Quilters of the World Unite?

Sounds like a question for Grymma ?

Possibly,but I was also wondering what might be difficult about it in low gravity. surely it should be easier as it won't keep falling on the floor all the time?

What next. Model trains in space? Might be hard to lay the track and keep them on the rails though. Makes you think about other things up there. Juggling?

I note with interest the Olympic flame is briefly going to the station his November, lets hope they realise that flames in zero G do not burn in any one direction as there is no convection.

Brian

Quilting is big in the USA. I have seen some amazing stuff over there.

I'd have thought that not being able to rely on gravity to keep parts you're not jbexvat on out of the way was one source of trouble - or at least of a need to develop new technique.

And losing needles in free fall probably isn't a good way to make yourself popular with the rest of the crew.

Magnetic track ? I used to have a Hornby OO layout, and I'm pretty sure the locos stuck to the track. Rolling stock would be more of a problem and might need re-wheeling with ferrous wheels.

The convention on convection is considerably confusing.

Magnadhesion (tm). There was a magnet mounted in the chassis between the driving wheels below the axles. Totally useless unless you used the 'orrible Triang set track, or the rather expensive Peco coated steel flexible track and suffered the rust as soon as you cleaned it.

IRTA Quitters of the World Unite

Tone

If quilts are, by definition made from all sorts of different kinds of yarn and thread, the washing instructions must be a real challenge. Brian

"SHEDS IN SPAACE!"

Sorry, hadn't noticed the cross-posting.

Apologies

A Japanese company uses a very similar system for the range it introduced at a scale of 1:450 which needs something to stop it blowing away when a passing cat sneezes. Clip here of one running inverted.

G.Harman

Now, that's a scale I might just about have room for...

Didn't someone make a live steam loco in about that scale a few years ago? I vaguely unforget reading about it in one of the magazines. Electrically powered through the track, it was.

Maybe you are thinking of this chap.

G.Harman

Impressive. The 1/480 scale electric ones I like. I also like his description of the problems with the earlier 1/160 scale one when the petrol burner blew up. " The final catastrophe was when the lamp blew up. If I'd been working on a bigger scale I might not be here to tell the tale. "

There's nowt like living dangerously....

Hmm, well how about slot car racing in space. That world be more difficult in space. Mind you if you had track made of metal of the ferous kind.

Brian

Scalextric relies on gravity, but I seem to recall there was a rival - Aurora? - which held the cars to the track magnetically, and advertised that you could even set the track up upside-down.

"Jjjourneyyyy intooo Nnostalllgiaaaa"

Wot I hfrq to listen to when I should have been doing my homejbex.

Sensible, there's much more room on the ceiling, and yer ma don't give yer hell when she trips over it, or wants to vacuum the crapit.