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Yes, other receivers are working OK from the same batteries and TX but this one has me perplexed

I've just dug out an RX65 that has previously been bound and was working fine in an SM32 model, but now when I power it up, the LED just blinks in sequences of 5 flashes at me. Doesn't matter how long I leave it, or what I press on the TX, it doesn't do anything else. I have completely forgotten everything I knew about these things and would appreciate a little guidance here if anyone knows what I've managed to do to it?

That's a very nicely made Cackler/Jerry M model, £49 is a real steal!

We had a Cavalier Mk3 CDX 1.7TD, dad bought it as a cheap daily drive from a farmer, which required an inch thick layer of cobweb removing from the engine bay to see the bonnet and an inch of mud from every other surface to find the paint/trim. I always thought it handled well, to the point that we actually used it on road rallies - until it caught fire on us.

They do look rather tasty, Will we actually see them this year? October reckoned by Hattons so may get my pre-ordered-since-announcement 78000 in time for my birthday!

Colour 3D printing is a long way behind resin 3D printing, The same crew printed in the normaal Modelu materials will be far superior (But you'll need to paint the colour yourself).

The building doesn't appear to be any prototype I know, and is certainly not a typical building. The chutes appear to discharge into end loading rubbish wagons, and blocks in for processing would appear to go in through the end door.

Remind me again where it is you go for alignment? I'm sure it's the same place we're taking our cars at work

This is processed white before and after painting. Extra texture has been added with Vallejo rust texture.

Save some money and go Processed IMO. This is Black Premium in 16mm scale. It does round edges slightly and feels smooth to the touch but looks very little different to processed when painted.

Car making has been downhill since the Millenum that is for sure, mostly driven by cost cutting by manufacturers and tighter controls on emissions forcing less and less reliable engine designs. Current cars will not achieve the same lifespan as 90s cars by a long way - and lets not forget that Cars have been all* electronic since the 80s, Carburettors became obsolete in 1992 in the UK with the new stricter emissions test coming in with K registration. Things were a lot more solid state though, no software, the ECU would be the only thing with Firmware and the rest would be logic and discrete components. *Not eveyrthing is electronic even in current build cars, there are still vacuum and hydraulic systems.

I find knife edge supports very useful, you'll have to do them at the design stage though. These are how my FR axleboxes are printed.

Alex and Ferguson

Libre Office is more current and closer matches the more recent Microsoft Office products. Open Office is still available which is closer to Office 97/ Office 2000 which I much prefer. We use regular office at work, but I steadfastly refuse to use it and work in Open Office. Nobody else on site has actually noticed that I don't send them Excel or Word documents but ODT and ODS files. Occasionally some formatting goes awry but it's usually an easy and quick fix.

This is exactly why you incline stuff, so the contact area with the FEP is reduced as small as possible. That will print but you will have a wibbly wobbly edge, imagine the underside of fishbelly rail and your supports are the chairs.

Cambrian models kits were intended to be built with flangeless bearings. Try some not glued in with the wheelset and see if the solebars splay out at all when dry fitted.

More crummy phone pics but shows work in porgress on getting the new cab created. It's very hard to accurately measure the one that came off accurately, so it's going to take a few iterations. As a first draft, this is not bad at all. I also shortened the chimney in the Unimat, held the original spigot in a collet, put a live centre in the top to keep it straight and used a parting tool to cut the new spigot, then chopped the excess off with a dremel.

For those curious about the disassembly above: Remove the chassis (4 screws). Below (or rather above) that you'll see 2 screws in the firebox, one in the smokebox and one between smokebox and tank. Tank and firebox are one piece casting. Remove all the screws. Cab is glued in to footplate, I'd already loosened it by wiggling and now with the firebox loose it finally gave way and popped off. The cab front clips into the side of the firebox/tank casting and needed some persuasion to come out. Smokebox can be separated from tank/firebox easily. Chimney is brass turning and a tight fit in the smokebox - it will come out if you're brave enough and believe that it will! The coal bunker is separate from the cab. The cab sits in recesses in the footplate top, so isnt really interchangeable with the cabless models so far. Interestingly I noticed that my Alice model has a hole in the footplate casting for the separate brake handle which Britomart doesn't. Anyway- the above mess is destined to become Wild Aster, once a new cab, steam turret, chimney and dumb buffers have been 3D printed.

Oops. (apologies for poor quality phone shots, I left the proper camera at home as I hadn't intended on doing any Hunslet surgery this evening)

Important Correction: You do not need to delete any files, only deactivate them. You can only have 10 active documents, but can activate and deactivate at any time as much as you like.

The things you mention are most certainly suited best to resin.

Now that energy prices have stabilised at their new higher rate, what's the going pence per mile rate of EV ownership out of interest?

That's actually pretty resourceful - Built in Sealing Ring and a lot easier to pull out of the way before it drops into the pan of oil. A*.

For the type of software it is, Fusion is incredibly easy. Sketchup is by far the easiest way into the 3D modelling world for someone with no idea though, Blender is possibly the worst. You do need to tailor your software to your desired output though, Fusion is aimed at actual engineering - CNC and CAM, the others are not capable of that at all. Fusion is very much the jack of all trades, master of none - though it is what we use at work. (If you belive ethe boss we're a small automotive manufacturer). Blender is aimed at 3D graphics and sketchup cornered a niche of being easy to use, rough and ready general purpose 3D. If you want to get into 2D stuff, say for etching or laser cutting, then you will need something else entirely - though Fusion can get you from 3D model to 2D shapes, it can't quite get you over the line with output files you can send to an etcher or laser cutting company. I use TurboCAD to pick up where Fusion leaves off. You could use it for everything start to finish, but IMO that way madness lies.

Perfect, I'd found the full size specs but not the model, much appreciated.