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melly

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  1. Yay fab news they would be mad not to keep u on after your trial. Well done
  2. fingers crossed for you Chad hope you get the job and hope you make the rideout
  3. Oh no Chad that's craps news hope u get sorted soon
  4. well Im going to have a go I am normally about 3 years behind with technology so I am going to be one of the first for a change don't think I understand it enough to worry. Daves the techno expert in our house
  5. Received an email saying I would get my free update end of July
  6. applied for my free windows 10 - not sure what it is but its free
  7. you could always spray the bike pink to match the hands
  8. me neither but didn't want to say Wheel tappers & Shunter's are trades within trades in the railway industries---- Wheel-tapper From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia A wheeltapper signing off after checking the wheels of a train at Budapest-Keleti railway station in 2014. He has rested his long hammer on the train's buffers. A wheeltapper is a railway worker employed to check the integrity of train wheels and that axle boxes are not overheating. Typically employed at large railway stations and in goods yards, they tap wheels with a long-handled hammer and listen to the sound made to determine the integrity of the wheel; cracked wheels, like cracked bells, do not sound the same as their intact counterparts (they do not "ring true"). Wheeltappers also check that the axle boxes are not overly hot by using the back of their hand.[ Although wheeltappers still operate in some eastern European countries, in countries with modern planned maintenance procedures and line-side defect detectors, such as hot box detectors, wheeltappers are redundant. The job is mostly associated with the steam age. Wheeltappers were vital to the smooth running of the railways as a cracked wheel or overheated axle bearing would lead to delays and the loss of revenue. These were particularly common in the 19th century, when axle bearings were lubricated by grease. At this time, metallurgy was a more haphazard science and thus it was impossible to test steel wheels for cracks: the role of the wheeltapper was of crucial importance. [b] ENGINES might be a good way to re-start with------ I forgot you youngsters may not know things we dinosaurs are familiar with [/b] lol I don't get called a youngster very often nowadays. as its engines and trains - Steam
  9. U might have had a cracking ride bet the sheep had a cracking headache! Seriously though u were lucky.
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