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Julian - you CAN get good at soldering! it's really quite easy.
I suggest a Christmas project to read up DCC Concepts pages on soldering, get some proper solder (not the lead free stuff) and some good flux.
Clean up the faces to be soldered (I use wire wool) apply flux to each, apply a touch of solder to each via the iron then offer the two up together, touch again with the iron and bingo!

Last Christmas I taught four grandchildren soldering and they were elated: the youngest being a 7 year old girl.

Age nine, I got taught by an ex RAF Guinea Pig called Vic who built the most amazing little 00 gauge LT&S 4-4-2 tanks from scratch, despite having scarcely any fingers.

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QUOTE (Julian2011 @ 22 Dec 2012, 11:12) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>would have been easy with a bit of Domestic Cable but M*****s didn't have any .... didn't want 20mtrs ..I reckon it's 'cos yer al too rich down in Dorset.
In Geordieland we still have little corner DIY shops where the lad sells you just as much as you ask for (in feet mind).

The project's looking canny good though.
Only prob is its a bit late to make up a few as Christmas prezzies for this year - mebbee for next year...?

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QUOTE (Julian2011 @ 23 Dec 2012, 14:39) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>it isn't the sort of quality I aimed my media students at ........

So how much is it worth for us NOT to post it on You Tube aimed at your media students??

Looks good though, I do like the people lying in the trucks.

Favourite game with my granddaughters is:
"Oh No! Look - there's a baby lamb on the line!"
"Quick! STOP THE TRAIN !"
"STOP !
"STOP !".......

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QUOTE (Julian2011 @ 20 Jan 2013, 13:23) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Oops, I had put IDs of the 3 gentlemen, as I was wondering which one would come up first, with a Film or Song title from the ages past .........so it seems you've been in need of a spot of planning consultancy

sorry we've been out of it for a bit due to a combination of serious weather and a funeral up near Consett, for which all the family returned home to the fold.
All very spectacular, though sadly a huge local character has left the scene. An ex Parsons engineering apprentice, he owned a classic bike shop "on the hill" in Newcastle. His sister in her tribute said "he touched many people's lives "some more heavily than others".
When my daughter went off to uni in Brum he told her "If yer have any trouble pet, just give us a bell and we'll al be doon in mi Transit to sort it."

imho (note the whispering) I reckon your plank might be in danger of getting a wee bit too crowded. Less is More as the great Mies Van der Rohe would always mumur in my ear.. I like the idea of using those interesting vehicles coming and going to animate the spaces between fixtures.

And whats all this talk about extensions? Who said anything about extensions in SWMBO's original granting of permission to develop the window cill?

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QUOTE (David Todd @ 26 Jan 2013, 17:23) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>You like this sort of thing.....but wait until...3.40But soft....
Could this be the same ...dt... we all know and love?
Must be speaking to us from somewhere down in the South Atlantic by DAY 4 all done out in his white uniform.

In what time zone is 3.40 ?

Anyway back OT here is my suggestion - please note it is the only one so far submitted in writing:

Why square? Mostly its an aesthetic thing: its close by a whole lot of rectangular things - ovals are best far away on their own. The self styled "in depth idiot" 34C was making the same point about the urban environment in post #9 here (which I remember reading that Churchward also made about his preferred mode of rebuilding Old Oak)
Another reason is that in reality it would have been more expensive to make the rounded canopy and this shunting plank was a very work-a-day corner of the network.

I rest my case m'lud..

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An outside the box suggestion:
What about a window box outside in which Little Miss Swmbo might grow stuff?

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The council estate appearing overnight impressed me - as it would any right left minded person dahn sahf.

(northern) Lftie

 

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QUOTE ,..Wet Flannel, you or your writing........

Akcherly I was quite impressed by the above Press Release
I went on a course to learn to write like that when I worked for the Corpy in L'pool years ago.

2
Mini Driver won't be able to do much driving of that on the plank - unless it also flies

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QUOTE (Julian2011 @ 12 Jun 2013, 13:11) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Hi LF&T I reckon it's nigh on practically impossible without a course .....

To be fair, mine was put on by a Chief Officer to get the young 'interns' (I s'pose we were), to write Plain English. We had a top writer from the Grauniad (who lived in L'pool). She boll

ked me for mixing tenses in a City report about Scouse Kulcher - it was the year 'Please Please Me' and 'Penny Lane' (just past Hattons) got to No 1
QUOTE My Wg Co wrote back to him, politely explaining that ..... the letter, sent to me, from the Head of the Course contained 6 Service Writing errors!

Careful how you emulate this - SWMBO (ex English teacher) wrote sp in the margin of daughter's term report against the Eng Lang teacher's comments before returning it duly signed to the school.
Likewise Minnie Driver could be singled out for a difficult time!

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This has gone well OT - time for the Mods to prune?

 

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QUOTE (Julian2011 @ 16 Jun 2013, 17:24) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>On a serious note here ......The only note I know
QUOTE I will have to find some means of removing the slight slop .... CA glue is a possibility but isn't at it's best on none porous applications I might even try wetting down some P Padding a bit to see if it will run in around the Rail-Post .....

You could Vaseline the rails then get them firmly embedding in the plastic padding (or whatever - I'd use plaster mixed with wood glue) by tamping down around them.
When all is set, pull the rails out and thereafter they should fit like a glove.
I got taught this dodge (using Araldite mostly) by a hippie Peace Corps from California who'd been sent to West Africa on a mission to fix the broken stuff lying about everywhere.

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QUOTE (Julian2011 @ 9 Jul 2013, 14:37) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Very quick dash to wash out those implements before SWMBO finds out her next Steak and Kidney Pud is made from the Neighbour's garden .....

DSC_0233 by JulianR 2013, on Flickr
Now go and do some domestics while it all dries off .......

I'd hide all those materials test cards quick ... or you'll get that N gauge

ing QS on your back demanding lab results of slumping and cube crushing tests (abd in ps&gs - to borrow their lingo).

He lives down your way...

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Come on: an XQS and a former military man turned English teacher can do better than this. Where's yer imagination?
From now on this conversation should be swatbiof*.
*solely with acronyms that b

dy infuriate ordinary folk

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QUOTE (Julian2011 @ 3 Jul 2013, 19:09) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Didn't like the ground paint job, on the Sandwich, as there was no texture to it ...... have bought some dark soil and will check it out on some spare card, with PVA.
Looked at DP progress .....Those trials have been brilliant - we've all learnt from them.
But what are they for?
Folk like BD and Jaz are posting suggestions. Julian, can I ask you: do you yourself have some photographs of what you are wanting to achieve at the back of the goods shed - maybe in the ...dt... manner?

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Afterthought: as a nipper, I would occasionally ride down to Epping on "uncle's" N7 then help him tend his vegetable patch behind the goods shed.

 

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That's a very helpful range of SLOIBs* to aim at.
I learn from that survey that you have a range of sizes from stones you could hoy aboot and do damage with to sandier bits which might puddle in wet weather. Then there's the weeds..... Oh Joy!

( ther're supposed to be the Flowerpot men)

OT (interesting bit) Glad the sports day was hard fought - likewise my Geordie grandchildrens' event (right alongside a very distracting ECML on the school sportsfield above the Ouseburn). Grandaughter's friend very distraught about her Sunflower dying - it was her entry in the tallest sunflower competition. The proof had to be a photograph, I said "No Prob" I could essily deliver a winner with Photoshop. But SWMBO warned sotto voce about dirty old men getting photies of young lassies on their computers, so we had to compromise by planting another couple of seeds.

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*Spaces Left Over Inbetween Buildings (the kind of places Landscape designers eke out a living on in posher locations)

 

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Referring back to those pics you posted of what you were seeking, the result sorry - ought to say 'outcome' these days - is almost indistinguishably close.

But talking of management outcomes, this lot appear to care not a fig for their yard looking like a piece of wasteland, yet keep their 08 shunters in bulled up ex works condition and obviously scrub up the trackwork each morning till it shines!

I think there may be trouble ahe a lot more 'weathering' ahead...

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And why is that man in RAF uniform using a whip on that poor penguin? Is it a metaphor about the Mods?

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