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  1. Steve Taylor

    ....."for there is surely nothing more beautiful in this World than the sight of a lone man facing singlehandedly A half a ton of angry pot roast!"

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Out came the matador

      Who must have been potted, or

      Slightly insane

      but who looked rather bored.

      Then the picadors, of course,

      Each one on his horse;

      I shouted "Ol

    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      2 pts Mr Tan

       

      I cheered at the bandilleros' display,

      As they stuck the bull in their own clever way,

      For I hadn't had so much fun since the day

      My brother's dog rover

      Got run over.

       

      (rover was killed by a pontiac. and it was done with

      Such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the

      Driver both ears and the tail - but I digress.)

  2. Steve Taylor

    .....bump and 3-2-1 back to reality. Shopping.

  3. Steve Taylor

    "All we hear is, Radio Dada......."

  4. Steve Taylor

    "I love the smell of dar oak stain in the morning... smells like......... err nothing like P-Way"

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    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      err curiously not - didn't have any to hand so have gone with something alcoholic designed for oil paints - nomnomnom

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      now if only we could get scaled down cresosote

    4. Jon Fitness

      Jon Fitness

      how about real creosote used in scale quantities?

  5. Steve Taylor

    /me bites my tongue tightly about some aspects of today.

  6. Steve Taylor

    /me is surfing while the management is watching Splash.... is Andy York really Andy the judge on there?

  7. Steve Taylor

    /me is wacthing weathering videos on yuotube, stand by for a weathering outbreak that will make Barbara Cartland look subtle and understated :D

  8. Steve Taylor

    /me wonders if there are jobs available for designing application forms laid out coherently in plain english

  9. Steve Taylor

    1st pair of "c" switches successfully filed up, they fit up and wheelsets passover smoothly, now to trim switches and closures as a unit.... didn't notice that one had shifted on the template when marking up :( now got a "c" switch/closure unit that is 3mm too short. Time to add wine and remember breathing.

    1. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      aaaah but the third one didn't burn down,fall over or sink into the swamp, its not only a very functional "c" switch...... its a very tidy looking one too :D

  10. Steve Taylor

    3 fishplates returned from the bossom of the carpet and promptly glued to the rail with the rest. The day can't all be bad.

  11. Steve Taylor

    3-layer laminate motion assembly is a tin ybit tedious

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    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      ta much. Off tae Smiffs I go. I've a feeling that part of the problem is caused by try to be clever and pre-tinning and trying to sweat these with an rsu. They're taking a lot of solder along the edges and are chunky. Possibly back to clamping together and using capilliary action to fill in future.

    3. Kylestrome

      Kylestrome

      Use plenty of flux. Where the flux is, the the solder will follow.

    4. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      most definitely have done - dunked in, in fact. Btw mrj not in smiths :(

  12. Steve Taylor

    a 3" lump of channel rod makes an excellent weighting system for wagon rooves, but left in situ, while improve the road holding makes for bloody awful free-wheeling. $mm roller bearing axle boxes anyone?

  13. Steve Taylor

    a 3" lump of channel rod makes an excellent weighting system for wagon rooves, but left in situ, while improve the road holding makes for bloody awful free-wheeling. 4mm roller bearing axle boxes anyone?

  14. Steve Taylor

    A 6-30mm cone cutting bit: ideal for the job that require ....... finesse?

  15. Steve Taylor

    A 6-30mm cone cutting bit: ideal for the job that require ....... finesse?

  16. Steve Taylor

    a very substantial work tray built, and now constructing tea to the sound of Hamish and Dougal - Mrs Nauchtie and the dance of the seven voles anybody?

    1. RJS1977

      RJS1977

      Ye'll have had your tea?

    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      ach nae, but I'll be saein that yeel huv been huvin it fae me.

  17. Steve Taylor

    aaaaah rest day - fire up the soldering iron again and stumble through the instructions

  18. Steve Taylor

    aaaah. Relax. Breath. It's Monday, the house is quiet, "I'm sorry I haven't a clue" is on the wireless - ITS MODEL MANGLING o'clock

  19. Steve Taylor

    aah... nowt like prepping the lineside in 12":1' gauge. So much less fiddly!

  20. Steve Taylor

    after an awful morning at the end of an awful two years - a ray of sunshine. New career beckons, job offer made! Coooooooool.

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    2. Porcy Mane

      Porcy Mane

      Not a snapping job then?

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      nope. A new direction, a mid-life career change allowing the pressure off of what I enjoy and letting me recapture the enjoyment in that. I'm going back into one of my family's historical trades

  21. Steve Taylor

    ain't no fun waiting round to be a millionaire

    1. Michael Delamar

      Michael Delamar

      this time next year Rodney

  22. Steve Taylor

    All books can be indecent books Though recent books are bolder, For filth (I'm glad to say) is in The mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, Everything is lewd. (I could tell you things about peter pan, And the wizard of oz, there's a dirty old man!)

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Smut!

      Give me smut

      And nothing but!

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      hmmmmmm time to bring out the old dope pedlar?

    4. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      though first,

      (bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties,

      Samplers, stained-glass windows, tattoos, anything!

      More, more, I'm still not satisfied!)

       

      Stories of tortures

      Used by debauchers,

      Lurid, licentious, and vile,

      Make me smile.

      Novels that pander

      To my taste for candor

      Give me a pleasure sublime.

      (let's face it, I love slime.)

  23. Steve Taylor

    All hail GW Models - quartering jig a-go-go

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      It only does 90-degree right-hand lead. If your engine is left-hand lead, or has 3-cylinders, you're on your own!

    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      a fair point, but after today i shall console myself with the thought that unless picasso re-models my head..... I can only see one side at a time, and therefore all things shall be good

  24. Steve Taylor

    All Hail the asymetrical 4-sided shape. The board shapes are sorted but I'm now thinking that even at 1/4 size maquette all layouts should be on embankments and not in cuttings.

  25. Steve Taylor

    am looking at the Brassmasters Ivatt 4, out of the corner of my eye trying to sneak up on it when I'm ready. theme music needed:"One of these days"

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