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if politics is banned on here--lets make phut ball banned also. Boring waste of time.

After the tyre fiasco detailed in the Unhappy Thread

https://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=659.msg884696#msg884696

I did a bit of research. I called the two tyre shops that had replaced tyres for me.

The first one looked at their records and said that they had fitted an all weather tyre.

At the second one they printed out the receipt for me and it showed that back in January they had fitted a summer tyre to my car. They accepted full responsibility and a new all weather tyre has been ordered.   

The other good part is that I'd only been driving on the wrong tyre for 4.5 months rather than since last September.

Regards,

John P

So a bit of background.

In July 2024 I got a new car which came with summer tyres, I budgeted for a set of all weather tyres for the colder months and all was well. My plan was to swap the tyres out twice a year and get my money's worth on the summer tyres.

Last Thursday I went to get the all weather tyres swapped out for my summer tyres and when the car was ready I was told that instead of having 4 all weather tyres I had been driving around with 3 all weathers and one summer tyre potentially for the past 9 months.

The tyres are ~ $500 not to mention the risks around driving with mismatched tyres.

      

Over the past 2 years I've had to replace 2 of the all weather tyres due to puncture damage so some detective work was in order.

I needed to find out which eejit had decided that would be fine to put a summer tyre on my car when it's not summer and all the other tyres are all weathers   

Now check out the happy thread 

John P

There are loads of cabinet / under-shelf LED lighting units / kits available.  Have a look round your local DIY store and lighting shop.  Lidl, Aldi etc. have them from time to time. 

Here I've used a pair of Livarno units from Lidl on the lighting rig for my loco depot modules. These are proper sealed units with diffusers, mains powered and daisy-chain-able.  I have another 4 units ready to replace some old reading lights on my main layout's lighting rig.



A fabric pelmet goes around the outside of the rig at shows.

Cheapest and easiest install are the mini LEDs that come on a self adhesive roll.
Can be powered by (almost) any smoothed DC supply and if you use a variable supply can be turned up/down to suit.

Do experiment with the number of strips and different "warmths" I.e. colour tones/casts, and mounting at different angles to see what works best for your location as background conditions can have a noticeable impact.
Our exhibition layouts now generally have 3 or 4 strips including at least one each of a blue tone and a yellow tone all independently variable.

Quote from: kusojiji on Yesterday at 12:55:54 PMGot the father's day discount code as you all probably got. Put a few things into the cart and typed in the code. None of my items qualified for the discount. Went back to the email and after reading the EVERYTHING, I missed the selected items part. What a trap!

I then deleted everything in the cart. Expecting a BS email about stuff I left there..

Yep. Very lame.

Got the father's day discount code as you all probably got. Put a few things into the cart and typed in the code. None of my items qualified for the discount. Went back to the email and after reading the EVERYTHING, I missed the selected items part. What a trap!

I then deleted everything in the cart. Expecting a BS email about stuff I left there..

Hi, long time no type ( I'm not dead!!) Moved house new railway room!! Shelving about to go up on one wall and the layout will be positioned under it 2' x 11' I need to fit overhead lighting to the underside of the lowest shelf, about 18" above the top of any scenic's. I looked at spotlights, tape lights, tubes, mains, battery or USB  etc .... Minefield!!! Any advice would be much appreciated

I enjoy soccer, but like the OP, this World   Cup has failed to enthuse me for some reason.