What happened at your workbench today?
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Those boards will be nice and heavy to carry into shows, even with ply tops. My Gauge3 4x2ft boards will be all ply with ply legs as well almost single finger lift for each board with legs separate, not that I am planning to do many shows with it more to do with storage and occasional getting them out for a play in the house.
But there is something to the quiet, matter-of-fact ascend of that Space Shuttle. It just departs, without any fuss, like a train or a bus would. And don't forget: that's how Space Shuttles were conceived, they would depart and arrive all the time, like any regular transport. So to me, that looked simply right.
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A very smart set up. I envy your skills as I can only saw angled cuts even when they should be straight. Thought it was a bit mean that the “Bins” only gave you marks of 5 for your joinery!
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Another couple of paid jobs completed, assembling Stay Alive Capacitors and modifying the LGB 55028 Decoder for their use.
Additional circuitry for Signal Control, SR Latch and a Fade In/Out, operating from the Massoth Train Detection Module.
Testing with a purchased Signal, and a 3D printed dwarf signal, all good.
Additional circuitry for Signal Control, SR Latch and a Fade In/Out, operating from the Massoth Train Detection Module.
Testing with a purchased Signal, and a 3D printed dwarf signal, all good.
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Back onto the smaller scale, short instruction course for some of the Club Members, converting a Hornby Class 08 from DC to DCC.
As part of the Heritage Museum Display on the Hopetown Layout, require a Class 104 DMU, one method is the conversion of a Hornby 110, the Cab Ends are available on eBay for £25.00 a pair, not a chance!, home printed for a few pennies!
As part of the Heritage Museum Display on the Hopetown Layout, require a Class 104 DMU, one method is the conversion of a Hornby 110, the Cab Ends are available on eBay for £25.00 a pair, not a chance!, home printed for a few pennies!
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On my trip to North Elmham a house a few doors past where I was staying had a load of toys n stuff outside just help yourself. Sadly no Playmobil but on the third passing a light bulb moment hit at this. 
Pulled apart the Tank will be repainted and go in my factory. Other bits like fuel tank, exhaust, engine and wheeks will find use on conversions and in junk piles when rusted on my line. Not much will go to waste. The figure is I reckon 0 gauge so he will get a repaint and go into one of my 0 gauge coaches or Stephen’s Railcar.
Pulled apart the Tank will be repainted and go in my factory. Other bits like fuel tank, exhaust, engine and wheeks will find use on conversions and in junk piles when rusted on my line. Not much will go to waste. The figure is I reckon 0 gauge so he will get a repaint and go into one of my 0 gauge coaches or Stephen’s Railcar.
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Blimey, the Milk Marketing Board - how old is that? OK. I thought it was a Bedford TK, but it says Leyland on the front, and the MMB was still going when I were a lad, just down the road at Thames Ditton - my mother had worked there before they got married
But then again, how many left hand drive trucks did the MMB have
Oh dear instead of trashing it should have ebayed it! Too late now.Blimey, the Milk Marketing Board - how old is that? OK. I thought it was a Bedford TK, but it says Leyland on the front, and the MMB was still going when I were a lad, just down the road at Thames Ditton - my mother had worked there before they got married
But then again, how many left hand drive trucks did the MMB have
Ha ha - I don't think it would have been valuable - interesting, but useless
I don't think the model can be of any age - plastic chassis and steerable front wheels can't be any earlier than the 70s
The Milk Marketing Board wasn't just about advertising, in fact I don't think they did advertise much (unlike the Egg Marketing Board) - think Railway Clearing House for dairy farmers
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'The Repair Shop' is one of my favourite TV programmes yet I hate repairing stuff myself - much more fun creating something new. But birds/animals/footballs/clumsy pensioners etc present a constant challenge to vulnerable signals and so I've been repairing some. Despite being North Pilton Works ply, they've done remarkably well outside, modified and with oodles of primer and paint. The original LEDs are set in chunky coloured plastic domes, which looks good but I only have conventional 5mm bright LED replacements, so I've set these in clear acrylic disks of the same diameter - I keep a stock of these in various sizes and they are sold as bases for adventure games figures. I am also taking the opportunity to redesign the bases and track attachment, using a LGB 5071 cable holder as a pattern, as I found my original design failed to keep the signals pertly perpendicular after a year or two. It's an age thing, I suppose. Constantly learning. 
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