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And I've just added 5 more to my collection of pottery piggy banks. Saddo!

I would urge you to get the VHS tapes done asap. I have been transferring around 200 tapes going back to 1979 but sadly many of the older ones are now unplayable due to mould.

Check each tape carefully before putting it in your player as any mould - usually in the form of a white powder - will transfer to the mechanism and infect your subsequent tapes.

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I would add that you wind and rewind the tape before copying.

This might be a stupid question Peter but will the paints be usable ?

Unfortunately I put a lot of my modelling paints in a shed four years ago when I cleared out my garage for the Morgan. The shed isn’t insulated and had wild fluctuations in temp and I ended up throwing them out and replenishing with new just recently

Sorry chaps, but there's no excuse for being 'bored', what with the sum total of human knowledge available at your fingertips. You can learn to do anything your heart desires.

When not playing with the Morgan or gardening, I have two long-term projects on the go - learning ragtime blues guitar and building a Raspberry Pi-based data logging system for the Morgan. Real-time programming is something I've never done, and jolly complicated it is too!

Today's a guitar day.

To my surprise, most of them are.
the tins were kept in the loft, so have had a hard time, even so they seem to fall into 3 groups.

1. Seemingly a solid plug of almost dry pigment in the bottom
2. As above, but with plenty of liquid above.
3. Just needing a good mix..

I bought a paint mixed, rather like a miniature "stick bender" but fitted with a wavy disk at the end. I also bought a couple of jars of Humbrol's thinners, because it contains not just highly purified white spirit but about 15& of another molecule that helps keep pigments in suspension.

For "Group 3" about 1 min of mixing, with possibly a small amount of thinners, restores them to "as new".

For Group 2 I used a stainless spatula to chop up the lump, then treated as Group 3. It takes 2 or 3 cycles of chopping and mixing, plus thinners as needed, but all are now good.

For Group 1 it has been more difficult and a couple refuse to go properly into suspension. It has been suggested that adding clear humbrol varnish to the mix is the trick, i'll try this.

Read more about the journey here:
http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235032333-restoring-old-paint/

Enjoy!

Nice one

Just by way of an update, Glenn emailed back earlier today. He sounds fine, apologised for not getting on here still, and wondered if anyone wishes him to organise another TM evening over the Thrill on the Hill weekend?

I said I'd ask and let him know.

Sounds like a splendid idea to me!

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