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Broithe
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You are a sh*te ......... for shore eyesh. Ha ha - the site's censor won't allow that....
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Friday morning in portlaoise
Broithe replied to heirflick's topic in Photos & Videos of the Prototype
It was well worth the risk of you getting hypothermia for pictures like that. -
Millionth is pretty close....
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Marvellous! Indeed, one can almost feel the rain.
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At least it wasn't an acid bath.
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One of the features of Irish railways that can be very attractive for a personal layout is that many locations hardly altered over several decades. Merely by changing any road vehicles and, maybe, the odd footbridge etc, you can justifiably run steam trains or a 22000 on the same layout.
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Irish Rail on Twitter - Drumcondra Station closed UFN due to a mechanical fault on a freight train. Update to follow.
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Excellent - I wouldn't be too surprised of the pads do rotate somewhat, even without the belt - the centres seem slightly offset from the line of the rail and that should have some turning effect imparted to them as the wagon moves. Might be worth putting a mark on the edge and seeing what happens.
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Obscured, but the top of the old elevated box at Ballybrophy is just visible here. http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/60s/610604rc.html
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Information is power. I keep a small, widely scattered network - and ensure that none of the operatives ever meet each other - it's a basic KGB/CIA-style system.
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Good work, you got the same result as me. I asked my Dutch agent and he got a bit further.. ..but. he says that the belts are out of stock.. Explosionszeichnung = exploded view.
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That's what it looked like to me, but that seems a bit odd - we need an 'insider' to probe the system... I have sent a message to our agent in Germany....
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I have been unable to navigate the spares system - Our 'Sentinel' is German, I think, we might have to lean on him...
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In action.
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Ah, they are different - mine is the older one with the 'fixed' swivelling couplers - the new ones, which have NEMS sockets, are around €40, aparently. In my town here, there are sixteen charity shops - it's a full-time job going round 'em all....
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They still make a version of it - so, spares should be available from a Fleischmann dealer - my German isn't up to it... http://www.fleischmann.de/en/productsearch/0-556701-0-0-0-0-0-0/products.html
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A small elastic band shouldn't be too hard to find at the right size. Mine still has the belt for now.
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They do look like they are - but, they're not. However, they do look fairly compatible to the small tension-lock type.. ..it wouldn't be a huge bodge to modify them, though. ( I notice that the belt is missing in this picture )
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I just picked up a Fleischmann reinigungswagen in a charity shop. It has a couple of fairly weighty rotating brass discs with felt inserts that bear down on the top of the rails and are then rotated by a belt that is driven by the wheel axles as it goes along. The wagon body is weghted to provide friction to drive the belt properly. Looks a well made thing. An interesting object, anyway.
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Patron saint of Nigeria, too (and Montserrat).. ..so, I'll be having a Nigerian Guinness tonight..
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The bridge seems to have clearly won this time... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-26609950
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Rolls Royce piston aero-engines were generally named after birds of prey - Peregrine, Kestrel, Griffon, Vulture, etc. Their turbine engines were named after rivers - Trent, Dart, Avon, Spey, etc.
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I dunno, I quite like it...
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That's a good way round it - and a flexi-shaft is of great use in many other situations, rather than a specific track cutter that might get little use once the basic layout is established.
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