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As John pointed out the series was published in Vol 134 issue 3342 to Vol 135 issue 3363 inclusive. For some reason the series was published under both titles; some articles were captioned 'Building 5 in. Gauge Rail-Motor Locomotives' others 'Two 5 in. gauge "Push and Pull" locomotives'

Also, Don had the unfortunate habit of including updates to earlier engines in the text of later articles. The Railmotor is no exception. Updates can be found in the Elaine series - Vol 136 Issues 3397,3403,3404 & 3405 I don't have the particular articles handy at the moment, but I don't recall there being anything too critical in these.

I recently began building a No 1 starting with the tender. But with limited equipment and even more limited experience I scaled back my ambitions a bit to first gain some experience with some relatively simple stationary engines. I hope to get back to the loco in the next few weeks.

Clive

This forum doesn't even have a respectable way of searching the forum except by keywords in the title. Which rather defeats the purpose of having a forum because if it can't be found then all the useful information contributed here may as well have gone into a black hole.

Now that I have finished ranting here is a searchable MEW index http://www.itech.net.au/modelengineer/MEW_magazine.aspx although a search for compound slide didn't find anything.

Harold Hall has also compiled an index http://www.homews-mew-index.co.uk/

Fortunately for the many UK based members, the spam is mostly posted in the early hours of your morning.

However, even though the spam is deleted promptly it still has unpleasant side effects - As a result of the pathetic search system used by this embarrassingly poor forum software, the only way to search the messages is via Google. For example this evening I was looking for information on Sievert torches. The google search term that I used: sievert site:http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/ was worse than useless because google returned pages of results, all to presumably now deleted spam.

Thanks all, some really useful information , much appreciated

While paging through some of my ME back issues last night I came across an article in the Oct 2007 issue entitled "Basic casting in white metal"

This looks to be a relatively pain free way of metal casting, but what was not clear, is what white metal is, where one gets it, and more importantly what uses it may have in a model engineering context.

Thanks Sid,

Unfortunately that also does the same thing, the whole screen goes white and stays that way. Then the only way to get out of it is to press the browser back button, thus losing everything I typed.

You could try https://duckduckgo.com their privacy policy is here https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html Sorry I couldn't put in the actual links as every time I press the link button the whole browser screen goes white and I lose the complete post

Although I can understand the privacy concerns, it is probably debatable as to whether Google's actions are actually illegal.

On the other hand, Google's search has really revolutionised the web, to do that requires an enormous and costly infrastructure funded almost completely from the little Google adverts. For better or for worse, it seems that a large part of Google's data collection policy is designed to maximise their advertisement income by better targeting of their ads.

Oh this is getting ridiculous!!

I just about completed a long posting in another thread, I only needed to add a Web Link. Clicked on the "Link" button, only to be presented with the "white screen" and could do nothing but press the browser back button, losing everything I typed

To say I am unimpressed is an understatement!

P.S.

SCAYT (what an intuitive name for a spell checker) defaults to US spelling. One would have expected a UK based web site to default to British spelling. There really seems to be no rational reason for having disabled the fully functional Firefox spell checker that is allowed by every other web site.

The editor is free and open source, it is called CKEditor. I would post a link to the CKEditor web site, but every time I click on the link button, this whole web page goes into a disabled mode and I have to shut down the browser.

The problems are not so much with choice of editor, but with the implementation thereof. MyHobbyStore should get a refund from whomever they have employed to implement this "upgrade" and hire a professional web developer. It is completely unacceptable and extremely unprofessional for a live web site to be upgraded with so little testing.

My computer configuration is fairly common - Windows 7 and FireFox 10.0.1 yet I am unable to use the quote facility, nor am I able to press the link button without the web page locking up.

Quote no longer works for me using FireFox 10.01 on Windows 7.

Typing is exceptionally slow, I feel like I am typing underwater, it is so slow that I find that I am making mistakes as my fingers are ahead of what appears on the screen.

Even more frustratingly, the built in FireFox spell checker which is perfectly functional has now been disabled, only to be replaced by SCAYT which, when turned on makes a slow text editor even slower.

So all in all a dismal failure as a text editor a retrograde step that doesn't even correct one of the many enormous shortcoming that this forum software has, and that is the ability to preview a message before posting; a standard feature of just about any other forum software.

Edited By clivel on 09/02/2012 21:06:46

Edited By clivel on 04/02/2012 18:55:30