Seeing you've been talking about British Comedy and also Germans, here's an episode from the best of the best, timeless Brit comedy and it has German subtitles to boot!
They were great showsIf you want great British Humor, in my opinion, none where better than John Cleese in Fawlty Towers! I especially liked the episode called "The Germans"
38 degrees and showers today!
Those couplings are dummys, made of plastic. They were fitted to all of Proto's cab bodied locos, probably a hangover from LifeLike when Walthers took them over. My PA/PB's had them as well. Great for keeping the locos together, but a bit of coach weight behind and they soon failed. One of the part manufacturers did a kit tp replace them using Kadee #30's, but there's a bit of work to fit them. I've got 1 packet somewhere, I'll try and find it for the makers name and part #. I eventuallt fitted #5 short shanks, but they still leave a gap.The close coupling , belive it or not , came like that out of the box .
i must investigate further into the couplings . no paperwork came with the locos
Hi TootThose couplings are dummys, made of plastic. They were fitted to all of Proto's cab bodied locos, probably a hangover from LifeLike when Walthers took them over. My PA/PB's had them as well. Great for keeping the locos together, but a bit of coach weight behind and they soon failed. One of the part manufacturers did a kit tp replace them using Kadee #30's, but there's a bit of work to fit them. I've got 1 packet somewhere, I'll try and find it for the makers name and part #. I eventuallt fitted #5 short shanks, but they still leave a gap.
Ive got the complete series on dvd, and it's available on Netflix.Greg , Fitz Gutten Tite & Herr Flick are from one of the best Comedy shows to come from the UK
Here is one from you tube
Patrick - Like the bridge. Is it a lift out or a duck under?
Looks like you might have to see Dr OctorGreetings -- Presently 65? ...Supposed to be 81? today ... Weather Underground has been all over lately - If I click on history - it gives me Carlsbad?
TemeculaWeather.com says Presently 61? with a high of 88?
I'll just look at my own chepo China made weather clock!
This was on FB this morning ....
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Unless a system is a standalone and not feeding excess generation back into the grid, it will shut down automatically to protect it from overloading it's inverter.The electric was shut down for about 3 hours while a transformer was swapped out in the neighborhood -- surprise -- the solar shuts down as well?
The diaphragms on them work very well. When I still had those couplers fitted, I could run the engines (ABBA) through 2 #6 turnouts that were back to back, left and right, that used to be at the entrance to the club's main yard, never had a problem with binding. The doors within them on the PA's are spring loaded so they open and close, likewise the side doors by the cabin.Hi Toot
yes any info would be great thank you
as you say they are light plastic , and again as you pointed out, a bit of a load on and i cant see them holding up to the job .
Chuck