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Old 1st Sep 2014, 10:52
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Chugalug2
 
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Excellent feat of reverse engineering, Danny, it will be interesting if someone with knowledge of the insides of this state of the art analogue device can tell us how they conformed or varied with your specs. At least Tupolev had possession of a B-29 in order to replicate it in the form of the Tu-4, you had only sight of the MAC (I wonder what the official Ref and title was) but it has obviously nagged away at you since those days of the more immediate demands pressing upon an AFS SATCO.

Not quite the same process I know, but in taking a Victorian railway carriage body to pieces, repairing/replacing those pieces, producing missing parts removed while in domestic grounded body mode, and then rebuilding same for running in a preserved train, you are forever asking yourself why, what, how? Why did they do it that way, or what way did they do it? What order did they do it in? How did they do it?

A time machine would be a great advantage of course. You couldn't see your way to drafting out the mechanics of one by any chance...?
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