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I can't believe it's so long since this site was updated. I thought it was about six months not a period of over two years!

I have been updating and creating sites for other people and kept thinking ... next week I'll update the site ... next week I'll update ... next week ... next .......and so time slips by ....!

I've finished upgrading the workshop, bought new tools ( see Workshop Page ), taken partial retirement, helped build kitchens, helped rewire holiday homes, refurbish fishing boats, helped with CNC machining, tried to learn new software packages especially Solidworks. Solidworks is a fabulous CAD system which costs an arm & a leg but I get to use a friend's system as a favour.

There is now a Sweet Pea users group on Yahoo :-

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/sweetpea-loco/?yguid=52514782

Reading the posts there is another souce of help for Sweet Pea or Metre Maid builders.

I have to make two new crossheads for my loco and I've been trying to master CAD/CAM so that I can use the F1 to machine both crossheads and covers.

Here's a short video of us driving a loco on a friends 3½" gauge garden line.