WEST ORTON

[bulleidboy]

That was a good idea. I keep all my "oddments" in one litre ice cream tubs (labelled).

[Steve M]

That was a good idea. I keep all my "oddments" in one litre ice cream tubs (labelled).

Snap. They fit two to drawer on t'other side of the shed. Labels are optional.

[Steve M]

It finally arrived. Totally out of place on the layout, but still a nice model.

[Walkingthedog]

Is that what you got from Locomotion Models. I would definitely have got one of those.

[Steve M]

Is that what you got from Locomotion Models. I would definitely have got one of those.

Yes Brian, ten days to successfully place an order then ten days in the post. But as I said in the other post, such a good price it was worth waiting for.
I haven't been able to run it or even think about a decoder (that will be a challenge!) yet as I'm tackling some more building work in 1:1 scale and finding that my old hips ain't up to snuff anymore.

[Walkingthedog]

Strange isn’t it, you start a job and a bit later think ooh that hurts.

[Steve M]

Strange isn’t it, you start a job and a bit later think ooh that hurts.

I find that I hurt before I even start! My recent fence construction was totally drug assisted.
Thirty years ago I concreted the driveway after a burst pipe was fixed. The concrete had started to break up in a couple of places where my car usually stands - it seems that brake dust dissolved in rainwater is corrosive as the worn sections match my tyres.
I cut the concrete out with a stone cutting machine and a Kangol hammer - concrete mixing tomorrow if I can get out of bed !!

[bulleidboy]

Nice loco - it looks like a shortened "swiss crocodile"?
Sounds like you are doing too much "hard work"? I have a broken fence post to remove - it's broken flush with the concrete, and about eighteen inches from a one hundred foot Lime tree. It's the only wooden post we have and it forms the main post at a "T" junction of fence panels - I think a job for the better weather after I have finished watching all the YouTube videos on broken fence post removal. It is a job I have done before - hence all posts barring this one are now concrete with slot-in fence panels.
New windows being fitted next week, so hopefully work on the layout will resume??

[Steve M]

Yes it does resemble something Johnnie Foreigner would come up with.

Can you get concrete posts for a T junction? I don't recall seeing any when I was researching my fence last month.

[bulleidboy]

Yes it does resemble something Johnnie Foreigner would come up with.

Can you get concrete posts for a T junction? I don't recall seeing any when I was researching my fence last month.

I have seen them (may be 4-way?), but not sure they would fit into to existing "lump" of concrete - in the past (pre-concrete posts) I have managed to get the old wooden post out and replace it with a new one.