now I have the hassle of trying to remember
who has my blue yonder address and making sure
they now have the new one.
Apart from that, I have to say the changeover
hasn't been too bad (hope I'm not speaking too soon).
Printed \scanner works OK.
Can't say I've noticed much difference in boot up speed.
Time will tell!
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Simpler with a mop and bucket!
Stewart
Couldn't find the tongue in cheek icon.
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Simples. Poke one end into washer. Reverse out to nearest points.Must have been fun getting them through the washing plant sideways!
Through run around loop to points at opposite end. Back up to washer to poke other end in!
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Well Windows 10 install completed in about an hour,
and when I logged back in and ran Open Office it even gave me the option to recover the document I was working on so not too much lost.
Only problem I now have is no internet connection.
Emailed the stepson who's a bit of a wizkid on these things.
He sent me some instructions, something about deleting network drivers and restarting to allow Windows to reinstall them.
I followed them to the letter, or thought I did,
deleted the driver I thought I was using and when I restarted not only did that one not reinstall, but most of the other network drivers have disappeared too!
Can see we'll be inviting him round for a meal soon,
then get him to sort it out while he is here.
In the meantime it's a good job I've got the tablet.
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Well it's finally got me! I've been holding off installation as long as I could.
Was using the PC a couple of days ago and had a pop up message saying V10 install was starting in an hour. (Didn't even realise it had downloaded, my fault I know for not changing the download settings). I closed the pop up window, carried on working and all was well.
Thinking about it I probably shut down before the hour was up.
Anyway, was busy working away this morning when same message pops up.
Did the same, closed the window, carried on working and,you guessed, screen goes blank, message appears, windows 10 installation started.
Probably means I've lost all I was doing (I know I should have paid more attention to the message).
Wouldn't mind so much but was working on something I need for the weekend, and I was already behind schedule.
Will probably lose another day now trying to get everything working.
Anyway I'm off out to enjoy the sunshine for a couple of hours and leave Windows 10 to do its worst
End of rant.
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North Pole depot... Does this mean that after all these years
Santa's reindeer are finally being replaced by a train???
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Wife found one for sale last night, 1967,42k on the clock, only £2000
There's an Austin 1300 tucked away in a garage which we're going to have to dispose of sometime fairly soon. Dad gone into a nursing home so in the process of sorting the place out prior to selling. The car was kept in near showroom condition when he was using it but hasn't moved for years. Brakes are seized on. Engine last run about 12 months ago.
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PrettyBleddy hell its another "pro" job!
Must be ebay sellers acronym of the week !
Rubbish
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Looks like their keyboard has been weathered too going by the typos in the description!I do like this "pro weathered" stuff.
The weathering's not too bad considering it was done with a bush instead of a brush.
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As we're in the pantomime season,Apparently FS was the first engine to reach 100 mph.Now we know that ain't true don't we...
"Oh yes we do"
Quite appropriate really, the whole Scotsman restoration project
has been a bit of a pantomime.
Still I'm sure it will end with a "happy ever after".
Oh yes it will, oh no it won't.
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Selling locomotives by the inch now
Perhaps it's metre gauge
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Looks better with the face than with smoke deflectors!!!
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The main problem I think with all these extreme weathered objects is that very few prototype locomotives lasted long enough after withdrawal to get to this state. Most were cut up almost at once. They normally weren't left at the end of some odd siding to rot. Rolling stock maybe, but even this wasn't common. I can remember seeing some wagons left the wrong side of a closed level crossing in the distant past and there is a van sitting in the closed station at Bosa in Sardinia* (cut off by subsidence of the embankment I understand). None of these were/are in the state usually depicted.
* At least it was still there the last time I passed by.
They may not have lasted long enough after initial withdrawal to get in that state but I've seen a few on preserved railways not far off that.
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I think Gostude has a Scottish cousin/quote]
Jockstude???
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...and you have to be very careful how you type that!
Geoff Endacott
Oh I don't know, you could always blame it on the spell checker!
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Is that where they kept the fork handles?
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Yesterday Ian Riley posted some photographs of the engine being gauged by Balfour Beatty on The Works forum.
So will it be OO, EM or P4???
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It always amazes me that sellers don't check their entries.
Something like that puts me off.
It gives the impression that they can't be bothered,
which then leads you to think what are they going to be like to deal with.
Something else which leads me to the same conclusion is poor quality photos, (dark, out of focus or wrong orientation).
(End of rant)!
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Maybe they thought they were 'Good Wailings'.maybe they thought that the railings were good enough to be GW...
(Hat, coat, I'm running).
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Thanks for the response although not the sort of thing we want to hear.Fatality involving 143619 on 2T10 close to Dawlish on the sea wall. Line shut for a while. Normal working was resumed at 11.50 apparently.
Of course my thoughts are with the family of the deceased,
but also with the driver of 143619.
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Why do l have this notion that Scotsman will encounter technical problems and 60163 Tornado will do the honours on these trains? Or that there will be lots of diesel assistance from the rear?
Dava
Past experience???
EBay madness
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Posted · Edited by rab
Perhaps the graffiti originates from Banksy???