chris p bacon

Now you're just showing off.....it's not big...and it's not clever...... They're looking good, hopefully I'll have something positive to post on the coach front by the end of the week....then it's back to those A5's....

Lady Bacon works at RSPB HQ, the information gathered is a snapshot of a period of time over the whole country. It's the biggest survey of its kind anywhere and the sheer volume of data they receive has proved worthwhile and accurate. We count about 3 times over the weekend (3 seperate 1 hour slots) then submit the one hour we think most reflects the average activity we see.

Just a point on this. I've built a couple of houses which have long driveways and one of the requisites is the access must be 3.2M wide for an emergency vehicle, one of these driveways failed as it was 3.17M wide, when I appealed the decision I sent photographs of a LWB beaver tailed lorry carrying a 7.5T digger entering the site forward and leaving forward (after turning) at the pinch point. I was successful in the appeal and the Fire officer agreed that if the beaver tail could make it so could their tender. He did comment that the lorry driver was a tad ugly though and I had to agree with him on that. Ben (the drivers) response was "Pi*s off" which for him took all his brain cells and many minutes to conjure up.

Easy, just move the whole layout backwards 4' and put the fiddle yard on the landing. Technically the landing isn't a 'room' so the layout doesn't take up anymore space........ Hmmm......now why exactly do I need that wall in the railway room.....

If you read the story the car owner was a visitor to the house of his uncle, so not his yard.

I see, so based on the second hand account of someone having to move vehicles you assumed that this situation is the same, and even though the van passed the parked car twice decided that the person who's vehicle is damaged is at blame and yet the van driver who maliciously damaged it (clearly with intent) bears no blame in this. I showed the clip to the brickie this morning who is a retained FO, His words were "van drivers a c***, what's the bo**ocks he's spouting, if the van can get by twice so could the tender and ambulance, we have more problems with drivers not moving over when the cars moving cos they don't see us when they're on the phone"

Blame the victim.....yep that works doesn't it. Nothing about the Asda van passing it in one direction then pulling alongside then after hitting the car driving away without stopping, or are we conveniently ignoring that part. I always find it amusing that to make the story more plausible just mention "Emergency vehicle/life threatening situation" and then it's justified. Asda has a claim to fame in this area, an incident over a disabled space where a punch was thrown and the recipient died, just a few days after being given the all clear from cancer.

All those stepladders...you'd think a steam special was due I wonder if someone like Rolf harris was due that day...

See how many submit an invoice?

The trouble with laying that junction is that you'll be taking it up in a month and building a completely new layout.........Oh hang on....wrong owner....

You've been in the briefs of short counsel...... M'lud....the verdict can only be guilty.....send him down.......

Making a sarnie at lunchtime I look out the window and see a pair of wood pidgeons making their own porn film...... Here a a couple taken from the living room window over the last week or so. LTT bopping about, I had about 3 seconds to grab this shot. Lady Bacon caught this BT And the last time we went to Peterborough we popped into Ferry meadows for a wander about and snapped this Kingfisher from a bridge, saw a 2nd one later on.

You've obviously stayed at "The Royal Sportsman" in Porthmadog........

I'd say the latter is a large part of it. When helping to dispose of the estate of a P4 modellor a couple of years ago I met many of his friends and was lucky enough to see many P4 layouts of all shapes, sizes and era's that ran spectacularly well. His own layout was 35'x9' and portrayed Welwyn North 1930's, built to a high standard it was set up and run before dismantling and didn't display any of the perceived problems that P4 is accused of. Watching a long Tom with every piece of freight stock available on the up while an A3 romps along on the down with 12W Sheffield stock showed what one person can do building everything himself.

You have to be confident that whoever you employ will take the drawings you have and convert them into a workable building, part of that is flagging up any problems that might appear. What some of us have noted is that some will just build what you ask for, not what you need. Funniest one was an architect from Bedford who started to fly his own team in from Poland for projects, as they were so much cheaper. After problems started to appear and confusion he found that although they had reasonable English skills none could actually read a drawing or the details, his "Cheap team" ended up costing him 6 figures and they put him in hospital when he wouldn't pay them. There are cowboys everywhere and they speak different languages.

Going off topic here but this cheeses me off no end. It is a falacy that the Polish are somehow better than a tradesman from the UK. You only have to ask the local building control office of the problems they have with "builders" from other countries who do not bother to even find out what the standard is here let alone adhere to it. My own experience of seeing some of the work carried out by so called "Polish builders" is 2 flooded properties, a fire and countless structural problems, but people will keep using them because they think they are cheap.

I have a lot of sympathy for the people running a small business in any hobby. They most probably got into it because of something they wanted but although they were probably taught how to do CAD/ Casting/ mould making/ etching they were never taught customer relations. And from my experience, for every genuine customer there are 3 timewasters, I can't imagine it's any different in this hobby. Something I learnt very early about customers was how they think, working for a builder in the late 80's he was the most miserable b*gger ever, he would snap at customers and give short replies. Sometimes if they were asking a long or complicated question he would just walk away and ignore them. Plasterer and I were always telling him he should be more polite but he said "you can never satisfy customers so I don't bother". The lady who's house we were working on asked what his mood was like one day, we said "same as usual" she moaned about him for a bit and said how he got on her nerves, so we said "why do you use him" her reply "He's really good and I can't find better" He was right, no matter what your attitude is like if the product is good people will put up with it......if you don't believe me, travel Ryanair.

Could you rerphrase that........my PC has just scrubbed the hard drive..... Being handed a batten by someone cottaging...I ask you ...what has this thread come to....

Maybe sharpen it yourself if it's only a HSS one ? it's just a file.

I just looked for a piccie but couldn't find one. Essentially you take a piece of board say 400 square and about 6mm thick and run it halfway into the saw then back it out a few mm's, clamp that to the saw bed then when you rip the PCB there isn't a gap at the side of the blade. Does that make sense? if not I'll pop in the workshop and do an example

Maybe they were sexting each other......

This is why I suggested a sacrificial bed, get a piece of MDF/Ply and run it into the saw at the required width then cut the PCB over the top of it, it means there isn't the gap at the side of the blade, I'd also reduce the height of the blade so that there is less chance of it picking up the cut piece as it passes by.

All those days they were hoping to gain... page per day or page per week?

Understand where you're coming from but who are these people that are going to bring replacements to modern standards?

I'd be wary of cutting something so thin but if a sacrificial bed is run through first it might be ok (covering the rather large blade opening), The problem I can see with material such as this is when it passes by the back of the blade in which case I wouldn't have the blade so exposed and would only have it 3mm high.