Very nice Martin @port perran - love the tight horns! More your thing than Ozric Tentacles me thinks!! RIP Lucky P.

Tim

the small 2mm layout has been untouched for maybe 8 years the cat has taken to using it as bed

It's the storage needed for those items I keep buying to 'finish it off'. After 5 years I've run out of storage boxes

As an East Kent resident the vibes are not good for Hornby as a whole! They sold off the site and rent it back so this 'sale' is another move to counter indebtedness - not sure it will work.
Be pleased they don't make/sell any N gauge stuff!

Everything in stock is 'as manufactured' pristine or as bought/weathered and at some point I might weather some new bits with 'sticky powders' but its low on the priority list. don't mind picking up 'bargains' that are weathered if all the bits are ok and working.

Yeah bought one on eBay, renewed the ends and it's still a bummer! Think the rods (alloy?) are not good conductors and of course they can get a dirt/oxide layer form on them. Wonder if a polish followed by a coating of track maintenance spray would increase the conductivity?
Because we have only small wheels and 9mm of spacing any bowing of the contact rails is likely to break the circuit, as is poorly set back-to-back of the wheels. I've a few hesitant runners to sort and will give the 'above' a go before I try them on the RR.
glad to share any thoughts you might have

I use Opera all the time on my Dell laptop and have not experienced any problems at all

I've been playing around with a rolling road from Aliexpress and not having much luck with it. The locos will run but not well enough, stop and starts or hesitant running. This is the complete opposite from the 00 gauge version from Aliexpress which is trouble free. Anyone with one of these that have experienced similar problems. 

I know Opera isn't the most popular browser, but there may be one or two of you out there who can help.

Opera has recently started refusing to co-operate. I can usually open one website, but when I try and open a second it crashes. Then if I try and close the first one it sulks and refuses to do anything, so I have to close Opera completely and start again. Until now it has been very reliable, but this has me stumped. I've run Ccleaner, switched off a number of start-up programs, I've even reloaded Opera, but nothing has worked and, yes, I've checked and I am running the latest version. I initially wondered if my laptop was failing (it is 5 years old) but everything else works just fine. I don't think it is the internet connection either – we are on full fibre and the router is in the same room.

Looking at various online forums, this doesn't appear to be a new issue but nobody seems to have an answer. If I decide I can't bear it any longer and go for a different browser, what do folks recommend?

Any advice gratefully received.

Cheers,

Chris

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