Iphone here. I email myself pictures, usually, then upload them from the computer to Imgur. Too lazy to take the cable from the charger and connect it to phone and computer.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Maybe go read the "sticky note" by Steve Otte, at the top of the General Discussion forum, on how to post pictures.
You can't do it right from the phone to here, you have to put your photos in a photo hosting site, like Flickr, or Imgur, or Photobucket, just to name a couple.
Mike.
My You Tube
Ok- I put the smartswitch app on both phone and computer and can't seem to get the pics to come off the phone. Samsung Gallaxy 9 really is a bummer! I will have to stop my project for a couple months to save up for a camera!
I could snap mine if cut to within 1/16 in. through. But, I cut mine all the way through with a carpet knife. About seven healthy cuts, 14 is better.
KB5JCXPictures coming soon.
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Please post pictures.
I have been on quite a benchwork project myself.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Welcome back! Looking forward to your pictures!
OK! I have my benchwork built, stained, and polyeurothaned! I have the plywood likewise on top and the Homasote cut and screwed to the plywood. Next is to level and fasten the benchwork together so it wont move but together and put up a four inch rail on each side as I complete the main and secondary tracks. Pictures coming soon.
NittanyLion BigDaddy I did not know Homosote could be cut with a carpet knife. Does it snap like styrene? You can snap the last cut if you are almost through but I don't. I just keep until it is a clean cut. No dust. No, it just flexes and tears. All of us in the Denton Area Model Railroad Club use it on our sectional track, which was 1800 feet when I was a member, and our private tracks. I use clamps to fasten a straight metal yardstick on a straight line, then take about 40 or 50 strokes and get a nice clean cut with a carpet knife.
BigDaddy I did not know Homosote could be cut with a carpet knife. Does it snap like styrene? You can snap the last cut if you are almost through but I don't. I just keep until it is a clean cut. No dust.
I did not know Homosote could be cut with a carpet knife. Does it snap like styrene?
You can snap the last cut if you are almost through but I don't. I just keep until it is a clean cut. No dust.
No, it just flexes and tears.
All of us in the Denton Area Model Railroad Club use it on our sectional track, which was 1800 feet when I was a member, and our private tracks. I use clamps to fasten a straight metal yardstick on a straight line, then take about 40 or 50 strokes and get a nice clean cut with a carpet knife.
BigDaddy I did not know Homosote could be cut with a carpet knife. Does it snap like styrene?
Years ago I used a jig saw that had a toothless knife blade.
good for you
I finally saved up enough money to build the benchwork in detachable segments for moving and making changes. Smallest turn will be 28"radius and largest 36" radius. Using 2" by 2" legs and cross bracing with supports for detachable table top at about 16" (or less) and 3" overhang. Using "1/2 inch" plywood for table and homasote atop that with 2 outer mainlines on cork roadbed with switch yard and depot. Using T-nuts and carriage bolts for levelers. Benchwork should be done in about a week. Will order table-top plywood and homasote (cut with a metal straight edge and a carpet knife) in late June. Will send pictues of items when done.
rrebell
Didn't fiqure in that high of meds cost. Guess we are lucky as for the most part, we don't do meds, not that the doctors didn't try. Thought you were getting things like meds thru the VA.
My copays and all dental come out of my pocket - to the tune of the first $5,000 in meds per year and all tests and two thirds of the office visits. All dental is cash up front - no copays.
KB5JCX I guess you dont know all. I get $800 per month for retirement and $1200 per month SS due to my military service and a job I had for a few years afterward. Texas teachers do not pay into SS - just retirement. Not a lot to live on. My wife taught 30 years and only gets about $600 per month more. Try to live on that on today's economy and upgrade things as the house is falling apart.
I guess you dont know all. I get $800 per month for retirement and $1200 per month SS due to my military service and a job I had for a few years afterward. Texas teachers do not pay into SS - just retirement. Not a lot to live on. My wife taught 30 years and only gets about $600 per month more. Try to live on that on today's economy and upgrade things as the house is falling apart.
I believe rhe OP mentioned locating a sourse for Homasote?
In my area (Michigan) Home Depot sells the "real" Homasote brand, about $30 bucks per sheer.
Lowes does not, they have imitation homasote.
Mike
KB5JCXAt this time, I am still painting white-tied flex-track. Waiting for next month for the lumber for the benchwork.
I've seen flex-track with white ties. Are they suppose to simulate concrete ties?
EDIT: Never mind, I just search and found some at Walthers. Yup, concrete ties.
KB5JCX Alas, I have big problem. I don't get much of a stipend for retirement. I lost two of my favorite engines, but neither is DCC. I cannot afford to switch to DCC. Do I just let my heart break? Live with it? Get over it? Is there a place I can get a 44T or DS-1? Can I scratch build these? Where and how do I choose the right can engine? Do I just trash it all and find another hobby? Has the hobby evolved into a hobby only for the rich? I appreciate any advice. Perhaps my quote is appropriate. Thanks.
Alas, I have big problem. I don't get much of a stipend for retirement. I lost two of my favorite engines, but neither is DCC. I cannot afford to switch to DCC. Do I just let my heart break? Live with it? Get over it? Is there a place I can get a 44T or DS-1? Can I scratch build these? Where and how do I choose the right can engine? Do I just trash it all and find another hobby? Has the hobby evolved into a hobby only for the rich? I appreciate any advice. Perhaps my quote is appropriate. Thanks.
From what I have seen of today's teachers they make a pretty good retirement compared to what I make on social security and a small state retirement for 12 years of service. I run a 14 x14 around the room DC layout with mostly ebay purchases but some new equipment and don't feel I am breaking the bank doing it. Just add a little bit each month and year and in 4-5 years you will be amazed at what you have accumulated. Yes, you can spend a lot but you don't have to if you budget and look for bargins.
At this time, I am still painting white-tied flex-track. Waiting for next month for the lumber for the benchwork.
KB5JCX
BigDaddyDCC engines can run on DC, but if there are no plans to unltimately convert to DCC, why buy all the bells and whistles that you won't here on a 30 year old power pack?
The reason I wish to continue to DC and not DCC is that I cannot afford it. The loco's I wish to replace may be DCC ready or DCC only. I could not find any to fit my needs with DC only. So, I had to know. Thank you ALL very much for helping me out on this. I am so much relieved! RL
KB5JCXHe said I could run a DCC loco (can engine?) on a DC layout (of the old days and power supplies built in the late 1980's or early 1990's.
Well, there are a couple of manufacturers, Atlas and Bachmann come to mind, that have "dual-mode" decoders. When you take it out of the box, it's set for DC. By removing or rearranging the "jumper plugs", you can change it to DCC.
I have many Athearn locomotives from the "Blue Box" era, the 80's and 90's, DC, that did run on DCC, but the motor makes a lot of noise, and you can't leave them sit on a DCC powered track, as it will burn out the motor. I have installed DCC decoders in these, but that's another topic.
Many of the newer locomotives come "DCC Ready", which is different than "Dual-Mode", in that a DCC ready locomotive is DC right out of the box, and you can remove the jumper plugs, and "plug in" a DCC decoder.
Look at the box, read all of what it says, and ask questions.
Hon30critter I think Steve was objecting to the (now removed) statement that there are sales on this forum. There recently have been other posts in other threads where someone is implying they have some of "those" they are willing to sell.
I suppose it's because MR has retail advertisers. They are unwilling to host a classified section, because their advertisers might object, and reasonably so.
DCC engines can run on DC, but if there are no plans to unltimately convert to DCC, why buy all the bells and whistles that you won't here on a 30 year old power pack?
I just phoned a retailer (name not revealed) and spoke to one of the "technicians." He said I could run a DCC loco (can engine?) on a DC layout (of the old days and power supplies built in the late 1980's or early 1990's. This is contrary to what I heard from a retired friend of mine? Any thing left out of this formula? Any conformation whether I can or cannot? - RL
Steven OtteI have to point out that there are no "For Sales" here. Advertsing or linking to items for sale is prohibited under the posted rules of the Forum.
Hi Steven:
I may be a bit slow here, but does that mean that we can't use an eBay item as an example (assuming that I am not the seller)? I recently posted a link to some LEDs on eBay just to show the OP what I was talking about. Did I break the rules?
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
My error. I've just started here, haven't explored the various sub-forum areas, and assumed there was the "usual" for sale / trade subforum. I stand corrected.
BowserTB Again, watch the For Sales here and on other rail forums, you could pick up a small layout rig like the NCE Power Cab Starter Set.
Again, watch the For Sales here and on other rail forums, you could pick up a small layout rig like the NCE Power Cab Starter Set.
For the benefit of BowserTB and others new to the MR Forums, I have to point out that there are no "For Sales" here. Advertsing or linking to items for sale is prohibited under the posted rules of the Forum.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Most, if not all DCC locos default to DC operation, plus most modern production locos are available as DC only, so you've got that going for you. Like programming in PERL, there's ALWAYS another way to do something in this hobby.