So what did Santa bring?
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feckless
Guru
- Location
- Not all that close
Just got back from my Christmas pressie's first outing.
Am I gloating? Well yes, just a bit.
God I have a fabulous wife.
f
Am I gloating? Well yes, just a bit.
God I have a fabulous wife.
f
Hover Fly
He, him, his
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
I was thinking of building a Dee but with the platework of something more Northern like perhaps a L&Y 7' as my next effort, but then I saw that EIM are serializing an 8F, a bit more work but one of the few classes I saw working. Work will start sometime in Feb.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Model Engineer is giving away G1 Green Arrow plans from the next issue for the next few months, a couple of sheets at a time. They've just finished issuing Martin Evan's Southern Belle. During my investigations of the what had been given away I was pointed towards Roger Thornbe'rs designs one of which, a West Country, really appeals.
There's too many driven axles in an 8F to make quartering tolerable - I know a 9F's worse
There's too many driven axles in an 8F to make quartering tolerable - I know a 9F's worse
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
OT
How big is your lathe?
My one is a little small for something I need to make. I need to turn an aluminium disc 11" diameter 3/4" thick to make the end cap for a motor.
Hover Fly
He, him, his
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
There's too many driven axles in an 8F to make quartering tolerable - I know a 9F's worse
I managed all right with an electric 0 gauge 8F, and on the other hand there's no inside crank axle to get wrong, or eccentrics. Perhaps Walsall's square ended axles are the (cheating and expensive) way to go.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
So near and yet so far. My lathe has a 5" centre hieght but do not have a chuck that could accommodate the disc. My lathe is a rather basic Raglan Loughborough training lathe that has not seen much action at all. The scarper marks are still visible on the lathe bed. I got it for the princely sum of £100 a while ago from a school that was about to be demolished.
Check with some of your local schools especially with ones that have just been rebuilt - they have some flash machinery that will not see any action from the kids - health and safety issues.
Just got back from my Christmas pressie's first outing.
Am I gloating? Well yes, just a bit.
God I have a fabulous wife.
f
And only £80 from Argos!
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Same here - well, most of them. Anything else is a bonus.
In my case the bonus was some pyjamas, knee high bamboo socks (nice and warm for work), a book of patterns for knitted and crochetted flowers(perfect quick projects for using up scraps of yarn, and possibly saleable), a whole load of vouchers to buy stuff from Riverford Organics, some shower gels and one of those nylon net body scrub things (actually good, as mine is unravelling), a nice leather photoframe with photo of Oli and Max, some money from Mum, and a calendar.
But the best thing of all was probably when Oli hugged his new Brio Mallard loco (from me) on Boxing Day, and said "This is my favourite engine!"
pepecat
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Dodging the Buzes in Brum
I had a cateye sabre wireless cycle computer, which was cool, and some books, toiletries etc. Also a good old fashioned bike bell with 'I love my bike' on the top of it. It is NOT going on the road bike......
Oh really!
What's your PSN ID Shaun? It's time we got some CCGT races going on!
(although I won't be able to play until I get home on the 3rd :sadface
