What Did You Do Today (2016)

[Roderick JenkinsParticipant @roderickjenkins93242]

It seems that they regularly change the colour schemes of preserved locomotives to provide different photo opportunities, which presumably helps with sales of excursions.

Rod

[Mick HenshallParticipant @mickhenshall99321]

Speedy–loco is looking good, I still have a flip over whatsit my Gramp made when he was building Petrolea years ago doesn't half make life easier

Mick

[Gray62Participant @gray62]

Flying Scotsman bore several different numbers through its lifetime, starting of as 1472, through 4472 (which everyone seems to remember it by) then 502 but finally ended as 103 (then 60103) when LNER changed its numbering system for the final time after the nationalisation of the railways. So the running number is actually correct.

As for the colour, maybe after spending £4.2 million they just couldn't afford the top coat

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

I think I heard the BBC say that it would shortly be getting a green paint job.

Mike

From BBC website:-       It will be repainted in its traditional green livery on 10 February for its journey from London's King's Cross to York two weeks later.

Edited By Michael Poole on 08/01/2016 21:10:21

Edited By Michael Poole on 08/01/2016 21:12:47

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Posted by Michael Poole on 08/01/2016 21:07:12:

I think I heard the BBC say that it would shortly be getting a green paint job.

Mike

From BBC website:- It will be repainted in its traditional green livery on 10 February for its journey from London's King's Cross to York two weeks later.

Edited By Michael Poole on 08/01/2016 21:10:21

Edited By Michael Poole on 08/01/2016 21:12:47

Thanks, I shall look forward to seeing that.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Funny how, with locos, one particular livery gets perceived as 'the right one'. At the other extreme, aircraft preservationists don't seem to have any hangups with giving the numbers and colours of completely different planes!

Neil

(who got a pressed tin Flying Scotsman full of mints for Christmas – in 4472 livery)

[KWILParticipant @kwil]

Looks like a black undercoat as a temporary whilst doing initial track testing, will be in Green for the formal public runs later.

[Richard MarksParticipant @richardmarks80868]

She is in the black until the testing is over and will be back in the green if all is well, makes sense really, would you do a finish paint job and then find all is not right and have to strip her down again.

[Ian WelfordParticipant @ianwelford58739]

Neil

You must be joking look at the number of shades (and arguments ) about" duck egg blue" on any model aircraft site!,,

I recall a prize winning model hurricane which had more bare metal than paint, however the modeller had the photos to prove his was an accurate scale model , damn good one too.

Isn

[Bill PudneyParticipant @billpudney37759]

There was once a long running discussion, that turned into a fairly heated argument about the correct shade of matt black used on intruder Lysanders!!

I left that particular site shortly after!!

cheers

Bill

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Well last week I bought a whole load of various colours of filament for the 3D printer.

Came, unpacked the box and sorted out. Said to Winston, my Old English Sheepdog [ Dulux dog for the unwashed ], what do you reckon to these colours then ?

He reckons the grey was better than the darker grey.

[Danny M2ZParticipant @dannym2z]

I was once asked by a chap that I knew to 'photoshop and adjust' his r/c scale aircraft documentation photos so that they matched the colours that his model had actually turned out. Lol – sent him packing in a hurry and quietly passed the word around the local scale judges.

I didn't like him or his attitude that $$$ can overcome all problems

Win at all costs! does not sit well with this little possum. I also know who really built his model.

This would be the equivalent to having an entry professionally built for the M.E. Exhibition and claiming that it was all your own work.

Not quite cricket old chap!

* Danny M *

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

Phew! Thanks for the news, gentlemen – Flying Scotsman IS going back to apple green! I remember, as a very small child, being driven to Tallington (our nearest spot on the East Coast Main Line) in the hope of seeing either Scotsman or Mallard.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

This from NPL, on nanopositioning, may be of 'academic interest'.

MichaelG.

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Saw the Flying Scotsman on the TV news this evening, well glimpses through great clouds of steam.

Ian S C

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

Yes, Ian – the camera crew seemed to get obsessed by the clouds of steam, while most of us wanted to see more of the loco. I'd love to see it (in apple green, of course!), but England is just too far away for me now, and I think the chances of it coming up to Aberdeen or Inverness are a bit slim. Last time I saw it was on the east coast main line some time in the middle 1980s.

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

It seems it will not try to emulate the last speed record as it will be limited to 75 mph due to being a heritage model.

I would expect it will go back to days out trips for loco fiends and families.

A couple of times I went on a train pulled by the Flying Scotsman, also when it picked up water from the trough in the center of the track at high speed. We were in the first few compartments of the 1st. carriage and the spray was all over us.

Clive.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Passed by a 'junk shop' and saw some fire tongs for 2 quid. With gas heating nobody wants them now. 2 lengths of 3/8 brass, the round top handle could make a globe valve.

Went to village tea room newly opened yesterday by friend. Met local whom I had not met before and turned out her father had made a 5in loco. Wonder if that is a 'small world' moment or not. How small a group of people does it take for two to have a significant connection to model engineering? ( like that two people with same birthday statistical question)

[JAParticipant @ja]

I finished a little job for a friend this afternoon. He had bought an electric start kit for a 500cc single Matchless motorcycle from California for a lot of money and had had problems with the alternator rotor rubbing against the stator. Looking at the inner and outer chaincases, new parts, there was no location preventing the stator being pulled against the rotor by the magnetic field. On the original casings two dowel pins, one solid and the other hollow, were used to prevent this happening.

Although the answer is simple, replicate the original, the job took longer than expected since a dummy alternator had to be made to provide a temporary location (the other being the Bendix type drive on the starter motor). The dowel pins were made according to fits and limits practice and were driven into the inner casing instead of being Loctited.

JA

[Martin ConnellyParticipant @martinconnelly55370]

Some of the routes that the Flying Scotsman will follow in the summer have been published. One of them is on the train line I can see from my house. However it is about a mile away and even with binoculars is not a great view due to trees. The local garden centre car park is right up against the railway line and on a level with though and the four lines of wire that make the fence are not going to hinder the view at all. It might be a case of get there early for a good spot.

Martin

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I just tried to make my famous Stilton soup (low heat version).

I think Wednesday was the last time I felt like eating a proper meal, now the <unprintable> Labrador has nearly half a pound of my best over-ripe cheese in its belly.

Onion, Potato and Pepper soup anyone?

Neil

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Very nicely done, JA

MichaelG.

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Never mind Neil – you will likely get it back later – probably in the middle of your bed!!

Norman

[Danny M2ZParticipant @dannym2z]

Today I did absolutely nothing so I thought I might check out the 'puter to see what the rest of you are up to.

It's 100.5°F here at the moment, 107.6°F predicted for tomorrow – too hot for the workshop and the lathe and mill would be stressed out. I might have to get around to fitting a supplementary (ex-pc) cooling fan to them if this keeps up. **LINK**

There is a bit of smoke about, so a fire somewhere and water bombers are flying about the place. Too hot to even venture outside for photos. I just caught a glimpse of the water bomber through the window as it flew over very low – it's the same one that I photographed a few months ago so shall try to obtain a new photo for the aviation thread.

Neil, Stilton is my favourite cheese btw. I once was given a whole wheel of Stilton, scooped out (and ate) a hole, filled it with local (Brown Bro's- Rutherglen) vintage Port and left it to ripen in the fridge for two months, topping up the port occasionally. It was a big hit with the neighbours that Christmas.

* Danny M *

Edited By Danny M2Z on 12/01/2016 05:11:01

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Went to town today, took in two band saw blades for rejoining, and bought two new ones at $NZ40 . 68 ea, and ten carbide tips $NZ 187 . 02.

Ian S C

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