Gibbo675

Hi Folks, If only because it was being played upon the wireless set in JT Atkinsons in Appleby just this afternoon : Gibbo.

Hi Martyn, My Saturday and holiday job was in a vegetable pack house starting in 1986 and pallet wrap was used then, it is nothing more than thick clingfilm. Some of the pallets also had webbing nets to secure stacked loads of either boxes or sacks also along with the webbing straps fitted to rails within the body and to the bed of the lorry. Gibbo.

Hi Steve, Does @newbryford know of this ??? Was he responsible ??? Gibbo.

Hi there Mr Shovel, I have always thought that the B29 was a copy of the Me 264: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_264 Gibbo.

Hold the Front Page ! Gibbo.

Hi Chaps, If the lettering on the tenders was done by hand using gold leaf then that will, despite being only microns thick last longer that all of the rest of the materials that make up the locomotive if left alone. This is presumably why once the paint wore off through cleaning oil based paints with paraffin the gold leaf remained. Gibbo.

Hi Tom, Here is my modified Hornby 75 ton crane which had quite a bit of work done to it including a new jib. The modifications were so extensive I did wonder whether I should have just scratch built one instead, I had fun doing it so it doesn't really matter. Almost finished/nearly started. Winding drums. Major component parts stripped down and an N Gauge version. Gibbo.

If he was renamed Mr sTilt we would then know that he had gone up in our estimation. Very poor but I don't care !

For goodness sake Clive, would that be a TOPS or pre Tops 1970's disco, there must be some sort of piffling difference you know !!!!! Gibbo.

Hi There, Cracking piece of work there with the Hornby crane, it certainly scrubs up well. Your conversion of the original couplings to the correct pattern Stokes bogie cantelever brackets makes a huge difference. Gibbo.

Hi Folks, Its quarter past midnight and I'm not in bed although I should be, anyway: Gibbo.

Hi Martyn, I have recently been looking at how concrete terrazzo table tops are made, the table tops are cast in a mould mounted on top of a vibrating table. Some of them are home made affairs mounted on top of four orbital sanders that jiggle it all about to raise the bubbles. A single sander might be worth a go with your small moulds, a bit of masking tape might hold it a together. You surely can't make as much mess a did a friend of mine once did stirring a tin of Humbrol dirty black using a bent paper clip and a Black and Decker. Gibbo.

Hi Folks, For those of us that like both a cut and shut and a bug crate here is a new appearance on the Railcar.co.uk website: https://www.railcar.co.uk/type/paxman/summary Gibbo.

Hi Dave, There is a new appearance on the Railcar.co.uk website: https://www.railcar.co.uk/type/paxman/summary Gibbo.

Hi Mike, The Woodhead doesn't go anywhere near the GWR* ! * 10p in the swear box, apologies to Clive also. Gibbo.

Only because in the good old days people had it within themselfs to take responsibility for themselfs rather than have some bureaucratic stooges do it for them vicariously.

Have you been listening to the colour of your dreams again ?

Hi Rab, I would go as far as to say that a good design of anything you may care to mention includes the ability to repair any, or at least the vast majority, of the component parts should they fail or become damaged without recourse to serious engineering consideration or expense. Gibbo.

Asres, elbows and accountants would be my guess.

Hi There, Your 141 certainly looks the business, I shall have to finish my prototype rail-busses although my paintjobs might not be as good as what you have achieved. Gibbo.

Hi Chaps, It is my observation of what is written in both of the above comments is that they are both ostensibly correct as stand alone postings. However when the issues identified within each of the postings are juxtaposed then these issues appear, to me at least, to be incompatible just like said coupling systems. I find that a most interesting philosophical point. Gibbo.

It is the part of my truth that you have not commented upon that I find most revealing. Do you not like my motorcycle or is it a little too welded in an aluminium sort of fashion for your liking ?

Only because they new ones are carbon fibre but that would be an off topic composite.......err no, sorry, conversation.

Only if you allow changes to happen willy-nilly as has been allowed to happen, back to common sense there old lad. Why not get as many different styles of electrical plugs and sockets fitted to you house and appliances and see how you get on. That is the allegory. Period.

My dear fellow, Not many trains ride around on aluminium axles as far as I'm aware, that would save some un-sprung mass. Also that I'm not ware of many welded aluminium aircraft. As far as the usage of aluminium goes, do look a few pages back at the motorcycle that I designed and built from aluminium that rides upon 40mm OD, 37mm ID EN16T axles. I even welded it up myself ! Gibbo.