Mike 84C

I get the impression that BRM is owned by Warners publishing, if I'm wrong please correct me but a post from one of the moderators gave me the feeling that "pay us money and we can stop the popups" feels a lot like mild blackmail. I'm with Mayner on the width of expertise and like IRM help is so freely given.

The pop ups are a real pain on my laptop but I wonder just how many sales/perceptions they generate? Because it works totally counter intuative with me and makes me far less inclined to buy from anyone that bombards me with pop ups. This a shame because a well known supplier of DCC parts etc is only 14 miles away.

Thats quite a blow to the hobby. Scratch and kitbuilding has just become more difficult. I often purchased from them.

Another thought, the worm on my 00 works 0-6-0t is very sharp, as in cutting, and I wonder if gentle dressing with a jewellers file to round off the top of the worm gear would help?

Horsetan, I have no idea so I can only tell you what I saw and hope my cure to remove as much lateral play as possible works. Time will tell! and so will I if it happens again.

My 00 Works Bandon Tank turned the pinion gear on the axle to lots of filings and the worm would not then engage. I have put more packing washers between the wheel and frame and between the gear and frame to reduce the side to side play which is now less than a piece of writing paper. Thinner washers in the middle axle has increased the side to side play so curves are no problem! I realise the gears are straight cut but my aim with the extra packing washers is to keep the worm as close to the centre of the pinion during rotation. We shall see what happens! Maybe a High Level gearbox? My SSM kit built B4 Bandon Tank runs amazingly well and I am truly proud of it.

My J15 is so far fine, runs well but my Bandon tank from 00 works stripped the axle gear after about an hours running on our club test track. Roderick supplied a new one free of charge which I fitted. Problem solved! And very good service, should I have had to do rectification? my choice but?????

Welcome to the group Dan, I know all the answers to your questions are already on the group just have trawl! But I know others will point you in the right direction. I use 16.5mm track as do many on this group Provincial Wagons and Studio Scale Minatures will get you started and New Irish Lines is worth every penny of its subscription. Best Wishes Mick

Nuremburg is the ultimate toy show but it is a very long time since I have been.

Also a thanks from me for posting those pictures, The Derry Road. it certainly does not look very crowded! I really thought it would be heaving with people sp gave it a miss! And the group who offered me a ride were going at the crack of dawn for the 9.30.opening. Ah well!

Be selective with the offerings from Bachmann, Dapol Cambrian kits etc; and be prepared to do a lot of repainting after the surgery. Thats how I have done it, plus photos to work to and the help from so many people on IRM who have freely given information. Most of my Bachmann & Dapol donors come from T&T fairs and swop meets. Welcome to another world!

Sooo happy these are well out of my era! Or I might have had to find a under hand way to aquire some.

Horsetan , Robert Humm is quite local to me, I can assure you nothing has changed in the charging department!

Copy on Amazon 22/11/22 priced at £40 +p&p

Have you tried Robert Humm in Stamford or Abe Books?

Yey! lets hear it for the Baldwins!! Or maybe a certain Dublin & South Eastern 2-6-0, which would be easier to scan than a Bandon Baldwin! But, not another J15 ,please.

Does anyone know? Were the built up Inchicore loco chimneys made from a standard set of components e.g. cap and base with the varience being the length of tube. Photographs seem to show or not! similarities in cap sizes. This may be an optical illusion in relation to smokebox size/diameter and length of chimney. I ask because I would like to find a descent representation of the Inchicore chimney and it seems as if I need to adjust the look of Scottish types to get the look! I know questions like this are getting difficult at 60+ yrs from the steam age! but someone may know the answer.

I have successfully used Dettol, soak for a week then a good scrub with a tooth brush then wash off under a hot tap. Also works for dissolving the epoxy bond on glued kits. I do check the plastic to see if its unaffected by the Dettol.

Thanks for that info; Barl, very interesting. We used to haul Petcoke years ago. Its the final residue from oil refining and I knew of burning shredded rubber but I am surprised there is the thermal energy to produce cement in cardboard and plastics also meat and bone! Every days a school day!

Barl, you say Irish Cement are looking to burn residual recovered waste, what is that product? Not something I ever hauled to our local cement works!

Here in the UK the small bags were 50kg normally 30 on a pallet. The "Big bags" were 500kg and 1000kg with loops on the top for forklift handling. As an aside the plastic covers had another purpose besides protection, the palletising machines used a silicone lubricant on the bags to keep them moving smoothly, guess what happens when the pallets are on a bouncy HGV? so some inventive person devised a system that put a stripe of glue on every bag which sort of worked BUT step three involved hot shrink wrapping the the whole pallet. That was good but hot plastic sticks to hot plastic, you can imagine the mess that could be made on the farm!

Positive news, that's good to hear Ken. Keep plugging away with the treatment. Port Breige and its workers reminds me of some dock work I have done in the past driving HGV's. All B----y hard work! I love the pattern of bags in the coasters hold, very well observed.

I ran it at club this week, who had a camera? not even a phone!!!! but I will take some pictures. Our layout Bantry is doing a local event on Dec 3rd, pictures then.

Northwalldocker, I have built one of the Nonneminstre kits, just take your time and low melt solder to assemble it. There are no registration marks or lugs to help keep it square just bevelled corners! Mine is 16.5 gauge, runs on a tenshodo spud , kadee couplings are tricky to fit. Digitrains do a sound file that is appropriate the gear changing is rather good! enjoy!

You have built a loco while I'm still thinking about it!!! Brilliant modelling.