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The side/up force seems likely to be fairly obvious immediately. On another site, probably as a result of this discussion, I have just received a pop-up banner advert... "If you can fix this - (picture of bicycle) - then you can fix this - (picture of submarine)" - clicking this banner leads to this - https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/engineers . I do hope that they have a rather more rigorous supplementary selection procedure. It does bring to mind a picture of all the lads pedalling like mad to get the sub going....

Women call this "multi-tasking" and regard it as a virtue.

...psychology...

I have a (nearly) finished model that I started in 1978.

Maybe it was also required for the braking action? Whoops - note to self - read it all first!

The act of surfacing and the collision can be the same thing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville_collision .

First Class. Sorted. ..and other mail-related puns - a grand job, though..

Quite right.

My party-piece is my Sean Connery impression. You are a *****... . ...for shore eyesh. Crikey - I've been auto-censored - you'll have to work it out for yourselves.

Does the Garda Sub-Aqua Unit have a speed gun?

1982. An initial denial, before a subsequent identification.

That's all part of the 'game'. Most of the identified collisions locally have been with UK subs, I'm not aware of a Russian ever being shown to be involved in one of these trawler drags, but a lot remain unidentified, of course. UK subs often collide with Scotland, such as the unfortunately named HMS Astute - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Astute_%28S119%29#Aground_on_Skye - and even with a French submarine - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7892294.stm .

Likelihood would be UK - US - Russian - French - in that descending order, I would think. But, nobody will admit it was theirs, unless they are caught red handed. Standard practice now is to say nothing. In the past, people have denied it was theirs, then identifying parts have been found in the retrieved fishing gear. Doesn't have to be from a nuclear state, of course, plenty of diesel-electrics out there, too.

They may not have been aware of the boat before they collided with it - but they will have been aware of the collision with the fishing gear and the subsequent force on their vessel from the drag.

It is very unlikely that they would not be well aware.

Excellent!!

Used to go on quite a lot years ago. Very nasty.

Phew! You had me worried there - it just doesn't really work. For physical reasons, you just can't "scale down" the flow. Surface tension, gravity, Reynold's Number, etc, all conspire against you. In the same way that a load swinging on a crane will always be too fast at 1/76 scale, because it's swinging in 'real world' gravity. I have seen canal boats magnetically drawn whilst floating in real water on Gauge 1 layouts, and that did look OK.

I see from the Facebook page that they had a visit from an Inside Track tour yesterday - http://www.railwayholidays.com/ . See page 22 of this brochure - https://flipflashpages.uniflip.com/3/12240/341318/pub/ .

Do you mean one with genuinely flowing water? I saw a N gauge layout a couple of years ago with an actual flowing river in it and, to be honest, it looked less real than a good static 'river' would.

It's hard to beat the Disabled Parking sign at Asda in Cardiff - parking is only available to disabled Scotsmen, apparently...

..does look rather rakish..

Out for a spin again yesterday - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32309734 .

Great idea! You can get smoke oil... ..based on the smell of coal smoke... ..would we be enough of a market for a specific turf-smoke oil? Possibly a turf-burner model in RTR with sound and smoke...?

Crimping will cause far more work-hardening than soldering - there will be some hardening from the temperature effects, but you would have to press rather hard on the soldering iron to produce any appreciable work-hardening. Any decent crimp will grip the insulation for the mechanical connection, for this reason. The Ross Courtney had the wire passed through the small hole before soldering, to provide a mechanical support and the wire would be supported a short distance away. The problem, particularly in a domestic situation, with any crimp is having a tool appropriate for both the crimp and the wire that is in use. I have a nice collection of crimpers here because they fell out of calibration at work, sometimes just due to a change in wire supplier, but they're still near enough for my purposes. The Scotchlok will survive the hardening of the copper because the wire is supported by the 'tunnel' effect of the body. A soldered and taped connection, as might be used under a baseboard, would be essentially the same situation.