Bucoops

9 hours ago, woodenhead said:

My big take home from the Dustman was the recycling done in Glasgow - taking out the paper/cardboard and metal products for recycling, but in London it was all to landfill in Essex.

 

Recycling is not new, but it seems it's only recently we've truly embraced it, had the Glasgow model been followed perhaps we would today still only need one big big rather than the four or more some of us have.

In the 80s we would return glass bottles to the shop for 5p or 10p deposit back, milk bottles collected and reused, cardboard and newspapers were taken to the local Scout group for recycling and earning them funds. We had tiny dustbins that were rarely full. Then everywhere went over to plastic disposable packaging and so on, and we all needed huge wheely bins to take it all. Recycling is not the answer, that takes energy. Reuse and reduce is. We need to go back to reusable packaging (Milk and more are quite good with this).

Totally agree that for recycling one big receptacle is better than loads of separate ones - the US does this a lot and their recycling rates are much better than ours. Yes, someone has to sort it at the end destination, but hey, that's a job for some people too.

I did email an enquiry a few weeks back and got a reply saying they were assembling the kit I wanted that week - have chased a couple of times since with no response. I shall try calling (when I've been paid - I've spent the money I put aside for it :D)

1 hour ago, SamThomas said:

Now there's an idea - could use it to fire FS.....

(don's safety helmet & runs).

GW in useful for something shocker

Also runs...

The former GER lines were some of the last to still have 6 wheelers. The NER were relatively ahead with bogie stock - so much so, the LNER sent some of them to the GE section to replace 4 and 6 wheelers!

2 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Oh heck, I was only joking!

 

Mike.

To bring the saga to a close, they were delivered about 2pm. Hallelujah! It was stuff for work and valued in the thousands so was rather nervous of them disappearing or getting damaged.

6 hours ago, Neil Phillips said:

 

Bucoops has suggested a possible source for replacement cranks - the 'throw' of these would need to be exactly the same as the wheels to prevent binding. Luckily you have one to measure.........as well as the wheels of course!

 

Apologies if you consider this to be stating the bleedin' obvious !!

Good point - and I have a feeling they are different throw.

14 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

That's because it's on it's way back to Swindon!

 

Mike.

Not far off - it went from Docklands to East Midlands!

It's now at Ipswich. Wonder where next... Hopefully me. 

1 hour ago, Bucoops said:

Not ebay madness but courier madness - I'm expecting three boxes via DHL today.

 

The tracking shows:

 

Swindon to Heathrow

Heathrow to Stansted (so about 25 miles from me)

Stansted to Docklands (Assume this means London Docklands (so about 30 miles from me)

They are now on the way from Docklands to Ipswich which will apparently be the delivery depot - presumably it will go along the A12 to do so, so will pass within 200 yards of me then have to turn round and come back. Can't see me getting them today, especially as the A12 is ruined at the moment!

Shock horror no delivery today.

I think you may be able to get cranks from Alan Gibson.

Not ebay madness but courier madness - I'm expecting three boxes via DHL today.

The tracking shows:

Swindon to Heathrow

Heathrow to Stansted (so about 25 miles from me)

Stansted to Docklands (Assume this means London Docklands (so about 30 miles from me)

They are now on the way from Docklands to Ipswich which will apparently be the delivery depot - presumably it will go along the A12 to do so, so will pass within 200 yards of me then have to turn round and come back. Can't see me getting them today, especially as the A12 is ruined at the moment!

25 minutes ago, Michael Hodgson said:

Especially if there's turbulence in the buffet car

Beans are still on the menu then?

12 minutes ago, Simon Lee said:

 

Think that was Tornado when the inside valve gear caused problems and it failed just north of Peterborough.

 

 

Definitely FS

https://www.heritagerailway.co.uk/3082/flying-scotsman-repaired/

Although you are correct, Tornado also ended up there for assessment and repairs.

Those coaches are superb. Thanks for posting

As much as I don't like FS in it's current form, the "flying money pit" has repaid its investment already so that's not relevant, and hopefully today's issue is nothing serious.

I think the last one it had it had to be repaired at the Nene Valley?

1 hour ago, LNER4479 said:

Thanks!

 

1) the fitting of the remote attachment onto the pips on the front of the box (temporarily) this helps with checking the squareness.

Ah - I did wonder what they were! and the 'remote attachment' pieces you refer to. I can see how that would be useful in the construction.

 

2) Running the piece of 1mm wire across the frame.

Yes, spotted that and I will be adding that piece of wire just to strengthen the thing up

 

A question for you (and any others) - how do you fix the layshaft into position? Given that it's steel then a considerable amount of heat would have to be introduced to obtain a decent solder joint ... by which time no doubt the plastic gears would have melted! More Loctite? (other (super)glues are available ...)

I use a blob of aliphatic resin (a wood glue) on each side. It's thick enough it doesn't seep through and gum the workings up, and if you need to remove it, it just peels off.

Even airport control towers aren't "safe" - London City Airport's control tower is now at NATS in Swanwick.

21 minutes ago, PenrithBeacon said:

I think the deal at Butlins is that meals are include. I would doubt if their customers would be willing to forego that.

There are several levels of catering - self catered, some food (half board sort of thing) and similar but in "better" restaurants".

37 minutes ago, boxbrownie said:

Presumably today’s effort failed then?

By 21 seconds...

Looks OK.

There's a mars bar fritter in it for ye if ye break the record.

I can imagine it piling into the station, flanges squealing, just stopping in time and the driver lobbing the keys to his/her boss and walking straight into the nearest pub...

Seems to be stubbornly on time at the moment.

Part of me doesn't want the APT to lose its record but they are there to be broken.

48 minutes ago, RFS said:

Finally made progress on getting a B4388 update stick but only after contacting Lenz directly in German! They didn't respond to my English email, but the German email got an almost instant response.

 

They had just sent a few update sticks to A&H Models and one is on its way to me now. If you want one then give Chris a call on 01280 701410 as there's a £2.50 charge for postage.

I did ask him to let me know when he has some but I may have to delay it as the cambelt went on my car a couple of days ago which is not something I have budgeted for!

Are they feeling left out of this cracking business and trying to find a way of getting some too?

Love a good record attempt - but they're not planning on beating it by much by the looks of things.

Our HR department is pretty good to be fair. Although when I started they didn't have one but they picked well and they do genuinely care which is great.