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Hi to all fellow modellers and firstly I hope all of you are well and keeping safe.Its been many months I think since putting in a pennyworth on this forum(not long enough some might say) It must be old age and being interned for the last six months ,with it seems, more to come, but I have not been ...

Hi all from wrinkly towers where the guvnor and I are under house arrest due to some berk going on about some virus.NO pun intended as there are thousands of people who have lost relatives all over the world which is indeed very very sad.MY younger daughter is very vulnerable and also my son, a para...

Hi there,Oh wo and lack aday???With the current prices of Bulleids I have purchased 2nd hand from several well known firms and on 2 occasions plus another 2 of my own purchased new ,the uneven motion of the locos or just just motor turning and no motion entailed the stripping down.lo and behold in e...

Hi all,fraid only just seen this thread.My over indulgence with locos is I think known, much to the chagrin of my missus.I have 4 of them,3 with the oil pump drive and one without as per the real one The only thing i changed was the pivot on the oil pump ,a metal edge continually rubbing on plastic ...

Thanks for the info on the old girl,I just wonder if its worth while contacting where she is and enquiring.It surely will not be left in a corner to rust away

If only my memory went back that far??? Where i lived in Sidcup our parents with my 2 sisters lived downstairs whilst my grandmother and i were upstairs.THe kitchen downstairs housed a New world range,coke boiler in an alcove ,stone sink with a wooden slatted draining board and on the side counter w...

Hi to all with a happy new year to everyone(Despite the bXXXXX)weather.I have tried various websites without any success so can anyone tell met the current state of my favourite loco ever,34067 Tangmere(73A) This was the first loco I ever cabbed, from Victoria back to Stewarts Lane curtesy of the dr...

Hi all,Well the L1 is travelling round well but slower than 900mph,considerably???? Having got the 2 late smokebox plates aBR Bachmann C class 31227,is now 31253 at 73C September will see a further H class on the layout 31177 which just happens to be the one being produced but etched numbers being a...

Thankyou both for your replies.Glad to see someone still listens to me (given up on the Guvnor???)Black it is going to be.The motor is in good nick but I've changed the brushes as a matter of course.I think I've added all the extras I need to, still deciding on whether to fit the cab end of the boil...

Hi to all and firstly a very happy and healthy new year.Back when my hair was a trifle darker than now I purchased a triangle L1 31757 with,wait for it,Magnahesion and smoke ???? good eh It still works.having changed to Marits wheels all round.My kids still call it The Fasty. as it travels at a mini...

Hi all,I know its late in the day but I have 4 *Uglies*?? on my layout which are used pretty often.The only problem i got round was the flimsy drive on the oil pump.It involved replacing the plastic pin with a Markits coupling rod pin with the threaded part removed.they all work.I didn,t fancy the i...

Hi all and firstly can I say thank you for the invites to move to Scotland.It is a lovely country and truly back in the 1600,s my ancestors came from Caithness (Clan Gunn) then worked their way down through Yorkshire to London and kent.Not many of them had lofts???hehe.Carrying on with the Bulleid t...

Hi all,still sweltering but a 30 second climb into the loft,the reason,having just finished the hastings 6L I felt there was a gap in my Bulleid,s rebuilt that is,used in the south east until the demise of steam there.The rebuilds are I think a bit overpriced but silly old buggers like me still buy ...

Hi all,and oh for the rain.Strange but we moan when it rains and now when it does,nt.Proves one thing,nature is the guvnor?? :.Well the 6L is completely finished albeit I had 3 different couplings before the right one??Started off with bachmann short NEM,s,thenkaydee and finally thin brass strip 3 m...

Hi all,is it me???or do I get the impression its blxxxy hot,either way its too hot to enter the loft layout.At long last the hastings 6L is mechanically finished and just the numbering to do.First things first is to thank all those who supplied the parts necessary to complete a very long standing wi...