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    D1001

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    Thanks for the update. In my view this is one of the best rail-based information sites on the Internet. I would certainly be willing to pay a fee for access to a members area especially if it would help with some of the costs of running the site. I find the ability to find allocations at a particular depot at a specific time via the 'snapshot' one of the most useful features of the site.

    Keep up the good work!

     

    David

    Crosland

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    Those switch rail gaps look a little unnecessarily generous for 2FS, Andrew. They look more like N to me! Mine are usually 0.5mm although anything up to 1mm should be ok.

    Also agree with Tim about the twisting. Sometimes if you tighten the screws that attach a thin frame chassis to the body it can induce some twist. This can the case if the top of the chassis and the underside of the body aren't quite in synch.

     

    David

    -missy-

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    I'm with the majority, Julia, and would suggest a re-draw of the chassis. Peco have done a fairly good job with the splashers. The width over them is 12.8mm compared to the Farish Pannier and Jinty of a massive 15.8mm! I replaced the splashers on my Jinty and got the width down to 12.7mm and this looks very acceptable with 2FS wheels. My pannier which, sadly, I didn't reconstruct has always looked faintly ridiculous with the wheels so totally out of synch with the splashers. The Peco 2251 body is an excellent production and, for myself, I would be reluctant to do anything too drastic too it.

     

    David

    D869

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    Like the view from your modelling table, Andy! Just a thought but would there be the same problem in taking a tube of polystyrene cement in your checked luggage? I often use it for sticking a side and end together rather than using a liquid solvent as it allows a little more time for adjustment. Used sparingly and applied with a cocktail stick it can make an almost invisible joint.

     

    David

    bcnPete

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    I think that you have probably made the right decisions in the circumstances, Pete. Keeping the rolling stock is the main thing as you will always have something to run on layouts that you may build in the future. Ian Futers has always been able to turn out layouts on a regular basis because he has a core of locos and stock that he can use on the layouts.

    Best thing about the move is that we may see you at more 2mil events in the future. AGM at Bolton in October?

    Hope the rest of the move goes well

    derekarthurnaylor

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    Agree about the Plastikard, Derek. Such a change from card, balsa, Seccotine and Cow Gum! There were some articles in the RM about how to use it. One concerned building a small coal merchant's office and another was by 'Smokey' Bourne. He built a steel-bodied  GWR loco coal wagon on a Peco 'Wonderful Wagon' underframe. The advantage of the material for steel wagons was, of course, that it had no texture to spoil the surface. 

    I remember seeing George Slater at the Manchester show in the early 1960s with his white lab coat and constant smoking over open bottles of Mek. I seem to recall that he only started the Slaters business when he had retired but that he lived on for many years afterwards although I don't remember seeing an obituary.

     

    David

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