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13 hours ago, RapidoCorbs said:

Compatible in that if we end up with a stock of spares of the shorter ones, they will still work on wagons that use the longer coupling without causing issues e.g. if we have to do a replacement coupling as part of a repair. 

They will still work. I can run the short couplings round the (roughly) R2 curves on my test track without any issues. Order a pack of Bachmann 36-061 and try them out. 🙂

On 18/03/2024 at 08:29, RapidoCorbs said:

Yes we are doing that as well, but bear in mind that what is coming out now was designed over a year ago, sometimes more.

We also have to make sure our spare parts in the warranty department will work with both the new and old stock.

If you make the coupler part the same dimensions as the Bachmann short straight, I can't see why they wouldn't be compatible. The tails slot into the NEM pockets on the wagon just fine and give a much better distance between stock. Source: I tried it on my Iron Mink.

On 15/03/2024 at 01:59, Ozexpatriate said:

The 'rifling' action early in the video was intriguing. I wonder if that's an intentional thermal roll (low atmosphere friction - not solar heating) or something else.

I saw lots of comments about "oh they're doing a BBQ roll" on other forums. The BBQ rolls were done on the Apollo missions because the craft were in space for days on end and needed thermal control. Something on a ballistic trajectory is not going to heat up enough to warrant a thermal control roll. It was out of control.

On 15/03/2024 at 02:43, Ozexpatriate said:

From this article:

 

CNN: SpaceX’s Starship reaches new heights in monumental test flight but lost on reentry

 

I found this comment interesting:

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However, after reaching several milestones, SpaceX revealed it opted not to attempt to reignite Starship’s engines after a half-hour coasting phase that was originally planned for the flight test.

 

Starship was on a “pretty steep trajectory,” Huot said. That meant Earth’s gravity would likelrapidly drag Starship back toward Earth, whether or not engines are relit.

 

It’s not clear why SpaceX decided to forgo that test, but engineers noted a lot of data needs to be evaluated in the hours and days ahead.

 

On the day, Space X actually said why they didn't attempt to relight. It was out of control. The rotation was not intended or at a higher rate then intended and for whatever reason prevented the relight test.

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-3

I remember a looong time back, the company I was working for had a religious observance calendar. There must have been a good half dozen different religions on there, showing all the religious holidays and I remember sitting with colleagues working out the best faith to convert to in order to get the most days off. 😂 It was however too long ago for me to remember which one it was.

On 17/03/2024 at 10:45, gwrrob said:

In retrospect I should have took some of the panniers.

Hindsight, the best super-power.

Did they say what changes had been done?

14 hours ago, RapidoCorbs said:

incidentally on one of the new GW vans there's an easter egg but no-one's spotted it yet to my knowledge.

It's a bit hard to miss isn't it?

16 minutes ago, Captain Kernow said:

Sorry, Robin, I consider this to be on a par with the totally unnecessary interior detail on the Toad.

 

No one is going to see it, except Superman, with his X-ray vision...

"but it only cost 2p to add, so why not"

I'd rather time (and the 2p) was spent on getting external items we can see correct. (quietly hoping that has been done but haven't seen any evidence of it yet)

Nice, Matt, they looking spot on now.

Ah yes, door bangs, I was too busy looking at the brakes to notice that too. 😀

1 hour ago, Penrhos1920 said:

Do I need to ask my host company (namesco) to tell me how to redirect the www subdomain to the TLD?  Or is it really easy?

If you are able to add a page to the www address, then there is quite a simple way:

https://blog.hubspot.com/website/html-redirect

There are other methods that I cannot remember now, it's been a long while since I did any hosting, hopefully someone more up to date with things will come along.

What's the heritage of the opens, Matt? I noticed they have the central V hangers missing.

8 hours ago, magmouse said:

I don't think it is the browsers as such - URLs with and without the "www" point to different places and will result in the browser fetching different content, as we have just seen. However, in many cases there is some 'behind the scenes' work by the hosting provider so that "www.mysite.com" and "mysite.com" point to the same thing. As you say, the distinction of with and without "www" is getting blurred, and will possibly go away in the end.

Indeed it is not the browser's fault. The www subdomain should really have a redirect on it to the TLD to help out where people don't realise that some sites are now abandoning older conventions. 

On 06/03/2024 at 07:41, mikesndbs said:

Morning, I get that but due to the complexity ...

5 hours ago, mikesndbs said:

Absolutely correct, why risk things when the suggestion answer is so simple and non invasive

😕

On 06/03/2024 at 17:09, Gilbert said:

Can anyone advise if the roof is removable? I'd like to add a bit of weight to my 103502 (which is delightful and has significant local interest for me...)

If they are anything like the Iron Minks, they should come off pretty easily, only a light bit of glue was used on the mink I have, I found it easy to remove for repainting.

@RapidoCorbs The off white roof colour looks to have come out nicely, a good evolution from the pure white used on the iron minks and toads. 

On 25/04/2022 at 14:06, Tom F said:

 

 

Catching up on this thread and loving the content. One pointer on wagon construction - the top two planks on a seven plank wagon as shown would be one piece running the full length, so when replaced, the unpainted plank would be all the way across. Getting very picky, the lower left plank should also be unpainted to the left of the ironwork. Hopefully useful pointers to lift things up that final notch.

On 01/03/2024 at 08:07, MarcD said:

I had some of their paint that took a month to dry. Sprayed on with an airbrush but I used humbrol thinners and when I enquired I was told that was the reason it took so long to go off.

Marc

I have some Humbrol thinners, I don't like it at all. It nearly ruined one paint job I did with it. I much prefer to use simple white spirits for thinning Precision (or any enamel) paints. If they aren't touch dry within an hour, something is most definitely up.

On 28/02/2024 at 20:54, Miss Prism said:

Here's 5614 at Banbury on 25 April 1962. It was withdrawn a year later, so very unlikely to have received significant further works attention. Note the shiny safety valve bonnet!

 

 

 

It looks very much like the copper cap on the chimney has also been buffed up.

On 29/02/2024 at 11:09, KNP said:

The other one is a 8750 version which is in BR colours, I thought well I am going to be removing the top feed and repainting why get a GW version!! Why not get any version….!

Seem to be not so sort after as the GW ones!!!

 

 

I've done this a few times myself. I've got an OR Toad, a macaw and a 4200  amonst others, all in BR livery from the bargain bins (so much for being more popular) , because i knew I'd be hacking them about.

9 minutes ago, JustinDean said:

Ah I see your issue there. 
I have a layer of neoprene rubber between the floor joists and skirt. Also the outer wall forms a skirt extending below the top on the concrete pad. It’ll be fine 10 years from now. 

Funnily enough, fitting an outer skirt to the afflicted side is on the cards for this summer, I hope I have caught it in time. Hopefully it will have the double effect of keeping the leaf litter off the joist and keeping it dry. I fitted a gutter to that side many years ago which helped reduce the amount of water falling to the floor but with the intensity of rains storms these days it needs more assistance.

On 23/02/2024 at 19:36, JustinDean said:

If the DPM is installed correctly floor joists won’t rot. Underneath should stay dry! My first build is over 10 years old and no moisture ingress whatsoever. 
 

Jay

Give it another 10 years. It's the rain landing on the pad that the joists are in direct contact with that's the issue (in my case 1 ton of Type1, sand and slabs). The underneath of my >20yr old workshop is dry, sure enough. The outer floor joists however are starting to succumb to some rot where they are are exposed to the weather, despite lots of creosoting. Having a lot of leaf litter to contend with doesn't help either.

Ah ok, the S prefix had me thinking these were post nationalisation livery. As others were also questioning on the link you sent, I didn't realise the SR dropped the R on their wartime livery.

6 minutes ago, 5BarVT said:

The ‘crossover’ is the facing point and the opposite end of the slip.  The hand points are the blades nearest to the facing point that dete4mine whether you go to the loop or the siding.

Paul.

Yes, I get that which end of the slip is being operated to form the crossover, it's on the diagram. 😉 It was the visualisation of the blades leading into the yard I was missing. Put on some better specs and it dawned on me, I'm getting it now.

As an operational thing, what safety measures would be in place to prevent a movement from the loop (moving right to left) across the cross over if the hand points are set incorrectly? Is that the shunting signal?

2 hours ago, gwrrob said:

If the stock is of a quality I'll bend my rules.😉Banana traffic ceased during WW2 and as there's no photo evidence to the contrary , bauxite will do for me at the moment. @Islesy is the man to ask as he did the thorough research for this model.

Ah, Rule #1. 🙂 I'm not interested in them myself, I was just curious on the livery choice.

1 hour ago, RailWest said:

It is only necessary to work from the SB as a pair the facing point off the running line and the two RH ends of the slip which act as the trap-points from the run-round loop and the sidings. The two LH ends of the slip, which merely control whether trains coming off the main line or out of the private siding go into either run-round loop or the sidings can be controlled by a hand-point.

 

There were examples where the latter 'slip' part was also controlled from the SB as well, perhaps even with its own ground signal for coming out of the siding, but the traffic needs probably would not have justified the extra cost of the signalling. Keep it simple and cheap !

I'm afraid I'm being very thick here. Surely if you set the facing point to going straight on to the goods yard and it is linked to the rhs part of the slip to act as a crossover to the loop, you'll only ever be able to go to the loop (assuming someone has manually set the lhs slip blades in the right direction)? Setting the lever for the rhs slip to be heading in to the yard would set the facing point in to the platform.

1 hour ago, gwrrob said:

 

I'm pretty sure you could run stone and bauxite in the postwar period. @Islesy suggested these for my period and Muz @Graham_Muz would have the stone version.

Does ANTB run post 1948?