Ever lose yer cool on your RR?

[vsmith]

How does the old saying go?

If it Jams, Force It..
If It Breaks, Well, Now You Have Replace It Anyway....

[philnrunt]

vsmith- Logic of the higest order worthy of Spock himself..

[Sunset Limited]

12 years ago I got back in the hobby and did'nt have much space at the time, so I decided to go with N-scale, I purchased 3 locomotives, one Model Power, Life Like-before they improved and Kato. Now Talking about loosing your COOL!! The only thing that ran perfect was the Kato! Also I jump into it by starting off big and those dime a dozen switches! Man I was killing myself. Well I decided to switch to HO and made a smaller layout, it was small, but It ran great! You can't beat Athearn. Now I want to go back to N-Scale and try again, I have better equipment now, Atlas, Kato, Improved Life-Like proto 2000. And start small and simple! Better Switches! [banghead]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by NightCrawler

i never had patience as a kid. it still suprises me that i can actually build all the locomotives that i do, and add all the tiny parts.

but every once in a while, i just want to throw one, but then i realize how expensive the thing is.

but the cheaper items arent so lucky. i had 2 boxcars that just would not owrk. they would not glue together very well, they wouldnt track very well, and overall, they looked like crap. so, one got 3 M80's twisted together and shoved in the door. not much left of that car. the other one got set up on a fencepost i the back of my 10 acres, and used as a.30-06 target. i hit the *** on the second shot from 100yds.

kids, DO NOT try this at home [:D][:D]

My technique is slightly different, I take them out on the lawn and set them in the grass. Then I start the 18hp lawn tractor, lower the mowing deck to the "Lawn Scalping" setting................ and my kids like to see how many pieces one train car can be made into!!
[:D]INSTANT GRATIFICATION[:D]!!

[Anonymous]

Whenever I get sick of dealing with some imperfect junk I bought from a manufacturer I throw it against the cement wall of my basement. It never creates a problem for me again. Then I never buy that brand of product again!

[on30francisco]

Many years ago I had an AHM loco. It would keep stalling every time I ran it on on the cheap brass track that was available back then. Every time it stalled I would pound on it with my fist yelling "wake up! wake up!" I finally hit it too hard and the shell cracked.

[railman]

Yep. The famous start out to fix one thing and six hours later, there I am, dirty, discouraged, and bleeding, and the ballast still isn't poured. Happens to everyone.

[Anonymous]

I've found, both in the real world and in the modeling world an intersting law of nature. If something is totally not working, it's a 50 cent piece or 15 minute fix (ie: broken motor wire), if it's just annoying, then its a bunch of money and hours of tinkering!

I think I most lose my cool when after spending hours trying to figure something out, making every conceivable tweak that I can think of, regaging wheels, rewiring a turnout, cleaning the railheads, resoldering the motor leads etc . . . . it ends up being that the power wasn't plugged in (and I'm the guy that laughs everytime I see in a 'trouble shooting' section of an instruction manual "make sure the power is plugged in."). Of course I end up apologizing to my poor models that have taken such a verbal abusing by me. But you know what? They don't hold a grudge . . . but I swear I after the power incident one of my engines said "Dave, your such a dumb *****."