Barry O

April 10

Ey up!

Positive thoughts to @Dave Hunt.. hope it gets sorted pdq.. nut.. I am still editing from an ecg scan last December which means I have a very large travel insurance quote which will only reduce when the consultant remembers he needs to action these..pah!

Great day yesterday. Progress on layout made by red leader..food and tea were consumed and even the sun came out for a while.

I really don't get the need for AI generated pictures.. must be my engineering brain is not switched on by them.. but other ERs seem to have the same opinion when I PM them to find out why they are missing.... just saying....

Long and busy day ahead so..

Stay safe!

Baz

April 10

5 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

You cannot be serious!!!!!

Very nice!

And , unlike @St Enodoc @LNER4479didn't break the layout..

I now need yo do more wire strangling to get the diesel depot on line.

Baz

April 9

Great visit today from Red Leader who has completed the diesel depot track laying among other work. He has taken a few photos which will, I hope, be seen on here soon.

Thanks for the hard graft Graham @LNER4479.

Baz

April 9

Ey up!

Busy day yesterday and the "business" will continue through the next few days.

Local cricket Leagues are already starting to delay the start of the season.. my first two (non League) games are likely not to happen.. Good.. its horrible umpiring on wet pitches.

@BoD I rambert the wheeled stands. At first it had a large Black and White TV on it. Then a colour set, then a VHS recorder was added.. happy days catching up with Pugh, pugh, barney magrew, cuthbert, dibble and......

visitorbis already en route. Need to get my skates on!

TTFN!

Baz

April 8

Ey up!

Very busy weekend. I travelled up to Northumberland yesterday for a day taking part in the methods you can use to defuse situations in sport.. excellent work. Did you know that every year 7000+ football referees pack in refereeing? The FA manage to train enough new referees to fill the gap but until recently no one knew why they had the turnover. Everyone assumed it was down to disclose... nope its people giving up for the fact "they don't enjoy it anymore".. ECB have no ideas on turnover of cricket umpires or why people jack in but very much assumebits down to lack of discipline.. could be a major foobar there.

Very windy on the A1 and A19.. worn to a frazzle on my return. Enjoyed my snake, pygmy and dumplings tea..

A bit more tidying up to do today a report to concoct then.. whatever I want to do is open to me to do in the rest of the day.

Stay safe!

Baz

April 6

Ey up!

Recovering from a horrendous trip back home from the Bay. The A64 was awash with caravans and very slow moving cars.pah!

At some point Vickers bought Roneo and used the brand to supply various types of office furniture. They had a separate printing division (Howson Algraphy) but had started to run that bit of the business down as the printing processes were changing so rapidly.

Worst printing process was the one used for copying A0 drawings at Barnbow.. it cleared the sinuses pdq.

Got a lot of tidying up to do as my friend Red Leader is here to do m9re work on the layout. That's after a day trip to Northumberland tomorrow.

TTFN

Baz

April 5

Ey up!

In between getting soaked by the sea fret and blasted by the wind an enjoyable stroll to see some friends was achieved yesterday. This was followed by tea and wads .. including a rather nice piece of simnel cake.

Today will involve packing, shopping and a return to home where washing will be undertaken.

A good few days away.. but boy 4 days at York Railway show was so tiring!

Our 1920s house was well laid out and included a space to extend into the loft. We had a set of stairs fitted which now leads into my loft workroom, a bedroom (full of railways currently) and an en suite.

4 bedrooms, a house bathroom and a separate loo on the first floor. Ground floor has entrance hall (with piano as it was the music teaching room). A kitchen, a a store room, a dining room and a sitting room. A small conservatory acts as the laundry/drying room. Does for us!

Stay safe!

Baz

April 4

12 hours ago, Jeff Smith said:

Acrylic is water soluble but permanent when dry. However, Vallejo can be attacked by IPA (not the beer).

Not all acrylics are water based and IPA is good for removing lining from somecRTR items so be careful when using it...

Bas

April 4

It's great walking a lot around nice bits of countryside but.. After my accidental fall to the floor last Friday I am more in the mood for sitting and watching the world go by...

Hope things start to fall into place @Erichill16.

Baz

April 3

I can remove Indian ink wirh water and cif. Never tried acrylic instead but if its not water removable I wouldn't use them.

Remember if I do a commission and the owner doesn't like it I need to get the weathering off!.

Baz

April 3

Strange.. at the Show the jiggle was only seen occasionally.. but once or twice when no locos were anywhere near a signal..

Bit of an emc review to take place..

Baz

April 3

Bit foggy in the Bay...

Baz

April 3

1 hour ago, Smiffy2 said:

@jamie92208 Chimp question... How can I tell if it's steel? If it is I assume it will bend?

L9oks like cast pewter. You can bend that Hurricane .. gently.. using your fingers. Warming it up (warm water?) May also help.

Superglue or araldite should be ok for fixing parts together.

Baz

April 3

Skate and chips for lunch at the Magpie in Whitby. Excellent!!

Baz

April 2

On 31/03/2024 at 23:56, richierich said:

Thought the show was ok. But for my modelling period BR sector period mid 80 to privatisation didn’t see a layout that represented this increasingly poplar era, which was a bit a disappointment.

So popular that.. there seem to be few layouts around being exhibited wh8ch cover this period..

Baz

April 2

Ey up!

No chance of catching up on here. Hopefully @Dave Hunt has had a successful op.

A busy weekend in York followed by an interesting drive back... ever been down the road into the Hole of Holcomb at 15 mph?.. total muppetry!

Now to catch up with my friends here.. my hand is still swollen from its meeting up with the solid stone paving flag last Friday.. but its getting better!

Time for a brew methinks!

Baz

April 1

WHITE APRILS FOOL RABBITS!

Baz

March 30

Ey up!

Didn't sleep well partly due the loud peoplecwalkimgbh9me from a night out.. at 4am.

Knees and hand are still painfull.

Opening day at York. I will have breakfast and hobble to the Knav3smire.

Have a great day if you can!

Baz

March 29

Interesting day.

Ea

Ked put to load stuffin to Beast.. distracted and missed an upstep.. slow motion of baz smacking the floor. Broke a finger, hurt wrist,skinned knees..but survived.

Drove to York.. waze went bonkers due to some silly Motorists. Got to show . Parked beast where I was told to.. went back later.. blocked in..pah!

Put up some barriers.. had some tea.. Time for bed!

Baz

March 28

Bus to scarbados completed.. bus pass was ok for use.

Found a second hand book shop and ended up coming out with some Railway books. Oops!

Wander round completed up and down the mountain sides of Scarbados. 4 miles ambled. Great!

Meeting up with friends for tea.. could get messy!

Now raing after quite a sunshiney day. But boy, the wind is very thin and very cold....

Hotel is being transformed. Stair carpet was changed while we were out. 2 new seating areas are now in place.. but have they sorted the bar (lack of?) We should find out later.

Baz

Ps if these venomous spiders are so bad why don't the Aussies fo what I do..squidgy them? (You have to get them caught by a spider catcher and moved somewhere else officially. .. yer wot????)

March 28

Ey up!

Currently at the seaside. Excellent meal last night.. After breakfast going to take the bus to Scarbados.. wow!

Very grey clouds here.. fingers crossed we don't get heavy rain.

Try some HP sauce on your beans.. sometimes stops sonev of the beans effects.

Time for my coffee today.. by eck! We know how to live!

Baz

March 28

4 hours ago, St Enodoc said:

That sounds like a possible cause.

Yep.. sounds like they are missing a pull down capacitor on the power supply side. Because bits all linked internally to comm9n m8ght be we could try a pull down.. Will have a think about it. (The original MERG drivers didn't have these.. it was always fitted to the electronics I built in my first post grad job.

Using shielded cable will help a bit ..

Baz

March 28

On 28/03/2024 at 03:20, St Enodoc said:

They've just released a new vaccine over here, for over-65s. I've had my first shot with a follow-up due two months later.

We have had one here for a while. It was for over 70s but then it turned into anyone who was 65 last year. Missed that cos I am not 65 or over70.. true British medical logic...

Baz

March 28

Next video in that sequence was.. Chapel en le Frith..

Baz

March 27

Ey up!

Strange sort of day yesterday. A defective fuse holder was fettled, various bits of wire were strangled (somebof which did actually then work as a circuit) and bits of plastic were glued together using a butanone.

A deployment of the shark will take place shortly, then some emails to send after which.. Time for a jaunt out in Beast.

Stay safe!

Baz

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