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5 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said:
Valerie Singleton flashback! 'Here's one I welded earlier'!
The other option was welding his tin legs to a manhole cover and using him for life size Subbuteo...
But she hates football.
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4 minutes ago, County of Yorkshire said:
This was more what I had in mind:
You only get a bigger bang with a Dreadnought carriage if 4472 Flying Backwards reverses into it.
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I think that I know the word that you desperately seek:
It's &*#!!....
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A friend of mine used to wear a black Hawaiian shirt with large pink flamingos on it.
His wife's opinion is not recorded.
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5 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:
Team Sheep
Ah, layout operator's corporate wear.
It's much better than the usual corporate polo shirts or sweatshirts that are made of some weird fabric which simultaneously brings on asthma, hay fever and radiation sickness.
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1 minute ago, Enterprisingwestern said:
She's no need to worry, I don't think that it is Oscar Pistorius.
Mike.
She'd have welded his tin legs together and used him for a hat stand.
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Bit cruel making him wear one your shirts though...
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13 minutes ago, gwrrob said:
How are you going to break that to @2ManySpams
A 21 gun salute from HMS Victory should be subtle enough...
Pity that we don't have any Dreadnoughts left, that would be even more appropriate.
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On 06/02/2024 at 07:27, steve1 said:
Closed signal box, Millicent Street.
steve
That has to be the most convincing model of a disused signalbox I've ever seen.
The crossing boards look nice and rotten too!
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10 minutes ago, Hacksworth_Sidings said:
Is the bloke included too?
You can keep him, I showed the Memsahib that picture, she's taken my shotgun and locked herself in the bathroom...
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3 hours ago, JustinDean said:
Dry stone wall continues to be worked on, planking has had a wash of grey and a few other bits attended to. Nice to finally get some time back on this!
Vegetation around the base of the engine house is now starting to creep in.
I’m making my second visit to Belper Model Railway Club this evening. Through Facebook I found out they’re about to embark on a 7mm scale model of Middleton Top!
Jay
Jolly damn good show old man. 😎
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5 hours ago, KNP said:
Now the internet is back up and running time for the picture I was actually going to post today
Word of warning here the continuity of the next few pictures went out the window as I was moving the rolling stock around to get different angles and views...
And yes, for all you Pannier lovers, that is four of them in one shot.....
Careful, don't get to excited now
That's almost enough Panniers!
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Sorry, not model railway, but I thought you'd like the picture!
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46 minutes ago, LondonCharivari said:
Well it certainly puts some of the eBay "bargains" into perspective.
Hopefully someone from Clark Railworks will notice soon, at least there's no buy it now function!
Do you think there's a discount for bulk buyers?
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4 hours ago, Siberian Snooper said:
Your nipple height or Chesty Morgan's?
I suspect that many on here won't know her, Google is your friend!
I don't think I dare look.
It's impossible to un-see things....
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1 hour ago, Coldgunner said:
Mum and dad used to have a 2.0 Subaru Legacy and I remember mum planting it once, damn thing went like the clappers. Can't recall the spec, only I know it was a 2.0 petrol and drank like Oliver Reed at an open bar.
A friend of mine had the estate version, a brilliant car once we'd sorted out the suspension (lots were scrapped because of the cost and availability of parts unfortunately) it gave my BMW 320 a run for it's money. I've not seen one for a long time.
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48 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:
Ironic as the Range Rover engine is derived from a Buick engine.
Yes, the Buick version was a cast iron lump that was going to be installed in their "compact" range rather than a six because Buick had a long tradition of straight eights or vee eights. They discarded it because it produced less power than the Chevrolet "Stovebolt" Six but used more fuel than the 364 or 401 cubic inch Buick"Nailhead " V8.
Legend has it that someone senior from Rover literally fell over it on a tour of the development shop and was given it by way of an apology. The resultant engine is very different, (and tuned up isn't too slouchy) but it still doesn't have the grunt or the fuel economy of a 3.3 Vauxhall straight six of the period.
The little 2.5 Daimler V8 as fitted to the Dart / SP250 is quite something else though.
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1 hour ago, St Enodoc said:
I recommend nipple height. Armpit height is too high to reach across comfortably.
1100mm is belt buckle height on me, and I'm not exactly a giant.
You just wanted to include a nipple or armpit reference.... 😉
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eBay's curious logic brought this up as a "similar item" during a search for prewar BSA motorcycle parts, I thought you might know something about it?
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Yep, even got chumps trying it on when I had the Fireblade.
Ninety in first gear anyone?
Or the old Buick.
450bhp and 445ft/lb of torque*
*More than twice that of a 3.9 Range Rover.
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Defined by Viz comic as a McSh**e. "n. To enter said establishment and use the toilet with no intention of buying anything."
Had a similar experience with a Jag driver recently, the predictable one of getting in the right turn only lane at the lights then going straight on in an attempt to overtake on the junction.
I've even had that when I'm on the bike.
Yes, it's seventy five years old in August, but you have obviously never heard of power to weight ratio nor do you know what a "Fast Road gearbox" is...
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On 04/02/2024 at 14:40, checkrail said:
Snap! Mine is 1100mm too. I use an old swivelling office chair on castors and tend to roll it round the chipboard floor, propelled by my feet, following the trains with my hand held controller.
I haven't asked what it sounds like on the floor below.,
I cut mine down from 1250 to 1100mm when we moved, it's a much more agreeable height for viewing and working on.
As for the noise, I always know if a friend of mine is running his old school O gauge in the loft the minute I walk in the house. Conversely, he doesn't hear my even more old school motorcycle pulling into the front yard!
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That's really coming together now, I'm glad I could be of some assistance, if it wasn't for a photograph of that corrugated goods shed in the background, I might not have got back into modelling.
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I suspect that the bounce was due to the Mini's lack of length and weight and the system needed a little more damping, the Americans managed to create power steering systems on Buicks that was reactive to the relative speed of the car.
I've driven an ADO-17 Wolseley 18-85S before (they had the hydrolastic gear mounted on the bulkhead) and for ride comfort and road manners I could only compare it to the Citroen ID-19 De-esse.
I think that design wise they (The ADO-17 series) were too much too soon for the UK market, rather like the Renault R16.
It didn't help that hydrolastic fluid seems to eat anything it touches, including the cans it was supplied in though.
Anyway, apologies for taking the topic sideways, is it too early yet for any up to the minute examples of Miscellaneous Be!!endery on our roads?
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Little Muddle
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Hence the 'almost' enough panniers. 😉
I'm presuming that+1 is about to hove into view from who knows where.