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On my other forum, we have a current spate of fake applications. Most of them just seem to be automated things that fail to complete the process, so they aren't able to do anything. Occasionally, one does become active, these give at least the impression of being real people, as they make a good effort at posting plausible things. They are, however still easily identified as 'fake', as they post things that are intended to look like an interaction, but without any real content.
One of them was posting every few days, without any direct contravention, not even coming back to edit in a link to a post, after it had seemed 'clean', etc. So, I let him waste his time.
But, then he made a mistake that I wasn't prepared to let lie, so I removed him straight away.
A couple of weeks ago, he posted in an old thread about plumbing issues, in an effort to make himself look real - but, he claimed to have recently used a forum member who was a plumber, although he never posted much. He found that strategy by reading a few earlier posts in the thread. That was his mistake, as I know that the reason that the plumber hasn't posted much lately is that he died five years ago.
The plumber's widow still pops on now and then and has just been on, in fact, but all trace of the errant spammer is long gone now.
It's not necessarily a victimless crime...-
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5 minutes ago, Mike 84C said:
Transport operators on "Big Island" were very conservative in their buying policies, mainly until they discovered Volvo and Scania and we all know what followed! Having driven a few of those foreign offerings I believe the Leyland/AEC ergonomic cab offered better visibility and driver seating position than most competition. Notice I did not mention noise levels or heating in winter or the other driver comforts that the chaps liked!
The Scammell Routeman always seemed the pinnacle of both style and function to me, but without being comfortable enough to allow the driver to nod off to sleep...
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I spent Septembers in Ireland from 75 to 80, and not at all again until the early 90s, by which time the future had arrived.
A particularly noticeable thing on the roads in those years was the absolute preponderance of Hinos, although they were virtually unknown on the Big Island.
Harris seems to have started assembling them as early as 1968, but it may have taken a few years to corner almost the whole market, to the extent that they eventually did.
As a 'marker' of the second half of the seventies in Ireland to me, a Hino would be as necessary as a few cars with different coloured doors...
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3 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:
I have splashed out on some trees
We've all splashed out on trees at some point, when it has been necessary...
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6 hours ago, Tullygrainey said:
there's no 'concrete' colour as such
Concrete, like tarmac, is never the same colour as another piece.
They used to say, of the US colour TV system, NTSC* - Never The Same Colour...
In real life, patching hardstanding will never merge in, even over considerable time. If you ever need to hide a body under some, put it in from the side, without disturbing the visible surface.
* OK - color, in the example given...-
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Search terms can sometimes be quite unexpectedly ambiguous.
I once needed to stop two adjacent doors from swinging into each other and getting the paint chipped by the handles hitting the faces of the doors. Both doors would never really be open at the same time, so I just needed to limit the swing available to each, so they wouldn't go far enough to strike the other, closed, door.
I fancied something like those sliding arm things that you sometimes got on cupboard doors, but a bit more substantial, to cope with the mass of the 'full-size doors'.
I decided to do an image search to help weed out the lightweight items.
Wondering what these things might be professionally termed as, I decided on "door restraint".
About a quarter of the pictures that were suggested to me showed young ladies, tied to doors and not wearing adequate PPE.
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Mmm, it works OK with four-figure years. Presumably, / and : don't 'count as a real characters'..?
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24 minutes ago, dropshort105 said:
It rises 83cm for each 360 deg of radius 3 curve, whatever gradient that is.
Is it 8.3cm, perhaps?
Or 83mm.
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35 minutes ago, David Holman said:
The dreaded parallel - though I'm sure you can get some cream for that
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43 minutes ago, leslie10646 said:
Ah, yes, the first tool to have in the box, the good old steel rule!
Do you clamp it down where you're cutting? If I don't the (blank) thing moves!
Cork-backed rules seem to be still available.
A lot more friction, but the risk of a slight parallax issue, unless you keep the blade at the same angle carefully. It's not a great problem, compared to the benefit of the lack of slippiness.
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On 7/11/2025 at 11:58 PM, Mayner said:
The loco appears to be similar to that used in a cheap G gauge train set widely available (Australasia & United States) about 18-20 years ago. The set was popular with large scale modellers loco had basic but effective radio control, and locos/stock good basis for kit bashing into something less toy like. Main differrence between Australiaian and US versions was the placement of the batteries, cab of local version and tender in United States.
I have one stashed away somewhere. The intention was to use it as the basis for a garden railway.
One of the possibilities was to have a tunnel section and there was concern about what would happen if the signal was lost. Investigations found that it defaulted to full speed, which seemed like a reasonable result for the circumstances.
Another one of the many things that may still happen - if I live to be a thousand years old.
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38 minutes ago, Darius43 said:
I was a civil/structural engineer for 39 years- just retiring now
Oh, how much fun we mechanicals had, showing the old Yellow Pages heading to you lot..
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1 hour ago, Colin_McLeod said:
LOL,but it wont fit in Phoenix Park!
Ireland is 300 miles long and Phoenix Park is 2.6 miles (measured along Chesterfiield Avenue)
Yeah, but the rails don't go right to the extremities.
Don't be dispiriting the lad - he's probably already done about a quarter of it...
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3 hours ago, leslie10646 said:
Are you going to build York Road (as pre WW2) next - you could have ready for Bangor 2026?
No shortage of volunteers to run it for you!!!!
No point in imposing unnecessary limits - just do the whole island in 00 - it will fit neatly inside Phoenix Park.
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53 minutes ago, MOGUL said:
Good on, tell us... Who won the tug of war?
I think that time it was the airport tug, after Tonka wouldn't start. Maybe they went to best of three..?
The tug was because we had a hovercraft to move the forgings around between gantry crane runs. It was much easier to 'organise' things to be in the right place, when you could manoeuvre with more flexibility than only running on rails. This meant filling in the flange gaps in the inset rail lines, to avoid losing too much air. Just done with bits of wood, if someone could remember where they had been put after the last time the hovercraft was used...
Not twisting your ankle when cross the many tracks around the place was an important skill, particular outside. One morning, glancing down to be sure I was OK, I saw a foot, with a blue trainer on, flash in, as though to trip me. Ready to sort out my assailant, I spun around to find there was nobody at all there, And I was in the middle of an outside yard, with 100 feet of empty space around me - odd, but I just put the hallucination down to overwork.
Then, in the afternoon, I had a cup of tea and put my feet up, to reveal that I had a black leather safety shoe on one foot, and a blue suede trainer on the other...
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40 minutes ago, Rob R said:
Not been approved by the mods yet............
I think they are a bit busy chasing Class 66's across the North Sea
Fear not!
They'll have a crew out in one of their many submarines, making sure that things will progress in their favour.
https://boskalis.com/activities/offshore-energy/subsea-services/subsea-irm
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11 minutes ago, Flying Snail said:
Returning to Abbeyleix, this early 20th century picture of the station is a favourite of mine:
Its in the Eason Photographic Collection on the NLI website: https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000047930
As can be seen in a large-print format from the Old Cork Road.
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1 hour ago, derek said:
Holy cow! Are there in fact three of you Darius? Darius 44 and 45? How the hell do you work so fast/ Excellent stuff
Oh, come on! It's not like he just spends time posting on here, like a lot of us do.
Oh, hang on! He does that as well...
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30 minutes ago, Broithe said:
The Shap derailment.
Looks to have hit a small landslip on the bend in the distance above.
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The Shap derailment.
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I'll admit that I wasn't aware of the existence of this, but it seems that it is about to close now.
https://www.shuttlewood-clarke.org/ulverscroft-grange/model-railway/
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There's plenty of WW2 pictures of aircraft being railed, but I can't find any WW1 ones, so far.
It would, presumably, have been something along the lines of this road transport arrangement. Probably fuselage and wings on separate wagons for most things.
And then reassembled at the destination by riggers.
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27 minutes ago, Galteemore said:
I’m fascinated by the flag given that this was 1970s Ireland when detente was a long way off….pic from Castlerea Railway Museum FB page
At least the flag is the right way up. It's remarkable how many you see on the Big Island that aren't.
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On 21/1/2019 at 7:21 PM, Broithe said:
This could have been exciting...
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2019/0121/1024637-submarine-ferry-irish-sea/
This came up in conversation today, leading me to find this -
https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/near-miss-between-ro-ro-ferry-stena-superfast-vii-and-royal-navy-submarineAnd then, this -
Suspicious Forum Profiles
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I quite enjoy the hunt and the stalking of the 'victim'.
It's like being a virtual hitman.
I'm surprised my messages to the Forum's owner have not sparked off a visit from law enforcement.