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    PECO Announces Bullhead Track for OO

    in Peco

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    Place a shim of plastikard in the grove in front of the 'V' or frog. This will support the wheel flange and stop it dropping, but of course you would need to standardize of RTR wheels to match your loco wheels. I did this with Peco 0 gauge points....

     

    attachicon.gifWEB frog support.jpg

     

    Thanks for this, coachman.  I experimented with different thicknesses in an unlaid turnout before inserting a .020" shim in the layout turnout.  Inevitably some wheels bump a little as the flanges mount the shim but much improved. 

     

    My porters no longer have to call out "Mind the gap!".

    Driving standards

    in Wheeltappers

    Posted

    But had he hit her it would have greatly reduced the chance of him getting done for his driving, and her being done her for stupidity.

     

    How I wish people could be prosecuted for stupidity.......

    PECO Announces Bullhead Track for OO

    in Peco

    Posted

    My plain trackwork is SMP and my points are a mix of soldered construction and PECO code 75 flat bottom. 

     

    I have a problem with a couple of LH PECO large radius electrofrog turnouts, especially in the straight ahead direction.  Basically, stock wheels seem to drop into the gap between the wing rail and the crossing vee,  with a bump on hitting the latter which can cause derailments.  This gap appears to be approx. 1 cm long and is smaller in smaller radius PECO points.  Plse have other users experienced this problem and is there a "fix"?

     

    Do our track experts have an opinion whether the new PECO BH points may offer improved running?

    Coming out on RMWEB

    in Wheeltappers

    Posted

    To my mind, it's just good security. Publication of data such as real names, geographical locations and dates of birth gives anyone of a criminal nature a starting point (especially if messages suggest a property may be empty on specific dates).  I therefore try to be careful about what I reveal on a public forum though I would use my real name in an exchange of pm's.

     

     

    And yes, employers do monitor social websites though for most this one is probably too specialist.

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    BBC Tennis

    in Wheeltappers

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    I think the BBC gets carried away a bit by the luvvies and so we get saturation coverage of Wimbledon and things like Glastonbury. Trendies like Evans go on and on and on about them .They forget that there are large numbers of people not interested in either. To have it on BBC1 and 2 simultaneously is ridiculous. Why not call BBC4 BBC Tennis for the duration and stick everything over there. The only things it seems Wimbledon doesn't affect is the dreadfully dreary Eastenders! Even for viewers in Scotland

     

    Wimbledonandonandon

     

    Sorry, who is Evans?

    fire in London tower block

    in Wheeltappers

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    The problem is that unless you:

     

    understand the building regs, and,

    understand the standards used in this project, and,

    understand how to use standards, and,

    are familiar with this design

     

    then it is pretty much impossible to have any sort of meaningful opinion. Regulations invariably have general provisions to the effect that whatever you make has to be safe, therefore a failure like this has failed to meet regulations. Beyond that it gets much more complicated, as I've said earlier, the approvals for a material are inherently linked to the conditions of approval meaning that a material can be simultaneously approved for use and not approved for the way it has been used.

    If looking at standards, most standards these days are either global or regional as the last thing suppliers want is to have to get separate approvals for national standards around the world. Bodies such as ISO promote global standards. What most don't really appreciate is that all an approval indicates is that the product has met the criteria for approval against the referenced standard, it does not mean the product is good, or is safe or anything else, it starts and ends with telling you whatever it is met the criteria for approval. The majority of the certificates I signed in my time stated that the design satisfied the rules referenced on the certificate, end of, I said nothing about whether the design was any good. Design engineers and constructors and regulators generally understand that but it is very clear that politicians and journalists don't. Standards are great, but unless you understand their limitations and what an approval actually means then they can end in tears.

    I really think we need to let people who know what they're doing get on with things and for politicians to act like grown ups and realise that if you haven't got a clue what you're talking about then shut up.

     

    Interesting.  Did your signature not certify that the design met the requirements of the product specification?  My late friend, who was our design signatory, required a record of the design (build standard), a structural design record and a compliance statement stating how compliance of the design with the requirement spec had been demonstrated.

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    ENHANCED UK PRODUCTION

    in Dapol

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    That is not quite correct Phil, I worked in Manufacturing producing electronic instrumentation. We had assembly lines in the plant so no one person was responsible for the assembly of each instrument, it was done in steps with the assembly aided by jigs and fixtures. Example have you seen from inside a car plant, they take seconds putting an engine or dash board into a vehicle. How long would it take for a private individual to put a dash into a car? half a day or more.

     

    All I know is that I could not work on an assembly line all day, carrying out the same operation hour after hour. Mind numbing.

     

    I do not know the town of Chirk and the employment opportunities there but what ever Dapol do in expanding their production will be beneficial to the people of the town and the local economy.

     

    Also without getting political, the Government has increased the number of nursery hours available to parents. This will release a large number of people seeking part time employment of 16-20 hours a week onto the employment market. 

     

    I performed my industrial training with Renold Chains, whose shop floor included many presses and assembly machines.  I once asked one of the girls if she didn't get bored working the same machine all day every day.  Her reply was that she had never thought about it!  Apparently, conversation with her work mates gave her the interest she needed.

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    Flying Scotsman back on the mainline - 2016

    in Preservation

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    I visited the Keighley and Worth Valley today for their Flying Scotsman Experience - an excellent day out, unlimited travel on the K&WVR, access to the museums and a footplate visit to the loco (in light steam).  Apparently she ran like a sewing machine yesterday.  I didn't realise before quite how little remains of the origianl 1923 build and was amused to learn that the driving wheels came from Papyrus. 

     

    Very well organised, reasonably priced and numbers well regulated - well done the organisers.

     

    Also greatly impressed with the restored coaches at Ingrow.  First class in the GN was quite simply the most comfortable seating of any form of transport I have experienced.  I wish current ECML stock was equally comfortable!

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    HS2 under review

    in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)

    Posted

    There seems to be a nasty tendency of late to allow campaign groups to quote their own wildly inflated cost figures as evidence against projects they don't like. The Trident submarine replacement is another example of this.

     

    Also happened with the QE carrier programme.  Current projected cost (ie including inflation since start-up) including contingency and air group costs was compared to original programme cost excluding contingency allowance and air group - instant overspend.

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