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  1. Oh it helps to be mad..... Welcome!!!!
  2. Roddy, in the UK, you do have Bunnings. They bought Homebase early 2016.... They are currently experimenting with the formats in some stores, because Bunnings in Australia, is more practical than Homebase. Once settled, it's expected all Homebase stores will be rebranded Bunnings. I remember snow here in Norfolk in June about 1977 I think, the RAF wouldn't turn the heating on!!! Nowhere near as bad as RAF Boulmer in mid winter trying to patrol the site, 3 to 4 feet deep in snow. For those elsewhere Boulmer is also in the north east...
  3. Having lived in the Outer Hebridies, apart from trying to keep the trains on the rails in the wind, when it's not windy, then you get eaten alive by midges...... That nelevator If IIRC was £1000+ depending on model, I think the 00 gauge one was something like £1200.... ouch I've long been looking at a home built equivalent, possibly using some sort of rachet system to raise and lower the cassettes.
  4. My preferred coupling is Dingham http://www.dingham.co.uk/, I've used magnetic uncouplers on others layouts and having had problems with undemanded uncoupling, decided it will be electromagnetic uncouplers for me. I have a source of relays and now have a pile so I must get round to trying the conversion of one into an uncoupler. The club layouts at the moment use http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Neodymium-Super-Strong-Magnet-Small-Round-Disc-Rare-Earth-N50-Grade-5mm-x-6mm-/272064785631?var=&hash=item3f58532cdf:m:m4WYXKOF9sNCT9E_1BkzW9g sunk into the baseboard. They will hold a wagon from rolling away on an uneven baseboard with the magnet sunk into the baseboard.
  5. The Work last week in the shed conisisted of shelf building, more ply lining and a little roof insulation. During this week's work, it was discovered in the old commercially made shed where the rat had come from ... a 3 inch hole chewed through the floor. Rat poison duly deposited down hole, and it has been covered temporarily with some heavy wood and weighted until I can clear the area to fix the hole properly. This will be followed by more sealing of the spaces between the beams that support the shed. (Around the outside edge of the shed). Three sides of the shed had already been done so there is 20ft to go. Having done the shelving framing on one side of the shed extension, I now know I'll need 24 X 30 inch by 16 inch by 12 inch plastic boxes. £12 for four if the've still got the sale on.. No work on the shed tomorrow, due to the above Show, at which I'm helping exhibit someone else layout. Meanwhile, I'm dropping off SWMBO at one end of Norwich's shopping area and She'll shop to her hearts content working here way through till walking down to the show hall. Last year it took her 5 hours + to reach the show....With it being Valentines on Tuesday this could get Expensive!!!
  6. Morning all, just a little heads up that if you are in the Norwich area tomorrow there is a small model railway show. Just off the Ipswich road at the United Reformed Church Halls. see post below
  7. Wonderful work, someone must like their rhubarb!!!
  8. The doorway through to the old shed is now cut through and the entrance reinforced, unfortunately While SWMBO was clearing up the mess another dead rat was found, that makes four since they broke in some time ago, they paid for it by also breaking into a tub of rat killer... Hopefully this isn't a new one since the original break in. The door way to outside has been finished except for paint and has now got a lock on it. and the floor of the corridor is gratifyingly dry after last weeks excercise with the plastic. The framing for work benches has been started and more ply lining put up, this will be continued next Saturday.
  9. Further to my previous statements, of adhesive to tin shed, the Metal MUST be DRY. or it won't stick, as I found out doing some finishing....
  10. The Tin shed extension is built, it just needed the following Saturday to finish the build and since then it's been mostly insulated (polystyrene stuck to the walls). The structure of the corridor between the tin shed and the railway shed is built, but awaiting dry weather to seal the roof of the corridor (could be a long wait). The walls of decking planks are sealed but need dry weather to paint externally. There is one fixed window in the corridor, the same as used in the main shed, an old sash from the house, and I've started cutting the slots for the door hinges in the frame. The door was acquired some years ago, it's an old front door but needs some new glass in places. The corridor is built from left over wood from other projects, mostly decking, after a decision was made to change from timber decking to raised patio over two years ago. I bought the timber and ply to complete the lining yesterday (I already have the insulation). Also the wood is to start building the work benches, spray booth, and shelving. It's been decided to build an electronics work bench in the shed as well, but it will be the opposite end near the door. The Spray booth is the far end, and I'm building onto the wall an air duct and fan to blow the excess spray away through existing ventilation in the shed. I noticed on the way back from the DIY shed yesterday, that the price of fuel is really rocketing, our local tesco was 114.9p a fortnight ago, it's now 119.9p.
  11. Thank you Andrew on Behalf of the rest of us.
  12. I 100% agree with you Mick.
  13. Dynamis outside won't work, because it uses LED's to transmit the information and the sun has a little more power than an LED. So you either need a Radio system or a wired system. Using a tablet / phone outside may work if it uses Wifi to an in the shed control box, and you can see the screen in the sun.
  14. I'd agree with making the shed as Bullet proof as possible. My windows have perpex over the glass and shutters on the inside, the rear doors are effectively home made very heavy duty multi layer like the roof and walls. They are 3 layer plastic /insulation /wood or wood /insulation/ wood / fibreglass. The glass front door is double glazed and unusually pivoted and unusually locked ( The main lock is in a 4X4 inch door frame). All the locks are of good quality of course As for an alarm I won't be having a commercial system because I can build my own, But it will include door opening sensors and several interior movement detectors. It will trigger a VERY LOUD interior alarm and a couple of exterior alarms on at the shed, one down by the house. All battery backup'd, the controls for this will be small, well hidden, but near the main door, whereas the main electronics will be elsewhere, where I can hide a big battery and the electronics. You can buy the various parts at places like Maplins ( they also do the Response alarm amoungst others as well) or somewhat cheaper off Fleabay or the strong ladies. The jungle laughingly called a garden is mostly protected by nettles, however I am filling in the gaps in the hedge rows with Rosa Rugosa or Berberis, both of which are thorny.
  15. Screwfix no nonsense non solvent grab adhesive. http://www.screwfix.com/p/no-nonsense-11665502-grab-adhesive-solvent-free-white-310ml/87451 I buy it by the box and use it for many jobs including building extruded foam baseboards for a exhibition layout I'm working on. The polystyrene will then be covered in plywood which will be screwed either to the shed or to the back of the benches I'm fitting. Note you have to use solvent free or you may melt the polystyrene. Some of the poly has been up 2 weeks, but most of it up one week so far with no sign of it falling off. At the moment it's only subject to what ever the outside temperature is. I have also used the same glue to hold 1 inch 2ft by 2ft poly tiles on the roof (OSB3) of the wooden shed and they have been up over a year without problems. I've used 1 inch 4ft by 2ft-ish batts as they neatly fit the shed framing, I just put two splodges on every time the ridges came inwards to the poly, about a foot from the bottom and a foot from the top.
  16. I've not made any notes on here for sometime mostly because there has been little to do with the railway happening/ most work has been going on behind the shed and mobile home. Thats the top of the map shown earlier, it becomes a jungle during growing season and "it was decided" that some thing had to be done, so a concrete path has been laid down part of it (to be extended). Meanwhile other talks came to the decision the shed isn't big enough!!!!!. So a 9ft by 10 tin shed has been bought and has been constructed at the back (top of map) 90 degrees to the original shed but set back towards the field on the right of the map so there is only 18inches overlap. Last weekend I assembled the floor and lined part of the walls with polystyrene (dabbed and daubed on) this when complete will be lined with ply, then a work bench built down one side and storage shelving down the other. This should clear the main shed enough to get some work done on it over the winter. The Biggest problem is the corridor between the new back door to the shed and the tin shed, there is a telegraph pole in the way, on which is the box with the electricity meter on it. So I'll be building an L shaped corridor, then you've got the double pitch roof of the main shed and the double pitch and different height of the new shed somehow I've got to do a roof which joins all this together. That I haven't worked out yet... Going home via Screwfix tonight I need a lot of sealant to fill all the gaps between the box section corrugated roof and the level eaves beam. This close to the sea, horizontal rain isn't unusual.
  17. Edit, I really must read the post properly before I reply to it...
  18. TheQ

    Shed Size

    Well a shed is never big enough, something always comes along to fill it. This is why I'm currently adding a 9ft by 10ft metal shed to the back of my old railway shed. I thought my railway shed / her art studio was big enough until SWMBO moved in before I had finished, giving me nowhere to work while building / finishing the internals of the other half. Currently I'm lining the new part with polystyrene covered by plywood, before fitting shelving, I'm hopeing to get that completed before more art stuff moves in. As to dimensions, the width is decided by are you having a roundy roundy or a terminus, as mine is roundy roundy, the width is 12 ft minimum as I work in EM gauge and I like less tight turns. Had it been for a small country terminus, then you need board width plus walk room so a 6ft width would do. As for length that is decided by length of station, available garden space and how much spare cash you have. For my small country station in real scale thats 18ft long, for my major station thats 34ft long!!! Luckily I have a huge garden, but it has meant A LOOOONNNNG time doing bit by bit as cash became available. So the main shed is 54ft long and up to 16ft wide, making the complete assembly 63ft long and up to 16 foot wide. Metal Sheds / Wooden Sheds, Had it been possible I would have built it entirely out of metal sheds. They are so quick to assemble and don't need maintenance, I have a double garage metal shed for my boat workshop (fully lined of course) there have been no problems with it in over ten years of being up and I live near the sea and have had no problem with rust. However due to SWMBOs light requirements for art work, I had to build in wood and I've installed 13? windows so far. My thoughts, to assist others Both wood and metal sheds have to be lined (walls and ceiling) to be comfortable. Wood had the advantage you can build the layout framing into the walls of the shed, in metal sheds the layout and anything else has to be self supporting.. Neither wood or metal are particularly secure, though several layers of lining material helps prevent people coming in through the walls. (You only need a screwdriver on some metal sheds) Doors on both metal and wooded Sheds are notoriously easy to break into, all you can do is reinforce them where you can and put on a decent lock. Windows, double glazing with an extra sheet of hard plastic makes a huge difference in keeping heat in or out, and it improves security, a barred window or in my case shutters on the inside, also improves their security. Damp, for those of us in soggy climes, remember to put down a sheet plastic damp proof course below the floor it really helps.. Ventilation, mostly to let the heat out, difficult if you have restrictions, but I've fitted an roof ventilator, like on top of stables, with hatches to allow the heat out, when completed it will use a automatic window opener from a greenhouse to control the temperature. Controllable vents could be fitted to any shed. I've mardled on enough, so hopefully I've not bored you, See "Ludgershall Change for Tidworth" thread to see some old pictures and map of my shed I must do some more pics soon...
  19. No work has actually gone on on the garden side of building the railway, I'm having to build a shed extension as SWMBO moved into her end of the railway shed before I completed the other, so I've got nowhere to work to finish the insides, as all the stuff for finishing the insides is in the way. The new shed extension will eventually be the "dirty workshop" ( spraying , her stained glass work Etc) and storage area, I've got the foundations down, the floor frame work, the four corner panels and two sides are assembled and the eaves ring beam are in place. The shed is in it's most vunerable position at the moment as there is no real strength until the rafters are in place and with the early nights that won't be happening until next Saturday, so I hope we don't get any gales. Thursday looks worrying as the forecast is gusting westerly 28mph (though no rain), luckly the shed extension is mostly sheltered from that direction. Off to get something to actually make the floor with on the way home from work tonight, which will give me something to stand on to put up the rafters...
  20. A nice model but my shed is already 54 ft long I'd have to go up to 95ft for O gauge....
  21. I vow to the my country, All earthly things above. Entire Whole and perfect, The Service of My Love. The Love that asks no Question, The Love that Stands the test. That lays upon the Alter, The dearest and the best. The love that neaver falters, The love that pays the price. The love that makes undaunted, The Final Sacrifice. And there's another country, I've heard of long ago. Most dear to them who love her, Most great to them that Know. We may not count her armies, We may not see her King. Her fortress is a faithfull heart, Her pride is suffering. And soul by soul and Silently, Her shining bounds increase. And her ways are ways of gentleness, And all her paths are peace.
  22. Oh well at least 4 more years of Trumpery, we have to see how much damage he can make in that period. Sadly that gives him diplomatic immunity so he can keep coming back and visit his golf course he lied about. (promised 6000 jobs less than 200 have actually been made which sounds hopeful for the US economy) TV "experts" said if the Republican controlled house of representatives doesn't hold him back, he could turn the USA back to a 1920s depression.... I see the Portuguese Government has now taxed sunlight (I'm not joking) ie you get more sunlight on your house hthan another your taxes go up. Please don't tell our government that idea... Though John Two Jags Prescot had a similar idea just before he was kicked out, he was going to raise taxes if you had a good view...
  23. I'ts been blowing a hoolie most of this weekend out here on the east coast, leaves everywhere, but there is still a lot up there to go. Once the wind dies a bit, I'll have another trip up, to clear the gutters of the railway shed and mobile home. My winter projects. I'm pushing on get the extra shed built, before the real bad weather, then I can clear the last third of the railway layout shed and finish the lining walls , ceiling, and then build layout supports. I'll get some more blocks tonight for the shed base. Model railway wise, I've been working on one of the many baseboards for inside the shed, this one is meant to removeable and possibly a show layout. So it's built with an extruded foam base board and ply edging. I'm now finally after all these years, doing some modelling. The landscape has been built up and when I get some more polyfilla tonight then I can finish that. Thin 12mm wide battons hopefully will be glued on this week to make the edges of the station platforms. Luckily for me the area I'm modelling had chalk very close to the surface, so white polyfilla is an ideal base for the landscape. I'm going to try paper brick sheets on this section of layout I've always used plasticard before so it will be interesting to see if it suits me and the buildings needed. There are two underbridges, the platform edging, station building, lamp shed and station masters house all in a red orange brick. Then a tin shed, wooden platform shelter and wooden signal cabin (on brick base). Meanwhile outside, once the new shed is up, when the weather is right I'll continue digging the trench for the foundations for the wall the garden railway will sit on, our clay soil is a bit easier to dig with a bit of wet, even if is sticks to the boots a lot.
  24. "Trumpery" Defined By the Oxford English Dictionary as: "Deceit, Fraud, Imposture, Trickery" first recorded 1456 Even then the Media (quill pen and vellum) were plotting against him...
  25. People are getting it wrong today, Google has a browned out picture of a "lady with a lamp", clicking on the picture brings you to a wiki about Mary Seacole, who probably did more for the British troops in Crimea than Florence Nightingale. The problem with the picture is, Florence Nightingale is known as the "lady with the lamp". The BBC keeps saying, today is the aniversary of the Norman invasion in 1066 "the last time Britain was successfully invaded". Errr in 1688 William of Orange invaded (invited by some) and with his wife ( the Daughter of James II /VII) took over the throne from James II / VII who after raising an army to fight for his throne, chickened out and fled to France. Oh and Louis VIII of France invaded and was proclaimed King of England in 1216 in London, to usurp King John. Ultimately however, the Barons made up with King John (See the Magna Carta) and Louis went home.
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