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The first was feeling a little lonely, so added this for company, it having a 4-wheel leading and 2-wheel trailing bogie plus a 6-wheel tender.

Replace the trailing bogie with a 4-wheel one and that would be it for a coupled loco me thinks.

Geoff - Stick welding has improved

One of those nights/mornings after discovering that a CB had tripped after I went horizontal last night, following a number of power dips earlier, putting the plugs circuit out of action.

Time for a mug of traditional Ovaltine and catch up on reading 'Ours', and I'm always taken by Curly's use of words/sayings in his 'Shop Shed & Road' series.

Volume 55, No. 1320 p203:

"Mr. Sharpshins" - a clever person?

Origin?

He describing someone thus, who says " Oh! should it ? " when Curly wrote "Everything which is worked from the cab of a big engine should be ditto on its small sister"

Edit 1:

Another over the page:

. . . 'but he hasn't caught me bending, all the same' . . .

Response to friend Sharpshin's query about cab operated loose eccentrics.

Edit 2:

. . .'make some of the " blesses " scratch their heads and ponder', . . .

Edit 3: Last one for now as going back to bed

jimmy - as in . . . 'put a jimmy in the blastpipe' . . . I know what it does and not much else, although frowned upon by management.

Geoff - TIG work on trolley jack yesterday

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Rainbows,

Dad used the drill when he repaired our old Willys after it was T-boned dead centre on N/S, and then on another occasion when a Municipal lorry lost its brakes and went through a red light, doing grief to the O/S front end, and put Mom in hospital.

The first was a body off chassis repair job with holes welded up then drilled out.

Also used when he built a caravan for the family.

It won't drop for anyone if the drill bit snagged on breaking through, and even at that low speed it caught one out, me included on a few times.

Geoff - Recovered from root canal works done yesterday PM.

Oops, 230v.

280v should have rung alarm bells as being rather odd, but I didn't think anything of it.

Geoff - Note to self 'THINK, THINK, THINK!". Feather and chicken.

Inherited my Dad's Millers Falls old machine.

Saw him on a number of occasions being spun round when the drill bit jammed as it broke through, no injury, just lots of words I hadn't heard of then, but now use when appropriate

Geoff - Waiting for 'Management' to wake after night shift.

Just watched the Wood episode.

Those seats with their pointy middle bit made me sit up and my eyes water.

Just don't slide forward to get off, for either sex

Always a pleasure watching an expert at work.

Not a bit of glue in evidence, thus making parts fairly easy to replace if needed.

Geoff - No moronic music or voice over either

Jason,

I've always fancied piloting a Longboat on a canal, and can now say I've done so, with tongue in cheek of course

Watched in two sittings, and did I hear a steam whistle at 81min in? Could be, seing the railway passing under the Aqueduct at the end.

Pity is wasn't in summer though.

Those canals where some engineering feat considering pickaxes, spades and wheelbarrows only used!

Rod,

Wonderful video of a craftsman in action.

Lovely sound.

Geoff - Grey overhead blanket day

Jesse,

I may look at the canal journey for a while, but can see myself going into the land of 'zzzzz' pretty quickly

Jon,

He should call those knives his 'Zebra' style.

Geoff - I'd love one, but dare not ask the price.

Edit:

MichaelG, I wouldn't even think about watching that.

Who on Earth would?

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Jesse,

I will never ever complain about receiving advise or help.

Not having done any gas welding for so long, I think it's frustration creeping in at not getting it right immediately.

I need to make one of those weighted pointy hold-down doodabs to stop the practice pieces getting away.

Now that the Carport roof appears to be staying put in the present near gale force winds, leaks cured, and once the floor paint has dried, I will be back practicing.

Need to get the basics right before tackling on-car welds, but thankfully not many of those.

Thanks to all for the advice shared.

Geoff - Yesterday just managed in time, to stop GD from walking on the wet paint. Whew!

Jason,

Thank you for that link!

An hours worth of beautiful relaxing natural 'music'.

Geoff - What more could I wish for?

Both Eric.

The one on my Scamp is permantly attached to the boiler so acts as a steam collector, with two safety valves top side, whereas the one on my Simplex was covering the steam collector, thus decorative.

Which miniatures fall into either categoryI have no idea, but the Collecrive will no doubt come to the rescue.

Just need to do the side tanks and minuscule 'cab' and Scamp will be done.

Geoff - Must steam her up as haven't done so in ages.

Edited: Second sentence to correct something, but I've forgotten the word that explains

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Ah thanks Ian, forgot about that.

Wheren't available in SA at the time to my knowledge, hence my comment.

I would have bought one pronto if they where.

Where they universally available as today I wonder.

Geoff - Carport cleanup and re-organising after yesterday.

Welcome bodge.

Do like the nickname, and very appropriate for some of the things we get up to - speaking about myself of course

Very little wind today so replaced the two Carport roofing sheets that blew away on Tuesday, plus did my best to cure a leak at the join between the old and new Carport roof sections, by adding two more sheets.

If it still leaks, then you will all hear me shouting, screaming and swearing in true navy fashion.

Geoff - TIG time back on course after a clear up.

Brian,

I was brought up using oxy/acet as Dad used it at home, so was always using it myself.

Am finding as you, that the technique is Xferable and I too have found myself holding my breath without realising, as I did with gas I think it's because the puddle is comparably small with breathing making one 'wobble' at the wrong time. How those guys can talk and weld at the same time beats me, but I CAN whilst driving, tell a passenger what's going on round me and what I intend doing ala Tiff Needell.

Haven't got round to fuse welding butt joins yet, but did many using gas, so that experience should come back quickly, as did feeding the TIG rod.

Definitely need to experiment with power settings on thin material. I'm blowing holes as I did with gas when I first started.

Geoff - One roof sheet back up, second one now with luck.

Agree with Ady1's last remark about power hacksaw.

Used one for cutting full lengths into 2-3ft for the shop, it was slow, BUT so much easier on the muscles.

I did cut the frames for Mona using muscle power, but when done, immediately bought a vertical bandsaw as all that muscle exercise just not my scene.

Wish I had that bandsaw now, as it had the blade welder on it.

Those generic H/V bandsaws hadn't been invented then, it being the '70-'80s.

Don't know how I would manage without the H/V now, as muscles would go on strike if I even think about sawing through anything thicker than 1/4", and even then they need forcing.

Geoff - Call me namby pamby, but I'm past caring

Brian,

That photo was at the end of a run, and I did dip as previously mentioned, but do grind as soon as that happens.

Have only used a tungsten like that once, just to see what happens.

Bob,

I'm using the side of my wheel for now, until I rig up something with a diamond wheel. Not ideal, but that's all I've got right now. Maybe a cheapy grinder and diamond disc.

Hadmut on the MIGwelding Forum **LINK** has gone into production making a purpose built head for attaching to a Dremel battery drill, for grinding tungtens at different angles. Very ingenious, and as a result he's been inundated with orders from those working on-site that have no access to a grinder.

This devise not beyond the ability of most of us I would have thought.

Geoff - Even experts are not immune to dipping

Well TIG and all other work on hold right now as two sheets of the Carport roofing where blown away soon after posting my last.

Needed to secure the other roofing sheets and then get stuff covered against the rain.

Too effing windy to even contemplate replacing them, and forecast looks abysmal for a calmish day.

Fortunately one of our building supply houses stock the sheets.

Geoff - These happenings do test one.

Nearly the same I would have thought John.

Industry would want maximum metal removal just short of things going south, but conducive with acceptable tool wear, not so?

I could be spouting cobblers of course, as I've never used production methods, so no experience.

Geoff - TIG time

Thank you Bob.

Perfect and just what I needed.

The 'net has certainly made info and communication unbelievable easy to get and do.

I think back to all the letters I had to write to get info, then sent orders for goods to import into SA, mainly from this country.

Geoff - How I wish the 'net, printers and copiers where available then?

LOL

Geoff - Midweek so Neil's up to speed.