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Well, at least you would keep them clean.

My erstwhile 00 layout was in the shed at the bottom of the garden, and there was so much stuff ( made £3K when I sold it on eBay) that it was not practical to keep it anywhere else except on the layout itself. I am now in the process of building an O gauge layout in the same shed, with a fraction of the stock, and I tend to leave my 12 wagons on the tracks, but remove the 3 locos to the house for security, on the principal that replacing weathered stolen wagons would be, for me at any rate, easier than replacing weathered locos which cost more per unit, and take me far longer with much more agonising to do ( weathering is not my forte). I guess if the location is 100 percent secure then the options are different, but an outdoor shed does raise security considerations. I have been lucky so far, and have my own security arrangements, but who knows......

Barry Scott (who?). Maybe strictly not a presenter but when he bursts on screen advertising Cillit Whotsit and announces himself as if we should all know him, I cringe. Almost as objectionable as Jimmy Carr presenting ersatz panel shows.

Bet McCartney’s feet are cold.

I think that was David Beckham.

I have been pondering this myself and done a little research, so: This site shows how to make simple bends in plastruct rods using a hot air gun. The results look pretty good. https://robhawkinshobby.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/terrain-tutorial-pipes.html Depending on your scale you could also buy some 8mm elbows on eBay and fabricate the pipes with rolled paper. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8MM-10MM-15MM-22MM-END-FEED-FITTINGS-COPPER-PIPE-TUBE-WATER-PLUMBING-GAS-DIY-NEW/272967119230?hash=item3f8e1bb17e:m:mFk_jORl4WY31OBE8wdB1Cg There are also these on eBay, but you can usually get them in a Pound store for .......less. The edges need a bit of reducing in size. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DIY-Drinking-Straws-Novelty-Fun-Crazy-Party-Drinking-Game-20-Parts-Gift-Kids/291761686975?hash=item43ee5a09bf:m:meQvSKwFsD9JNWTCGC-y12A I think whatever you use, the real secret is in the painting and weathering.

Ah! So THAT’s how you catch crabs.

If you have access to one of the Silhouette cutting machines as seen in another thread on RMWeb, individual letters can be cut out to quite a small size and then stuck to the panel.

Sliced bread?

Ebay sales of wagons which are listed as O instead of 0 gauge and do not state whether the wheels are fine or coarse scale. It's not always easy to tell from the pics.

Disaster! Having watched every episode of the reruns, series 1 to the end of series 4, which was broadcast last Friday night, I was surprised, and pretty pxssed off to find tonight that they have jumped to series 14, missing out series 5 to 13. The lack of continuity is problematic, with obviously well established characters appearing apparently for the first time, Viv Martella murdered some time ago etc. Anyone know what or why this has happened? It has ruined my nine o clock viewing ( but I suppose gives an extra hour for modelling.) John .

This one was built for my now defunct 00 gauge layout with 11 points. I designated each point road as either left or right, rather than straight. Chock blocks seemed the easiest way to make all the connections. The positive input went into the bottom track, through whichever set of diodes were needed for the route, and the negative was common. It was pretty reliable. HTH.

Hi. Can anyone tell me the M size of the body retaining screws underneath the Jinty? I have settled on using the small Bachmann tension locks on my wagons, a la Brian Kirby method, with a wire loop at each end of the loco. This took a bit of arranging on the 08 but if I can replace the Jinty body retaining screws with longer versions, they could be used to go through a copperclad plate with the wire soldered to it, whilst still holding the body to the chassis, rather than permanently glueing a coupling, which I might eventually want to remove. I did contact Dapol but they were unable to tell me, owing to the model being made abroad. Hopefully someone can be more accurate than "very small!"

I will be collecting my new Jinty from Hattons on Thursday, and am wondering which decoder others are / will be using. I know it needs a 21 pin, but when I bought my 08, I went with the Hattons recommendation - which was their own brand, but subsequently found out that a 5 function decoder was needed to make all the lights work. I have not seen any discussions or lists of Jinty functions, and I suspect that being a steamer, lights will not really enter the equation, unless the firebox can be lit, so a 4 function decoder will probably be sufficient? Unfortunately, sound is not a financial option. John

D I Roy Galloway in series 1 to 3. He looks like the head boy in front of the headmaster in many scenes, but he had a nice line in dry humour.

I always have some fine to medium wet and dry paper handy, and it only takes a few seconds to rub and key the shiney card, after which it sticks well with Pritt or similar glue sticks. John

Many many years ago, at the age of 19, and a student teacher, I made up the numbers on a Geography field trip to the Lake District. Although not a Geographer, I was lured by the expectation of boozy evenings with mates in some isolated pub up in the hills, and sure enough, such a hostelry was found, frequented only by morose Cumbrians who nursed their pints in gloomy corners of the bar. As students do, we were a bit noisy and full of ourselves, and one old man sitting near the fire, glared and said (in a broad Cumbrian accent), "What you'm all studying then lads?" He accepted a pint, and after ruminating for a few moments, announced he would ask us a few questions about Cumbria. "Right, " he said, "if you'm be on the mountain track an you'm see lots o figgy type lumps on't ground, what does that tell you?" All the geographers knew that this was sheep sh it and the old guy nodded, well impressed. After a moments thought he tried again. "Well, if you'm see lots o' currants all over't ground, what's that then?" The geographers confidently identified them as rabbit droppings.and the old man nodded approvingly. After a moment, he looked up and went for the kill. "You lads know what a batholith is?" There was a stunned silence among the geographers, and various, wrong guesses were made, until in the end, they gave up. "It's a rock outcrop," said the old guy. He took a sip of his beer, and muttered, loud enough so his mates could hear him, "You lads know more 'bout sh it than Geography."

Having watched series 2 and 3, it seems there was an effort to redeem the character of Reg Hollis, without losing his old woman persona. Within a few episodes he single handedly disarmed a gunman, recaptured a prisoner, and bearded the Area Commander regarding officer stress, when he was only expected to report broken toilets etc. Definitely one of the more interesting, albeit minor characters.

Hi everyone. After sitting and gazing at the five wagons I have applied Lincs couplings too, I have come to the conclusion that it is a lack of consistency in my fitting, and specifically, failing to take account of the different longitudinal chassis members behind the buffer beam which has resulted in different heights for the hooks. My working practice has been to fit one end of wagon A, and one end of Wagon B, test, and then fit both other ends. However, I then put wagon A back into the shed, and fiddled about with wagon C - which had a different underfloor space beneath the buffer beam. This resulted in much tweaking and bending to get B and C to mate properly. Basically, the errors were passed on and accumulated down the line. And I think that may have been one of my problems. My stock so far consists of 2 Dapol wagons, 2 second hand of unknown origin, a Slaters wagon and 2 scratch built card wagons. All have different height arrangements behind the buffer beams and I now realise that if I ensure that all the Lincs armatures are fitted at the same height using judicious packing, they should work. Some more tweaking and then, trying to fit a fixed hook to my Dapol 08! I would like to thank everyone again for their encouragement and advice - I now feel far more confident and less likely to throw the towel in. Attached, some pics of progress so far.John

Are they like the Spanish Inquisition?

Thank you for helping. I did try - briefly - your modified coupling with materials at hand, but the smallest bore tube I had available was way too big for the piano wire I gauge, so too much slop altogether. Today I intend visiting a fairly local model shop to see if I can get a smaller bore suitable, and try it again. I am annoyed with myself because the Lincs appear to be foolproof, but in my case, they have met their match!My thanks also to HSB and CME - if my last attempts defeat me, I will experiment with the TL using the 36-026 as suggested. John

Hi everyone. Earlier in the topic, a number of members talked about their success using adapted Bachmann tension lock couplings on their O gauge wagons, and there is an excellent video by Orford showing them working on Cratchett's Yard. As a fairly new recruit to O gauge, I have tried the Lincs coupling with underwhelming results, mainly due to my own lack of skills with fiddly things, and have come to the conclusion that adapting TLs for my shunting layout would place less demands on my low level fine motor skills. Can I ask which Bachmann couplings you are all using? My points are 1 : 5 ( don't know what this is in terms of radius) and are soldered using OO code 100 track rescued from my 4mm layout, another reason why the Lincs do not suit - when I do manage to get them working, they get stuck into the sleepers and need further fiddling to avoid this happening. I would be really grateful to know which code number of Bachmann TLs are considered best for this purpose. John

I stopped watching The Bill when it became more like a soap, with too much emphasis on the love affairs and personal tribulations and dependencies of the coppers. At times it was almost East Enders in uniform. Watching the re-runs over the last fortnight, the characters began to emerge quite naturally - Reg, in only a few lines has revealed himself as a moaner, Cryer as a no-nonsense-but-fatherly sergeant etc. I see your point about the greater, in depth development of individual characters in later series, but watching series one, I don't mind not knowing about their personal lives. Incidentally, in one of the middle series, Reg Hollis is revealed as a secret railway modeller when he skives off from work to buy a new loco!! Much the same as when Coronation St type cast Roy Cropper as the resident railway nerd.