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A couple of years ago I had this problem. I replaced the silver steel rod with 2mm o/d brass tube. I found this tube was every bit as accurate as the steel rod but it's easier to work with. I also replaced the soldering with just squeezing the ends of the axles with side cutters. This not only cuts the tube but distorts it so keeping the axle in place. The results are not pretty, and it may only be suitable for use with P4 width frames, but if you need to solder it will be a lot easier. I seem to have archived the photos I took, I'll try to find them.

I don't think we should be burning anything. I accept that for the time being we have to but it should be winding down. I wonder if it would be possible to bore a hole down within the Drax site to see if geothermal heating could replace the boilers?

Can you say anything about the activity?

https://lightmoor.co.uk/books/broad-gauge-engines-of-the-great-western-railway-part-2-1840-1845/L8764 Excellent book well worth adding to your library.

http://www.solarpanelsplus.com/residential/solar-space-heating/ In all the fuss about air/ground heat pumps this has been forgotten. We know people who have installed systems like this and they work.

Well, my energy supplier wanted to double them already. I've switched. The price of gas is going through the roof even putting to one side its carbon content. The future is electric and I don't believe it's going to include heat pumps at least on a one house, one heat pump ratio.

I said in a post earlier that these devices are flavour of the month. The more I read the less convinced I am that these things are going to be rolled out as a general feature of British homes.

https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/heat-pump-systems There doesn't seem to be a future for radiators which I don't understand. Nor do I understand why something like an electric powered combi boiler won't do the trick for older properties like ours.The cost of converting our house, a 1911 terrace, to heat pumps seems to be far more than the heat pump itself which makes the government grant seem irrelevant. But then I'm 77, the combi boiler is fairly new, so it might be a responsibility which falls on the next owner!

I'm beginning to hope that these devices are just the flavour of the month. Seems to me we should stop burning anything but hydrogen and that only in power stations. Domestic power should be all electric including CH boilers. As for insulation, our house, built in 1911, has loft insulation but desperately needs new windows and doors but there's no way two pensioners are going to afford that. All this talk about heatpumps when the solution is a lot clearer and cheaper

My one experience of the charabanc was horrendous. Although I haven't tried the service buses they can only be better than that. I now go by car. The show is always very good.

I'm surprised, or perhaps not, that the government hasn't sponsored a competition with the intention of massively reducing the size and cost of heat pumps. The current taxpayers subsidy is simply not sustainable; these devices need to be improved in order to fit them into a home.

Oh dear! What is happening here is that oxygen is being excluded so the flame goes out. In the real world oxygen is always present so the flame will intensify.

The point is that airliners use paraffin because it is very much safer than any of the alternatives including, of course, hydrogen, which extraordinarily inflammable. Paraffin has a very high conductivity which , effectively, puts out a flame. Hydrogen just goes up. I don't believe Hydrogen is going to be the airliners fuel of the future.

Don't airliners use paraffin?

I decided that to avoid the crowds I would arrive after 2 on the assumption that many people would be going home for the Sunday roast. Worked sort of. I got in, mask on, and immediately my glasses fogged up and I started to bump into people. Ok, take the mask off. Then I noticed that many others had done much the same. Perhaps the same problem afflicts contact lens users; heyho. As ever the layouts were superb ( I was particularly taken by the EM Cambrian layout), traders were fine but the halls were hot and humid. I thought ventilation was important in these times? I lasted about an hour, but couldn't cope beyond that. A pity, it's a brilliant show, just needs a different venue.

Can anyone remember the Hindenburg? In the 1980s(?) the Russians had a scheme for hydrogen powered airliners, quite rightly it was squashed.

I've added one to my wishlist.

Having passed my test, first time, in 2001 and, as the Jazz is only my second car, I don't have a brand loyalty! With respect, you have a tendency to draw conclusions based on too little evidence. Europe has to many volume car makers and, taking Brexit into account, Honda made a sensible decision I think. Most of the established car makers have been wrong footed by climate change and Honda is no different to the rest as many comments on here testify. I shall wait a little until most of the European and East Asian makers have EVs in their ranges before making a choice, but the current preference is for Honda because the experience with the Jazz has been so positive. 134,000 miles and the vehicle is still as tight as a drum with very little needed other than normal maintenance. EVs are still developing and developing at a huge rate. This year's models could easily be obsolete by 2022 and it seems that the experience of buying or leasing a car this year could be similar to buying or leasing a PC in the 1990s. Built in obsolescence due to constant technological changes. Honda might yet be proved right. My needs are not a Tesla or BMW limo but super mini with about a 250 mile range but which is wide enough (48") to take two child seats and an adult in the back. Such a width will also accommodate the layout! It would be a help if my favourite destinations would improve their charging facilities. Currently they're awful. We can only wish.

Perhaps, but that means, for me, that the Jazz will have to soldier on for even more years and it's already done 134k. It may also have to be replaced by a younger, second hand, ICE car before a BEV equivalent is available with Honda always being the first choice.

I have used silicon grease from Eileen's for this. I haven't noticed any deterioration in plastic gear wheels, but then they are hidden away which is the reason for using grease! Perhaps a non-answer, sorry.

I wonder how you know about their nationality

I think this topic had best be dropped.

Sorry, the intent was to express disappointment; it was phrased badly and sounds as though I was taking the mick which wasn't the intention. I have been looking forward to the Peterborough show since the last one was cancelled due to the Covid emergency and was wondering earlier in the week when the announcement would be made. Wait for next year.

And there was me looking forward to a live show