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Interesting technique there, are you using a steam lance of some description to clear the smoke box but the door is closed. Can you explain please? I've only ever seen smoke boxes cleared the old fashioned way with a shovel.

Whilst the arguments over the pros and cons of electric cars will continue to rage for years l feel, hardly anyone ever mentions their cost to purchase. I recently went to look at the Nissan Micra as a replacement for my wife's aging Mitsubishi Colt, that starts at around £14250 which I think is exp...

Wow, that is one heavy train!
Painting all those figures must have been a labour of love?

I still find it surprising that from all the membership of this forum ony 35 have bothered to vote. Is this part of the modern society malaise?

Rather difficult to do in our scales which is why a lot of us use radio control, operating the regulator at a distance.

Well there is a little box underneath the picture that says "report incorrect product information".
Maybe we should all do that?

Superb job there Dazza, I presume you were using a flame of some sort to provide heat, otherwise the jig would have sucked all the heat from a soldering iron.

That's a very good looking set of bending rolls there Daz and indispensable for jobs like this, are they a home brew construction or perhaps something made for the jewellery trade?

My thanks to you all for the very informative replies, I now believe that I am concerning myself unnecessarily and that these issues are just part of the learning process which l have got to go through. I think I will be ordering one in the next few days as the longer I spend thinking about it the l...

As part of my research into the most suitable 3d printer to purchase, I have come to the conclusion that the Flashforge Adventurer 3 is going to offer me the best option to suit my needs. However I have come across a number of online videos that indicate that the filament feeder mechanism leaves som...

Thank you both for your very detailed replies and as usual as one question is answered it in turn poses another question. If the filament is hygroscopic and potentially becomes brittle, what happens after it has been extruded by the printer? Is the printed model still hygroscopic and brittle and dep...

Simon, apart from your desire to print with ABS was there any other reasons that you decided on an Adventurer 3? I'm in the process of selecting a suitable printer for myself and I keep getting drawn towards it, not the cheapest and the print area is a bit limiting but I keep thinking it's nicely en...

As an IT numpty I have no idea what Steve is talking about, but the very fact that he is prepared to take on this task gets my vote.

I am a little surprised with some of the negative comments about resin buildings, I have around a dozen resin structures on my railway from three different suppliers ranging in size. My preferred method of assembly is with construction adhesive in a frame gun as you can build up quite large fillets ...

I take it that you were using the waterpump pliers to break/cut the slate, was that an easy process? I ask as I can see a whole host of possible construction projects on my railway, I have thought about this process before but have never actually carried out any experiments with slate.

What a superb piece of construction, I must say that really looks the part. I am somewhat surprised that you are going to paint it as I think it looks pretty good as it stands, although that may be a trick of the camera and in real life it may be quite different.

It probably not what you want to hear but it seems to me that it's the tree that has got to go. The angle that it's leaning at seems to indicate that its only a matter of time before it falls of it's own accord.

Your ingenuity never fails to amaze me. Also the speed with which you turn these projects out, if it was me I'd still be thinking about it!

Not being the best of gardeners, what is the purpose of all the straw? A weed suppressant maybe?

One way of dealing with the problem of tearing in the thinner sheets of plastic card is to sandwich the card between two pieces of scrap timber, clamp together and then drill the required hole/s. I have done this on a number of occasions using whatever I had to hand, sometimes ply sometimes MDF and ...