[Brian Considine]

QUOTE (shedmad66 @ 17 Feb 2009, 17:41) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>BE CAREFUL! When you start nailling track down with pins, be careful that they don't come through the bottom of the shelf! putting the track on a underlay will a) make it quieter and

it will make the pins less likley to appear on the underneath !! hope this helps
They would have to be pretty long pins to go through the sleepers & 19mm

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[Brian Considine]

QUOTE (alastairq @ 17 Feb 2009, 20:11) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>you mean......you DON'T use 6 inch nails???????

All my 6" nails are in use as fuses !

 

[Brian Considine]

QUOTE (Manfred Ebinger @ 18 Feb 2009, 08:42) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Ah, the ultimate 1024 amp slow blow fuse.

That's the one - (or would that be more likely "no blow" ?)

 

[Brian Considine]

QUOTE (alastairq @ 19 Feb 2009, 17:20) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I always found coachbolts useful for securing the cab to a steam loco...one can pass it right through the boiler, with a nice polished wing nut on the smokebox door?

Only useful for tender drive locomotives !

 

[Brian Considine]

QUOTE (Expat @ 20 Feb 2009, 05:10) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>This is getting silly guys. Poor old 57XX must be wondering what sort of company he has fallen in with.

It's not getting silly - it is silly, well, some bits are.

Remember the Army Captain in Monty Python "Stop - this is getting silly" ?

Maybe, from the Scot's guy "I won't interupt this sketch for a poound".

 

[Brian Considine]

QUOTE (BobB @ 20 Feb 2009, 17:37) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Are there any rules about using imperial or metric units ?

I did ask someone in one of the sheds if they had any imperial adjustable spanners but they said that they only stocked metric ones !