Jesse Sim

13 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

We had our third running session of the year today and it went quite well. With nine of us present, we started with the first train in the sequence (exactly a year since we started the last cycle) and worked our way through a total of 29, taking us to just before noon on Friday (Mid-Cornwall Summer Time). We also ran one ad-hoc return trip each for the auto train and the SPC on the Polperran line - congratulations to Bill for driving the first Polperran to Pentowan service at a running session! Perhaps the ACE will make an appearance next time...

 

All very encouraging and I'm now keen to finish the trackwork at Pentowan as soon as I can, to bring the implementation of the full sequence a little bit closer.

I’m glad I finally got up there for a running session John, the layouts coming along. 
 

Now that I’m only working Saturday’s sporadically it will mean I’m available for more running sessions. 
 

I’ll also bring a J6 in replacement of a Pannier 😉

A fuel tanker I finished off last night for a customer. 

Been a bit quiet lately, so to try and spark the enthusiasm to post in this thread here’s me demonstrating at the The Epping Club’s annual show. 
 

It was a fantastic two days, speaking to heaps of people really does drain your social battery though. I was well and truly pooped after it, I’m getting old….

On 07/04/2023 at 05:38, jwealleans said:

Just a quick note to let anyone planning on attending know that Mr King and I will be manning the LNER Society stand on Monday at York Show, assisted by Dave Jobling.   Dave will also be on the stand on Sunday.  Please come and say hello.

I signed up at Ally Pally but haven’t received any notification by email ( I did pay cash for the fee).

Do you mind following it up For me?

It’s nice to see my beaver parked next to your dick.

1 hour ago, MJI said:

I met Jesse at Warley pre covid, he has grown up a bit.

 

Great to see younger modellers.

 

His age i was detailing lima and Hornby stuff.

It’s crazy how quick it went! I remember having that convo at Warley, forgive me if it was short I had many people wanting to chat. Ive compared Tony to a circus operator and I the prized monkey 🤣 

1 hour ago, 96701 said:

I can be pedantic as far as cranes go. The "arm" is a "jib". 

 

However, it is a beautifully observed model.

I wanted to write jib, but I panicked at the last minute incase of being wrong! 

1 hour ago, jwealleans said:

We seemed to have a bit of a photo fest at Harrogate, so i thought I'd share a few more with you.  These are in the main by Jesse or my good lady wife (and therefore less flattering and train-oriented than the ones I usually take).

 

 

Model railway shows are like any walk of life - there's a great deal of standing about hoping someone else will do whatever needs to be done...

 

 

... and then one bloke (Paul in this case) does all the work while several layers of management look on.

 

 

 

Here I was explaining to anyone who'd listen what the cold weather had done to my P2.

 

I see Jesse has been flaunting his milk train on Little Bytham.  It's not the first time he's had it out, it was paraded on Saturday.    This is the picture he's taken inspiration from:

 

 

(Picture by R Blencowe)

 

As I have a model of 4432, we made use of it.   He was also kind enough to ask me to bring my much smaller milk stock along to add to the whole thing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All this is Jesse's work other than tanks 4-6 and the milk brake behind them.   I'll let him go through the origins of the various models.

 

 

Now here I have to protest my innocence.  I was accused of taking the kind of picture which used to get you reported to the police by the staff in Boots, but the camera is clearly pointing in a very different direction.   I think this was the target:

 

 

It does spend a lot of time hanging round outside that factory.  Then again, it might have been this:

 

 

I'm not sure whose D2 this is (Steve?) but it was there surrounded by wagons and I quite liked the view.

 

Since I've been accused anyway, let's finish with a Dick pic.

 

 

This is a converted Bachmann wagon with scratchbuilt fillers and valve wheels.   The tank trussing also had to be altered to follow prototype.   Transfers by Powsides (1055).

 

 

 

My my what a dick It is! 
 

Goes well with the cock holding area, unfortunately only one cock insight, nice sausage next to it though  

I particularly like this photo of you working away, I do wish I had taken a photo of you taking a photo of your dick. 
 

3 minutes ago, geoff west said:

A most enjoyable day Jesse, good to see you again. Funny how we are like a couple of naughty schoolboys, in trouble with sir.

We’ve got to keep him on his toes! 

9 hours ago, LNER4479 said:

 

Nah - a man from Oz only needs a few clothes.

 

 

Not far off to be honest, I forgot my Akubra (the hat). 

1 hour ago, Tony Wright said:

Looks good Graham,

 

Please let me know how Jesse's D2 gets on. 

 

And, can you ask him when he wants picking up from Grantham Station, please?

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

I have just send you an email my master! 

6 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

Good morning Jesse,

 

Have no fear, my ire will have disappeared completely by the time you arrive. Anyway, you're taller and much younger and fitter than I am, so you'll be safe.

 

Even if you still don't understand the use of the possessive apostrophe.  

 

Wrights Tower’s is nonsense. It should be Wright's Towers if it's with reference to only me; or, if, as you should do, you include Mo, then it's Wrights' Towers.

 

Here ends the lesson!

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

A deliberate mistake used to make sure you were not an imposter before commencing my UK 2023 trip. 

41 minutes ago, Woodcock29 said:

I hate to say this Tony, but Jesse's D2 appears to be sitting very high on its chassis. Both engine and tender.

Andrew

It’s not mine, shush 😬

2 hours ago, Bucoops said:

Anyone else fearing for @Jesse Sim's safety?

Anyone able to put me up for a week and a half, I’m too scared to attend Wrights Tower’s. 

10 hours ago, Barry Ten said:

Speaking of the spawn of Satan, DCC, my experience has been that locos that run at a reasonable top speed on DC tend to be quite a bit slower on DCC at the maximum setting. For my locos fitted with the DJH GB9 motor/gearbox (the ones with the Mashima motor, not the more recent offerings) the top speed of passenger locos ends up being a fair bit slower than I'd like after I've put in a decoder. Has anyone else had this observation with their locos?

 

Without getting into the ins and outs of different DCC systems, I think at least one (NCE) allows the track voltage to be increased just by selecting a different output voltage from the transformer, but I'm not sure if this applies to the Dynamis I'm currently using for my 4mm stuff.

I’ve had this issue as well, I think I could

be the only modeller thats contemplating switching back! to DC! 

2 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

Readers might recall that some little time ago, I was sent an 'exploded' D2 by Jesse Sim from Australia.........

 

 

 

If I recall correctly, he'd bought it off eBay (he'll correct me if I'm wrong) and it arrived looking like this! I think the green blocks are designed to take pick-up pads.

 

It had been glued together! Could it be a Nu-Cast kit, or one from another manufacturer?

 

 

Actually, probably not Nu-Cast because the frames were thin etched brass - and a mess! This is them after I'd sorted them out.

 

Now, I mentioned some time past that I'll be no longer taking on 'resurrecting' the model loco-building of others, but, being then still a mug, I'd taken on the rebuilding of this after Jesse suggested a 'deal'; that being, he'd give me a Nu-Cast V2 he'd bought off eBay in exchange. Which he did. 

 

It seemed a good deal at the time, because the V2 looked well-made (though painted a ghastly shade of green). Visually well-made, but it had the old Nu-Cast cast metal lump for a chassis, powered by an open-framed (though five-pole) motor and straight gears/worm. A runner, but too noisy for my taste. 

 

Now, here is where the 'deal' became slightly 'less-attractive'.....................

 

 

Because I had the cost of a Comet set of frames, new drivers and a motor/gearbox to then factor-in. Granted, I 'sold' the old chassis (for a donation to charity), but, no matter; I did end up with a beautifully-running V2. 

 

 

 

 

And, after I'd repainted it and Geoff Haynes had weathered it, it was a worthy addition to Bytham's stud. Geoff lined the valance).

 

Anyway, a deal's a deal, and I thought, since the lad is coming over from Oz next month, I'd better get on with it.

 

 

Well, if ever my dictionary of profanity was ever exhausted, this was the time! I couldn't believe how tenacious the wretched glue was. I suppose, if I'd been sensible, I'd have dunked the lot in paint stripper and started afresh. But no, I thought I'd just scrape the glue off the mating surfaces. Now, in my naivety, I thought, since the loco had fallen apart so easily in transit, then the glue would just 'pick-off'. No such luck. I don't understand the physics/chemistry here, but both mating surfaces were covered in glue (of what kind, I don't know). It would seem that the glue-to-glue joint had failed, since the nasty stuff had formed the most tenacious bond to the white metal - but not to itself. Assaults by file, knife and scraper eventually shifted the stuff, to give me clean surfaces to solder. Which, as can be seen, I've done. 

 

 

At least a DJH ready-made motor/gearbox has assured sweet running (why the rods had buckled, I don't know. Do postal/delivery workers see anything marked 'fragile' as a kind of challenge?). 

 

 

The bogie was designed to slide from side to side via a slot in the bogie stretcher. Being daft, I thought I'd stick with the system, until the screw for it to work with came loose. Guess what, it was glued inside the smokebox - hopelessly. Since I'd soldered the smokebox securely to the saddle, there was no way to get at it. So, after yet more dark threats, I lopped the lousy thing off and substituted a pivoting bogie arrangement. This is sprung, because, being a 4-4-0, the loco wanted to nod forwards all the time in motion. I also dispensed with the hopeless loco-tender drawbar and arranged a peg and goalpost system, so that the front of the tender rests on the goalpost, adding adhesion to the loco. 

 

Because Jesse uses the 'spawn of Satan' DCC, I made the frames electrically-dead (he can fit the chip). I'll also arrange a tender pick-up. 

 

A few bits were missing after the 'explosion', including a set of tender wheels. I didn't have an exact pair to match, other than their being the same diameter. 

 

A cab step will have to be made, and I'll try and find some safety valves in my spares box. 

 

I'll complete it and, with luck, it might appear on Grantham at Harrogate next month. Jesse can finish off the painting.

 

So, if anyone else is contemplating a 'deal' with me whereby I rebuild something made/exploded by someone else, henceforth the answer is the most-emphatic NO! 

 

 

I’m kind of scared to type still….is 2 hours enough to cool down after having to relive the terrible experience? 

It actually arrived perfectly fine in the mail from buyer but it was a dud! This was before I had any idea of what I was doing (2019) and I sent it to you to get fixed up and for some reason it did a u-turn and arrived back here exploded. I think customs had opened it to have a squiz and destroyed it searching for clearly non-existent substances! 
 

That’s when the deal was struck (before you learnt your lesson) and I sent it again over to you Tony. You’ve done a fantastic job and I thank you for it. I’m bringing two locos over that I’ve refurbished/rebuilt that need some doctoring if that’s okay? I promise they will

leave with running or not! 
 

4 hours ago, Barry O said:

When do you go??

2nd of March

1 hour ago, Tony Wright said:

Good morning Jesse,

 

I think it's been explained rather well. 

 

I regard words as 'tools'; the more you have at your disposal, the more things you can describe.

 

For instance - from the evidence over the weekend, Yorkshire folk are not parsimonious; neither are they pusillanimous...........

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

I completely agree regarding the photosynthesis. 

50 minutes ago, Barry O said:

Don't worry, a few hours with me will add a lot to your vocabulary youngun!

 

Baz

You popping in before I leave? 

1 hour ago, cctransuk said:

 

Come on Jesse - if you are going to frequent the UK on a regular basis, at least learn some of the bigger words!

 

In your lingo it means 'downright bloody stingy'; (though I can think of a few more colourful expressions - perhaps referring to the bodily orifice of a mozzie - which could have no place in refined company such as this)!

 

CJI (currently in Sydney, prior to travelling south and west).

I prefer to learn the smaller ruder words of the UK. 
 

I think Tony puts on these big words hoping

to confuse me. 
 

Hope you weren’t here over the weekend, was a scorcher.