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As I understand it, second hand controllers may not be covered anyway but if it's been 'modified' in any way, shape or form, the warranty is void. However, there's no harm in asking their opinion!

So not covered by the Gaugemaster Lifetime Warranty then. They may take pity on you and sort a chargeable repair but it's their call!

Maps: great reading! i.e. twice full scale? No wonder they don't fit on the dining room table!!

I have usually established a similar understanding with my dentists; you hurt, I bite! Seems to work!

Good Evening, It is attempted to make things ""Idiot Proof""! However, better Idiots are developing faster!

I feel a controversy waiting to happen: Brussels Sprouts can be eaten RAW!!

Haven't yet sourced the family-sized bag of Twiglets for Christmas lunch, so may settle for a bacon butty instead as I too emulate the aforementioned Macaulay Culkin! Sort of TV I tend to watch these days is mostly based on the foundation of two parallel pieces of metal, often some 4' 8.5" apart, however, Impossible -, Abandoned -, Extreme -, et alia Engineering do end to feature along with the 'How Do They ...' style of show. Soaps, today's sit-coms, performance-based (strictly, got talent, etc.) are a CUWoT IMHO! In recent years, althought I was an avid 'fan' and even saw the stage version, and Officer Crabtree have left me paranoid! Some 50 years after first learning French at school, do I come across as does this Poloocemon, "the idiot who thinks he can speak French"? However, I am resigned to the fact that I will not be able to watch the Swiss / German Cult sketch on New Year's Eve as a 'live' broadcast; Dinner for One (The 90th Birthday Party) may be watched on youtoob instead.

Looks more like flat bottom from what I can see! If you want a 20degree cant (IIRC) then look to DCC Concepts Legacy track

"I placed my order tomorrow; why hasn't it arrived yet?"! Royal Mail are not alone; other couriers are experiencing delays due to high volumes, as they have been since March. It is important to respect that, whilst the sender will get the parcel to the courier in a timely manner, once it is with them it is 'in their hands' to deliver it as best they can (and in a timescale commensurate with the fee paid). A lot of traders with whom I deal are saying that delivery 'should be between xxx and yyy dates', these often being at least 10 days after the date of the sale! Reminds me; must get my beer order in for December 2021!

Devil Woman - Harry Webb (circlip Richard)

Lock it with a padlock; the squirrels would still get in!

And forms a major railway junction atop the Zuger See!

As well as the cost of the lighting sets!

No! Breathtakingly ridiculous design - I think not! The coaches are not (nor can be) connected electrically so a central decoder is out of the question. Thus, design a motor decoder (EM13) which controls the motor ONLY. Why waste money on a decoder with two functions when a Zero function decoder will do the job? The end cars each have a plastic 'switch' to turn the head / tail lights on or off if the unit is running in multiple. Take the plastic out and insert an FL12 in its place where required (if two units are permanently coupled, leave the plastic 'switch' either side of the coupling) Most, if not all, of the coaches can take the 11-209, 11-210, 11-211, 11-212, 11-213, 11-214 lighting sets per coach. The FR11 decoder simply fits between the pickups from the bogies and the lighting circuit board. They've thought about this! Installation is simple; the decoders just slide in to where they are to function and there are no blanking plates to remove during conversion. The decoders only perform the single function they are required to do. Here's a summary: Note that this applies to most units where the motor is not in a driver coach, such as the Eurostar or TGV. However, it covers most Japanese Bullet Trains, the Hitachi Class 800s, the ICE 4 and several other models that Kato produce! Because it would not be efficient or cost effective, perhaps?

Correct! 8 car Japanese Bullets take 11! You could look at Lemke's (by Zimo) 10950-D1 decoder set as an alternative, though.

UK & US - two nations separated by a common language! Where the two (forbidden to mention) pieces of parallel metal diverge to a different root (spelt 'route') is called a 'point' in the UK, so it may turnout that, for commonality, one side of the pond may have to switch to an alternative name! On second thoughts, make that three nations and let's include our antipodean friends. I'm pondering the generic name used in the UK for a type of transparent adhesive tape!

Good Morning (or at least is indoors!) I was given a record card several years ago to record the administration of the tetanus booster every ten years! A fine piece of Cribtroo to start the day

I couldn't agree more! For a while recently, RTH was being broadcast on Radio 4 Extra and made for excellent listening. When it changed to Beyond Our Ken, I heard part of one episode and switched off! Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams were so bona! And as for Rambling Sid Rumpole, may one continue to furtle! Unfortunately, Innuendo and Double Entendres seem to be a thing of the past, but without them, we would never have had the Carry On series of 30 films (Columbus is too pc) or the likes of Bob Monkhouse or Frankie Howerd et alia who, IIRC, never swore or stated the obvious but just made good use of these two techniques to induce a suggestion. I would finish with my favourite Double Entendre, in which a girl walks into a bar and asks the barman for a double entendre. The pc insanity of the current times forbids me from delivering the punch line! Somehow, puns seem to have survived, however. Consider the classic quote from Carry On Matron: "[Kenneth Williiams] Matron, I was once a weak man", [Hattie Jaques] Doctor, once a week is enough for any man!

Living by Numbers - New Musik

Three minutes silence, please, in memory of the dearly departed, much loved, Groan Button!

In Home>.Thunderbird, you need to update the profiles.ini file to point to the correct profile.

Once anything gets cross-referenced within a database, it's usually there for life unless some 'clown' clears out all the data and starts again! Doubt DVLA will be contemplating that anytime soon!

395 would probably be a good call as they, too, are made by Hitachi, so could also appease the Japanese market. (I read somewhere that Japan accounts for some 90% of Kato's production with the remaining 10% shared around the rest of the world. Not good economics to manufacture something which will only appeal to UK only, which could reach a massive 1% of their production! BTW, the prototypes of the RhB metre gauge trains [Glacier Express, Bernina Express, Allegra, etc.] which they model are usually full of Japanese tourists - hence their viability as models! I would not be surprised if they developed a set of Jungfrau region trains for the same reason.)

Morning awl, sleep well!

Especially at 1:148 scale! Are the pedants revolting?