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Jim - you have pm sir :). Ralph - It's not me who has the free source unfortunately :( but a friend. However if i can find out how to preserve/stabilise it then i'm sure he will be grateful and maybe send me a bag or two:) .

You know the stuff used for bushes etc. Normally pre-packed and coloured and charged at an extortionate price for a small bag's worth. Well a friend has found (in the area he lives) a free sustainable source of Lichen. Question is though does it need any treatment to stop it going into decay...

Thanks David, there is a model engineering exhibition this coming weekend which i'm going to go have a mosey round, i don't know if there will be much train/rail stuff but i'll have a good look around you never know i might spot something there with a bit of luck. Funny you should mention...

Got to admit i've been having intermittent problems with the site most of the afternoon here too. Go to post something and get a Database Error, page loading times significantly slow, often "hanging up" or timeing out and i run on 2.2Mbps download. Have only noticed it happening today though...

Hi David, yes i am in Britain. I know there are manufacturers of "wire in tube" systems out there, i just seem to be drawing a blank when it comes to actual manufacturers names:) (maybe i'm not looking hard enough?). Maybe if i can source the control wires over here (if not the control levers...

Cheers for the suggestions fella's i can see it wouldn't be too difficult to fabricate something from various objects. I could use bicycle, brake or gear change cable (ie cable within sheath) attached to the electrical switches that i *think* Gary S used in his remote switch operation to...

It must just be over here then that most people seem to have now moved onto electric point motors that are sent into action by the flick of a switch. Not being very electrically minded i decided that i would "throw" mine manually (with a flick of the finger as it were) until someone pointed me...

If you could delete the other post that would be great Andrew thanks, it's under general discussion by the way. To give you some idea of the kind of points operation i'm looking at, www dot humpyard dot com - carries the complete kits, ie levers, wire and connectors. I'm trying to find out if...

Sorry for the repost but it wasn't getting any answers where it was:(. I've come to the decision that i would like mechanical rather than electric, remote point operations on my N gauge layout. This is for no other reason than i like the look of it and believe in the KISS principle of things...

IMO the Metcalfe one looks more true to form of the breweries i've seen, the MP one looks as though it could be used for everything from an engine shed to as someone suggested a saw mill.

Just so's you know, it happens this side of the pond too so don't think your special :). Tv signal in the lounge comes via digital box, tv in the bedroom comes via RF aerial, only a three-four second delay between the two with the RF signal hitting the screen ahead of the digital, although at...

1916 16 years old when I went to war, To fight for a land fit for heroes, God on my side,and a gun in my hand, Counting my days down to zero, And I marched and I fought and I bled And I died & I never did get any older, But I knew at the time, That a year in the line, Is a long enough life...

Have had to have a little chuckle to myself today, one of the younger members of another forum i belong to mentioned that he'd got his poppy from the school he attended, however, he wasn't allowed a pin to attach it to his blazer because of apparent or perceived apparent Health and Safety issues:) .

Holmes P 2/6 Bn West Yorks Regiment (PWO) Kia France 03-05-1917 Holmes F 6 Bn Yorkshire Regiment Kia Belgium 19-06-1917 Two brothers from a small community in the West Riding of Yorkshire who made the ultimate sacrifice. In memoriam to Percy, my Great Uncle (no known grave but remembered at...

Looking at the size of the building to both the car (automobile) and the bulkhead flat car i would say that it is N gauge. The flat car has got to run out at around 50 feet in length so you would indeed be able to fit a small branch of pizza hut onto it. As for the comment above re: pizza...