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Does anyone know where I can find an X9122 Princess speedo cable? A few people listing it at £1.81 but all out of stock. Thank you.

Proper chips in the restaurant instead of nuked frozen things.

Hattons ad in Modeller says "pre-order for £111 (estimated).

No there isn't, 'cos I've just bought one as well. Merci buckits for the heads up.

Does anyone know why Hamilton was booed by the Aussies on the podium?

The body/cab didn't get touched at all, the only real work was to drill off the screw lug under the chassis, and file a groove for the wires to sit in on the top of the chassis as the body sits flush on this. You should be able to see this on the 2nd photo.

It's the smallest sugar cube available from Zimo/ESU etc, approx 12 x 8mm. The housing for it needs cutting down so it doesn't come below the frames. The wires go through the hole where the original coupling screw went. There is a lug affair for this screw that needs removing so that the speaker sits flush on the underside of the chassis, as previously explained. You need to fit a replacement coupling by drilling a hole at the end of the chassis.

I've had a go with this picture editor thingy, here's hoping I've done it even though I've been pratting for ages without knowing what I'm doing. I think I've lost 1 photo by altering one and saving it over another. Anyway lets hope this works. This should be a picture of the cut down speaker fitted where the rear coupling fits between the frames. This involves removing the lug where the coupling screw houses by drilling/filing, the speaker wires go through the remains of this hole after lining the inside of the frames with insulating tape to insulate the speaker connections from the chassis. You need to file a groove in the top of the chassis to take the wires from exiting this hole to where they will run up the back of the motor housing where there is room for this because of the body fixing pillar. After wiring up the speaker to the decoder this should hold the speaker roughly in place to allow the rear body fixing screw to be fitted, the speaker then half covers this screw before being held tightly in place by the new rear coupling wedging it, I then filled the small gaps in with black-tack to seal everything. Fitting the speaker here frees a bit more room for the decoder. I used a Plux 16 Zimo decoder I took out of a Fleischmann loco, this goes at the front of the motor housing, it justs needs the two small retaining lugs breaking off and the plastic locating bit at the bottom removing so the decoder sits on top of the cylinder block. Not trying to fit the speaker here means there is room to construct a plug affair for the decoder, I used a female fitting plug cut down from a dead 21 pin decoder linked to the 4-pin plug on the loco's wiring, if you use a wired decoder you could connect direct to this plug. I didn't find it neccessary to alter the body in any way, everything fitted back ok. The decoder is held in place/insulated with black-tack between the decoder and the motor housing. The pictures show the speaker wiring going down the side of the motor but this was a mistake I realised after the photo's were taken, the wires need to go over the top of the motor. Here's hoping this has come out OK, and you all understand my ramblings.

I fitted sound to my Dodo yesterday, and I thought I'd have ago at posting a couple of piccies on here, but it's beyond my very limited I.T. skills. I can try to attach a photo but it comes up as too big a file (3.4 MB instead of 1MB), and I cant work out how to shrink it, so you'll all just have to take my word for it. Suffice to say I found it easier than the method in Model Rail. Sorry Peeps!

These (LMS) were on sale today at Doncaster show. (2 dealers).

Thanks for that. I presume therefore that it can be done away with when DCC-ing.

Thanks for that. Any idea about the thing that looks like a stayalive?

I've just looked at the review in today's Modeller, and the photo of the opened up tender seems to show a stay alive fitted. Is this what it is, and as there appears to be only 2 wires bridging the loco and tender does that mean there's no pickups on the chassis?

OK, just twigged that's the dates of the fair, put all your sarky thoughts back in their boxes.

Are there any other announcements to come, as the heading says 24th to 26th?

The LMS had 4, so I'll have another one.

How soon? When? When? Tell me! TELL ME NOW!!!!!!

Do you want free postage with that?

One of my Pecketts came with a spare whistle stuck on the inside of the plastic sleeve.Offers starting in the £000's please!

I don't know whether this has been mentioned before, and I've never commented on E-bay before on here, but am I going mad or am I missing something here. There's a trader called roco-loco who is advertising 8 separate listings for empty Hornby loco boxes, various prices. The cheapest is £178.95, the dearest is £202.95. ???????????????????????????????

For anyone who can be bothered to search there's another one hiding away out there.

If you look at the ads it was one seller. He put it on at £80, then I presume he withdrew it and put it on at £100 or offers. I bought it for £95. (See earlier post).

I've just managed to buy a H & P one on EBay for £95, luckily the seller couldn't spell Peckett so it was kept away from everyone's hungry eyes whilst I did the deal. If there isn't an icon for jealous then just feel free to post abuse, I don't care 'cos I've got one now.

Will we ever see a red LMS compound, we should be on the second or third incarnation of such after all these years, and we haven't seen one yet. They were called Crimson Ramblers, Mr. Bachmann, please take the hint.

As an LMS fan thank God for Bachmann over the last few years. My naturally joyous disposition would have been dampened slightly if my dismal, boring, sad, depressing and uneventful life only had Hornbys meagre offerings to look forward too.