jameshilton
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Lpols great Mel, especially the narrows! The cats are very well behaved!
Today on the WGLR
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Ian Powell
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Excellent,Mel.
Don Gilham
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Super stuff Mel - I particularly like the heavy breathing at the beginning 
Lovely cats
Lovely cats
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Elmtree Line
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Mel, a great piece of film
Although i think you slipped up with the cats, they are definately a bit too large, maybe if you keep them in the background they will look OK in perspective
Although i think you slipped up with the cats, they are definately a bit too large, maybe if you keep them in the background they will look OK in perspective
A bit like this from 0.31 Keith?Elmtree Line said:Mel, a great piece of film
Although i think you slipped up with the cats, they are definately a bit too large, maybe if you keep them in the background they will look OK in perspective
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25N-4zrk390
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Elmtree Line
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yb281 said:A bit like this from 0.31 Keith?Elmtree Line said:Mel, a great piece of film
Although i think you slipped up with the cats, they are definately a bit too large, maybe if you keep them in the background they will look OK in perspective
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25N-4zrk390
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A couple of things I got from the excellent Telford show on Sunday.
First, a 7mm model of an electricity transformer. Obviously it's well under scale, but as soon as I saw it I had to have it and I suppose they were made in all sorts of different sizes?
It's a white metal kit and although it looks pretty complicated, it was easy to build. I haven't made my mind up whether to have it mounted somewhere with a safety fence around it, or use it as a wagon load. So, for the moment, it's just plonked in the corner of the goods yard. I seem to remember getting a H&S flash many years ago warning that the cooling oil in these things contained some really nasty PCB's? Would it sit within a bund wall does anybody know (Don)?
I also got some metal signs. I've got quite a few large ones from Back2Bay6 that are perfect for the sides of buildings etc. (there's one on the wall in the photo above) and they don't seem to fade outdoors, but I&G Steam were selling smaller versions which fit the Pola fencing around Wetton station perfectly - Araldited in place.
Finally, a happy accident. I've planted a few clumps of Baby's Tears / Mind Your Own Business around the railway, but although they're doing OK, they haven't really taken off like they have in previous years. However, up in the undergrowth on top of the cutting, alongside the Cain Howley cottage there's a lovely clump forming which I'm really pleased with. Must be the shade of all the ferns etc. that it likes.
First, a 7mm model of an electricity transformer. Obviously it's well under scale, but as soon as I saw it I had to have it and I suppose they were made in all sorts of different sizes?
It's a white metal kit and although it looks pretty complicated, it was easy to build. I haven't made my mind up whether to have it mounted somewhere with a safety fence around it, or use it as a wagon load. So, for the moment, it's just plonked in the corner of the goods yard. I seem to remember getting a H&S flash many years ago warning that the cooling oil in these things contained some really nasty PCB's? Would it sit within a bund wall does anybody know (Don)?
I also got some metal signs. I've got quite a few large ones from Back2Bay6 that are perfect for the sides of buildings etc. (there's one on the wall in the photo above) and they don't seem to fade outdoors, but I&G Steam were selling smaller versions which fit the Pola fencing around Wetton station perfectly - Araldited in place.
Finally, a happy accident. I've planted a few clumps of Baby's Tears / Mind Your Own Business around the railway, but although they're doing OK, they haven't really taken off like they have in previous years. However, up in the undergrowth on top of the cutting, alongside the Cain Howley cottage there's a lovely clump forming which I'm really pleased with. Must be the shade of all the ferns etc. that it likes.
Don Gilham
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I always thought Transformers came in all different sizes, Mel
Looks nice
Looks nice
jameshilton
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Lovely little details Mel
Midwalesstokie
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Looks great Mel. I hope you had special dispensation to run the Pannier up through Kerry to Wetton - you definitely need that Dean goods
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I used to work for a company that filled that oil into 45 gallon drums mate. Cant remember any H&S issues then (about 1988'ish). They probably had not invented the problem then. Made by Shell - but they only bothered with full tanker loads.
I do remember that testing for minute water content was fun - keep turning up the power until a blinking great flash between two electrodes immersed in the oil.
Rumor was that on the long distance undersea cables - they just keep pumping it in from each end - nobody actually knew where it went.
I do remember that testing for minute water content was fun - keep turning up the power until a blinking great flash between two electrodes immersed in the oil.
Rumor was that on the long distance undersea cables - they just keep pumping it in from each end - nobody actually knew where it went.
Neil Robinson
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I suspect "Pyroclor" (one trade name for PCB transformer oil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl < Link To http://en.wikipedia.org/w...lychlorinated_biphenyl ) was a rareity in British built transformers in the 50s and early 60s. I worked at a transformer manufacturer from 1966 until 1982 and it was only used in specials that needed higher power within a restricted size. Even if this were not the case in the U.K the hazards were unrecognised or ignored until the later 1970s so any warnings or special site arrangements would post date the period of your layout.yb281 said:
Gizzy
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Just had a look at the transformer for our hanger here at work.yb281 said:
We have a direct connection to the National Grid and separate to the one for the Airfield.
It isn't in a bund, but mounted on a concrete plinth. (The Fuel Tanks for our Standby Generators do have a bund though.)
It does have a safety fence around it though? I gave Bigjack some of the stuff I used for wire safety fencing on Hardyard for you to try, but it may be too modern for the W&GLR.
I also thought that PCBs were now banned on new installations. Our facility was built in 2000. I tried to see what the insulation media is on ours, but it just reads OIL from what I can make out from outside the fence....