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Hi Callum, Thats unfortunate there is no scale given. All draftsman should indicate a scale on drawings. Thats a sectional detail drawing you show, sometimes these can be drawn full size, my comments above related to a full loco general arrangement drawings or say a drawing of the chassis only. But I see figured dimensions on that drawing, so you need to get out your scale and measure the dimensions to see what scale the drawing is. I hope you are familiar with using scales and have a few, the dimensions are imperial so you need an 'imperial scale' Eoin

Yes, that's them. You may have to shop around as scanning & printing large scale drawings can be expensive! Eoin

Hi Callum, If you bring the drawings you have to a scanning service and get them to scan and print at the scale factor you require. You say you have ''full size drawings'' but obviously these are scaled drawings to fit on a drawing sheet, the scale of the drawing should be indicated in the Title Block of the drawing. Knowing the drawing scale one can then calculates the scale factor you want them printed at, the printing service will have to print the final drawings over several sheets as 1 to 8 ratio will be a large drawing for a loco that size! Hacketts may be able to help, give them a call...... Eoin

This used to be in the Fry Castle Museum, CIE commissioned it for display at a show in the UK, not built by Fry but ended up in the museum. It used to reside in St Andrews Church (Tourist Office) Suffolk Street, not sure if it is still there! Eoin

It is believed by some, that light fingered chaps were at work here- way back at the setting up of the Castle Museum! There is also evidence in the collection that some of the Fry 3 rail models were converted to two rail....... Eoin

Practicing your icing skills there George, Christmas is coming Eoin

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We were hit yesterday afternoon here in Kilmacanogue, my neighbor's sheds were flattened by a tree fall, if it had gone in another direction it could have been my garage!! Eoin

@Flying Snail Cutting paper & cardboard about 10 cutting projects. For Styrene I'd change the blade after 2 cutting projects. The blades come in the barrel body, one replaces the whole thing, last time I bought one was a while back, I think around £26.00

Silhouette Cameo Cutter;- I saw some interest in the Silhouette Cameo cutter in another thread and thought I'd post info here. My machine, it's an old model purchased back in 2015 or so. There is a new version now but pretty much the same thing. https://www.mdpsupplies.ie/silhouette-cameo/silhouette-cameo-5 Cover open, showing the carrier sheet traction wheels (white) on that silver drive shaft. The carrier sheet is clamped on these wheels and the drive pulls the sheet in and out as cutting proceeds. The cutting blade, it's a small rotating blade in a barrel, the depth of the blade is manually adjusted by rotating the white head in the barrel, full protrusion is about 1.5mm. The blade mounted in the traversing head. This is a MDF riser table I made for the carrier sheet- while cutting is proceeding I found thick styrene sheet would come free of the glue on the carrier as the sheet is pulled in n out over that curved front of the machine. 1mm thick styrene is the max that will fit in the machine. This is an old carrier sheet about to be pulled in. The carrier sheets last for several cutting sessions but becomes scored by the blade when cutting paper or thin styrene, also debris from cutting process messes up the glue and the sheet then needs replacement. Other bits- a set of color markers for plotting drawings on the machine, roller tool for pressing the work sheet to the carrier sheet, other tool/knife holder and engraver purchased on Amazon, and in the middle a pin picker for removing small cut bits from the carrier sheet. Underneath the bits is a new carrier sheet. Parts for a tin van cut from .5mm & .3mm styrene, the machine will not cut right through this thickness of material, several passes while adjusting the tool depth will almost go through, then finished by hand with a scalpel. The machine will cut through paper, vinyl, and very heavy paper card. Detail scoring on the parts. The software that comes with the machine is good quality, it has drawing tools to create the drawing to control the cutting and has all sorts of controls to aid the user in material selection and knife control. The machine also has registration control to load and line up pre-printed material to be cut. I use this software to cut only as I do all my drawing work in Autocad and import it into the Silhouette software. Some knowledge of cad programs is a great help, but it is relatively easy to get a grip of! Thats a rough introduction, if any questions post below....... Eoin.

This might be of some interest for chaps thinking of DCCing a OO Works J15;- The bits- the chip is a ESU Micro V0.5 with the standard sugar cube speaker, also being installed are front lantern lights using nano LEDs from JS Miniatures and white metal lanterns. The sound file is from Wheeltappers. The loco bits. The only place for the chip and speaker is in the boiler, a standard ESU sound chip will not fit, it's too wide, so that's why I'm using a Micro. The speaker will have it's cover installed with no risers, this should allow for all the parts n wiring to be crammed in! The tender is a solid block of cast plastic! The chassis- I like the way they built this model, all the major components are in sub assembles, then screw fixed together to make the model. After hearing about the gearbox messing up on these models I took a good look at it- the meshing of the gears on this one is too loose! not doing anything about it now, we'll see how it runs in the future. Smooth throttling will be required! Lights being epoxied on. Route of the wires to get into the boiler. The chip is hard wired to the pickups and motor, the lights will connect with mini connectors so the body can be removed completely, the resistors for the lights are on the LED leads- that's the max I can get into the boiler. Done. 20250916_201857.mp4 Eoin

As you say, most likely rails were laid to move the stones for the second shunt of the wall out to the light ship- which the existing lighthouse replaced. The stones are quite large and the best way to get them out there was by man hands on railed carts........ Edit;- I also remember reading that the stones came from Dalkey, these were most likely barged across to the works from Bullock Harbour, so there may not have been a need for rails for this purpose as they would have been craned off the barges into place. Still could have been used for fill underneath though! Eoin

If you tell him you have viewed this video- he will tell you everything! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_on7lzhU_Q