Day to Day Log

Created by: Lester Caine, 13 July 2025
Last modified: 13 July 2025

Saturday 01 of November, 2025

By Lester Caine
1 November 2025

Having aborted the big nose-cone section yesterday I started again with the back to that section which is much smaller and allows me to see where the problems are. The surface patterning on both parts is a little random, and while I can see the layer printing pattern, it is masked a little my 'noise'. I am fairly sure this is down to the poor stability of the table, so I need to move it to a more stable base. Having built the trolley for the dolls house, it seems silly not to use that…

Friday 31 of October, 2025

By Lester Caine
31 October 2025

Having spotted problems with the standing water in the garage resulting in rust appearing where I would rather it did not, I moved the 3D printer to the flat last weekend. First problem of cause is that it is too big assembled to go through the loft opening, so currently it's sitting in the bedroom and I thought I may as well start having a play with it. It's been some time since it's been in action, and the original build log is on me…

Sunday 26 of October, 2025

By Lester Caine
26 October 2025

A little chaotic in that I did a lot of things twice, but still very successful week and I now have an electronic copy of the magazines for the Flying Scotsman Build. That is documented on the project blog. I've spotted that the search processing for all the websites has stopped working, in that the new content is not being indexed. Something I need to go and have a look at. In addition, I need…

Friday 17 of October, 2025

By Lester Caine
19 October 2025

Spent the whole day at the Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition. It advertises that it is the biggest which I think means it's one of the only ones left? It was always too expensive for my budget when I was just doing the Bristol and Harrogate Shows, and while it had the extra space provided by the tent, I think there was more prior to the Covid kerfuffle.

I took the time to sit through the three lectures. I remember them being in one of the buildings o…

Monday 13 of October, 2025

By Lester Caine
13 October 2025

It's been a while, partially due to the side effects of the latest heart medication which is depressing my pulse rate further. Got the OK to stop taking it again this morning, but it will be a few days for it to clear my system and hopefully back to a better state of mind. Everything is woolly at the moment.

It's not actually stopped me getting on and doing things, so a few things have been completed such as the boat building slip and workshop cabine…