COFFEE POT November 2018. 14 years old. Lots of Coffee and the start of the Holiday Season. Veterans Day and Thanksgiving

[KRM]

Good morning,

So I decided to apply for a supervisor’s job at the local ACE hardware. Doubt I will get it because they want someone to work 30 hours a week and at least 2 nights a week and I said no more than 2 days and no nights but afternoons were fine. Heck they close at 7:00PM anyway. But who knows? Help is hard to get these days..

Noticed the Ranger was knocking a lot going down the snow bumpy lane so I jacked up the thing under the lower A-frames and put a pry-bar under the tire and WOW!!!! 3/8” or better of play in the lower ball joint on the right and at least ¼” on the left one.

So, I ordered two new AC Delco ball joints and one tie rod I already knew was poor at best since I changer the other one when I got the truck. Got the ball joint press from Jim next door and will deal with that when the parts show up.

Picked up SIL's deer meat from the locker yesterday on the way to their place to watch the kids. Man he got a lot of meat in that guy.  We are going to do our own sausage and jerky. Will see how that works out.

Buckeye, you must be older than dirt if you can remember 1953. A good read.

Better quit here before I try your attention spans.  

[anjdevil2]

Congas to Buckeye for the great article!!

 

Fife, Charlie and Buckeye... we are surrounded by CTT greatness!!!!

[Buckeye Riveter]

fifedog

Young Buckeye and Young Sheldon appearing in the same issue of CTT???

Coincidence?

I think not. 

 

CTT has not reached the Valley and I have not seen the new issue of CTT, however, I beg you not to tell Mrs. Buckeye that Young Sheldon and I share the same issue. Baby Buckeye has already labeled me Leonard because of my friends. 

 

I hope everyone enjoyed the article. At the time I received the Marx, we lived in West Lebanon, Indiana.

 

Have a great weekend.

[SPMan]

Just checking in for the week.  We got some real rain yesterday and a lot last night.  I got a lot of water piled up behind the garage before the sump pump could take it off.  Finally got it pumped out before I had any flooding in my garage/train room.  I also discovered a missing gutter in front of a dormer window causing water to run off in front of the windows and splash back on the glass.  Getting some water damage too on the wood around the windows.  I think the gutter was removed by the roofers some time ago but we have had so little rain here, I never thought about it until now.  Went out to breakfast with my train buddies this morning.  One of them just got back from a cruise from the West Coast to Hawaii.  Five days each way!  Not my thing.  Went to the circus last week right after Thanksgiving.  Circus Vargus has a tent show without animals. Ringling Brothers has hung it up.  That was the last of the big ones.  I think the animal rights people plus economic issues did them in.  Saw a special on TV about the history of the circus.  Showed some about the circus trains too.  My late friend who was a circus performer gave me some of his O gauge circus train items before he passed on.  He scratch built a lot of the stuff.  Have a good week end all.

Ray 

 

[8ntruck]

Cloudy and in the 40's today.  

Been working on my trolley project.  I discovered that a Fastrack bumper connectes to a 4.5" striaght piece of Fastrack with the center rail isolated, leaves just enough room for the trolly to coast to a stop and hit the bumper with nough forst to operate the reversing switch.  I was originally planning on isolating the outside rails and using an isolated rail type accesory scheme on the main line to trigger start the trolley back up.  This didn't work out, as the trolley did not stop consistantly with this scheme.  Now, I need to come up with a relay connected across the isolated rails on the main line to switch the power on the trolley track.  15 to 18 volt AC coil relays are not common.  I'll probably end up with a 12VDC coil relay running on a rectifier.

Buckeye - nice article.

All for now.

[cheapclassics]

Good evening all,

Congrats to Buckeye on the story.  Good issue overall.  Semi quiet day at work.  Watched Blue Bloods tonight.  Good episode.  Fairly comfortable weather.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[Banks]

December pot is brewing