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  1. Caley Jim
    So, for once we baby boomers are not getting the blame! Jim
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    Since I'm on holiday in Portugal, looking out of the window, it's brilliant sunshine ☀! Jim ( sorry about that)
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    Been there, done that, many a time and oft! To be fair, I usually find them eventually, but that is long after I've fabricated a replacement. All the etched kits I design, whether purely as one-offs or for others, have as many multiples of small parts as I can fit in. Jim
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    Happy birthday Annie. I had one yesterday! It's a proven fact that those who have the most birthdays live the longest. Jim
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    I used to have a poster on my study wall w which said; 'when you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on'! Jim
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    Caley Jim replied to Ian Smith's topic in 2mm Finescale

    And there's 4 of them! Jim
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    And each of these 12 months could well be Aprils. :-) Jim
  8. Caley Jim
    This is one f the reasons why railway maintenance companies are now regularly employed on 'vegetation clearance'. Where once the grass and bushes on the sides of cuttings and embankments were kept in check by occasional fires caused by sparks from locos, they started to proliferate when diseisasals came along, resulting in the problems from 'leaves on the line' in autumn, among others. Jim
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    And where does Roswell fit into all this? Or is that another story again? Jim
  10. Caley Jim
    I'm not familiar with that book, so can't confirm the author, but when I joined the 2MM SA in the late 60's, any articles on loco construction usual started with 'chuck a 1 inch bolt in the lathe...'. This being the starting point of making driving wheels. As I've never possessed a lathe, it was fortunate that the Association started to produce a range of driving wheels a few years later! Transformer laminations were the recommended material for motor cores. Jim
  11. Caley Jim
    It's also worth putting a length of rod, the same diameter as the axles, through the bearings while you fix then. That way both bearings will be perfectly aligned. Jim
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    I've been rather busy recently drawing up etches for things for a couple of groups. One is for a second footbridge from Dunblane for the Dunallander layout, which had to be drawn up from photos as it is long gone and there are no drawings. I'll start a thread on the 2FS section when I start to build it. I'll leave the second set of items for the group concerned to describe when they get them. I hope to get the artwork files off to PPD before the end of the week. Jim
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    Or Trigger's brush from 'Only Fools and Horses'! Jim
  14. Caley Jim
    If you read the caption to the photograph I read it as saying that it had been an 0-6-2st and then had been converted to an 0-8-0st. Jim
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    we have a member of our area group who spends all his time planning a layout. We refer to him as 'Mr Gunnado' as he's always gonna do something. Jim
  16. Caley Jim
    As Andy says in the post before this one, the ticket is a monthly one! Potentially 6 return journeys per week for 4 weeks which equates to just over a farthing per journey ! Jim
  17. Caley Jim
    Have you asked on the CRA website ? Jim
  18. Caley Jim
    Make it into a series of such 'windows' and have multiple entries ! Jim
  19. Caley Jim
    And I can give you some nice blue ones (without any fancy faces)! Jim
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    But they are all the right jobs! Jim
  21. Caley Jim
    Looking at that mallet, 'mince meat' comes to mind! Jim
  22. Caley Jim
    On Kirkallanmuir I've hidden the cassette fiddle yards behind the colliery interchange sidings at one end and the goods yard at the other. Jim
  23. Caley Jim
    Mine are all to 2MM scale, and mostly scratch built or etched kits, the latter mostly my own design. There is little available in N for my area or period of interest (Caledonian Railway 1885-1914) jim
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    Aren't we all!! Jim (Note that while I truncated the post I did not delete the flag! )
  25. Caley Jim
    Don't bother about which string it is. I think the finest you can get is 8thou, usually marked on the packet. Jim
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