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Hi Chaz It may have been a struggle, but the end result looks superb, so I would say that the effort was well worth it. Cheers SS

Hi Ron Power for operating the screw thread could be provided by a battery powered electric drill. I have seen this used somewhere, but for the life of me I can't remember where. Cheers SS

Hi Gordon I have only used 20mm verticals to produce a 'T' section under a 4mm thick plywood track bed see this thread with photo's on the Templot forum. http://85a.co.uk/forum/view_topic.php?id=2077&forum_id=6&jump_to=13834#p13834. No sign of sagging yet on 20 year old baseboards. Cheers SS

It works for me now. Cheers SS

Ditto SS

Hi Chaz It might be tedious and boring but the end result will make it all worth while in the end, what you have produced so far is excellent. I imagine that a never off the boil kettle would help in such circumstances or a few cans of beer. Cheers SS

Have you ordered your asbestos fire retarded / heat proof fingers yet? SS

Steel plate / sheet is usually stored almost vertically in an 'A' frame this way a couple of blokes can move it relatively easily or for the thicker Plate a crane or gantry can pick it up using a couple of snail dogs on the end of a pair of strops. If the sheet is really thin then a bit of wood shoved in the cam helps to get a bite. Cheers SS

Hi Gordon Not the eastern I'm afraid but on the western the retaining walls between Birmingham Snow Hill and Jewellery Quarter a pretty high, not sure exactly how high though. Cheers SS

Most of the scrappies I visited in the 60's for bike bits or prams for soap box trollies usually had old caravan as an office. SS

Must be Cornish then

Hi Dave I saw the buildings at Scaleforum and have to say the were marvellous. Cheers SS.

When I first got my PCV license ('96) I worked at Stratford on Avon for 4 months but was in digs at Warwick, there is a pub at the bottom of the station approach, the name of which escapes me but that was the first pub I had ever seen brew XI on draught, I'd only seen keg before that, the draught is slightly more palatable than keg. SS

Hi Chaz If you stick a piece of paper in the bottom of the hole that was painted the same colour as the setts it might help to disguise said hole. Cheers SS

Hi Gordon It's good to hear the modelling juices are flowing again, I look forward to the updates on progress. Cheers SS

As it has been decided that there is no canal side access here's a photo which shows the two buildings further down the tow path. Cheers SS

Hi Vlavio I'm not sure if this helps but a couple of years ago whilst travelling on the Stour Valley line I noticed some canal side stroke industrial buildings being demolished, so I went back armed with a camera and took what pictures I could. Since this thread emerged I have had a quick trawl and resized a couple which might help with canal side doors. There are another two buildings further south the first has windows on the canal side the second has none. On Google maps the buildings are situated between the M5 and the A 4031 and are clearly visible in the satellite view as is the amount that has been demolished. Sorry about the camera angles but so far I have not found a way to walk on water, and no access to a boat. The best shots would (have) been from the railway itself. Cheers SS

Hi Gordon Please may I make a suggestion, instead of putting the through running lines below the terminus you could put them above and behind the terminal, like London Bridge Station with just a couple of platform faces adjacent to the terminal platforms and as with the original those platforms can be on a gradient. You could loose the curve at the terminal end behind tall buildings beyond the station forecourt. The down side is that you'd reduce the overall width of the terminus by the width of the high level platorms if you maintained your standard baseboard width and a couple of feet or so off the length availabe for the actual terminal Cheers SS

Hi Spams A second try at this later than expected post. Grass eitherside of the track bed Ready to harvest wheat? and a grassy cutting I hope these piccy's may help in the completion of this marvelous trainset. Cheers SS

Hi Spams In our club we cut the carpet felt up into about 3 inch squares and give it a good swim in bleach for between 24 and 48 hours and then fish it out and give it a good rinse before dunking it in a bucket of khaki green dye and then fishing it out at intervals so that the range of green various. It's then allowed to dry before pulling it out in to a bag, thus when used it has variations as per the prototype. If used in it's bleached state it looks like a wheat field ready for harvesting. If I get chance this afternoon I will take some pic;s and post them later. Cheers SS

I await the full resumption of the bridge building extravaganza. Cheers SS

The size of the beams will depend on the length of the span and the weight to be applied, both static and dynamic. No doubt there are a few engineers on here that could work it if the info is provided. Have the formula in my old apprentice notes but where the hell it is I don't know. Failing grey cells. SS

Doesn't hail from Yorkshire does it.

Surely it's time to donate the 250+ year old Hoss to the Natural History Museum in Kensington as a live exhibit. It must be the first 'oss that old not to have been turned into pet food and therefore graced our park at some point. SS

No Sat Nav then!!