Welcome to the forum, I'm sure you will find lots to interest you here and don't forget, if you have any questions you are almost certain to find an answer here.

Brian

Welcome to the forum. I'm nearly from Northants, but not quite. On Saturday I went nearly seventy miles, by road (not as a crow would fly), and was still only at Croughton! Engineers tend to be a little more precise than that (Rutland being the exception, maybe?), so north, east south or west?

Welcome aboard! You sound to be competent and well equipped.

Roughly whereabouts in Northants?

If towards the west, and you feel like an outing, over Saturday and Sunday Peterborough Society of Model Engineers have two activities, ongoing, to which you would be welcome

On Saturday and Sunday we have a small display at the Farm Open Day at Park Farm, Thorney, (off the A47).

As you leave the village, turn right at the mini roundabout into Sandpit Lane, and follow the farm road. We should be in a new building.

Other members are operating the portable track at Botolph Green, off Oundle Road in Peterborough.

(Turn off the A1139 towards Orton, and when you hit the Oundle Road, go towards the city centre)

Howard