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Having spent time on the phone at Abellio HQ I have established that the letter is real but has been sent to the wrong person. Same intial and surname, the wheels are in motion to remove my sons name from their records. Thank fully it would appear to affect less than 10 people so is easy to track back, HR person knew as soon as I confirmed my sons christian name that they have a crossed wire.

They have also ignored the data protection act as well.

Whilst he was an applicant for employment, he never took up the offer, as such he should not be on their records as an 'active' employee able to receive income. I would question them further as to what information they hold on him as he has already been confused with another. 

The negative point for them are the amount of bandage you need for trapped fingers when they fail.

The positive point is the value I get for them as scrap when they get tossed in my skips.

Can't stand them and won't allow them on site as I've seen too many fail. 

I only gave the old Greeley shorties which I use for cut and shuts, if you use a pair of tweezers to squeeze the pivot lug they'll drop out.

They seem interchangeable with the older ones. I don't have any newer so can't vouch it's the same.

The solution may be Pals who purchase and post.

 

It'll take the UK Govt years to plug any loopholes, even assuming they want to.........

Say goodbye to your sanity

I'm not sure if I see this as good news. Makes me worried that as Hornby is the bigger, more famous brand, we will end up seeing Oxford asset stripped in order to keep Hornby on life support for a little longer.

Or Corgi heading to Oxford..

So will we see Oxford and Hornby merging at some point?

 

Great news though.

I think so, if nothing else there'll be a merging or streamlining of manufacture.

 

Not even remotely funny, get a new joke writer.......

 

Stu

 

Nope...still not funny

Only two tribes? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sty65gnx3SQ

Couldn't resist it.

We just used Monarch a week ago to go to Madeira, a very pleasant experience with on time clean aircraft and plenty of legroom.   A shame to see it pull the plug but understandable with the currency fluctuation as well as the cancellation of a majority of its flights to Egypt and Turkey some time ago.

I'm booked on Easyjet Wednesday to Barcelona (World Rally Championship) be interesting to see how they fare since the last time we used them.

Just Google "H&A models".

 

Satisfied customer.

I'm also a satisfied customer so this is an unashamed plug for H&A.

They also attend our Biggleswade show in Feb as traders.

We probably don't realise it, but we're well on the way to the model of "buying mobility as a service"; young people certainly aren't anything like as keen on buying cars, even when they can afford to, as previous generations.

 

Kevin

They don't need to buy them. A short distance from me is a 24 year old girl working part time, she walked out of the showroom with an Audi Q7,  must be £40k+.  I'm sure the salesman got quite a commission off that pile of debt he passed on.

There are "some people" who wish to engineer such a collapse of the housing market, as one of the methods to deliberately bring about a collapse in the banking industry (as well as to damage and ultimately destroy the very notion of private property ownership).

A collapse of the banking industry is one of the cornerstones of the drive to bring about a radical change in the social, political and economic structures of British society.

It's being "Wargamed" already, apparently.

This isn't the same group that wishes to borrow vast sums of money by chance ?  on the premise that money's never been so cheap....and yet the BoE said rates are certainly set to rise next month....

This is all unfortunate.

 

Coopercraft have been part of the scene for so long

and it is a pity to fall amongst such hostility.

 

This is a hobby of enthusiasts and it is not good

that a rescue mission could not be organised

 

Noel

Hostility ?   With respect I think you've missed the whole point of the thread and peoples experiences. 

​As a trader he has taken money, not supplied the product and not refunded when asked. He has been taken to law through the civil court and found in the wrong, and at the last post had still not refunded.

As for a rescue mission, he has been offered help to get on an even keel by people such as Ian Kirk and did not respond. I think peoples patience has run out with him, I certainly ignore the range now and either source from elsewhere or produce my own in resin or etch.  

I think Belle End sounds a little cheesy.

Reminds me of kitchen fitting in the past, Several times I was asked when quoting, to fill the kitchen with 'Smeg' 

Customers needed to be much clearer when specifying to avoid confusion as well as arrest.

But to bring this back to Dyson: again, a number of organisations are already working on it, and IMO it's even more doubtful whether he can bring anything useful to such a wide-ranging behavioural and infrastructural revolution than he can to the technology that makes cars move.  I say that purely because AFAIK he has no track record of doing anything with the stuff that he makes other than sticking it in a box and selling it.

 

It may strike some people as odd, but it's arguably the automotive manufacturers who have a strong record for innovation in that area, with their history of innovative finance schemes (was it GM that was described as "a loan company which happens to make cars as well"?), approved used car schemes (to overcome the market for lemons effect) and so forth.  They're working on electric vehicles.  They're working on autonomy: all those 'driver aids' that are turning up in new cars are steps along the way, and arguably more to do with getting people used to the idea than being technical stepping stones (it's quite likely that the technology they could deploy is way ahead of what regular car buyers would be happy with right now).  It's extremely likely that they're also working on how these things are going to be bought and used in the future as well.

 You dismiss Dyson without any knowledge of his intentions and promote the automotive manufacturers as the leaders of innovation.   eeeerrrrr Elon Musk....the founder of Paypal, no experience beforehand but saw an opportunity.

Dyson is not just a vacuum company, it is a company that makes products and employs engineers to work on solutions, some of which are battery related.

Auto companies make products as well as a collection of engineers who work on things such as batteries....

My father worked in the USA for 14 years and said had he been working there in the 60's/70's then we would all have upped sticks and moved there, his reason was that they actively promote and admire success while here we just give the successful a kicking or talk them down.

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Half an hour's dry-brushing and wiping with cotton buds brings it to life in my view. Here, it's returning to Doncaster light-engine after 'breaking down' yet again. 

 

Regards,

 

Tony. 

Looks good Tony.

I'm reminded of the tales of an ex KX driver, he used to say that the Baby Deltics should never have run light engine, they should always have been coupled to a BG, as that had the capacity for the quantity of fire extinguishers required for a main line trip to Donnie.

Hey, this awesome product lets you text while driving 

 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hudway/hudway-cast-keep-your-eyes-on-the-road?ja=jcf&ref=1uwyk4&utm_content=Hudway_cast-CL6&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=jellop&utm_term=13.jellopcrowdfunding.com

Yeh.. like wow.....and it kinda like stops you from like..... gettin into an accident....

Eeeerrrr that's "cause an accident"........

 I note it is oversubscribed by X5, how long before some muppets think it's a good idea for here.

Yes but it's the manufacturing that we desperately need to take place in this country.  I find it hypocritical of Dyson to harp on about investing in the UK when all he's really after is profit maximisation for himself...

 

comrade

You're right,  what we need are low grade jobs rather than the lucrative bit.  

This is how I'd imagine a hypothetical Ryanair long-haul service might be.

 

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From some time ago, but there was supposed to be incentives for travelling Ryanair business class.

Agree.

Only had 2 Dyson vacuums in some 20 odd years, best piece of kit going.

But then again, James is British, so no chance of any support.

 

Mike.

Same as you we've had 2 Dyson since 1998/9 and they've worked much better than others I've used in peoples houses I've worked in, first one only stopped due to 'operator error' 

Further up the thread a poster mentioned 'Miele'  sadly for me in years of kitchen fitting the only 2 items that didn't work and had to be returned were both Miele, the return service was good but paying £700+ for a washing machine it should be !

If what you require is a JCB with a 4 in 1 bucket on the front to grab the frame and pull it off the chassis then you will pay somewhere north of £3-400 for a day depending on how far it has to travel on the road to get to you, a small 1-2 ton digger with driver would be £150-200.

I own a digger but for the job you describe would only use it to clear the ground around it, to demolish the van I would just use some labour, rope and a chainsaw. Using a machine to demolish would mean pulling at the chassis which you want to keep.

It's easy to do by hand and sometimes easier as you don't make a mess, as an example, 2 of us demolished a timber framed bungalow in 5 days and into 3x40 yard skips when planning precluded the use of machinery.

What are you doing with the waste ? disposal here is £200+ per ton for mixed waste.

My list is far too long.

I did attend that of a woman a year ago who asked for "The Dambuster March" as she exited the church.

Well yes and no, the tender has been built, I have the rolled the boiler and done most of the foot plate... all rather upside down but as I seem to do more modelling over our summer than our winter and we are moving into spring... my modelling season is just beginning!

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This how far I have made it on the V2

 

But in between things I have made:

 

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And for a bit of variety:

 

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So in between the day job and family you might say the above isn't much in the last few months I think it is pretty good production rate.

That's a lot further than Horse would have got with it, it'd be squirrelled away in the loft among old Portescaps 

The quads look good.

Has anyone any experience of cutting transparent sheets?

 

For example, does the sticky mat leave any visible residue on the sheet?

I've used it to both cut transparent as well as score it to resemble the glazing bars,  I've got 2 mats, the newer with a bit more 'tack' is used for the thicker sheets and the older for thin and clear. Not had a problem with it leaving any glue/residue.