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Chuffer

Chuffer

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What a beauty ! I am in awe of the engineering skills of guys like you because the tolerances are much finer . Do fancy helping us get 70013 `Oliver Cromwell ` `s boiler back in once it comes back from the Boilersmiths at Tysley ? :LOL: That`s the other big project we have on the go . DSCF2614.JPG
 
Derek Nicol

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Chuffer said:
It will be . I managed to contact the pilot on my old crystal set radio...
Roger and out .✌️
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The person who runs download festival was being interviewed on the radio yesterday and was saying how Iron Maiden perfectly synched the start of Aces High as a Spitfire flew over the stage... Bruce Dickinson, a pilot himself, was on the radio at the side of the stage talking to the Spit pilot.
 
Chuffer

Chuffer

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Been back in the BIG Toys box again today :) Can`t really crack on with any more heavy duty work on `Sir Lamiel ` until the boiler is craned off hopefully next week So it was a case of the tender behind jobs today ! Painting all the brake rigging components that operate the brakes on all 8 wheels of the massive tender made for a little light relief .
An unusual juxta position of high tech meeting steam age engineering occurred when a team of guys turned up with a 3D digital scanner to take measurement and design details from one of the other locos we maintain to assist with a new build loco project based in Leeds . Fascinating to watch in such ` old school ` engineering environment .777 Tender.JPG3D scanner.JPG
 
kentvette

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Steamoilking said:
There you go built by me, the waltzer as well case you wondered. 20’ dia. 8’ high scaled down from a 1950 era full size
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Oh wow! I am always amazed by the scale models! About 40 years ago my wife and I used to go to the Model Engineers Exhibition and would just marvel at the road steam stuff! It makes my Mamods look a bit daft! I can't begin to imagine how you make some of the tiny parts! I nearly bought a ready built example a few years ago, but boiler certs might be an issue here...... We miss Steam rallies, France seemed to have missed the steam age, going from horses straight to diesel after the war!

One of the chaps who helped out at Tom Falconer's Claremont years ago was a bit of an "engineer" and his dad had built a massive Showman's Engine, possibly 1/2 scale from the photos. He got to show it off to Prince Philip.

No I'm missing that smell of coal and steam oil all over again!
 
Daytona Vette

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I have not got a B17 or a Spitfire, but this I find quicker and more exhilarating once we lift off - My Corvette Rocket
The 0 to 60 in this is not seconds to mph, it is seconds to 60 miles distance
We keep it in the Navarra Desert Spain.
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Chuffer

Chuffer

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kentvette said:
:LOL: Oh wow! I am always amazed by the scale models! About 40 years ago my wife and I used to go to the Model Engineers Exhibition and would just marvel at the road steam stuff! It makes my Mamods look a bit daft! I can't begin to imagine how you make some of the tiny parts! I nearly bought a ready built example a few years ago, but boiler certs might be an issue here...... We miss Steam rallies, France seemed to have missed the steam age, going from horses straight to diesel after the war!

One of the chaps who helped out at Tom Falconer's Claremont years ago was a bit of an "engineer" and his dad had built a massive Showman's Engine, possibly 1/2 scale from the photos. He got to show it off to Prince Philip.

No I'm missing that smell of coal and steam oil all over again!
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I used to go to the Model Engineers Exhibition years ago and droll over the amazing levels of skills to create such stunning models , be they locos , road engines , ships or aircraft .
I will bottle some essence of steam oil and coal smoke for you . It could prove quite popular ! maybe a new `Boys Toys` cologne for men .
 
Chuffer

Chuffer

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Bardenas Reales a few years ago

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Takes me back to 1970 with my mates in our Hippy Thames Van driving through France to cross the Pyrenees and across the remote Spanish hinterland to explore all down the Med coast from Calella DSCF2472.JPGas far as Alecante then up through Toledo to the Atlantic coast . Miles and miles of long dusty roads in those days and remember half expecting Apaches to charge out of the rocks ! Far out man ✌️
 
Chuffer

Chuffer

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Been back in the big toys box today , but thankfully an easy day undercoating the brake rigging components on No. 777 Sir Lamiel and and top coating the radiator grills off the Class 33 Diesel Electric loco . Just high as kite on paint fumes now ! :LOL:
Glad we have only four locos out of this lot to look after ! DSCF2739.JPGDSCF2740.JPG
 
Chuffer

Chuffer

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Got no memory at all today ! Been breathing in high octane fumes from the Rail Blue livery paint used on the diesels back in the day . Don`t know what they put in that stuff but it blows your head off ! Didn`t see the B17 as was in Loughborough all day stuck inside the loco workshops . I doubt it would have passed that way anyway as too close to Est Midlands Airport traffic .
 
Derek Nicol

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Got no memory at all today ! Been breathing in high octane fumes from the Rail Blue livery paint used on the diesels back in the day . Don`t know what they put in that stuff but it blows your head off ! Didn`t see the B17 as was in Loughborough all day stuck inside the loco workshops . I doubt it would have passed that way anyway as too close to Est Midlands Airport traffic .
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M8 youre getting confused.. from the Catalina thread...
I said: It was the B17 'Sally B' based at Duxford that i and Chuffer saw heading to and returning from Ragley Hall 5th & 6th June 2021. She is the only airworthy B17 in Europe.
U said: Not me mate , I was no where near Ragley Hall that day ! Sally B did fly over our village a few years back and have been up close to her at Duxford . What a machine !!
'High on paint fumes'.. that explains a lot. :D
On this thread you said you saw it but on the Catalina thread you said you didnt see it... hence my asking if your memory had returned yet.
 
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Derek Nicol

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Chuffer said:
was in Loughborough all day stuck inside the loco workshops.
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Have you sorted Beechings vandalism and got rid of the gap yet?.. im looking forward to going back when you can go all the way from Leicester to Nottingham.
Whats taking so long?.. its only a few bridges and an embankment, Brunel would have had it done by now. ;)
Me and the Mrs went on the evening dining train a few years ago, they had to do Loughborough to Leicester and back twice to fit the meal in, it will be so much better when its joined up again.
 
Chuffer

Chuffer

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Heck of a lot of work and fund raising required by the GCR , not to mention the red tape involved building a new bridge to span the very busy Midland Main Line . Oh ! and the canal too . The loco workshops will have to be dismantled and rebuilt to the east of their present location as they are right across the alignment of the old Great Central Railway route from Loughborough to Nottingham . Thats no mean feat in itself . The northern extension cannot be routed elsewhere as much new development has gone on to either side of the route over the decades . These locos in the photo I took yesterday are standing on the original track alignment underneath a road bridge and the very large three tracks wide workshop complete with machine shop , woodwork shop and welding booths are behind the locos beyond the bridge .
Just be thankfull you didn`t choose the twelve course taster menu as you would still be travelling back and now ! 🤣 DSCF2738.JPG
 
Chuffer

Chuffer

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Just had another day playing in the big Thomas the Tank toy box and Colin the Crane passed its LOLE Regs Insurance inspection today so the long awaited lift of Sir Lamiels boiler should take place in a week or so and the heavy general overhall can really crack on . How about one of these Cowan Sheldon 76 ton lifting capacity Breakdown Crane DSCF2743.JPG

monsters for all those Corvette body off restoration projects ? :LOL:
 
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