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One for Glencairn - "One Triumph" leaving the Port of Southampton this morning - 400m long and 197000 tons.

Screenshot (43) by Barry Clayton, on Flickr

Superb!

Barry it looks like you didn’t have to lay on your back with a soldering iron. No I didn't Brian, but I find when dealing with things like this, you find yourself either too close or just that fraction too far away. When dealing with this Cobalt, I found it easier to sit on the floor under the boar...

There is still life at Wykeham - just not as much at the moment. :( I have just spent an hour under the boards installing a Cobalt Digital point motor - for some reason (old age!), when I replaced all of the Peco solenoid motors with Cobalts, I left one out :roll: Anyway, all installed and it works....

Other things to do Brian and waiting for parts to arrive.

Hopefully cutting back on loco purchases this year - it not the cost, it's the space to keep them. I couldn't see manufacturing ever coming back to the UK.

All done - no more cracks - decorator due in three weeks - plaster should be dry by then.

IMG_1877 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr

Not to much of a shock Brian. There were several places that sounded "hollow", I got the impression that much of the plaster was not attached to the wall. We have had it skimmed before, many years ago. We have lived in the house for forty eight years - it was a new build in 1977, and the b...

We had the plasterer in today, to patch a small area of blown plaster on our living room wall - turns out the "patch" was bigger than expected
IMG_1876 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr

Have a look at this. It only gives a black and white picture - but it's a start. Once you have opened the link, scroll down.
https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/blog/vehic ... f-britain/

You just have spare parts arriving with every post It will be nice to get the Spitfire up and running for the summer. Pleased to hear that Hornby found the parts you needed for the 4P.