Dave Hunt

I seem to have opened something of a gusher by mentioning the Midland and western companies. To add to it, I think I'm correct in stating that the Midland was involved in more joint lines than any other company.

Dave

At least I can now wear my Tigers shirt at the pub without comments like, "Do you get that out of the bottom drawer?"

Dave

1 hour ago, Florence Locomotive Works said:

So, Saltey shed again. From memory it also had a big allocation of Kirtley Goods'.  Do we know what nearby big goods yards this engine would have gone to?

 Central Goods for a start. Fits in nicely with previous posts.

Dave

4 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

As a gentleman, you can get away with picking the MR as an example, but if I mention anything which is the opposite cardinal point to East........

No problem there HH. The Glasgow & South Western was an ally of the Midland, the London & North Western eventually became friends (sort of... ) and there was traffic interchange with the London & South Western. Have I missed out any western companies of note?

Dave. 

I think that Compound's and HH's posts encapsulate all that needs to be said for Douglas to come up with a trackplan that would suit his requirements. The idea of basing a layout on Central Goods seems an excellent one for a minimal space construction and with a bit of an imaginative backstory could even be made to accept traffic from other companies.

Dave

Remiss of me in my last post not to have proffered good wishes to John DMJ and PhiljW for good outcomes of their medical issues. Now corrected with apologies.

Dave

3 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

 

Very pleased to hear that Derby is now in it's proper place.  I look forward to seeing you ex Midland Goods Yard. Don''t forget the double slip at the exit which usually provided a headshunt and ttap point function and would be controlled from the signal box.  I'm sure that Sq Ldr Hunt or myself could provide a diagram.

 

Jamie

Whilst fully agreeing with the tenor of Jamie's post, there is one small point I disagree with, which is that the entrance to Midland yards off main lines was usually via a trailing single, not double, slip. In Jamie's case it was probably a typing slip. I will try to show a suitable diagram in due course.

The status of Derby versus Swindon as well as that of Eccles cakes versus the rest are questions that find no disagreement whatsoever between the Charente and North Hipposhire (Hunt Towers branch) correspondents. In these issues, the path of righteousness is clear and unambiguous.

Enjoy the weekend everyone.

Dave

Reminds me of the old Lonnie Donegan My old man's a dustman bit of banter:

"I say, I say, I say."

"Yes, what do you say?"

"My dustbin's full of Lillies."

"How do you know they're Lillies?"

"Lilly's still wearing 'em."

Ta da.

And on that note, G'night one and all.

Dave

I had a minor triumph in the workshop this evening (and before you lot start, no, I don't mean a little motorbike) when I dropped a small but very fiddly bit of a model that had taken a while to make and it disappeared into the undergrowth. After searching for some time I was about to give in and start making another one when inspiration struck so I got out the vacuum cleaner and jammed a piece of nylon tights material between the nozzle and the hose, as you would if recovering ballast after laying. I then ran it over a wide area of floor before looking to see what had been gathered up and hallelujah! the component was there in amongst various other bits of detritus. I was so chuffed I had to award myself a glass of Scottish chuff water along with a piece of Brie de Meaux and to hell with the diet.

I just love it when a plan comes together.

Dave

48 minutes ago, simontaylor484 said:

@bbishop well done ,may i ask.What FPOS is ?

Since Bill models German railways, could it be Fleischmann Point Operating System?

Dave

4 hours ago, Mike Bellamy said:

Dave - we found that Age UK were able to arrange for a cleaner to visit each week and a gardener each fortnight - since FiL went into the home, we have retained the gardener service to keep the lawns mowed and may use Age UK for a 'deep clean' once the house is empty before the estate agents take their photos . . . . . . 

Thanks for that, Mike. Once Dad's house has been assessed by the OT people next week and I know a bit more detail of what they propose I'll look into it.

Dave

2 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

But do they give you a discount?

The barber I now go to does my hair for free but charges a premium for ex-coppers with woolly white hair. I believe he is currently corresponding with hairdressers in the St. John's Danglies area of France about adopting a similar policy.

The big news this morning is that the breakdown crane is virtually finished apart from assembly of the main sub-structures but said assembly has to wait until the match wagon is finished structurally so that the angle of dangle of the jib can be established before the various chains and winding drums can be fixed in place. The wagon body has been made and I'm now working on the jib cradle, which is a bit of a bu**er because of all the complex angles that need cutting in the component timbers. However, it's a welcome change from fiddling with all the little bits of crane that seems to have occupied so much time recently. I'm still waiting to hear from Guilplates about the makers' plates and wagon number plates but I know that he is working on it.

Have a good POETS day people.

Dave

And it's goodnight from me.

Dave

32 minutes ago, polybear said:

And a little challenge for certain Squadron Leaders (and others).....

 

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Bear scored 2/15 - and they were lucky guesses....

I got eight. Didn't know any of the modelling answers.

Dave

2 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

He doesn't need one of those anymore!

Oooh, that was below the belt.

Mind you, as a sign in the barbers I used to go to in Horncastle read, "God created a few perfect heads. The rest he covered in hair." Guess how much hair the barber had?

Dave

Indeed, Richard, I did pick up on the sarcasm in your post and my reply attempted to match it but failed dismally. As my old English teacher would probably have put it, "Must try harder." 

Mind you, with my luck when it comes to painting I wouldn't be surprised of I did have the first recorded case of a workshop being wrecked by an exploding airbrush compressor.

Dave

3 minutes ago, Crimson Rambler said:

A photograph(s) of your chosen engine in the period being modelling is/are essential when attempting to model Midland engines!

An excellent point, Adrian. In every book I have written about Midland and LMS locomotives I have included just such a warning and have yet to make a model where I have not found some difference, albeit often quite small, from the available drawing(s) revealed in photographs. The late, great, David Tee once said to me that the only standard thing about locomotives from a particular Class was that they were nearly all different in some way.

Dave

Pardon my complete ignorance, but I take it the compressor I use for my airbrush isn't in the same category when it comes to potential disaster? It's a good many years old and I've never had it inspected. Painting models causes me enough angst as it is without worrying about the bl**dy compressor exploding.

Dave

2 hours ago, polybear said:

 

Bear came within seconds (literally) of getting hydraulic oil at high pressure (something like 3000psi) straight into my mush from something like 30" away.  I had an inkling that all was not well, despite my buddy saying "don't worry, don't worry - that's alright...".  When Ray said don't worry, the smart thing to do was worry....

Made a mess I can tell you, as it unloaded the entire contents of the hydraulic accumulator in a fine mist about 6ft diameter.

There was a USAF crew chief at Ramstein in the 70s who looked for a leak in a 3,000 psi hydraulic system on a Phantom that had just started up by, quite unbelievably, running his hand over the suspected pipe. The point of leakage was soon identified when two of his fingers were sliced off.

Dave

I was once coming back from Cyprus in an F4 when the front seater in my No. 2 had a can of some sort of fizzy drink that he dropped on the cockpit floor. He retrieved it by turning the aitctaft upside down whereupon it bounced off the canopy and he managed to catch it. So far so good. Then came his big mistake, he opened it. After bouncing around the can was quite lively and its contents erupted all over everything, which cost him a lot in fines paid to the ground crew lads who cleaned up the mess.

Dave

Regards from HH to Hunt senior duly passed on and received with thanks.

The perils of a Sodastream that didn't have the top securely fixed were graphically illustrated many years ago by yours truly when we were preparing for a crew room party and I was busy manufacturing the fizzy drinks (not champers unfortunately). All went well until I was distracted and when I pressed the on button a great fountain of liquid shot out and covered an amazing area of walls, ceiling, carpet and furniture. Sadly the event was quite obviously caused by me and I wasn't able to say that a big boy did it and ran away. The cleaning up operation was, of course, entirely my responsibility without help from my so-called colleagues.

Sodastreamsp have obviously changed since the events outlined above, judging by the picture Douglas posted, so there may well be some sort of failsafe interlock built in nowadays.

But still be careful out there.

Dave