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Offline Ratchap

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Nigel From West London UK
« on: May 21, 2014, 01:55:49 PM »
Greetings from  the west side of London My name is Nigel  a .... mature returnee to model engineering. I came across this group by accident and have lurked in the shadows for a While.
My interests are 2mm Fine scale model railways ( at the moment)  I have just been give a fairly old and incomplete lathe of the cowells type does not need much ,  A motor ( i have an old singer sewing machine that's earmarked)  , a chuck  !! and a tool holder  ohhhh and some instructions  would help lol
Moving forward  you will probably get a lot od "silly" questions from me so please be patient
Regards Nigel  AKA ratchap
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Re: Nigel From West London UK
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2014, 01:59:08 PM »
Welcome back to model engineering Nigel, and also welcome to MEM. If you have been lurking a while you will probably have come across some of Jo's (and others) posts on Cowells so I feel sure you can get some good advice on that front !!

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Re: Nigel From West London UK
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2014, 02:06:34 PM »
Welcome to the forum Nigel!
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Re: Nigel From West London UK
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2014, 02:13:01 PM »
 :hi: Nigel,

So is it a Perris or one of the earlier Cowells brethren you have? I suspect the singer moter is going to run too fast/not really be powerful enough  :-\.

Jo
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Re: Nigel From West London UK
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2014, 02:33:46 PM »
Welcome Nigel

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Offline Ratchap

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Re: Nigel From West London UK
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2014, 02:45:28 PM »
Jo I am N ot sure  i was told it was a cowells  but there are no names on it these pics may help  pepole identify it
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Re: Nigel From West London UK
« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2014, 02:57:08 PM »
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Re: Nigel From West London UK
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2014, 03:01:58 PM »
Jo Many thanks  i can now start moving forward  sourcing bits
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Re: Nigel From West London UK
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2014, 06:06:43 PM »
Hi Nigel, and welcome to the forum!
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Re: Nigel From West London UK
« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2014, 07:03:17 PM »
Hi Nigel,
Welcome.  Silly questions are not permitted here.  If you don't know the answer then it is a serious question.  And, every serious question will get some answers from some very friendly and knowledgeable  forum members.
Gail in NM
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Re: Nigel From West London UK
« Reply #10 on: May 21, 2014, 07:52:39 PM »
Hi Nigel, welcome to MEM.
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Re: Nigel From West London UK
« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2014, 09:14:25 PM »
Welcome to the forum Nigel.
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Re: Nigel From West London UK
« Reply #12 on: May 21, 2014, 09:47:05 PM »
Hi Nigel and welcome to a very friendly group.

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Re: Nigel From West London UK
« Reply #13 on: May 21, 2014, 10:13:03 PM »
Hi Nigel, welcome to the forum.

Cheers, Hugh.
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Re: Nigel From West London UK
« Reply #14 on: May 21, 2014, 10:42:16 PM »
I never heard of 2mm scale model railways, so I found this:
http://www.2mm.org.uk/
 
To get an idea of the size of the models, I found this video among many others:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soUSVRx9DRM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soUSVRx9DRM</a>
 
Amazing detail at such small size. Do you have any pictures of your 2mm models?
 
Oh, and welcome to the forum!
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