Pete the Elaner

Never saw this first time around & I would not have been able to answer anyway. Glad you got it sorted without causing any damage though.

Bottas has made a great start to the season & seems to have pushed Hamilton in a positive way without the friction when Rosberg was there. It seems like the team have made him feel that he can be their No1 if his driving merits it. If things are not actually like this within the team, then they are managing the situation very well. Ferrari need F1 much more than F1 needs them. It is good for their image.

It was known within the sport that Mercedes had developed a great Hybrid car. Rosberg had one of them & Hamilton grabbed the other one. The next best available was Ferrari & they paid the best wages, so that seemed like a good move. Vettel is in a way in a difficult position. If he does not make mistakes then he could be seen as not trying hard enough & it seems the Italian media are even more vocal about Ferrari than British media are about the football team. Try that little bit harder & it can easily become too hard, which is a mistake.

The article suggest using mineral spirits instead of IPA. The argument does not make sense to me. The 2 are both alcohols, so have similar chemical properties but IPA is a heavier molecule so does not evaporate as easily. It still evaporates pretty quickly though.

You make it sound like Sky bought the live transmission rights by out-bidding the BBC. This was not how it happened. I am not sure whether F1 put the fee up or BBC decided it wanted to cut costs, but they decided that the live broadcast rights were too expensive to renew. Only then did Sky buy the option to broadcast all races live.

Ricciardo received 2 penalties for his late excursions, dropping him from 7th to 10th. The 2nd was for passing Raikkonen while off the track. The 1st was for forcing Norris off the track after he re-joined having cut a corner. He only cut the corner because Norris took the racing line, which he was perfectly entitled to do. Ricciardo was NOT penalised for cutting the corner. Work than one out! I am pleased for Norris. Brilliant drive before the (quite major) hydraulic issue hampered his race & he dealt with this very well too. Williams seem to be making backward progress.

There were some prototype medium radius BH points on display at the GC Expo last weekend. Maybe it is worth waiting for these if they would be of use? I understand that there are no plans for short radius BH points.

But the organisers post a list of layouts, traders & societies was on the GC's website & that was accurate, so why not check there?Gossip on here is subject to speculation & hear say. It is always better to check the organiser's own website.

You are not making much sense here. You said you didn't go...so you did let a field get in your way. There were other options anyway. You could have parked in Loughborough or even caught the train there. It would have been a short walk to the station but the car park to Quorn was a short walk too. You missed a good show for a silly reason.

I agree; the stewards did a great job. They even announced that they had a 4x4 on standby, but I never saw it. There were societies there too. DEMU, Gauge O Guild, Midland Railway, DOGA are the only I can remember, but I am sure there were others too. Anyone who decided not to go because of either reason missed a really good show.

If a manufacturer believed it would make a suitable return for them, they would have made an updated one by now.

APT-E was 4 car, although it ran as 3 for many of its early trials. "Roamed widely on trials" is arguable. It ran on a short stretch of the WR main line, some of the ECML & some of the MML, the important bit being that they were all major routes. Many layouts are branch lines or secondary main lines, so any unusual trains are usually there because the owner/operator simply likes them. The same would be true of the APT-P. I completely agree that the P train is a different matter. I am sure that since Hornby's 1980s offering, manufacturers have decided that making another is not worth the risk.

I really enjoyed this show. I like the idea of travelling between different sites by preserved railway. It was great to hear the chuffing of 8F/5MT & growl of diesels every few minutes from the site of a model show. The car park stewards managed well with what were very challenging conditions. The temporary surface they used at the entrance must have helped to keep things moving.

I have used it successfully on a few Lima bodies. It needs at least an overnight soaking, maybe 24 hours to work properly. I filled up an old bleach bottle. My first attempts left it a little sticky. I tried scrubbing it off with an old toothbrush under a running tap. It seems that the water was making it sticky. I have found that scrubbing it with more neat Dettol (from the soaking bottle is fine) is much more effective. Once the body is nice & clean, I give it a further scrub in warm soapy water to prevent any residual Dettol from reacting with the paint. I have not observed any distortion.

There are some things both for & against reproducing a new model of the APT. It is an iconic model so not only WCML modellers will want one in the same way that Duchesses sell really well, being bought by modellers who do not own anything resembling a WCML layout. James May's Trouble in Model Britain mentioned that most of Hornby's older tooling was destroyed by the company's previous management, with the notable exception of the tunnel which had worn beyond its useful lifetime. Whether the P-train's tooling is damaged or discarded is irrelevant. Any potential manufacturer would therefore need to be looking at new tooling. You could sell the APT-P in several different variations: 5 car, 6 car, 8 car & extra carriages. but having to market several different ones slightly offsets the cost saving of buying it this way. The Blue Pullman is probably a better comparison than IEPs as mentioned earlier. Mk4s are not a good comparison because these can be sold as short sets or individual items. Class 90s have run with Mk4 sets before. Anyone considering re-tooling such a product needs to be confident they can sell enough to make a decent return. A few people like us speculating on a forum is just not enough. Manufacturers may even have already considered & rejected it....possibly even Hornby have been planning it & been holding back with their announcement just like they did the Terrier?

Unlikely. There are using Legomanbiffo sounds. I spoke to Biff recently (At RailEx I think) & his prototype was running around their demo track. He said it was almost complete. He may have been covering his bases in case anything needs to change anything before the final release.

Maybe it would, but you could probably argue any single change would create an insignificant benefit, but try to apply as many as possible & they soon add up.

That is a good example of media exaggerating things. You are one of the few who have researched their story to verify it...then found out it is full of rubbish. It makes me wonder how much of what you read from 'trusted' sources is complete nonsense.

But this was originally recorded by the Top Notes, not the Beatles, which brings me on to a point. Surely the best covers are those from which the originals are relatively unknown? Nothing Compares 2U - originally Prince but I don't think that should count because he didn't release it. It was released by The Family as an album track, then covered by Sinead O'Connor. Most will never have heard The Family's version. Angel of the Morning by 'Juice Newton'. When I heard this at the start of Deadpool I recognised it as something 'forgotten from the 90s'. Actually it was 1981 but there were several versions of it before that, none of which I have heard of.

I always found Mk4's ride rather harsh & the Pendos ok. Motion sickness is individual & something from which I have never suffered.

Travel, culture & geography was quite a leap from being one of the best comic actors ever. Maybe he worked his way towards it via insurance or banking? & don't let him cut your hair...

Bachmann are not legally obliged to deal directly with the customer with faulty goods. Your supplier is responsible. It then becomes their problem which they take up with their supplier. This responsibility passes on recursively until it reaches the manufacturer.

Interesting choice of stops too: Liverpool Lime St Liverpool South Parkway Lichfield Trent Valley Tamworth London Euston. No Runcorn, Crewe, Stafford, Rugby or Milton Keynes, which would surely all be busier stops than Lichfield or Tamworth, although both of these seem to have been starved of their InterCity services in recent times.

I have been watching Speedway as long as I can remember. Riders have never been allowed to cross the inside white line, so they simply don't do it. It does not impose limits which do not exist. It simply enforces those which are there. What happens when they out-brake themselves or spin in Monaco (except at the chicane after the tunnel)? They don't get away with it there & not many crashed out of the race this year. They simply have to adjust their limits, that's all.

I have not seen any Moto GP for a while but that sounds like a great idea.