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This is MOBILman44, who has not had a cat since 1953!
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Mobilman44
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
Years ago my father in-law had a small glass of beer on the table. He was standing with his back to it BSing. Mother in-law decided to wash her hair, poured a small amount of shampoo in a glass. He turned and swigged down the shampoo. He was blowing bubbles for 15 minutes, had the sheets to boot. Funniest thing I ever saw.
Jules
Had a minor oops tonight.
Those Tamiya paints dry after a few minutes on the brush. Soooo out comes the windex spray... after the stuff was fired on the brush I realized that the entire workbench now needs to be cleaned in addition to the brush.
Sometimes that hand painting makes you forget to get thinking ahead before doing any cleanup.
1. Soldered on my carpet in my room. I set the Soldering Iron down, and melted parts of my carpet. The as I move my elbow, I hit the hot part of the iron.
2. Cut a broken shell for parts, while it was resting on my foot. (stool and workbench are same height) Stabbed my foot with a knife
3. You think I would have learned from #2, but I didn't. This time I got my arm pretty good.
4. droped some plastic detail parts in carburateor cleaner for a while. When I came back, there were no parts. (stuff is good for cleaning out old paint jars)
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
One of my more memorable OOPS was thirty years ago.
Two words "Dope Thinner", it's used to paint gas powered model airplanes. I used it to clean up my model paint stuff because it works really well. It's Nasty Stuff!
Anyway I had just bought a new 1/2 pint bottle that not yet been opened. It had one of the first "Child Proof" lids that I wasn't familiar with. Instead of opening it the usual manner I decided to pry the plastic off the metal lid so I could open it easier.
Instead of just the plastic coming off the entire top came off and half the bottle spilled between my legs and on the floor.
I leaned over to clean up what had spilled onto the hard wood floor. As I was wiping it up I noticed the clear coat was coming up also. About the same moment I noticed what had spilled between my legs was getting HOT and getting HOTTER FAST! I jumped up ran out of the room, down the hall towards the bathroom, stripping my clothes as fast as I could. I jumped into the tub, turned on the cold water and flushed for 15-20 minutes.
Let me tell you, THAT STUFF IS HOT!!!!!! When you get it where it's not suppose to be.
Lesson learned, always open properly and over the sink not over your lap!
Bill
SF Bill wrote: Mobileman, do you have a cat??SFBill
Mobileman, do you have a cat??
SFBill
He used to. :)
- Harry
My Last Big Oops;
After finishing some track work on my layout I decided to run my newly detailed AA NYC P-1000 C-Liners pulling a NYC passenger train at express speed. As train approaches elevated track which was modelled after NYC Elevated subway lines and is located above a duckunder I remembered where I left my needle nose pliers. C-Liners crashed, tumbled 52" to floor and broke apart. Train wreckage was scattered everywhere. While trying to recover power trucks, driveshafts, horns etc stood up to quick and banged head on bottom of duckunder which was 3/4" plywood. While rubbing head spotted additonal wreckage on other side of duckunder. Crawled under retrieved part stood up and scraped my upper back against the duckunder plywood. All the while my wife is calling me for dinner and now she is mad at me for not coming in to eat right away. So I sat and ate my cold dinner with a bump on the head, a bruised back and two wrecked C-Liners. Not the best of days.
John R.
My biggest "oops" may not have been my fault - but I'll never know.
Even though my layout is in an a spare bedroom and of course has heat & A/C, I still keep a couple of "damprid" packs under the layout to absorb excess moisture. These are heavy plastic bags that have a coat hanger like top, and when new are filled with an absorbant chemical. As it absorbs moisture, the fluids fill a second bag below it. When full, I would say a pint to less than a quart of nasty fluids could be contained.
Well, one day I opened the layout door, got on my hands and knees to negotiate the duck under, and of course they were suddenly wet. And then the smell (not too bad, but not good) hit me, and I saw where one of the bags was punctured. This small amount of fluid affected an area of about 20 square feet, and left an "oily, slimy" residue. It took me about 4 hours to clean it up.
Needless to say, there is a container under each of them now, and I'll never know how the breakage was caused.
Yuck!
OK, so I was gluing a strip of stirene to a strip of brass, using CA glue. I could hold the ends with my fingers, but the middle needed a clamp. Both hands were busy, so...
...who knew CA would adhere to tooth enamel?
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
Thankfully, Knock on wood, the only thing I have done thus far is something with a soldering iron, forgot it was on.
I fried my arm very quickly.
Modeling the N&W freelanced at the height of their steam era in HO.
Daniel G.
Mine was getting locked out of the train room. I have a two tier around the room layout with four swing ups that span two doors. I inadvertenly shut the door leaving the room to anser the phone, returning I found the door locked..so I went to the other door from my garage and found that the swing up was down, is like a baracade saftey bar holding the door shut with two inchs of clearence.
Went around to the side window and realized that if I could get it unlocked I would have to clime over the helix, thats like entering a volcano head first...Back to the garage door and could just see inside...took a two foot carpender square and carefully slipped it in to raise the swing up of course I allways latch it in the down position. If it wasent for "Warrens Law" I would have no fun at all!!! LOL
So back to the inner door...destroyed the door knob and walllla...back to running trains.
So my wife then asked me..."Why did you ever want to put a locking door to your train room, and locked from the inside...that was dummmm. My reply..."keeps the kids out..dear"...she retorts...It sure did HONNNNNEY..but you got in anyhow..... John
concretelackey wrote: DeadheadGreg wrote: Hah... so I now own a pair of weathered Adidas sweat pants. Rust colored, by Sierra Scale Models to be specific. I also weathered the carpet underneith my layout. I fixed that with the vacuum, but now the inside of the vacuum is weathered. A reverse airbrush!! hahaanyway... yeah so i just accidentally dropped a whole bunch of SSM rust weathering powder all over the place. Time to create a permanent workbench!!! I was just wondering what some of your biggest "oops" moments wereInteresting concept.....what would happen if you stuck a box car shell in the vacumm and then sucked up the powder????
DeadheadGreg wrote: Hah... so I now own a pair of weathered Adidas sweat pants. Rust colored, by Sierra Scale Models to be specific. I also weathered the carpet underneith my layout. I fixed that with the vacuum, but now the inside of the vacuum is weathered. A reverse airbrush!! hahaanyway... yeah so i just accidentally dropped a whole bunch of SSM rust weathering powder all over the place. Time to create a permanent workbench!!! I was just wondering what some of your biggest "oops" moments were
Hah... so I now own a pair of weathered Adidas sweat pants. Rust colored, by Sierra Scale Models to be specific. I also weathered the carpet underneith my layout. I fixed that with the vacuum, but now the inside of the vacuum is weathered. A reverse airbrush!! haha
anyway... yeah so i just accidentally dropped a whole bunch of SSM rust weathering powder all over the place. Time to create a permanent workbench!!!
I was just wondering what some of your biggest "oops" moments were
Interesting concept.....what would happen if you stuck a box car shell in the vacumm and then sucked up the powder????
I was wondering the same thing!
Most of my mishaps involve xacto knives and their thirst for human blood. I did manage to make a nice mess with some gorilla glue a while back though. I was gluing a minor support onto some benchwork (it won't support any weight) and so I glued it on upside down (no problems there), stuck it on there real good, and left for the evening. What a failed to remember is that gorilla glue expands as it dries. When I returned the next morning I found a nice foamy looking, absolutely hard as a rock, pile of dried gorilla glue that was steadfastly holding onto our BRAND NEW carpet under the nice new support I installed the night before. Needless to say, the wife was not particularly amused. I finally managed to remove the offending mess while limiting the damage to the carpet. To this day, unless you know what you're looking for you'd probably never see where it was, but that morning I was in the doghouse big time!
Keeping a half open liquid glue bottle inside a spare parts box.
Using a big wire brush to remove paint; didnt realize it will eat through the shell too.
Leaving a plugged in and running dremel tool inside another parts box.
Trying to force a worn out xacto knife to cut. It will cut.... YOU.
My biggest train related oops was getting trapped in a buried railroad switch against the frogplate. Forcing the Mack to overcome this trap totally destroyed the front end and created a steering problem. I was hardheaded and stubborn then. Im probably corroded and twice as hardheaded now lol.
Hence my motto. Check all the wheels before applying power against something.
Years ago, when I was a kid, I was eating dinner at my work table. I had been painting something white and used a glass of turpentine to clean my brush. With dinner i had a glass of milk. If you can't guess where this is leading, let me just say...
Turpentine does not taste good.
heres mine we had a shop we just built for a layout we just spray painted it. so we left it outside to dry. and a gust of wind came and blew it off the table into a garden so lets just say the paint job didn't look so good
loathar wrote:1 oz bottle of oil based silver paint. Lid was stuck on so I tried using a nut cracker to open it. Whole glass bottle shattered in my hand. Sent silver paint EVERYWHERE!!! What a mess!!
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I cannot say this was my biggest oops but it was memorable.
When I concentrate real hard for some reason I tend to stick my tongue out a little bit (maybe Michael Jordan taught me this?). Totally unconsciously.
Sooo ... one time I was using the Dremel tool on some rail and was concentrating real hard ....
I wore goggles to protect my eyes. I wore a painters hat to protect my hair. I guess I need to buy a pair of wax lips to protect my mouth!
Dave Nelson
Was painting my fascia, did not realize I was rubbing up against it while it was still wet (how, I do not know, I was painting it for pete's sake!). Got paint all over my t-shirt, sweat pants, all over the chair I sat in after I was done, on the couch upstairs (wife LOVED that...), and miscellaneous other spots in the house. Worst part was, I had to RE-paint the fascia where I rubbed on it, so I had to do the job twice!
And then there was the time I left my Kadee coupler height guage on the track and couldn't figure out why my trains wouldn't run...
Well where to start!
Well I also have a pair of weathered jeans, a weathered concert floor, several pairs of socks with weathered bottoms (stuff just sticks to concret) a towel weathered heavly from clean up. A I M products rust to be exact.
Um, under a table layout doing wiring for track...Soldering crosslegged on the floor, BAREFOOT does not work. Ok, Im sitting there soldering some extra solder drips off the wire hits my foot talk about bumping your head i about when through the 3/5 inch plywood!
Well I also learned that Tenax 7R Space Age Plastic Welder (GREAT STUFF BTW) removes paint, on my staging layout on my small 4x8 I painted the yard tan so i didnt have to put ballast on as thick well i was fixing a building and i knocked the full bottle over spilling it, I wiped it up and it took the paint right off! Mike
I was using a candle to do the stretched sprue thing. Had left the candle burning and ran upstairs. Got a phone call and took me away from the workshop. When I returned minutes later the wax had run over the side and was in flames. The flames were spreading real good across the top. I was paniced for sure. Grabbed an old drop cloth and snuffed it out.
The damage wasn't as bad as I origionaly thought. Quite a few detail parts, new in packs and all my Stewart truck details were fried. The flames almost reached my supply of Floequil paints.
This could have been a disaster, and not only for the trains, It looked like it was only minutes from having the house go up in flames.
I didn't mind replacing some of those parts and repairing the workbench top.
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org