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| tmuir |
Definition of AnnoyedDefinition of Annoyed:Finding out your two 1/2 year old has been playing with your 1940s Renown which you just restored to original working condition a few weeks ago and haven't fired yet and he has unscrewed the top half of the whistle and lost it. 
My son is lucky he was already in bed asleep when I noticed part of the whistle was missing. Need to turn the house upside down now to try and find it else I need to spend another $100+ on buying a wrecked one to get a whistle from. 
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| Mamodman123 |
How did your kid get near your engine Tony? 
At least he's showing an interest in steam 
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| MTA |
I thought you locked your games room a la workshop Tony? I suppose it was a good thing he was asleep! I presume many a foul word entered your mind at that point
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| tmuir |
Most of my engines are in my workshop but a couple are kept on a set of draws where my computer is kept which is off our bedroom.
He must of got it during the week when my wife let him come upstairs when she was putting the baby to sleep. Hope he just dropped it on the floor not put it in his pocket and took it outside. |
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| Mamodman123 |
Good luck Tony! Hope you find it mate! |
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| IndianaRog |
Tony, you might check his diapers for a few days...never know if the whistle might have gone down the hatch!! | ||||||
| tmuir |
He knows better than to eat things like that. About 6 months ago he was playing with a coin that he was told to put down, he didnt listen and pretended to eat it. After not being allowed to eat all day and been taken to the hospital for X-Rays to find he hadn't eaten it he now puts nothing small in his mouth..... |
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| Mamodman123 |
Are you bringing up another Damian Tony?
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| TE1A_man |
Hopefully it won't be showing up in his, uhh, "leavings". | ||||||
| Wallace |
Sorry to hear it Tony.
Only in the past 6months, or slightly more, have I been able to have my engines anywhere without my now 4yrd old daughter touching them. Been a long time coming though 
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| Stitch |
Mate, I feel your pain
This afternoon my 4 year-old step daughter took an interest in the SEL I am restoring. She knocked a chip out of the new paint and then proceded to pull the steam pipe of the cylinder face plate. It is such a tight space and took me ages to solder in again. I think we should write to our local MP's and demand urgent legislation granting steam addicts a large grant to buld childproof rooms where we can lock our toys away
On a more serious note, good luck with finding the whistle. I know those things are rare 
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| tmuir |
I'm still looking.
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| Stitch |
This might sound stupid, but it worked. Where I grew up we had very deep-pile carpet. Drop a nut or a screw and it was gone and you could spend hours on your hands and knees looking for it. Mum eventually worked out a neat trick. You vacuum the floor with some old stocking over the head of the vacuum attachment. It worked everytime. | ||||||
| tmuir |
I've only got short carpet so it cant get lost in the pile but if we did vacume it up we would know.
I've vacumed up a nut before and that made a hell of a racket and this is a lot bigger and heavier. I'm just worried he put it in his pocket and took it outside. 
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| tmuir |
I've found it!! I have a set of wooden draws I've placed under my computer desk that has a skirting board running around it. With the skirting board pushed up hard against the side of the desk it leaves a 1cm gap between the desk and draws. My son had placed the whistle top there.
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| Graham-Jilly |
wow a sigh of releif can be heard from this side of the country
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| Stilldrillin |
Great news Tony!
I really felt for you, reading the sequence of postings.
I have a 35yr old with the same sort of busy fingers.
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| steamyman |
Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Tony , hearing that eases our minds! 
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| Sandman |
Good news indeed Tony.
You certainly have to be eagle eyed when the kids are around.
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| tmuir |
Mine too, its not like you can just go down the shop and purchase a new one. On the plus side the room my computer s in looks a lot tidier now.
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| SillyBilly |
'tis great news! | ||||||
| IndianaRog |
Lucky find Tony...glad it all worked out without requiring diaper diving. | ||||||
| Chris |
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| tmuir |
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| Chris |
where is that from?
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| tmuir |
Don't know found it a while ago on a web site of funny photos.
Its amazing the weird signs you can find on the Internet. This is my favourite one at the moment. 
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| James |
Oh aye I got loads of them!! | ||||||
| SillyBilly |
Somehow I just you were that type of person James! 
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| James |
Why be that lad?
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| SillyBilly |
http://modelsteam.myfreeforum.org/ftopic4528-0.php ?
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| James |
Well ummm, about that
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