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Terry, That's brilliant. It's not until the garage looms ahead that you really get a real scale for things, or have I had too much Aussie red tonight?. ...
Has anyone knowledge of steam sawmills and in particular how a tree trunk was pulled (or pushed) passed the saw blade. Was there, for example, a moving belt to...
Hello Richard, Try the Holycoombe House Steam Museum near Liphook, Just off the A3 in Surrey. There are two steam Railways (or were last time I was there), a...
Richard We have some steam fairs around us each year. There are regularly portable steam powered saw benches appearing. These are usually run from traction ...
Another good source of infomation are the more specialist American modelling magazines, such as Shortline Gazzette etc. Apart from detail I don't suppose...
In many cases it was the whole table carrying the log that travelled past the circular or band saw blade. Gordon [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Hi Ray, No, you're not wrong! I play these videos on my laptop when demonstrating at shows, and most people watching actually duck as the wall looms! Mind you,...
Hi Roy, Glad you enjoyed it. It was created by two of our teenage members, on their own initiative. That's really the whole point of my garden railway, to...
Hi John, The hand belonged to a worried teenager who had visions of an expensive crash as the train rushed towards the wall. The intended ruling gradient is 1...
Hi Bob, My running days for this year are Sundays 28th May, 30th July & 17th September. Contact me off-group for directions. That goes for anyone else who...
Hello Terry, Great stuff, thoroughly enjoyed it. Downloaded in 1 or 2 second bursts then replayed the whole thing. Feel sorry for the poor guard in the brake...
... Further to this previous posting on 25Mar, I have re-read thga article on SR & BR Greens by John Harvey with assistance from Len Tavender, in HMRS JNL....
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G 'Day All further to my comments in previous posting ... I have just found my download from the Munsell site from which I have gleaned the following; The...
Hi Terry, Downloaded the video. Most impressive. You were talking of making it all double track. Have you done that yet?. The video I shot is on Hi 8 so I...
Hello John, Thanks for all that information, which, I hope will be useful. Spain is a delightful country in which to live, except for model supplies, they are...
Hi Graham . As mentioned before the fishplates do tend to corrode but I think your idea of oiling them is a good one and I must try that. Not only will it help...
Hi Graham, No, the single track from the Sidings to Evercreech still exists, although I have been doubling the embankment and stone wall width ready for...
Hi John, Having worked with lead - and other metals - most of my life, I can assure you that the chances of you getting lead-poisoned while using lead-shot,...
Hi Jas, The camera belonged to one of our teenaged members, but was just a pretty ordinary digital camera that has a movie facility: nothing fancy. That was...
... I understood that this was not quite true. Coal would not burn properly in the early locos, due to the short combustion path from the grate to the rear...
Hi Brian, Once again, I stand corrected: thank you. Instead of trusting to memory, I've just consulted "The Developmemnt of the Locomotive", Stretton, 1896....
Hi Chaps, Can anyone help me with this? Determined to clear my crowded cripple sidings ahead of the summer garden season, I've realised that a few of my...
Terry, You can 'mould' plasticard into a curve for a roof ,as I am sure you are aware with very hot water. However it seems to me that what you have is some...
So it's not just me that has a 'cripple' siding then! Frank's method is the best way out of the situation, but expensive, so how are your nerves? If you were...
... May and then smuggle the stuff out in my toilet bag. (Had one lot confiscated at Gatwick some years ago, including some Mekpak!!). ... I don't like to put...
