You can set the sort order of messages? Just click on the link in the date column. Your preferences will be remembered, so you don't have to do it again when you return.
Hi Geoff, You could use the firebox wrapper as a pattern and remake it out of brass or even better tinplate. Alternatively you add a strip about 3mm wide to...
Hi Trevor, Found your e mail this morning about he paints very interesting. I've had similar experiences myself and varnishing with Ronseal has become very...
Hi Trevor, I find pure turpentine (as opposed to turps substitute) is the best for thinning Ronseal varnish, but it is not so easy to get in the UK I believe....
Trying to reply to several e-mails at once. Turpentine, the ‘proper’ stuff, is usually available from Art shops, little bottles and therefore expensive. ...
Hello All Some years ago I acquired a set of lost wax castings for the rather complex light/lampbracket assemblies for a Bulleid pacific. I now have another on...
Hi, Reminds me of one summer evening in my student days, when I fell from a boat into the Serpentine, Kensington Gardens. In those days St George's Hospital...
... <snip> ... They ran to Cambridge from Kings Cross on stoppers as part of a running in turn. Get you wallet out! 8-)) Cheers for now, John from Harrow,...
Hi John, The trend is not irreversible. Wherever there is efficient, attractive public transport and the alternative is crowded, awkard or expensive, the...
Hi Phil, Your experience sounds very encouraging. I'm hoping to go that way myself. Meanwhile, my next Running Day is Sunday 17th September, so hope you can...
Hi, Did anyone on the group make it to the record attempt at Telford last week and know if they made it - or are they keeping us in suspense? I hope they did...
All, Continuing the A4 theme, my acme kit is finished as 'SNG' in BR blue of the period around 1951. Can anybody suggest a general make up of a train, type of...
Hi everyone, Do any of you know what became of "Metalmodels", were they bought up by some other company and are their kits or drawings still available under...
Dear All, Please indulge me, I need to contact Richard Lambert and have completely lost his address. So! Richard please mail me off group. Thanks. Sorry to...
Hi martin, Yet in Spain you can buy top quality off the shelf at the village ironmongers at not too much more than white spirit. The litre bottle I am now half...
Hi John, ... In that case it can't be top quality DISTILLED turpentine. Most DIY places in the UK have "genuine turpentine" alongside "white spirit" and "turps...
Hola John y Martin, Just checked in my workshop, where the temperature is currently 49 degrees centigrade. A 1 litre bottle of Aguaras Puro (Turpentine) cost...
John, It probably was the B-L A-4. I remember seeing one running on the British railways display railway at Glasgow's Empire Exhibition in 1938, it really ...
A feature that defines the character of the A-4 is the walkway on top of the wheel casing, in effect the running plate. It is 9 3/4" wide from the the front...
Hello Martin, Fereterias (ironmongers - the genuine article) still haunt most larger villages and they are good genuine old fashioned ironmongers in the main....
