Quote from: njee20 on May 27, 2026, 10:07:53 PMThe tone of your post even makes this sound like bait. 

How many £19 drills do you think they sell globally?

How many models of whatever your preferred thing is do you think they sell?

Some reading for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale

Obviously Farish could make 1,000,000 units. They'd be cheap. The market would be totally saturated. They'd go out of business. Win.

so why do some manufacturers deliberately make short runs ?

The tone of your post even makes this sound like bait. 

How many £19 drills do you think they sell globally?

How many models of whatever your preferred thing is do you think they sell?

Some reading for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale

Obviously Farish could make 1,000,000 units. They'd be cheap. The market would be totally saturated. They'd go out of business. Win.

More than happy for you to post this elsewhere Roy!

As the box is in good condition, with the two card tubes round the couplings, and the jar of oil (with a nice cork!) in there with the actual loco, the presence of the "jig" (which feels like steel) feels like something that hasn't just been dumped there. Coukd it be a form of clearance/track gauge/platform height guide?
Dave

my 10 year old cheap cordless drill works fine--but the battery dont. An hours charge lasts about a minute. I cant find a new battery.

So i splashed out on a new one. It came with 2 chargeable batteries--and a charger. Plus drill bits and a snake thing to go round corners.All in a plastic case.

It was £18.99 inc free postage on ebay.

So whats all this got to do with N gauge ?

I suppose someone will state the obvious that " they" make millions of these cheap drills so that brings the price down--to a few pennies--allowing the multitude of online del boys to make a nice living. So why cant the N gauge manufacturers learn from this?

No doubt the site headmaster will enlighten me.

Quote from: Stingray. on May 27, 2026, 07:59:24 PMFirst new music in 16 years from The Durutti Column

Hmmmm.... A new one to me and after a little check on earlier releases I'll listen a little more tomorrow.

First new music in 16 years from The Durutti Column

Yep, there is no way to filter them so I have zero interest in the content of 99% of them. If you could narrow it down to just 'N' it would cut the emails down.
I have just looked at this week; 3 on Monday, 2 yesterday and 2 today. None were of any interest.

Quote from: Newportnobby on May 27, 2026, 06:16:14 PMSick and tired of mails from Rails so have unsubscribed
I was getting maybe one a day, sometimes more

I have also done the same

Sick and tired of mails from Rails so have unsubscribed
I was getting maybe one a day, sometimes more

I am by no means an expert on Tri-Ang models but do have a fascination for 50s/60s models, follow a couple of FB forums and also have a bit of a collection of TT3.

From my understanding of the OO range, models first introduced had chassis made up of sheet steel sections as per the exploded diagram in the link above. Later (late 50s/early 60s), this type of chassis was superseded by a diecast metal one.

Of course none of that answers the question, and I admit it has me stumped, the general shape and hole (for a motor shaft possibly?) suggests some kind of spacer or mounting bracket, possibly unrelated to the loco.

If @Southerngooner is OK with it, and I can figure out how to post a pic of the item on the said FB forum, I will happily ask there to see if anyone can shed any light.

Roy