DJ Dangerous

A wise man once said:

Looking for cryptic clues in that post... Chamber... You're not branching out into handguns, are you? Multiple... A 2600? Asking you to slow down... A 1995 TGV? Slowly buliding up... Has to be an old steam engine!

Oh come on, everybody knows that you guys will make sure that you can cover warranty stuff by hook or by crook. An example of the lengths that you guys go to was in Fran's Manor update. He said something to the effect of a small delay being due to you guys wanting to make something better. Not because something was wrong, but because you guys felt that there was something that you could do better. Everybody here on the forum knows the lengths that you will go to, and I made it very clear in my posts on Phil's workbench thread that this was NOT a warranty issue. Anyway, I've digressed. The reason I mentioned it in the first place was to emphasise the improbability (not impossibility) of Paddy Murphy having spare 201 bodies lying around ten years later, and if your post is anything to go by, and if Paddy works in a similar manner, he, too, wouldn't have needed spare 201 bodies in the first place.

Yup, that's pretty much exactly what I wrote, although I was a lot more concise.

I think that those short Mk3's make excellent compromises for regular layout running.

Yup, I'd never post without first speaking in private. But you definitely have no bodies, chassis nor bogies in stock, warranty or no, that much was very clear. Don't have the emails to hand as I'm out, but can quote exact wording later if you need.

Boxed Lima 201? I'd pay €50 to €60. Nice enough looking, bit bland compared to the Murphy Models release, sounds like a bag of spanners going round.

Nooope! Already been down that route to try buy a wiper and a horn for the 048 that @murphaph has restored.

Are you joking or smoking? IRM have no bodies, nor chassis, nor bogies for the A's. They have limited other spares, so limited that they have to be held back for warranty work only. Murphy Models had no 121 spares within a few months of the locos selling out. They had no spare Mk2D buffers while the coaches themselves were still on sale. Doesn't matter how good IRM are, and let's be honest, they ARE bloody good, but they can't magic parts out of thin air, at least, not down here on Earth.

Speaking of EVE's...

Probably a lot more to a decoder than meets the eye. Also have to factor in hidden costs like recording the sounds, having tech support, issuing replacements, discounts for retailers or whatever. I'm sure that if there were a high quality alternative available for a quarter of the price with no sacrifices, IRM, Murphy Models et al would be offering them instead of ESU decoders.

Absolutely incredible!

I guess it would have been hard to make the bars look as crappy as the fuzzy print...

I like the remaining blue sides on the tables!

Pfft, 40 degrees in summer is nothing. Come back to me when it's 40 there in winter... And when it's the place that IRM / AS are going to move production to once China are sanctioned for invading Taiwan...

There must be a bus just around the corner!

Brand new Bachmann Irish steam set, still wrapped. One for the hardcore collectors. Seller says UK only but to contact them - eBay re-set a lot of seller's ads to UK only dring the Royal Mail cyber attack, and many sellers are manually switching their ads back - current bid around €48: https://www.ebay.es/itm/195651450812 Spare buffers for 121 / 141 / 181 / 071 for €11,50: https://www.ebay.es/itm/155376010301 Murphy Models 182 in Supertrain livery for €255: https://www.ebay.es/itm/285159602391 Two Murphy Models RPSI Mk2's for €40: https://www.ebay.es/itm/134488173655 IRM A Class A23R for €320 "Buy It Now" with a reserve of €225 and zero bids: https://www.ebay.es/itm/266167504899 Oxford Diecast Tinnelly curtainsider for €25: https://www.ebay.es/itm/134422134917 Same again but for €35: https://www.ebay.es/itm/325507252714

My kingdom for a spare windscreen wiper! Absolutely incredible, @murphaph! You have managed to blur the lines between art and science.

In fairness to the second seller, it does say DCC sound fitted, but doesn't say what decoders or sound files, so it's hard to judge.

What's with the pricing on the A's at the moment? I have a few that I bought to re-number but have since decided to sell them and use the money on ICR's instead. I can sell them for about €275 each, after posting them up to Ireland and paying An Post's crappy fees, and I won't lose anything at all, or €285 each and make a few bob profit, but... https://touch.adverts.ie/models/irish-railway-models-a-class/29588269 https://touch.adverts.ie/models/irish-railway-models-a-class/29574951 I doubt that they have all been posted down to the Canaries, then posted up to Ireland, with tax paid both ends. Is that the market value or what?

Say no to snow!

Well, they're a bit shiny and the paint is a bit thick, but they're still better than blue bars.

I know, but I reckon I can touch those bits up easy enough. Even the metal coloured ones are made of a blue-ish plastic. You can see it in my zoomed-in photos on a few of them, where the grey paint has come away.

Gave the blue locking bars a quick blast of the only paint that I had. Will give them a few more coats before fitting them. Not a perfect colour but better than blue. Original ones lying beside them for reference.

Grand, I was looking for an excuse to not do any more of them tonight. I couldn't figure out another bar combination that would have looked prototypical. There's no way to get four handles the same height onto a container with two handles facing left and two handles facing right.