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Hi everyone, the company that hosts the Gauge is moving to a new data center. During the next 24 hours, the Gauge may be inaccessible for up to 3 hours as they complete the move. Regards Dave Hagan

Hi NScale, from reading your posts you seem to be having a problem attaching photos, can you please try to attach a photo in this thread and I'll try to figure out what's going wrong. Regards Dave Hagan _____________________________________________ Just testing the smilies...:) :( :o...

Hi everyone, we are exploring the possibility of creating/selling a Gauge pocket watch. We would really appreciate it if members could give us some feedback on the design, even if you have no intention of buying one. Just let us know what you would like to see in a Gauge pocket watch. The...

Hi everyone, we had a few problems with the database and lost a couple of recent posts. Sorry Tyson, your post "Model Expo close-out" has disappeared, please repost. Carshot, your post in the Buy & Sell was also lost, my apologies, please repost. There may be one or two other posts that...

Hi everyone, We are pleased to announce the appointment of two new moderators today. Jon-Monon will be replacing Shamus who had to step down due to ill-health. We'd like to thank Shamus for the enormous contribution he has made at the Gauge and wish Shamus a speedy recovery. Robin Matthysen...

Occasionally we receive direct requests for info from members who are experiencing technical difficulties in posting. We have decided to post these requests directly to the board. Thanks for any input on the question. Regards Dave Hagan

Hi everyone, if you have added one of the graphics from our "Linking Info" page to a page on your web site you need to be aware that these images are now stored on the Gauge. As a result of the move the code that links to the image had to be modified. Please update the linking code on your...

Hi everyone, fingers crossed...I think we've solved the errors with the board. If anyone is still getting error messages please post here. Regards Dave Hagan

Hi everyone, unfortunately due to a massive jump in our bandwidth usage over the last six weeks there are some new image restrictions. We have prepared some tutorials to help members resize and compress images to the new guidelines. These can be accessed by clicking on the "Adding Images"...

Hi everyone, to prevent people uploading images that are 3 to 4 times the width of most peoples screens we have introduced new image restrictions. The maximum image dimensions are now 1024 x 768. File size remains the same at 102K. Regards Dave Hagan

Hi everyone, just to let you know we're aware some of the previous photo competition links are down. These photos are stored on another site and they are experiencing technical difficulties. We hope to have them back online ASAP. Regards Dave Hagan

I receive so many emails from people having difficulty resizing and compressing images that I went out and located some free software. Its not quite PhotoShop but should do the job. Download:ftp://www.zoo-logique.org/xnview/download/XnView-win.exe Home Page: http://www.xnview.com...

Hi everyone, just to fill you in on a couple of new rules. 1 We have banned animated gifs or flash logos from the posting area of the board. This means no animated avatars or animated signature logos. The size of avatars that can be uploaded has increased from 50x50 to 100x100 with a 30K...

Hi everyone, just to fill you in on a couple of new rules. 1 We have banned animated gifs or flash logos from the posting area of the board. This means no animated avatars or animated signature logos. The size of avatars that can be uploaded has increased from 50x50 to 100x100 with a 30K file...

Hi everyone, The Club Announcements forum will be closed shortly due to inactivity. Members are welcome to post any future club announcements here in the General Talk forum. Regards Dave Hagan

Hi everyone, The Builders Plate forum was opened when we had just started out and we hoped it would become popular with steam fans. Unfortunately this has not happened and a decision has been taken to close the forum and create an archive for the information held there. N Gauger will clean up...

Hi everyone, we're having a few database problems with the board at the minute and people are experiencing "can't connect" errors on certain pages or the site appears to be down. Just to let everyone know we're aware of the problem and are working to resolve it as quickly as possible. Sorry for...

Hi everyone, it recently came to my attention that a number of articles were missing from the Academy. These articles were left behind on the old board when we moved to a new server. I have now retrieved these and apologise to George and kf4jqd for the delay in re-posting their articles. We...

A member has kindly forwarded an avatar that he feels is suitable for me. As I am somewhat lacking in the design department I have graciously accepted. But is it really me?? Dave Hagan

Is it working OK?? Dave Hagan