MrWolf

35 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said:

Mr G's creative writing??

He really should be in the running for a Goldsmith's Prize for fiction writing.

On 26/04/2024 at 05:30, Neal Ball said:

Thanks Rob. Probably the hardest part is getting enough weight into the loco. If your 2-4-2T is a normal white metal kit then you will be fine.

I'm afraid it's going to be one of my home brewed contraptions using a variety of materials, it will have a cast chassis and as much steel shot as can be crammed into the body.

On 26/04/2024 at 05:30, Neal Ball said:

 

It looks as if the leading bogie needs more weight adding to it, so that’s going to be a plasticard box made up with lead shot added. The idea being to stop the leading wheel riding up on the double slips!

I spring loaded my Beyer 0-4-4 trailing bogie with a bent piece of music wire from the offset pivot to the centre of the bogie, which stops it doing it's own thing when reversing over points.

A lot of end loading docks had metal plates that were hinged to drop down over buffers onto the end of the wagon, usually hinged back to lay flat on the platform when not in use.

Some were completely removable.

A bit of fixing up and removal of the black paint (Dulux applied using next door's cat as a brush?) and it would actually look pretty good.

Not £175 good though.

6 minutes ago, figworthy said:

It seems that the Prince of Wales thinks that we ought to talk to sheep.

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/04/25/prince-william-visits-birmingham-high-school/

 

I thought ewe would like to know that.

 

Adrian

Would it be contentious for me to respond with:

Whereas politicians would prefer us to be sheep..

? 😁

10 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

I'm a tad concerned. I like to be able to see the panniers if for nothing else to make sure there not up to trouble. It's when you can't see them that I start to worry.

I used to have a similar problem with dogs.

And the next part of the song line "in your long black limousine" was not a reference to a 1961 Cadillac Fleetwood either...

17 hours ago, brumtb said:

Be strong Chris!  I just can't resist the 40' vans, or the early siphons for that matter!

Tony

I wish someone had told me that four years ago.

I have too many* of both...

*Although they're like panniers, N=X+1

22 minutes ago, johnofwessex said:

In the early 80's I was coming down Black Dog Hill on the A36 late one night when a Citroen Dyane shot past me.

 

He must have been pedal to the metal all the way from Salisbury

2CV's and the original Ami 6 are great. 

Even 007 got a lift in one when his Lotus did its usual party trick of catching fire.

This clip always reminds me of when we were trying to find our way out of Bradford in the Herald, not long after Miss R passed her test...

https://youtu.be/DB9-NU7iRkw?si=7rvM4b_UKvHtaAyY

Great job Neal and something different from all those prairie tank variants.

If and when I can get back to The Bench of Bodge I have a 2-4-2T in the pipeline and seeing your County up and running is making me more determined to see it through.

4 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

Yes, he's the sort to buy a Porsche 911 instead, take his new girlfriend out for Sunday lunch somewhere in the countryside to impress her, and wrap the pair of them around a tree on the way back...

 

I remember someone similar who demolished a telephone pole with a new Mazda RX doing just that. 

As often happens he was walking wounded, she died at the scene.

4 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

You had to ask your co-pilot to put the wipers on?  🤔

 

🤪

No. The forward gunner does it. 🤪

Fortunately, the car is only sixty inches wide across the bumpers, so "the controls are within comfortable reach" as the Autocar reviews used to say.😆

20 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

 

S'funny, it was your good lady and self I had in mind when writing that comment!

 

Mike.

Fellow member of the sausage finger club.

Such a confusing array of switches on the Triumph...

I rather like scary old electrical items, like this one which lurks in our living room. Rewired, cleaned and tested by my brother in law, a former aircraft engineer, it's absolutely fine. The components are so heavy duty, you'd have to look inside a modern military radio to find anything similar.

2 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Lets go back to the days of tactile on/off pushbuttons and sliding lever heater controls and suchlike, it's only a bloody car, it doesn't need to be dripping in excessive electronic wizardry installed by manufacturers purely so they can willy wave.

 

Mike.

But not those bubble switches used on 80s and 90s Fords, replace rear fog light switch every MOT.

If you work with your hands as I do, you'd find that touch screens are an absolute pain in the backside, everything from your phone and tablets to cash machines and cars.

They can't always sense fingers that are in any way dry or calloused, only soft and slightly damp ones.

Like a tree frog with a desk job.

As for touch screens on motorcycles, pull up somewhere safe, take off your gloves... You get the idea.

I prefer clunky switches.

"Self-Drive Cars and You: A History Longer than You Think" https://velocetoday.com/self-drive-cars-and-you-a-history-longer-than-you-think/

Today's amusement was provided by the 20mph zone in the next village.

As it's a twisting, narrow road with high stone retaining walls and various 300+ year old buildings directly on the road side which has been the site of numerous fatalities, I don't find it as ridiculous as most.

There's signs, red bands of tarmac and big white 20 symbols on the road and recently humps have been added.

We were driving along at twenty (about 22-23 on the clap-o-meter) and behind us was a P.O.S. old VW Polo driven by a potato head and behind that a large Mercedes.

The Polo decided to overtake us and as he got alongside pulled a stupid face at Miss Riding Hood in the driver's seat.

She didn't hit the horn or swear at him, just pointed calmly ahead at the rapidly approaching blind left hander.

Cue panicked acceleration from the potato head as we and the Mercedes braked and waited for the bang.

Lucky for him the Polo got around the corner and away. The memsahib didn't say a word, just made a gesture with her little finger which suggested that the Polo driver either has or possibly is a pitifully small male member...

1 hour ago, 57xx said:

How is that FSD level 5* that buyers were promised many years ago comng on?

What's an FSD level 5?

* I checked the 1959 Standard - Triumph parts book, no mention of it, so I probably don't need one anyway.

26 minutes ago, 30801 said:

 

This gatekeeping is hilarious. Man buys car. Man can do what he wants with it.

Indeed he can, which is the oft shouted mantra of the banger racers who will spend over £2000 on a classic car that is restorable just for the fun of being able to say to everyone else "It's mine, I can smash it up".

I had a disagreement with some older chap who was busy modifying a mid 1950s Matchless motorcycle "because it wasn't safe in modern traffic", (I suspected that he'd scared himself at some point.) 

He was fitting a disc front brake, so needed modern anti dive forks to accommodate it and the associated re-engineering of the steering head bearing. 

He was also fitting indicators, hazard flashers, halogen lamps and an alternator to power it all.

He was busy telling us about his struggles with finding a disc brake rear wheel that would fit in the Matchless swinging arm rear fork, or a fork that could be made to fit the Matchless frame when I asked:

"If you want all that, why not just go out and buy a five year old Honda?"

On 20/04/2024 at 20:11, JustinDean said:

Nowt going on at Aston on Clun? Been a while since we’ve seen any layout action Rob. 
 

Jay

I thought there was nowt going on, but there's been a fair bit of figuring out what I need to do and importantly what order I need to do it in.

Unfortunately the White Rabbit has been giving me lots of stick about all the other things I need to do.

He isn't the slightest bit bothered that in this Wonderland, Alice isn't a precocious little blonde girl, but a potty little brunette with access to unstable chemicals...

3 hours ago, big jim said:

One of my few muted people on Twitter along with vine (and I’m a cyclist!) 

Ditto. I'm also a cyclist and I find the pair of them embarrassing.

Nice bit of carcass failure.

Is it just me, or would anyone else like to stick something sharp into those bubbles? 

It looks like it's been off the edge of the layout and another nose panel bodged on.

Might also explain the dodgy chassis?