Toy train operating and collecting

Morning.  SUNNY!!!!! and warm.  Off to the lake to take pictures and plant some shrubs and etc before it starts back raining [Sunday and Monday].  Might get on top of Ranger barn and do some caulking and put on a ridge cap [metal was just bent over].  Have a tiny leak at the roof crest.  Bought some ridge cap from Lowes and it is already up there.  Wanted someone with me in case I slide off the roof [which I doubt].  Also good to have someone steady ladder when getting back off the roof.  Wifey is on the way home and will be here any minute.

OT and Brent, circular [skill as we call them] saws are about the most dangerous of tools.  Glad both are OK.  It ties with chainsaws.

Ohio State????  do they play football?

Got to be back home before 3:30 as 4:00 meeting [kickoff of 2010 census] in neighboring town.  I have to say a few words.

Have a good one.

 Chief .... just in case ... please do have someone there if you're going to be on a roof ... you made me remember all those chainsaw notches in my boots when i used to cut and burn wood .... I miss those days ... I felled the trees ... drug them ... sawed/cut/trimmed and split em ... was a heck of alot of work but loved it . Of course there's nothing like a 40-50 foot tree kicking back on you ... talk about a thrill ... BE CAREFUL BUDDY .... even a grandkid with a cell phone watching and keeping an eye on you JUST IN CASE .

Good morning

50s and overcast

RT check the chain sprockets closely on those old Weavers, they were  prone to splitting. P&D had some better ones made and we would install them before the engine left the store. They are that bad. I went back to Kroger this morning, figured for five bucks another turkey in the freezer is a good deal. Eggs, small portion of potatoes and bacon for breakfast. One toast.

Have a great weekend...S.J.

Good Morning,

Still somewhat warm down here in south Florida, around 80 again today, but a little cooler overnight.

Installed a True Blast 2 horn into my Lionel engine that had only a plain horn it, sound much better to me. Also upgraded a Williams unpowered F-7 diesel to a powered unit, now a heavy puller, maybe I should have put the True Blast 2 horn in it but don't thing there was enough room for it.

Going to work later today, around 1:30pm. Had a few days off, went to Camilla GA with my wife, weather was a little cooler up there. The heavy rains missed that part of Georgia and went closer to Atlanta GA.

Lee F.

I made a trip ro Walmart on m way home today to get some stuff. I am experimenting with a substitute for the Flyer mohair, and I'll post the results asap. The material I found is cheap, readily available, and more importantly synthetic. That should eliminate the moth problem that plagues mohair. I also got some white paint to redo the window outlines on the 650s, and possibly the running board stripes on the 332AC.

Morning all, off to Pasadena Convention Center to help set up the DCS demonstration layout for Cal Stewart.

Laz, I shot a squirrel when I was a kid with a 12 gauge shotgun.  No contest!  Not much left of it either at close range.

Chief, Have someone watch you on the roof.  I don't want to read about you in the papers.

later,

Ray

jonadel:

Doug-- We had our jackets and jeans on, great two hour tour, the Navy ships just amazed me. I got your PM. I think I could get used to SD. See you Saturday.

Dennis-- Median price of homes on Coronado $1.5 million ...................

I'll take two - no make that three.

Dennis - I forgot about the wild hogs. They are around but I haven't shot at any. I hear they can be mean even before they are shot. Some Grits sprinkled on the opossum and squirrel might help.

Speaking of a Helix, did anyone see "I Love Toy Trains" on RFD-TV yesterday? They showed a double Helix made into a figure 8, where trains passed from one Helix to the other. They did say the builder was a design engineer.

Ray - For a hangover, I think I would rather have "some hair of the dog that bit me".

I wander if squirrels are like people, they are what they eat. City squirrels probably taste like garbage.

 Speaking of oysters, I hear some areas are about to pass a law requiring oysters be pasteurized or nuked before selling.

laz - shooting squirrels with a pistol sure beats using a shot gun. About all that's left then is a grease spot.

 Pat

Hello All....Havn't posted in a few weeks. Things here are the same, still trying to find a job. Weather today is beautiful after almost a week of rain.

 I remember eating squirrel, rabbit and pheasent as a kid and don't remember hating any of it. Dad would go for small game maybe once a year but I remember him complaining about how it was all hunted out and too many people in one area so buy the time I was old enough to go he had stopped and concentrated on fishing. I also think he was spoiled by our years in alaska, Jersey hunting in the sixtys couldn't compare to alaska in the fiftys. I finally did get my license when I was in my early twentys and went with my older brother one time, nobody got anything except cold and wet and never went again.   Steve

Evenin' boys.  Sunny & 57 here in the Mid-Atlantic region.  Friday!

Phish - Not on blocks.  Marina owner actually has a shipping cradle for a Hunter 27.  She looks smaller out of the drink.

Ole Timer - Just a couple things on my want list.  First) GARMIN Colorado 400C 2) New Spectra sheets.

SteveW - Hang in there.

lionroar88 - A peg would have been cooler than a scar...

But Fife, according to Keanu Reeves, (the replacements), Chicks dig scars....

Evening all from beautiful Southern Ohio,

Watched a beautiful 10 pt. Buck this morning on the way into work.  I keep the field glasses in the car this time of the year.  Watched him for several minutes.  I have got to find time to start hunting again.

Jim – Thanks for the tip on the 600 to redo.  I’m watching it now.  The one last night just went higher than I can go right now.  It was worth every bit of what it went for.  I know what you mean about the tabs.  The Baker Book said to look carefully to see which direction to bend them back and I’ll bend them just enough to get through the slot.  On re-assembly I twist in the original direction and only as much as needed.  If I can get by without re-twisting them, I leave them alone.

Brent – I can really identify with what you are saying.  It is frustrating when an engineer says a piece of equipment will or will not operate based on numbers and specs, and they refuse to listen to 30+ years experience with the equipment, then we need to come up with a plan to recover an over aggressive schedule the engineers developed.

TGIF

May God bless

Jim

Good afternoon all, back from Pasadena Convention Center.  We are all set up for the show tomorrow and Sunday.  Looking forward to running the trains and also to do some shopping at the meet.  New convention center is larger than the old exibition hall.  This one is about 50,000 square feet.  Layouts, table sales, auction and everything is in one hall now.  They used to put the layouts in an annex separate from the table sales.

Pat, don't know about nuked oysters but I have always just cooked them good and never had a problem.  I would not recommend eating raw oysters now however.  Too risky.

later,

Ray

Jim,

       I have seen references to a book by Baker, but I don't know where I can get the book. Is it better than the K Line service manual?

I have been doing Flyer repairs all afternoon as well as tonight. I used an Elmer's white paint pen to redo the window outlines on the 650 passenger cars as well as the stripes on the 332. I was able to avoid getting the stripes on the 332 too perfect so that it sill looks original. The renewed window outlines really make the 650s pop now.

I decided to fix that 16B that has been giving me trouble for some time now. I replaced the roler and had it tested and put back together when I decided to try to squeeze the handle clip tighter. That was a really bad idea. I've got to find another clip now.

Jim

I've wondered about using the white pens.  I have used black sharpies with success, I ned to get me some! 

The Baker book is a really good resource and shows a lot of neat repair techniques, where the service manual is more of exploded diagrams, wiring etc.  If I could have only one, I'd pick the service manual.  The Baker book is a more of a how-to based.

Jim

Jim,

       Is the Baker book still in print? I'd like to get it due to how lacking the service manual seems at times.