Dave Hunt

7 minutes ago, SM42 said:

Hopefully I'll find some motivation this week and make some progress even if it's just to try and get the lid off a pot of Railmatch paint that I'm going to need to use on one of those projects. 

Not Fresh Flour by any chance?

Dave

2 hours ago, Hroth said:

They were stored in large sheds to protect them from wind and rain and when semi inflated, would hang from the roofing struts.  Perhaps this might be where the term "hangers" as a storage shed for aeroplanes came from?

I shouldn't think so. Hangers are what you put your clothes on; hangars are where aeroplanes are housed.

Dave

12 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

Every landing you walk away from is a successful "Ohhhh sh!!!!tt"....

 

A good landing is one you walk away from. A really good landing is one when the aeroplane can be flown again.

Dave

Well, after church and a walk I was about to go down to the shed when Jill reported that the garage roller door wouldn't close. After much fiddling and poking I managed to pin it down to a broken electrical joint on the control mechanism so luckily it was but a five minute job with the soldering iron - most of the total time taken was searching for a sufficiently long extension lead. I then did get down to the shed and started sorting out how to make the shearlegs I need for the layout as well as painting some of the harness on the dray horse. 

Dave

2 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

Saw these at Model World Live and thought of Ramrod: 

 

 

 

No sign of any representative Hunters or Phantoms.

 

It was a good show, and very busy for a Sunday.

The only one of those I've had a go at is the Mk 6 Lightning and I didn't get many hours on it. Nearly got a ride in a two seat Viggen once but it fell through.

Dave

3 hours ago, Tony_S said:

I was sitting waiting to see Aditi get her degree conferred. This was at the Barbican in London. The woman sitting next to me said how lovely it was to see one’s child graduate. I replied that I wasn’t seeing my child I was married to one of those graduating. The sheer look of horror that someone my age might possibly be wed to one of the bright young people marching across the stage was amazing. I did point out that my spouse was the short woman with a floppy doctoral hat sitting in the middle of a row of ecclesiastical gentlemen and military officers .

Jill's secretary in Lincolnshire did an OU English degree after she had retired. When she went to the degree ceremony she was congratulated by all the great and good.

Dave 

On 27/04/2024 at 08:13, Tricky said:

Got any pics?

Your wish is my command. The model was built about 40 years ago to Finescale standards then rebuilt a few years later to S7. The wheels are Alan Harris castings that I machined.

Sorry about the fall plate being stuck up in mid air; I didn't notice until after I'd taken the pictures.

The tender really is a brute.

Some of the (mucky) gubbins including...

....... the inside motion.....

..... and the motor bogies.

A close-up of one of the bogies. Each one has a small Faulhaber motor with a series of spur gears and finishing with bevel gears giving about 50:1 reduction. There is no gearbox as such but the gears are built in to the bogie frame. There is about +/- 0.5mm sprung suspension. Pickup is the so-called American system with the loco picking up on one side and the tender chassis on the other. The tender body is insulated from the chassis. by a .020" plastic sheet between the two 

I really must clean the fluff and other rubbish off the model someday but it doesn't seem to affect the running.

Like Jamie's model, the tender is full of lead and weighs several pounds and the model will pull a house down although the gearing is a bit too high so its top speed is only about a scale 60 mph.

Dave

Shortly off to church then providing that the rain holds off a walk may be walked. I announced yesterday that I intend this afternoon to spend some time in the shed working on the layout as I feel that my back may now be up to sitting at the workbench for a while providing I don’t lean forward too much. To that  Jill said, “Good, it’s about time you started doing that again.” She also said that she may come down with me and do some of her artwork, which is nice. 
 

Dave

4 minutes ago, Northmoor said:

Can you please confirm for the tape, Sir, that you are quoting Jill, there?

Well, you did get awfully hot and sticky round the nether regions in the cockpit of a Hunter 😉

Dave

11 hours ago, polybear said:

 

Bear keeps his commercial quality Bread in the fridge - it takes a while to use a loaf and I never have issues with mould.

Commercial quality - oxymoron?

Dave

Well, the weather did indeed put paid to my hoped-for trip to Attingham Park this afternoon. Instead I tried to fix our ancient Technics record deck of at least 25 years of age which refuses to do anything remotely connected with playing a record. Sadly I was unable to find what is wrong so transferred my efforts to looking for someone who can fix it. I think I may have found one in Nantwich, which is only about 15 miles away so I've sent an email asking whether they can, in fact, help and hope to hear from them on Monday. My sons think that I should embrace new tech and get an Alexa or something rather than persist with vinyl records and such but although I have gone as far as CDs and even iTunes I still like playing my old discs.

Dinosaur, me? I've even got an electric soldering iron!

Dave 

Babycham. Ah, Jill's tipple of choice as a teenager, always requested with three cherries. In those days our favourite watering holes in Liverpool included the Rose of Mossley or in town The Philharmonic. The latter has the only Grade 1 listed gent's loo in the country.

Dave

In 2008 a chap who had been something high up at Bass bought a somewhat decrepit pub with a plot of land attached in town here and set about resurrecting the Joule's ale brand that had been produced in Staffordshire until the 1970s. His main reason for choosing that particular site was that it included a well, the water in which was from the same acquifer as that used by Joule's. From being a scruffy, run down pub it is now a very nice place to drink and enjoy some good pub grub with its own brewery making some decent beers. It also owns or runs some 15 or so pubs within 25 miles or so.

Dave  

That figures - I was planning to go for a walk at Attingham Park this afternoon.

Dave

Does my double garage and 35ft x 20ft shed get me on the list then Bear?

Dave

Oh, and the fact that I’ve got cake in stock?

7 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Indistinguishable from certain cheeses, however....

When Jill was a girl her brother would sometimes put a well-worn sock in her pillow case 😖

Dave

14 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Unusual. A few decades ago, I recall a London Underground car-card ad campaign by a firm offering office air-con kit. They had a cartoon character called Mr Cool or similar. One of his lines was "I keep my socks in the fridge!" Perhaps we should have a fridge-content confessional on here?

When we lived in Singapore our house didn’t have air conditioning, just ceiling fans, so Jill used to keep her makeup in the fridge. Like many other RAF wives she also kept freshly laundered knickers there as, “There’s nothing quite like having a shower then stepping into an ice cold pair of panties.”

Dave

1 hour ago, SM42 said:

It appears that I have to wash the car before breakfast ☹️,  it having recently been the target in a rather successful bombing raid by the local gull infestation. 🤬

We have recently had the same happen to our conservatory roof but judging by the amount of splatter it must have been a South American Condor on its holidays. Unfortunately I can’t take the conservatory to the car wash and since at present I can’t ascend ladders we’ll just have to pray for heavy rain.

Dave

5 hours ago, polybear said:

 

It looks as though mice have had a nibble at the 4 o'clock position; Bear was a little dismayed to note the sticky goo didn't extend down the sides as well....or would have been if it wasn't coffee flavour....🤢

For mice read DH’s forefinger (which nearly got chopped off as a result).

Dave

1 hour ago, Barry O said:

I would ask if I can join too following a fall at Easter!

 

Baz

Welcome aboard member No. 3.

Dave

35 minutes ago, Tricky said:

Got any pics?

I’ll try to take some and report back .

Dave

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

I remember reading about that incident.

 

The pilot managed to glide over 40 mile and received an AFC for his efforts.

 

One of those events where having plenty of altitude is definitely your friend.

As a famous German fighter pilot put it, "The three most useless things are fuel you've used, runway behind you and height you've lost."

Dave

1 hour ago, Winslow Boy said:

Don't want to pour water on your celebrations but don't you think they could have at least got the colour of the cake decoration correct.

At least it wasn't green (or Flying Scotsman 😝)

Dave