Etched Pixels

Crumpet while thinking at least. And with proper jam (the sutff whose main ingredient list isn't glucose syrup and then a chemistry set) but starts Strawberries...

Funny how after a while you get to know which people might well make comments in which column among these postings. Hi there Debs!

I tried biting my (metaphorical) lip; but I just couldn`t resist. :-)

Thankfully not - the crappy chipboard flooring gave but didn't disintegrate entirely

If your going to replace the whole of the floor get the waterproof chipboard from one of your local building suppliers. It has a sort of green colour to it and has tongue and grooved edges to it all round.

I hope we can patch it as it goes under at least one internal wall

I shall talk to the chippy and see what says, good chance to see if while he's doing one job he'll do another 'small one' and do my baseboard bracing 8)

Errrr,

excuse No1 - Its raining...

Excuse No2 - I don't like you..

did they work ?

"sorry I have to floss the cat" was a friends favourite 'excuse' when he wanted people to know he didn't wish to attend

overdid = overcooked or overeaten?

Makes me think of Saturday, Or as I call it 'too much pizza night'

Don't worry about it. Just have less later...

BUURP!

I don't ship anything like enough for that. You have to ship above a certain volume. Thamls fpr the suggestion though.

My sympathies. I've removed from sale the few items I had lurking on e-bay for the same reason.

I had occasion to visit the local post office in Ivybridge yesterday. To my surprise, there was but one person at the counter when I went in and no one else. It's not that small a room, so you don't have to stand too close to anyone else.

My sympathies to those who are unable to visit their POs, though.

... and with a very small brush, I guess?

I'm just dreading the decals

*facepalm*

I think lining look better on locos

I think lining look better on locos

I find a beer or two helps!

sounds like they have brought in an academic. Interlink and CityLink threw all their old customers away and the GPO benefitted. PPD, PEC and othere are still etching.

Likewise I think all my artwork will be moving north. All the newer stuff is already with PPD.

No please not everyone, they usually turn my stuff round in a week. Soon it will be like the others 4-6 weeks.

Shhhhh!

I totally agree.

I thought the whole point of te quiet coach was so you could hear your phone conversation... no?

That I would like to hear!

At this rate you'll have a clear bench by 2025???

I think we may clear the national debt first

Is it etched junk?

No - the brass junk and scrap all gets recycled and goes to the Corris railway to be turned into things like coach door handles

You wont be able to find things for weeks to come.

How do you expect me to Google that ;-)

Cut and past the PI symbol into Google and its about 3 hits down on imdb 8)

It's all Greek to me.

So if you're only talking in binary, that pretty much limits the conversation, I guess...

11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

There's always plenty of zeros to go around.

That will be fun....not. Crownline moulds were many and varied, and some of the parts that came out of them weren't worth writing home about, being just lumps. I did wonder whose hands they had passed through after Crownline went down. The cast brass and nickel-silver parts were a bit better.

Could you pump jelly in to them and see what emerges?

I couldn't afford Crownline parts when I was an impoverished lad reading Model Trains - once I *could* afford them they vanished.

Sounds about right.

I remember an advert for Harp.

"Harp

Stays sharp

To the bottom of the glass...."

They forgot one word, rimes with happ.

Fine and sunny here in melton!

My house sometimes does that. Not nice. All the best.

Best wishes and hold on to your hats!

Sorry to be a bit thick - What's ING? Assume that's a class 25/1? Look forward to see some pics if it is...

The TPO stock something that you might be selling in the future?

ING = It's N Gauge

Kris: Hopefully. Colin Allbright did L21/L.24/L.25 TPO stock for Ultima but never finished the last corrections or instructions. I'm just doing the final tidying up now

For sure...I have used a small spoon before...but that is just scratching the surface...sounds very sickly!

Yuk.

Hmmmm,

Cream egg for breakfast with Kit-kat for soldiers.....

Here she comes again

wondering whether the weather 'doom & gloom' is for real or just the usual hype?

Red Rain?

I knw the feeling! Had once all-but finished painting a spark arrestor and was holding it while it dried wen the postman came with something for me to sign for!

Our phone is activated by one of the floorboards in the bog...

Mixing 5-minute epoxy adhesive is a good way to test your doorbell.

does white metal suffer 'shrinkage' like resin does then?

That depends - if you make a rubber mould from a master it shrinks a spot, if you make one from some of the other materials it grows about the same amount instead - very useful.

In this case it needed a bit of filing of the top of the motor block to fit - something that *could* have been in the instructions . grump 8)

Are these the old 4mm scale whitemetal jobs?

2mm (Highfield, ABS/Beaver DGM and Langley) - with a Skytrex Beyer Garratt to investigate

The 'grockles' arrived here in force about a month ago, coach loads of trippers arrive every day ..... For some reason a lot of them are from Wales.

Minor outbreak of beached students here, no real tourists yet

You will struggle to make a Voyager look like a bridge, try a 70 and drop it in place

I wondered what they were going to do with the bent one at Newport

That's a pain, at least these can be replaced with ease. I hope it won't cause you any issues with the day to day running of Ultima.

All rescued in the end with a mix of Linux to read the hard disks, an ancient windows copy of Freehand to export all the data and I now have the data in a sane format too.