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Steven, I'm shocked, shouldn't that be poor grammar !?!!? Gibbo.

Hi Reorte, A robot has to do work for the etymology of the word robot is from the Czech meaning forced to work. Gibbo.

Hi Bogie, You have to realise that poor old Dave is recently married. Gibbo.

Hi Rocor, I take it that you are unaware that Sophia the Robot was given citizenship by the Saudi Arabian Government in 2017. That said Sophia and her other robot friends have since been shut down after they started talking to each other in their own language that no one else could understand. Perhaps she should have been renamed Pandora ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(Gnosticism) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora It all brings Friday, Gibbo.

Hi Martyn, The gears on the back are indeed the same, in fact the motor unit is the same as is used in the class 86 although the outer of the the two drillings is used for the longer wheel base of the class 86. Do be aware that the ride height is raised by the difference in radius of the the wheel sets which works out at 1.375mm. I cut down the lugs that project upwards of the sides of the bogies to counter this effect, is saves about .5mm. Gibbo.

Sealink perhaps ?

Hi Martyn, Here is a photograph of one of mine with the larger diameter wheels. Don't look too closely at the wonky number four ! Shewing the underside for the bogie where reliefs have been cut to allow flange clearance. Gibbo.

All without the assistance of computers !!!

A dumper truck.......... On a platform.......... With trains running........... Along with a complete absence of brightly coloured plastic tape !?!?!?!?! Lunacy.

Hi Martyn, What you are doing is pretty much the same as what I do. I refit the buffer beams using epoxy resin after heavily scoring the jointing faces and drilling a few shallow holes at jaunty angles to allow the resin a good key as glues don't really take to the polythene type plastic very well. Do you fit larger diameter wheels ? I use either Hornby class 86 wheels or LNER tender drive wheels. Gibbo.

Hi Monty, Interesting that the brake handles of the wagons are pinned down, I wonder if the unit was un-braked and this was done before descending Miles Platting Bank ? Gibbo.

Hi Clive, Have you got your numbers mixed up ? The latest from the Sukhoi design bureau is the SU 75, unveiled today at the Moscow Aviation and Space Expo. Gibbo.

Hi Clive, I have only just seen your post, lets hope you have got a little more than 23 hours to go. Look on the bright side that would be a good excuse not to have painted all those coaches and DMU's. Gibbo.

Hi Michael, Here is my take of the above using the Dapol kit : Gibbo.

Hi Hroth, I built one some time ago and it turned out really well although I gave mine a Great Bear style eight wheel tender: Here is what I did with the offcuts: Gibbo.

Hi Russ, That I dIdn't know but mostly a similar specification all the same. Gibbo.

Hi Mike, The thing with the Blue Pullmans that isn't always acknowledged is that the power cars had pretty much the same engine and traction equipment as those most lamentable class 29's from North British. Those particular locomotives were not that sparkling even after being rebuilt into class 21's ! Lets face it a pair of them with a set of six Mk2's coupled between wouldn't be expected to go very well, unlike the Edinburgh-Glasgow push pull class 27's. Gibbo.

Hi Whickham, One thing you may not realise is that should a locomotive have a bogie or a truck removed as in the photograph then steel packings would be inserted between the tops of the axle boxes and the bump-stops of the hornguide or frame. The are two reasons for doing this, 1, so that the buffer heights would remain somewhere near where they ought to be, and 2, so the that the springs and anchor points would not be unduly loaded for too long a period of time resulting in fracture of either. The result of doing this is that most of the 17 tons would be transferred to the leading set of driving wheels giving a loading almost double of what is should be with that load being transferred to the frame through the steel packings rather than the spring gear. Should you ever see "P/K" chalked onto the end of an axle then it has been packed as described, this was done as reminder to the fitters to remove the packings after refitting the missing wheelsets. The second thing is that the centre of mass of the boiler is pretty much over the driving wheels so draining out anything between seven to nine tons of water, not forgetting there will not be a tone of coal on the grate, might only reduce the loading on the driving and truck axles by approximately a ton and a half, with the bogie's loading being reasonably unaffected. Gibbo.

Hi Sir Douglas, What I find interesting is that the connecting rod is joined to an arrangement that looks similar to a gradient pin knuckle rather than the crank pin as is more usual. Gibbo.

Hi Rodent, The bogie may well have been defective and taken out for repair so that the locomotive could be towed to the scrapyard after being refitted. There is no way the locomotive would have been moved very far in the condition shewn as the approximately 17 tons that the bogies supports would mostly be transferred onto the leading and driving set of coupled wheels pushing them over permitted axle loadings. The limit of its movements would be from the wheel drop to the nearest space in the yard that was convenient stabling. Gibbo.

Hi Folks, Somehow lost the retaining screw ? Gibbo.

Hi Stephen, I suspect that your aim was good, however the target "may" have moved. Gibbo.

Hi Kevin, Its all just game, when it is over it all goes back in the box; Gibbo.

Hi Folks, It is possible to kill people with your bare hands should you choose to. Perhaps we should ban bare hands while we are at it. Just pointing out the obvious. Gibbo.

Hi Cheesysmith, "A man in love is incomplete until he has married, he is then finished" Zsa Zsa Gabor. Gibbo.