Pump and Circumstance
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Being tight-fisted again...
I recently had a painful bout of 'Spenditis' and set to to find a nice ready-made hand pump of the sort commonly seen all over the place in the 1950s and a stone trough or cistern with which to pose it. Halfway through the attack I went into remission becausea. I could find nothing to suit me
b. Growing pains in the back pocket area
Sites such as Harburns Hobbies, Langleys etc left me gasping for air so I resolved to make my own, using Fimo modelling clay for the stone trough, various bits of plastic from the scrap box and a redundant signal box fire bucket that I drilled out and scraped to a more acceptable rim thickness with a scalpel, replacing the over scale handle as I did so with jewellery wire.
This occupational therapy completely cured the nasty attack, I shall probably invest the savings in some S.L.W., now that interests rates are so low.
Doug
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Does it work though?
It's amazing what can be done with a bit of thought and loads of scrap bits.
Gary
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Much better to buy some more RLW with the savings …..
'Petermac
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By the way, Bl@@dy good job…
Ron
NCE DCC ; 00 scale UK outline.
NCE DCC ; 00 scale UK outline.
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Nice looking bath tub there young Sir :thumbs. Bit drafty though don't you think ?? :hmm
Cheers
Matt
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Cheers Pete.
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'You may share the labours of the great, but you will not share the spoil…' Aesop's Fables
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin
In the land of the slap-dash and implausible, mediocrity is king
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin
In the land of the slap-dash and implausible, mediocrity is king
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