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    eBay Watch

    in For Sale or Wanted

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    8 minutes ago, murphaph said:

    I have less sympathy for people paying extortionate prices for Irish models now than at any time in the past. We have active RTR manufacturers of high quality stock and motive power. Yes, you need to be a little patient and you need to have your pennies saved for the releases when they come, but they do come, on a regular basis now with IRM too.

    Exactly this - I don't have any layout, but I am still buying the IRM releases as they come out. I'd be a right eejit to not buy them when they are released, and then in X years time when I have a layout, have a whinge about crazy secondhand prices when IRM have sold out!!

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    eBay Watch

    in For Sale or Wanted

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    1 hour ago, Noel said:

    A collectable kit never to be built as those resin kits were an important chain in the evolution of Irish models locos before Murphy Models.

    I must have a gander up the attic - I've a few MIR kits unbuilt in boxes that could go to someone who'd appreciate them from a historical perspective

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    A3R for sale on Adverts

    in For Sale or Wanted

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    18 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

    Some dud stuff on there too - a supposed "antique" sign (modern forgery) and some sort of supposed "wagon plate"....not railway at all.

    I can't see those on any of his ads - either sold or withdrawn. Are you talking about other ads on the site from different sellers?

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    Interesting pictures...

    in Letting off Steam

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    As you say George, that is pretty much industrial harvesting, apart from the poor sods (pardon the pun) having to stack the turf by hand for drying out.

    Get rid of the machine cutting, and see how many people would still like to go out and hand cut the sods - very, very few I would imagine! Not too nostalgic for that part of it I reckon

     

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    Interesting pictures...

    in Letting off Steam

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    Ireland should seriously look at offshore wave power - we are ideally suited for it, being on the edge of the Atlantic and all that.

    No unsightly-ness that you get with the windfarms - they are placed around 5km offshore, and are barely visible from the shore. Unlike wind, they will provide power on calm days, as they use the swell of the sea.

    I reckon the Germans are looking at us wondering why the hell we haven't got them in place already!

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    Fan grille

    in General Chat

    Posted · Edited by skinner75

    You could always give pipe screens a shot - don't know how close they are to the pattern of grille on the 071, but they are cheap for lots of them:

    https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Tobacco-Pipe-Screens/zgbs/hpc/10342670011

     

    Another option could be a frying pan splatter guard:

    https://www.woodies.ie/splatter-guard-1104390?gclid=Cj0KCQjw54iXBhCXARIsADWpsG8Ni9YrNcb_QiZyAhYD0capGcoRacnEyyUPS1QjmiWkOTaJOxER_u0aArIBEALw_wcB

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