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by RAF96
Fri Nov 15, 2024 8:35 am
Forum: The Mess Room
Topic: Insurance
Replies: 10
Views: 422

Re: Insurance

We always get comparative quotes including themselves as new customers and ring our lot up (LV) telling them they say they will not give more favourable terms to new customers than old and we have had these quotes, etc. They have always come down on their renewal price.
by RAF96
Fri Nov 15, 2024 8:29 am
Forum: DCC (Digital)
Topic: Available Functions 6 function Plux 22
Replies: 1
Views: 215

Re: Available Functions 6 function Plux 22

Directional lights use 2 - on F0, it therefore follows the rest will be on F1, F2, F3 and F4. The latter 2 may be logic level only, ref decoder paperwork.
by RAF96
Wed Nov 13, 2024 9:38 am
Forum: The Mess Room
Topic: For the gardeners ( if we have any? )
Replies: 124
Views: 28388

Re: For the gardeners ( if we have any? )

Next doors leaves slowly carpeting our back garden. When they are all down it may get a haircut.
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by RAF96
Tue Nov 12, 2024 3:32 pm
Forum: The Mess Room
Topic: For the gardeners ( if we have any? )
Replies: 124
Views: 28388

Re: For the gardeners ( if we have any? )

Is the chuff synchronised.
by RAF96
Sat Nov 02, 2024 10:09 am
Forum: On the workbench
Topic: Dapol Deltic Diesel Kit
Replies: 2
Views: 313

Re: Dapol Deltic Diesel Kit

Mine has the Hornby railroad type chassis. I also fitted windows but they were a pig to get right. I can't remember which after-market source they came from.
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New Modellers Shop but outof stock.

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by RAF96
Sat Oct 26, 2024 4:56 pm
Forum: The Mess Room
Topic: One of those weeks.
Replies: 32
Views: 3417

Re: One of those weeks.

£250 to change the plugs on my Skoda, £15 each for the bog standard plugs and the rest in labour to find them under all the dross that covers the engine. I remember going on detachment overseas once after rapidly replacing the clutch in a Herald, leaving my missus to road test it, etc. When I got ba...
by RAF96
Thu Oct 24, 2024 4:47 pm
Forum: The Mess Room
Topic: One of those weeks.
Replies: 32
Views: 3417

Re: One of those weeks.

My lad was told he needed a new complete headlight for his Vx Grandland, but when he challenged why, it was found to be the bulb had fallen out of the socket. Two minutes later it was fixed. Makes you wonder which zoo the trained monkey escaped from before it got a job in that main dealer.
by RAF96
Tue Oct 22, 2024 8:51 am
Forum: The Mess Room
Topic: Just to let you know.
Replies: 11
Views: 1035

Re: Just to let you know.

Best of luck into the future Brian.
by RAF96
Thu Oct 17, 2024 5:28 pm
Forum: The Mess Room
Topic: And another hobby.
Replies: 273
Views: 125754

Re: And another hobby.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFA_Fort_Victoria
Last of its class and had a lucky save.
by RAF96
Thu Oct 17, 2024 5:24 pm
Forum: The Mess Room
Topic: Moving house
Replies: 49
Views: 6771

Re: Moving house

That is providing me with hope! I have got the keys to my new (to me) bungalow and intend the double garage to house my layout. The track was lifted completely so it is a blank canvas to start again. Go for the layout you always wanted. Having a great space to work in is such an advantage, versus t...