What is on your workbench right now...

["JaBear"]

dknelson

Perhaps find a way to let it be known that you found an article in an old MR about model railroad uses for sewing machine mechanisms, such as animating model pile drivers.   I know - we could start a thread in these forums on that very topic, submit some authoritative sounding comments to the thread, complete with photos of destroyed sewing machines, then you could print it all out and leave it casually in a place where it almost has to be seen.  I think the sewing machines would be placed out of your reach fairly quickly. Dave "anything to help" Nelson  

Gidday Dave, brilliant idea,  however to shamelessly misquote Bill Shakespeare , “He doth protest too much, methinks.” Her- in-doors is a tailor by trade, but with the advent of cheap imported clothing some years ago found it more lucrative to start a domestic cleaning service, so hung up her scissors and tape measure. Recently she was approached by the local repertory society to help out with costumes and the wardrobe so she’s happily back plying her trade, as her hobby, and she’s been teaching the daughter, home from university, the arts of dress making, so in reality it’s been good to have a chat while sharing the dining room table, plus I've managed not to get adhesive on the clothing. The daughter will be going back to varsity tomorrow, so it will be a bit quiet around here. Besides for some of her older clients, her-in-doors will do their recycling for them and occasionally brings home bits and bobs that she thinks may be of use for my scratch building projects.

Cheer, the Bear. (Boss of Home when I’m at work).

 

 

[kbkchooch]

dknelson

 

 

 

Gidday. it’s not so much of what’s  on my work bench, but what shouldn’t be. Her-in-doors and daughter staging a coup........

............. and winning.

Help!!!!

Cheers, the Bear.

 

 

 

 

 

Perhaps find a way to let it be known that you found an article in an old MR about model railroad uses for sewing machine mechanisms, such as animating model pile drivers.   I know - we could start a thread in these forums on that very topic, submit some authoritative sounding comments to the thread, complete with photos of destroyed sewing machines, then you could print it all out and leave it casually in a place where it almost has to be seen.  I think the sewing machines would be placed out of your reach fairly quickly.

Dave "anything to help" Nelson  

 

Dave, OUTSTANDING idea!!!

In addition to some 3 B&O units I have ripped apart for a customer for paint, (waiting outside temps in the 70s). 4 Genesis F7s awaiting renumbering, 3 FAs awaiting the same, and a S2 awaiting sound (All fo the same guy!)

For myself, I am working on a Tyco Chattanooga Choo choo , repowered with a NWSL gearbox and a can, new tender with DCC,

 

and if that isnt enough, a full re-wheel and remotoring of a Penn Line Midget Diesel! along with new paint & details

Yes, I is a sick puppy!  <--------- insert maniacle laughter here~!

 

[dknelson]

Gidday. it’s not so much of what’s  on my work bench, but what shouldn’t be. Her-in-doors and daughter staging a coup........

............. and winning.

Help!!!!

Cheers, the Bear.

 

 

Perhaps find a way to let it be known that you found an article in an old MR about model railroad uses for sewing machine mechanisms, such as animating model pile drivers.   I know - we could start a thread in these forums on that very topic, submit some authoritative sounding comments to the thread, complete with photos of destroyed sewing machines, then you could print it all out and leave it casually in a place where it almost has to be seen.  I think the sewing machines would be placed out of your reach fairly quickly.

Dave "anything to help" Nelson  

[wjstix]

I have an old Walthers FM switcher. I converted it to DCC a long time ago, and hoped I would be able to do a quick sound decoder installation by plugging in the new sound decoder. But, I didn't do a good enough job getting the wires organized with the original harness installation and I can't get the speaker & enclosure to fit in the engine and put it all together without something rubbing on the moving parts of the motor and gearing. Looks like I'll have to disconnect and start over, probably won't be as time consuming as it seems now....

[P&Slocal]

JaBear, your work bench kind of resembles mine in that it is in reality the dining room table, so food is the thing most often on my workbench.

farrellaa comments that they say a cluttered work area is the sign of genius. "They" also say that cleanliness is next to godliness. However, I guess if you reside in The LION's den messiness is next to godliness too.

My workbench consists of the dining room table and the top of my bookshelf right now and there is nothing worth showing.

[georgev]

My workbench has an old Oriental Limited HO scale USRA Pacific on it.  I've had this locomotive for about 25 years but only now did it come up for painting, lettering and weathering.  It is an undecorated model but the paint needs a topcoat. 

It also needs some better track pickup.  While the model runs really well, it tends to lose pickup from the right side driving wheels.  I installed a decoder a few years ago which made this even worse.  With the brake detail on the loco it looked like adding wipers to the tender trucks was a better option.  You can see the tender trucks have sprouted some wires as well as the sockets they plug into on the rat's nes..  um, decoder wiring.  Now on to the paint booth....

George V.

[Trynn_Allen2]

Let's see.

1. A Pitcarin Autogyro (HO Scale of course)
2. A Roundhouse door sided caboose that I've had for ages underwent surgery and is now primed, and partially painted caboose red and grimy black
3. Four Athearn Flat Cars that need loads, course I need to find the loads first...
4. A loading platform for a modified Model Power Pickle Factory.  The building is the same, but the vat farm has 10 AMB Pickle vats and a custom platform and cover over it.
5.  AMB small hay & livery barn.  It's built and primed now helping my 4 year old paint it.  She does the base colors and I touch up
6. Repairs to the traveling club modules.
7. 8 or 9 different circus wagons in various stages of completion (box to just needing trim paint)

["JaBear"]

Gidday. it’s not so much of what’s  on my work bench, but what shouldn’t be. Her-in-doors and daughter staging a coup........

............. and winning.

Help!!!!

Cheers, the Bear.

[shayfan84325]

I'm working on four Labelle passenger car kits.  As designed, they are too long for my layout.  So, the back shop boys are "abbreviating" them.  Here are the coach, dining, and baggage cars (the open box in the back is the soon-to-be-started observation car:

[bruce22]

Relocating a decoder from a bb Athearn A unit to an unpowered B, more space, less wire clutter. Also installing capacitors on all my Soundtraxx decoders,plus slowly trying to reduce the number of items on my " to do " list.

[trafficdesign]

Just finished my first ever weathering project! What fun! Made a mess on the workbench...

But turned this...

Into this...

And this!!!!!

 

 

[gregc]

making some progress on a simple, hand operated turntable

My base is 1" foam on 1/4" luan.   After drill a 1/4" hole, I cut 10+" pit out of the foam.    I think i can make the turntable bridge from a truss bridge kit, using foam to space them and a 1/4" phono jack held in place with 1/8" plywood.My track is layed on 1/4" sub-base on top of the foam.  The bridge section is about 1 1/8" tall.   I think a piece of balsa under the bridge track will make trackwork heights match.

[Guy Papillon]

Nothing exciting.  Working with plaster cloth to create a base for scenery.

[Southgate]

Rivarossi 2-10-2, with Sagami can motor, home turned flywheel, KTM gear box, tyco drivers and rods. Monogram backhead. It runs smoothly. Finally! 

I'll post pix when (if) I get my other crashed  'puter back.

[howmus]

russ_q4b

BPoi

Unfortunately my cat won't allow me to have a messy workbench, so I have to keep things neat and storable at the end of each session.

 

Bruce

I can relate.   Everything on my workbench is a cat toy, so I have to put most of the stuff away when I am not at my workbench.   As a result I have a very clean workbench.

I don't let my cats go anywhere near the train rooms!!!  That said a neat workbench is not conductive of having fun model railroading...  Here I am having fun:

LOL and 73

[jrbernier]

  Nothing 'under construction'.  I am creating 'Car Cards'/ 'Waybills' at this time....

Jim

[russ_q4b]

BPoi

Unfortunately my cat won't allow me to have a messy workbench, so I have to keep things neat and storable at the end of each session.

 

Bruce

 

I can relate.   Everything on my workbench is a cat toy, so I have to put most of the stuff away when I am not at my workbench.   As a result I have a very clean workbench.

 

[vsmith]

My indoor layout is in G. Finishing an 0-4-0 Inspection engine and building an 0-4-0T quarry engine out of left over parts from past projects.

[bruce22]

Thanks for the pics, makes me feel better. Always thought that a clean workbench was the sign of a deranged mind !!!

[fmilhaupt]

• An older Stewart F7A in Wabash solid blue that's getting a Gyralight and an emergency light installed. Just waiting for a couple more LEDs to arrive, then it'll be the last of over 40 diesels I've been upgrading like that for the Operations Road Show layout.
  
  
• Two Proto 2000 E8As getting the Wabash's solid blue paint job for the same layout.
  
  
• A Bachmann 2-6-0 about to be redetailed as a stand-in for a Pere Marquette M-class Mogul.

[BPoi]

I'm working on two Rail Line D&RGW HOn3 stock cars.  I figured it's been so long since I've actually built a kit I'd do two at once--the first to practice each step on, then the second one to do it better.  The first one's actually not turning out any worse looking than the prototypes eventually did.

 

Unfortunately my cat won't allow me to have a messy workbench, so I have to keep things neat and storable at the end of each session.

 

Bruce

[crhostler61]

A little bit of everything!

My workbench is in a spare bedroom that also serves as: a living room, an office, a library, an A/V room, dining room, computer room, occasional bar...oh yea, and a crash place for my dog and cat to be with dad. I work on trains, firearms...just about anything short of the kitchen sink on it. So there are remnants of...all of the above on my work bench. (Big....LOL)

The room is 9x10.

Mark H

 

[farrellaa]

I found my camera: here are my 3 workbenches. No 1 has the 1/4" plywood sub worksurface. They say a cluttered work area is the sign of a genius!

  -Bob

[BroadwayLion]

Medina1128

Lion, let's do the SHORT list... what ISN'T on your work bench?

 

Tools NOT on work bench of LION...

 

The machine in question is a "brake" used to bend sheet metal. This one is quite capable of bending metal for a 1:1 scale locomotive. Unfortunately, it is not for the train room, but has been installed in the Metal Shop. I do not know *why* they put it in there, as we already have an 8' brake in that shop.

Maybe it will go down to the farm shop.

 

ROAR

[farrellaa]

I can't find my workbenches (3) as they are all covered with 'stuff'. I put a 12" x 15" pc of 1/4" plywood on one of them on top of the 'stuff' so i would have a place to work. I really need to clean at least one of them up. I would post photos but I can't find my camera either? It is amazing what you can do in such a small cluttered space. At least most of my most used tools are on top!

Lion: your bench is clean by my standards!

   -Bob

[Medina1128]

BroadwayLion

Well, You *did* ask...

 

Lion, let's do the SHORT list... what ISN'T on your work bench?

[dti406]

Let's See:

Atlas RS-36 being detailed for the NKP, Athearn BB GP40-2 for Chessie, Atlas U23B for the PC, Stewart C-628 for the LV, Atlas C-425 for the NH.

Athearn 86' HiCube for the MKT under Construction, E&C 50' PS1 for the KCS under Construction, E&C 50' PS1 for the RI under Construction, Rail Yard Models 60' Thrall for the PC under Construction, ECW 65' Gon for the PRR, Athearn 2600 CF Airlside under Construction, IMRC PS 4750 Covered Hopper under Construction, Two Front Range 40' ACF Boxcars under Construction. By under construction, removing cast on detail and replacing with new grabs and ladders, A-line Sill Steps etc.

Painted and being decalled are an Atlas Thrall 4750CF Covered Hopper, 60' IMRC PS Single Door Boxcar and a 60' Walthers Double Door Boxcar.

Rick J

[0-6-0]

Hello Thanks Lion for posting first. Now I dont feel so bad.

I have been working on the layout so bench turns in to a catchall. I am sure there is something I am looking for on it to. Have a nice day Frank

 

 

[BroadwayLion]

Well, You *did* ask...