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Evening all Currently watching German (or sometimes French, with occasional Italian) TV through the wonders of a 1.2 Metre satellite dish with twin LNBs - took a while to set up back in 2004, mainly as the dish is so unwieldy that moving it then tightening the adjusting bolts is a bit tricky with only one pair of hands! Now need to get a permanently-fitted small di***o pick up the UK satellite channels, Free To Air satellite is a wonderful thing! I've also been doing some more repair work on the Fleischmann diesel loco I picked up on eBay a while ago. Currently awaiting some spares from an online stockist over here (who seem to be taking ages, I guess they have to order them direct from Germany), but I've cleaned and serviced the motor, repainted the white wheel rims, and it now runs well. Should look good when the new end walkways arrive, though I've no plans to convert it to DCC yet - isolating the motor looks near-impossible without doing some very precise drilling and cutting. Next on the list for conversion are (in no particular order) the other FP7 (I have a pair in Milwaukee paint, one of which has been chipped so far), a Bachmann F7A (Erie Lackawanna, superb runner, bought used at a very reasonable price) and the first two of my Athearn fleet - SP SD9 and EMD Demonstrator GP60. It's dawned on me that I only have one road switcher fitted as yet, so I need to increase the number of these. I also need to go back and replace the three Bachmann decoders I fitted as these are a real pain - they have very little slow speed control even after adjusting the acceleration/braking delay, starting voltage, etc. Now I know why they were cheap... Oh yes, the best news of the day: According to weather reports on the radio this afternoon we should be looking at snow on Sunday evening/Monday morning. I've polished the folding shovel in readiness!
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