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While I don't spend nearly as much time in the workshop as I should like (work SO interferes), now I know it can be used for shameful amusement I shall be in there every free moment!!

Running Turbo BASIC 1.1 in VMWare I typed in this code fragment to use a string array:

DIM a$(2)
a$(1)="Hello"
a$(2)=" World"
FOR n=1 to 2
PRINT a$(n);
NEXT

Output was Hello World

So I can't replicate your error - I suspect it might be due to the WinXP Console emulation, but without a live XP system any more I am stuck here. I could run XP in VMware, but that might be a little too far removed from your set up to have any value.

Sorry,

Nick

Try outputting with PRINT USING with $ as the format string.

ie PRINT USING "$"; a$

I don't have a copy of Turbo BASIC here but when I get home I will install a copy and have a look if this does not sort it for you.

PS Does the ASCII backspace character (08h) move you back a space over the LF character??

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 03/03/2020 11:56:30

Subject to choosing an appropriate silicon yes - Many thousands of Lucas ACR car alternators had the diodes sealed in silicon and the tripler in a CRT TV or monitor was often similarly sealed - I used to dig out the sealant from both of these to replace (non-replaceable!) parts.

If you feel the need to adjust the patterns for the cylinder block at present it is uncored - it would save metal, time and a deep drilling operation in gunmetal if these were cored out.

I don't expect the additional foundry costs would make them much cheaper to produce and it is too late for me as I already have a couple under the bench waiting to be machined, but only a suggestion.

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 29/02/2020 11:59:19

It would be wrong to pick on just the 7 1/4" Tich for errors - many many designs have drawing and design errors, often because they were drawn and not built first I suspect. Have a look at the MECH site to see many posts about many other designs.

As for Big Tich - a 7 1/4" loco that will fit in the back of the car, pull several people, can be driven on a ground level track and not too expensive to build - What is there not to like?, even with errors but no more so than many other designs??

I hope Richard is able to update the drawings - but I suspect proving corrections are accurate and answering any copyright questions may make it a difficult task - however I personally want to congratulate him on standing up for his customers and saying he is going to try to do so. That is a rare, if not unique standpoint to take in my (admittedly limited) experience.

Thank you.

Look at the boiler drawing - the hollow blower stay screws backwards into the blackhead and simultaneously forwards into the smokebox tubeplate. An interesting job to install!

Also while not an issue on a track with no points, but the spring pins foul pointwork if not shortnened.

Comparing Neil's last two pictures presumably necessary for a facial hair transplant

Remember tooling - while you can buy a couple of lathe tools and a drill chuck for a lathe that comes with a 3 jaw for not much money - with a milling machine you need to spend money on cutters of various types, arbors, collets and work holding (vice clamps etc) to even get started. Only buy as you need, of course, but if you are using the machine on a variety of jobs you can soon need quite a lot!

I bought my small mill from Arc about a year ago, but with it, and since buying it, I am close to spending the same again on the extras.

Only negative information, I'm afraid, but this was a Reeves exclusive and never apparently published in the Model Engineering press which narrows your options down a bit.

On the other hand - LBSC frequently 'reused' components so do you know what is on the missing sheets and can this be borrowed from another design?

Wondered what 'Plumber's black' could be so did an internet search.

First few results were local plumbers followed by a whole stream of XXXXX adult websites.

The world we live in today!

Purely by chance, having been laid up for a couple of days I saw the article in an old volume of ME I was reading to keep myself amused. I will see if I can find the picture quickly

But any electrical immersion heater will do the same if it corrodes through and the water is heated resistively - albeit very inefficiently.

Found the Pic: Yes it had an isolating transformer, but that was to stop the fuse blowing not to protect bystanders. If anyone is interested I'll add the other pages.

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 22/02/2020 17:40:32

Inspiration has often to be well moderated by reality.

I have been fascinated by locomotives since too young to go to school. Watching what I now believe to be a 9F going through the cutting next to Bulwell Common is perhaps my earliest clear memory.

BUT I am not inspired to build a replica as my club track is ground level and small 7 1/4" is more practical than large 5", let alone 3 1/2"

Could I turn all of those wheels and build a boiler that big in the years remaining to me? - and as I haven't really looked slim since 1968 could I drive it if I did?

Sorry, much as I should love to build a 9F, the 7 1/4" Tich I am building, although progressing far more slowly than I would wish, inspires me because I can see I am likely to finish it and drive it after that!

My late father, a GP for 40 years summed it up for me personally when he repeatedly remarked that you could name any human activity whatsoever, and you will find a bunch of doctors who are against it!

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 22/02/2020 14:41:07

Hero of Alexandria (1st Century CE), but I doubt he was a blacksmith either

The French guy was Denis (Dionysius) Papin

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 22/02/2020 14:36:42

After being kept out of the workshop for far too long by (hopefully temporary) ill health do you want to know my specialist subject for Mastermind??

The prevalence of programmes about Nazis and the Titanic on cable TV and its affect on the current generation!

I am not enamoured of many of the subjects of models beloved of others (eg ic engines, clocks) but I can always admire the skill and craftsmanship put into their construction, and on a practical level seeing setups etc in a constructional article for either of these has more than once come in when trying to do something that I am interested in.

Duplicate post

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 21/02/2020 20:27:33

As Neil has said it is only house coal that is being phased out Anthracite and Steam Coal should still be available.

Also according to old copies of ME artificial alternatives were regularly being recommended to modellers, particularly in the US.

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 21/02/2020 20:27:55

Only used them twice but these (bending springs halfway down the page) **LINK** worked OK

There is a pipe bender there as well, but I have not tried that personally