Birkenhead Woodside
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A layout in progress, slow progress...
You were lucky Keith, you were not alone when you decided to go for look at the ground...
Ron
NCE DCC ; 00 scale UK outline.
NCE DCC ; 00 scale UK outline.
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John.
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Cheers Pete.
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Staying on the thread Kevin.
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I'm very sorry to hear of your unfortunate tumble and hope the damage is now fading. The reasons for the fall will be more troubling for you and Margaret, but hopefully the medics will monitor you and continue to find you able to carry on regardless!
Good to see you posting again and the timetable progressing after so many postponed services.
Take care of yourself and those closest to you and enjoy your marvellous railway.
Best,
Scouser Bill
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At 6'4'', Bill is a tall chap, then again, when horizontal he is rather long and people often used to trip over him! . . . and so a nickname was born :)
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Cheers,John.B.:thumbs
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I knew nothing about my fall off a ladder a few years ago but I understand shock can do funny things to one and is not necessarily immediate. Hopefully, it was just one of those unexplained events but best to be checked out.
As others have said, take things easy until everything settles down again - John has promised the layout will still be there… :cool wink
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Seriously, take care and make sure that, during your recouperation, there are plenty of Rock Ferry stoppers, through freights and light engine movements to deal with. I hear that they are the sort of thing that speed any recovery!!
Barry
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Strange times here as this concussion slowly, if somewhat erratically, subsides and the real world starts to take over. Looks like it is going to be at least fifteen days rather than the ten originally suggested.
Did manage a short session in the loft yesterday afternoon, a good ‘therapy session’, but all those switches were a bit much for my still slightly frazzled grey cell, and it is also right at the start of the rush hour which is a test for the grey cell at the best of times. Progress was really slow, even slower than usual, but at least a few trains moved. I hope to have another go later today.
Onwards and upwards, well perhaps onwards and sideways will have to do for now…..
Keith
Do I have a plan? Na, if I did I'd spend most of my time trying to remember where I put it.
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Cheers Pete.
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Apologies totally unnecessary, and thanks for the advice. I do have a rail and bannister to use when getting up to the loft, so it is just about idiot-proof.
While things are starting to very slowly improve here, in my current ‘spaced out’ state I am acutely aware that ‘back to normal’ is still quite some way away.
Keith
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Chin up.
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Keith
Do I have a plan? Na, if I did I'd spend most of my time trying to remember where I put it.
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Keith
Do I have a plan? Na, if I did I'd spend most of my time trying to remember where I put it.
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I have one, probably silly Aussie question, but was does "S’mae" stand for/mean? :hmm
Cheers, Andrew
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I reckon once they saw me the other 14 would be looking elsewhere…. apologies for the delay, we’ve finally got some decent weather here, so I can get on with some ‘outside’ jobs……
It is Welsh, just a general greeting rather like ‘Hi’. When we moved here back in 1999 we decided that we should learn the language, all the real locals here are first language Welsh speakers. Having become fairly fluent, and although my Welsh has more than a hint of Scouse, we were teaching Welsh (introductory levels) at night school. Then along came my heart attack, and everything changed – the teaching stopped and the following year work on Woodside started.
Keith
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The manual details a comprehensive list of spare parts available for the model, which is very good – so I have ordered a couple of sets of boiler stays, just in case, and a spare pair of buffers. Turning out to be an expensive engine already…. and it hasn’t made a revenue earning trip yet! That may well change if the Hall, currently on 6C, inexplicably morphs into the Mogul, before returning South to Granby and Shrewsbury with the milk empties later in the evening.
Keith
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Tried the new boiler stay, but managed to break the first two, and then settled for a decidedly iffy job of gluing the two pieces together in situ, rather than breaking any more – my patience, not my strongest point at the best of times, had long since expired. Surprisingly, after a couple of failed attempts, it looked better than I had expected, so it may well become one of those temporary repairs with a fairly long shelf life. I did e-mail Dapol to ask about fitting the stay.… somewhat unexpected response that neither the factory nor their service agents had any experience of this, and no method of doing it suggested. Looking at the stay I think that the top lug which fits into the base of the smokebox is overly long – easy to locate the end of the top lug of the stay in hole at the base of the smokebox, but with restricted space you need to turn the stay through quite an angle to get the whole of the lug through the hole…. it is while trying to do this the breakages occur. Anyone out there who has fitted one of these stays, please let me know how! Before I do make another attempt with the second packet of stays I think the top lug needs to be trimmed back somewhat to avoid stressing the stay again. I can’t really see the need for such a long lug, the lower lug which fits into a hole on the buffer beam is sufficient to hold the stay in place. Further thoughts on this, a possible reason is that the stay is fitted into the smokebox before the buffer beam is attached in the original assembly process. Suffice to say my enthusiasm for the mogul has waned somewhat, but I fancy the mogul may well appear on the Granby milk empties.
For now at least, I’ve got a railway to run…. once all this good weather ends and I can get back in the loft of course ….at least the forecast is starting to look a little more promising!
Keith
Do I have a plan? Na, if I did I'd spend most of my time trying to remember where I put it.
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Cheers Pete.
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I had thought about filing down the lug, but given the size of the stay (less than 1mm diameter) I wasn’t all that confident of doing that without losing a couple more stays in the process. In the end I settled for keeping the stay flat on the workbench so then I could file a couple of flats on opposite ‘sides’ of the stay. Additionally there is also reducing the size of the lug to about one third the original size. When the stay reaches the top of the priority queue, I’ll do both – just to be on the safe side. For now I’m getting quite used to the ‘slightly bent’ stay on the mogul …. and if I ensure any photos of the mogul are only taken from the good side and/or at a suitale distance, I may well leave it for a month or three. As I’ve said many times before, I’ve got a railway to run….. if only the weather was on my side!
Keith
Do I have a plan? Na, if I did I'd spend most of my time trying to remember where I put it.
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