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General Car Chat / Re: Best paint for door cards
« on: 07 October 2025, 14:38:20 »
Will leather paint not be better?
Even though it's not leather :-\

The Acrylic based paints they use are supposed to be good for loads of similar flexible materials

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General Car Chat / Re: Best paint for door cards
« on: 07 October 2025, 08:28:25 »
Will leather paint not be better?

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General Car Chat / Re: Milk Float Ordered
« on: 03 October 2025, 12:26:05 »
Check carefully as most sparks cannot install chargers (requires C&G 2921 or equivalent, and some specialist test kit) and many of the charger suppliers require a certificate to enable the smart capabilities and warranty on them

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General Discussion Area / Re: Shed Project: Suspended Railway
« on: 03 October 2025, 12:00:29 »
I should also add, make sure the wheels where the pickups are, are super clean and shiny, also consider adding a bit of weight over the pickup wheel sets to improve contact (a bit of roofing lead, freely available if you look around, works well)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Shed Project: Suspended Railway
« on: 03 October 2025, 11:47:56 »
The old ring field motors never work well (and were pretty poor when new), I have re-wound a few over the years and even then, they are not great, even if you fitted uprated magnets as well!

You can fit a CD player motor in there which is ten times better

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No that is correct, and hence why you only need a commercial invoice (with the details described already) and an appointed courier.

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The second one looks to be the closest. Couldn't make head nor tail of the listings without a starting point.

Yeh, the Tariff codes really don't get updated often enough so its not an exact science, in this case they look to still be engine cc related (which is mad for a bit of trim!).

You want to try shipping whole or large portions of a car and sub-assemblies (which we do a lot), its a nightmare!

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The trick is to make the invoice 'real' so try to break it down so say '4 x €33 - Merc Interior Door trim' so if they check it they see four items and a listing for four items on the invoice (otherwise things get held up!).

Your courier will then either deliver it, or give you details of how to pay the duty/VAT (zero duty in this case) plus a clearance charge.

If you consult the courier, they sometimes will create the commercial invoice for you so the records they hold and the shipped details match.

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Omega General Help / Re: Oil in radiator header tank.
« on: 01 October 2025, 14:37:08 »
Ps.. though I’ve never had to do this job I often look at those two unions above the oil filter and they just don’t look like they’d come out 🤣🤣

Anyone ever had issues with them? I suppose absolute worst case scenario you’d end up chopping the pipe above the nut and getting a 6 sided socket on it. Just wondering if anyone ever had issue?

As per above, filter off,, crows foot spanner, tighten slightly, then undo.

Never had an issue to date with them.  :y (probably done many tens of them over the years, including Opti's whilst it was on his drive!)

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Just checked, tariff code 8708291000 or 8708299000 is probably suitable, that looks to be a 0% tariff so only liable for VAT (if they bother)

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It looks to be a generic commercial invoice, which is pretty much all that is needed, HS tariff codes can be interesting to find, but just say if you need help with that as its something I am always having to find (they define the import duty you have to pay on the item).

You can only have an EORI if you are a registered legal entity.

Watch out for the incoterms as well

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General Discussion Area / Re: Blair,
« on: 30 September 2025, 10:01:37 »
Can we be that lucky?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Shed Project: Suspended Railway
« on: 26 September 2025, 13:21:59 »
I must agree!  But preferably ones with chimneys, coal, water and the lovely smell of hot oil mixed with steam...................what a lovely, gorgeous memory I have of hot pacific loco's, alongside a Standard 4, and a Mansell U class, sitting in the yard! :-* :-* :-*

Mind you, my ex and I built a great OO gauge multi-line layout, with 22 loco's and about 100 coaches and wagons around our  ex-garage with model engine shed and houses, for our boys, so I can readily identify with this thread Tunnie :y :y :y.

A really great hobby when you cannot get out and go on the footplate of a real steam loco!! ;D ;D ;)

I am not nearly affluent enough to be dabbling in external combustion engines (and I wouldn't as they are a bit to simple and dull from an engineering perspective for me), with massive six figure sums needing to be spent every ten years and loads of work in the interim.  :o

A friend has an Austerity, which he is just doing his fourth overhaul on, by his calcs, he could have bought a couple of extra houses with the cash spent and his is only a small one!  ;D

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General Discussion Area / Re: The British Rozzers are at it again
« on: 26 September 2025, 11:11:06 »
Let’s try our collective best to get reform in surely they can’t be anywhere near as bad🤷‍♂️

I can't see that working either, Nige will probably do his usual i.e. piss off as soon as the thing he has been bleating about, and promoting, rather than deliver on his shouting's (just like Brexit etc)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Shed Project: Suspended Railway
« on: 22 September 2025, 15:02:31 »
Toy trains, they will never catch on, you need the man scale ones  ;D


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