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  1. Steve Taylor

    brain meltdown resulting from trying to visualise 90deg r/h lead transfered t oan upright wheel press from an upside down chassis. THUNK.

  2. Steve Taylor

    Csb on ivatt 4 tender complete. Bemused by spring rates. To my mind looks to saggy but it matches the pictures. The test will be will it match the loco.

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    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      Aye thats the one. Its gone together not too badly considering my two left thumbs, but if this was a car i'd be saying stiffer/longer spring rates or up the coilover rates. Should it sit on the bumpstops?

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      I thought the whole point was to have the suspension allowing the engine to sit in mid-travel, not on the bumpstops.

    4. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      hmmmm, thought so. The j-72 was set at mid (ish) travel. This seems to have settled on the stops so off to ye olde-worlde shoppe of geetars in town on my lunch break tomorrow. From tens to 12/13s me thinks.also time to check Chris Pendleton's article in MRJ 175.

  3. Steve Taylor
    permission to have room-envy please. Looking forward to reading of your progress and thank you for lifting your head above the parapet to share your story with us
  4. Steve Taylor

    why, if its something minor and I'm not relaly paying attention, does my soldering become incredibly neat. The opposite seems to applicable too. . :(

  5. Steve Taylor

    it has now been wet/missling/raining/foggy since sunday afternoon. Bored of it now and need t oget work done. Please change the weather ot the good stuff. Ta.

    1. halfwit

      halfwit

      I quite like a bit of drizzle...

    2. RJL

      RJL

      Change in weather ? No chance I feel.

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      I, regretfully, have to agree. I have that sense of foreboding that usually heralds uncontrollably slipping editorial deadlines :(

  6. 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"

  7. 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.

  8. Steve Taylor

    another day in paradise?

    1. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Oh, think twice...

    2. skipepsi

      skipepsi

      not a workers paradise

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      hmm yes, ground floor shopper's paradise. I'm now feeling disturbed that I inadvertently started the day with a Phil Collins lyric in my head, albeit ironically given the weather.

       

  9. Steve Taylor

    Armed only with this bottle of merlot, some drawings, card and the newsquiz on the i-player I have set forth on a quest for the 1/4 size layout mockup. There may be contours ahead, but while there's scalpels and spraymount and templot and maps, lets face the archive and guess.

  10. Steve Taylor

    with an inverted A1 rattling away on the desktop testing facility, my attention is drawn to the fact that this office is sadly lacking in features such as "the wall of crisps"

    1. AndyB

      AndyB

      "Shelf of tat" is a must. No-one gets their expenses paid for business trips unless they bring back some tat.

    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      Hmmm, a bit more diplomatic term for that is needed, since the four shelves of stuff for model making could be, by some members of the household, described as shelves of tat

  11. Steve Taylor

    Hmmmm, brass S1 chairs in bulk at wholesale prices please

  12. Steve Taylor

    an hour spare, wind up the dynamo, its RSU o'clock

  13. Steve Taylor

    the high plains of Leicestershire are looking bright and verdant today, especially with the house closed down to anti-roasting mode.

  14. Steve Taylor
    I suppose real road transport has suspension to absorb the slight camber of the average road surface and failing that there's always "lardy" drivers to balance things out seeing as sitting on the right they are on the high side of the camber over here - i know springs are supposed to be handed but you look at how many coil/leaf sprung vehicles sag. Can I ask how you cut the arch profile out of thick plasticard? I've an elliptical arch profile to do and have ground to a halt while working this out. Cheers and thanks for the updates. Steve
  15. Steve Taylor

    bring me the asbestos thimbles, I'm going in.

  16. 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

  17. Steve Taylor

    PEOPLE OF THE WORLD: SURRENDER YOUR RSUs. I must have one now

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    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      Its a Graskop of I've been using, got any contact details/info/price for Swanage models?

    3. N15class

      N15class

      his phone number is 07986 726169 the RSU is £145 plus £10 postage.

    4. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      cheers for the info

  18. Steve Taylor

    I'm fitting my mind with a tin hat and the rest of me with kevlar... have you seen the size of the hail today?

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      How come we're not getting any of this relief from humidity down here!??

  19. Steve Taylor

    Mr H.Tan - proof of god's existence: 7.5 T of tunnocks caramel wafers have just overtaken me on the A5. Praise be, etcetc ad infinitum et nauseum

    1. davefrk

      davefrk

      How on earth did they pass border controls at Gretna....

      Dave, two miles from the factory.

      Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      I'm going to have to see a dentist now.

    3. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      I'm actually sat in my dentist's waiting room right now. If the checkup goes well i'll celebrate with a caramel wafer on the way up the m1 tonight.

  20. Steve Taylor

    bah, Monday. Eeeeeugh

  21. Steve Taylor

    GGrrrrr, I tidy up go away for a week and my Bill Bedford wagon wheelbase jig has naffed off, and me with 5 bodyshells sat ready for wheeling . :(

  22. Steve Taylor

    off to Derby, looking forward to seeing Stainmore for the first time

  23. Steve Taylor

    friday afternoon: brought to you by the magic of cinnamon whirls

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    2. SHMD

      SHMD

      LoL :)

       

    3. Porcy Mane

      Porcy Mane

      Nah" Hot X buns, Stawberry Jam and lashings of Butta...

    4. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      hehe , best get the delivery van fired up then. Sainsbos in the derbyshire/staffs wastelands has stopped selling them, reducing me to a mere pastry addict

  24. Steve Taylor

    zen and the art of brick carving....... thank goodness this is only a small signal box and not a retaining wall or viaduct

  25. Steve Taylor

    huzzah, its brickbond oclock. Measuring up to handmake bricksheet. Must retro petition MPs so that all buildings in bonds not available in Plasticard be rendered in really smooth plaster :D

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