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A fine choice

I have realised there is an important accessory missing - or rather accessories. A huge collection of tin baths, buckets and bedpans.

As I understand it, in both the UK and US (and maybe other areas) a cease and desist letter is not legally binding but that does not make it illegal to send. It is used to notify an entity that the sender believes they are doing something that is illegal with their IP or similar. Usually the letter would be hand delivered by messenger to not only gain verifiable proof of delivery (kind of like the US Serving of papers) but also makes it *look* more serious to the recipient. I followed with interest a friend who through his actions got the attention of multinational, very powerful companies with very big legal departments. They collectively served a cease and desist on him which included very clear instructions on what was required for them not to take it further with legally enforceable action. In this instance, the letter did the trick, and he complied with their requirements. It can be a cheap and effective tool to nip something in the bud before big guns are brought in.

Having spent most of the weekend playing musical VMs after a very weird NIC failure I liked this Nearly finished, only another 4.7TB of non-urgent junk to go over gigabit instead of 10Gbe.

They also decided the nut should be replaced whenever it was removed, but yes, it boiled down to missing washers. Other notes were that the original design used 4 mounting bolts, with more recent ones two.

And if I recall correctly Rowling wrote Kings Cross but was picturing Euston. edit: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/Harry-Potter-Platform-9-Three-Quarters/

Nice - but for my needs I'd be thinking it's about £10 a use

Wow you've put some effort into that Thank you.

I *believe* the Coronation formation was always Coach A at the London end and H at the Scotland end. I should say, this is all related to when the Coronation was running, I have no idea what they did when both Beavertails were in use only in Scotland after Nationalisation.

I believe so. They were only used once a day and only in summertime so there was no particular rush on turning them.

Very true, but flat coach floors I'd hope not to have to I'll see how I get on with the olfa thing I've ordered. I just remembered, I have scored through before, using a needle file. I seem to recall it took several days for my hand to recover from that!

Ok, I've ordered one of these to try - https://olfacutters.co.uk/index.php?route=product/search&search=Olfa PC-S Plastic Cutter It says for plastic rather than metal but I won't be using it much. I will probably find some tin snips at some point too for less accurate or more curved work. I do have a piercing saw but being left handed and cack handed I break blades continuously

That was my concern with snips, thinking back far too long when I last used some I seem to recall one side curling up extensively but couldn't remember if the other did or did not.

Thank you both - OK, any idea of left handed ones are available?

Good afternoon, I want to be able to neartly cut Nickel Silver or Brass sheet for things like carriage floors, roofs (then rolled) etc. - but how can I do it neatly? I have some 0.022" NS I am hoping to use as a floor for a coach for example. I am hoping there's a suitable guilotine or similar? But can anyone suggest a specific one as I don't want to pay £hundreds but equally I want one that is up to the job. Thank you

Still not in 1939 though And it's the Colchester side I'm doing too. Rule 1 has been very badly bruised I've hit it so hard

Argh, there was PINZA movement and I was bullied into it. Deltics never even ran on the GE until privatisation apart from visits to Stratford for hitting with a hammer. edit: Oh that's it, rub it in ya smegheads

Just the one - trying to persuade myself OUT of adding a second considering I model 1939...

And what a report it is. 91 pages. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1045465/R012022_220113_Llangennech.pdf Everyone from the ORR downwards has work to do to up their game it would seem.

What a work of art

I have a couple of 4mm kits but they are WAY down the to-do list. I'm actually hoping this book can help me pick which ones to eventually build.

Ditto. Think I've spent more on books in the last 3 months than in the last 5 years! There's been so many interesting ones published recently.

I see what you did there At some point I may want some bogies too, again no rush.

My Grandad is the reason I like railways. I very fondly remember the days of two loops of O gauge tinplate track with a crossover on two sides with myself, my Brother and my Grandad taking turns on the controller and the two crossovers. We had two trains going round, in opposite directions. The idea of the game was the person on the controller was "neutral", and one crossover person tried to cause a head on crash, the other tried to stop it. Hours of hilarious fun, sometimes quite destructive too. Now - the items we used were all heavily play-worn, with many replacement parts. We were allowed to play hard with them, and if damage occured, that was OK - we also helped fix them. There was another collection of near mint, boxed O gauge stock that we were allowed to USE, but had to be careful. If there was one point in my life that I learned respect for property, this was it. Snap - I think I got back into the hobby when she was about 4. She's now 8. I've not finished ANYTHING yet! But I dip in now and again and things are progressing. She quite likes watching sometimes, and helping a little bit (most of what I am doing involves soldering so she knows not to get TOO close). Mostly I do a little bit of an evening when she is in bed though.

171x and 172x were Coronation sets, 173x was the spare set and 458xx for the West Riding Limited (the WR set being renumbered post-war to 91xx).