Abe Ginner's Tale

Heather Kay

Heather Kay

Western Thunderer
It has the chemical symbol of Pb, I believe.

Scrap lead is being used to add weight to the brass wire through the buffer stocks while the Araldite goes off. It's an idea I'd never have thought of before, but then I'd probably have soldered the whitemetal to the brass!
 
Andrew Campbell

Andrew Campbell

Western Thunderer
Being new to this, I'm a bit frit of melting the internal lip in the white metal, where the internal spring lodges, to risk soldering it. The idea was that five minute Araldite would give me enough time to position the W/M castings correctly. The diameter of the casting of Haywood's sprung buffers (where they go through the headstock) is smaller than the hole in the kit headstock. So a little plastic jig helped to ensure the casting was central in the "too large" hole.

But I'm new to this. So, if anyone's got any suggestions, I'm all ears.

Bending AJs is a thrill I've yet to experience, but as I understand it they won't be as easy to bend as these two weight hooks!
 
Heather Kay

Heather Kay

Western Thunderer
Andrew Campbell said:
But I'm new to this. So, if anyone's got any suggestions, I'm all ears.
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I think your method is sound. I only mentioned I might have soldered because I have a bit more experience under my belt and soldering whitemetal to brass holds no fears for me.

It's all a matter of technique and having the right tools to hand - and the willingness to try something for the first time knowing the risk of failure might be on the high side.

With that in mind, gluing whitemetal to brass is as good a way as any other. :thumbs:
 
mickoo

mickoo

Western Thunderer
I was initially more impressed with how your Panasonic DMC TZ-30 has managed to capture a good depth of field and overall brightness to the photo than what the actual subject matter was LOL.

The wagons not bad either LOL :thumbs:
 
Andrew Campbell

Andrew Campbell

Western Thunderer
If anyone going to the S7 do at Brightwell-cum-Sotwell needs any modelling lead, I could easily bring some. They took several yards of it off the roof! - Abe
 
mickoo

mickoo

Western Thunderer
Andrew Campbell said:
If anyone going to the S7 do at Brightwell-cum-Sotwell needs any modelling lead, I could easily bring some. They took several yards of it off the roof! - Abe
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I'm hoping too, so a small parcel of lead would be greatly appreciated if I cross your palm with silver?
 
mickoo

mickoo

Western Thunderer
Andrew Campbell said:
Spot on about the camera! Last year's birthday present from SWMBO. Definitely intrigued about how you identified it - :bowdown: Abe.
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LOL, just a little trick one learns when photography is your hobby :thumbs:

Seriously, it's appended to the image, all digital images store the EXIF data, that's camera settings, ASA, date, focal range and everything, really handy if you want to look at other peoples images and find out what settings they used in certain conditions, or even your own photos at a later date.

To find this info just right click the image in file manager (or what ever its called these days) and look for properties, click summary then click advanced and all the EXIF data is there to see. Some editing programs strip this data out such as Paint Shop Pro, but others like Adobe photoshop do not. Stripping that data can be advantagous if your placing the image publically, example, you post a photo of a train during an extend luch break ;) if you post it publically your boss could see it and find the date and time stamp from the EXIF info, by stripping it out there's no proof when it was taken......if you get my drift LOL.

All I did was download your image, right click and read the EXIF data, simples :thumbs:

Actually it's amazing what hidden data you can add to just simple images and other stuff thats usually hidden from view. I think there was a fad a few years ago when people were subvertly communicating with Jpeg images as you can edit things like title and owner etc, they were adding messages in there and then just sending a small image which to most people was just an image. It's intersting to see what some people write in that section, sometimes I just add 'what you lookin at!' LOL
 
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SteveO

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That reminds me of the ebay craze a few years ago of people photographing their items in the nude so you could subtly see their reflections. Stainless steel kettles have never been so popular!
 
mickoo

mickoo

Western Thunderer
SteveO said:
That reminds me of the ebay craze a few years ago of people photographing their items in the nude so you could subtly see their reflections. Stainless steel kettles have never been so popular!
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So that's why SWMBO is so addicted to Ebay then!
 
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