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Mike Buckner

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  1. The Caen ring road has a confusing signpost shortly before one of the exits, showing a left and a right fork. One is signposted "Toutes Directions". The other is signposted "Autres Directions".
  2. Just west of Bristol Parkway is a 4-way Wye, where you can get from any point of the compass (North / East / South / West) to any other point: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5155291,-2.5583017,1231m/data=!3m1!1e3 Stewart's Lane has a Wye suitable for turning, which probably gets used on specials from time to time. Selhurst Depot contains the makings of a Wye.
  3. I bought Lenz decoders in 2003. They are still running trouble-free, and give excellent Back-EMF control. Lenz tend to issue manuals applicable to several decoders with small differences (such as plug type). The operation of the decoders is the same. Possibly some of the decoders had plugs, and some just bare wires. A previous owner may have snipped off the plugs, intending them for use in locos without sockets. The second decoder from the top (with a red label) seems to have cables with no protruding metal wire. Suggests it had a plug which was snipped. The other red-label decoder has probably received a visit from a wire-stripper. CV 50 determines whether "silent drive" is in operation or not. You may find you are happy without bothering with this. The main issue is to make sure that your locos do not draw more than 0.45 amps in total. M
  4. Perhaps someone can enlighten me. In the case of coreless motors, is there an equivalent concept to 3-pole / 5-pole / etc?
  5. Well, I suppose you will usually only be looking at one side of the loco at a time...
  6. Thank you for the heads up. I hope you can find satisfaction at a different supplier. When examining you for your prescription, Opticians often ask to see your present spectacles as a starting point. Presumably, this means they can identify the actual lens refractiveness - in other words, the prescription for which they would have been appropriate. After your eye test, they can then tell you what is the true prescription for your eyes. Any difference could form the basis for a claim against Specsavers. Another problem with Specsavers is the paucity of their Sunglasses range. I bought some prescription sunglasses from Specsavers. The correction is fine, but there is a problem in bright glaring sunlight, in that they do not "wrap around" a sufficient part of the face. In bright sunlight, I'm annoyingly aware of strong light beaming down over the top of the glasses, unfitered directly into my eyes, unless I wear a hat, which I don't always want to do. My non-prescription sunglasses (£3 a few years ago in Asda) protect my eyes perfectly from any stray bright-light and remove this discomfort. I went back to Specsavers to look again at their (small) Sunglass-Frames range - which looks pretty much the same as their standard Frames range - and tried all of them to see if they could match the Asda glasses for protection. None of them could, from the Brighton & Seaford branches. My wife has a similar problem with her sunglasses - she likes to read on holiday and finds that excess bright light comes in from the side.
  7. "Your call is important to us. Please hold until it is no longer important to you."
  8. I wonder if they have the class 08/09 in mind?
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