davefromacrossthepond

12 hours ago, peanuts said:

Just a quick heads up about a documentary on Sky 9 pm Tonight I'm not really one for conspiracy theorys but this is a factual program about two Chinese scientists from Wuhan who where going to blow the bubble on the deliberately engineered Covid virus and it's second phase due Dec 20 they were supposed to catch flight C1273 out of Wuhan which of course mysteriouly vanished over the Chinese sea It's a must watch it's called: Two Wong's don't make a flight

Be careful, there's a bunch of folks on this side of the ocean that would think this true.  Sometimes I wonder. Do you people over there celebrate like we do on 4 July, but rather call it "Good riddance day?" 

20 hours ago, brenn said:

Thanks I’ll look them up.... I guess they are USA based?

 

B

Actually, they're from Germany.

https://www.wihatools.com/wiha-features/made-in-germany

But a quick search shows there are quite a few retailers (stockists?) in the UK. 

https://www.screwfix.com/c/tools/screwdrivers-hex-keys/cat831030?brand=wiha

https://www.axminstertools.com/wiha

What sold me on Wiha was how they felt in my hands, very comfortable, and how tightly the hex drivers fit tighly reducing the risk of rounding corners off.

Dave

I've found Wila screwdrivers, nut drivers and hex drivers to be high quality tools. A bit more expensive, but worth every penny. 

16 hours ago, CameronL said:

We had a dog called "Email" - he left little messages everywhere.

Wouldn't that then be "Twitter"?

28 minutes ago, Ian Abel said:

I think in terms of "smart moves", wearing an ID tag is the least of his worries , trespass in a federal building is rather higher up the list probably, oh and sedition, treason, um, potentially/possibly threatening government officials and members of congress... the FBI will probably "have a word with him" soon  

 

From a POTUS tweet this summer:

"Anarchists, Agitators or Protestors who vandalize or damage . . . any Federal Buildings in any of our Cities or States, will be prosecuted under our recently reenacted Statues & Monuments Act. MINIMUM TEN YEARS IN PRISON."  (Emphasis in original).

I have to say that my wife has been nothing but supportive of my hobby and she tracks the various shows as closely as I do - and yes, she attends them all with me and often assists when there is something in particular that I am looking for.  Needless to say I am fully supportive of her hobbies and interests.  Yeah, I'm a pretty lucky guy!

The past few posts about P4/EM/OO had me chuckling quite a bit.  Trying to explain to my wife why they were so funny, however . ..........

Dave

On 08/08/2020 at 16:41, Art Dent said:

Here's my Dapol 08 - excellently weathered by David Magill.

 

The pictures are his and are used with his kind permission.

 

Figures are ModelU and painted by Claudia Everett.

 

Art

Art,

No fair using prototype photos and trying to convince us they are of models!!!!!

Seriously, what a fantastic job.  Everything just "fits" into the whole so well.  The weathering, the setting, the scenery, the driver.  I can almost hear the clanking and smell the diesel exhaust.  I will use these pics as inspiration for future projects - an objective to strive for! 

Dave

Jonathan,

Enjoy your well-deserved vacation!!  

Dave

No worries over Covid....our president said it will disappear in April when it gets warmer............. 

What about the Atlas HO 9 inch turntable? Not sure about criteria #2, but looks to meet all others.

On 08/07/2020 at 12:22, CameronL said:

 I wonder how many of them could even point out Canada on the map. 

Canada?  Yeah its that state just north of New York right?

I've seen similar things over on this side but I can't recall if it was on a model railroad forum (http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/default.aspx) or perhaps one of the magazines (Model Railroader or Model Railroad Craftsman).  This was several years ago.  At the time I was highly curious about the idea, but unable to find a local distributor so that I could play around with the various pieces.  I ended up losing interest until seeing Richard's initial post.

While the system still looks very interesting to me, I do wonder how much it would be subject to twisting given that the finished product would be very similar in structure to a framework of 1x1s (albeit the aluminum pieces are most likely much more rigid than the equivalent size of wood).  I would think if it is a part of a "permanent" layout it could be very successful, but not so sure about if it were to be portable.   I would be very interested to see what develops here as the only way to determine if it works is to actually experiment!

8 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

Don't be afraid to ask questions at every stage of the proceedings.

 

Remember the only stupid question is the one you don't ask.

 

 

Truer words have never been spoken.  I so do wish when I was 13 or so and working on a layout I had something along the lines of this forum to see what others have done, and most importantly ask questions.  The key is realizing that there usually is no one way to do something, but when asking here, you will get a collection of ideas to sift through and think about.  And if something doesn't go right, see if you can determine why and how to avoid that in the future.  I would bet that every person here has stories about "messing something up" when they first started.  Good luck!

10 hours ago, luckymucklebackit said:

 

OK - but how many of us have driven an unfamiliar hire car into a filling station to top up before returning the car only to completely fail to work out how to release the petrol filler flap/cap.  I worked out a while back that there is the little arrow showing you which side it is on which avoids the embarrassing reverse out and back in the opposite side but I have been totally beaten a couple of times with the top secret release mechanism!

 

Jim

Anyone remember the scene from the movie "Vacation" where Chevy Chase was trying to find the gas cap on his new car?

The childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - I made my dad take me home. The movie was on TV a couple of years ago - I still couldn't watch it through that scene!

8 hours ago, Roddy Angus said:

 

I will happily give positive feedback, even if there is a problem, as long as the seller quickly deals with the issue in a professional manner.

I couldn't agree more.

Was it worth the wait? Sure looks so!!

Dave

John,

Well gosh darn it. Regardless of the method used, your signal box is outstanding. Thanks for sharing, though, Gonna have to give that a go!

Dave

John,

Excellent job. Your painting of the bricks and the gutters  really took the building from "very nicely done" to "wow, awesome job!" Please share how you accomplished it.

Dave

Sounds like a great idea. There were a couple kits I had my eyes on, but I waited too long.  Too bad no one carried on the business.

All,

This virtual exhibition is a fantastic idea.  Needless to say, not sure there is a better cause to support, so from over here in the U.S. I send my best thoughts to all of you, my thanks to the organizers and I've gone in for some tickets.  Hopefully we'll be through this sooner rather than later.  Best wishes and stay safe!

Dave

10 hours ago, John Harris said:

What is worrying is that enough people must take the bait to justify these ejits bothering to try the scam.

 

It's rather sad that they assume that "if you have a computer you view porn", judging others by their own standards I assume.

 

That said, one of the 'fly-on-the-wall' Police documentaries had a couple of coppers visiting an elderly lady who was terrified by such an e-mail, they sought to reassure here, but it is a serious 'threat' to some people.

 

jh

The foundation of the threat is not that they believe the victim actually watches porn, but that he or she would horrified if they were publically accused of watching porn.   

8 hours ago, Reorte said:

I does have going for it that it is being scrutinised by a lot of people. Always worth having a look at the talk page if you've got any suspicions. I'm not aware of any better online source of general information. On specific subjects, yes, but unless you're already familiar with a subject area then you'll have you work cut out sorting the wheat from the chaff on which other sites are worthwhile anyway.

Whenever I'm not sure if something on Wikipedia is correct I turn to Facebook or twitter for confirmation.

5 hours ago, luckymucklebackit said:

Must have had help from Ivanka and Jared.