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COFFEE POT #14 [December], for all to take a drink and chat. Welcome all posters. 4 yrs old and still going.
Posted by ChiefEagles on Monday, November 30, 2009 9:02 PM

Getting it started early as not staying up till midnight.  Anyway, this is better for Buckeye as his bedtime was 8 PM.   

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Posted by anjdevil2 on Monday, November 30, 2009 9:16 PM

 WHOO HOOOO!!! I get in on the first page!!! YEA ME!!!!

OK, time for bed...all this excitement....

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Posted by Sturgeon-Phish on Monday, November 30, 2009 9:27 PM

Right behind you Rich!

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Posted by sir james I on Monday, November 30, 2009 9:44 PM

me too

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Posted by Brutus on Monday, November 30, 2009 10:00 PM

Me too!

Tired - didn't sleep very well last night after being off for 4 days.  A friend showed us a pic her son sent from Mosul - it's just desert as far as the eye can see. 

 

Got my new Trains magazine to read and also still need to read CTT.  Busy busy!  Tardis is ready, so let's get the show on the road!

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Posted by dbaker48 on Monday, November 30, 2009 10:20 PM
Confused

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Posted by 8ntruck on Monday, November 30, 2009 10:42 PM

What the hay.  Might as well join the others bragging about being on the first page.

I'm going to stay up a little longer though.

 Checked the Lionel web site this weekend.  Says that the Maiden Rescue is shipped.  Maybe the one I pre-ordered ever so long ago will show up soon....

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Posted by Sturgeon-Phish on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 5:11 AM

Good Morning all,

Just a quick check in before going to work.  Starting to get my voice back.

Jim T - There is a guy on the bay with the 7 61 semaphore 2 for $59 buy it now.  He had two listings and I bought one of them.  The one that is left looks nice.

Buckeye - Hope you are feeling better.

Got to go

May God bless

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Posted by fifedog on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 6:57 AM

...guess it don't take much for some folkSign - Dots

Mornin' boys.  A crisp 34 here in the Mid-Atlantic region.  I've got court this morning.

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Posted by cheapclassics on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 7:10 AM

Good morning all,

IIABSDISEI with temps near 50 today.  I, as well as the rest of us, enjoy being on the first page of a new 'pot.  We hauled stuff outside last night and most of it was picked up first thing this morning.  What is left we can put in a trash can for next week.  May do some more work tonight.  Wife suggested I use some old suitcases to store some train items.  Not a bad idea for reducing amount of space items take up.  Got me thinking about some other ideas as well.  I watched a tape of the last F-1 race of the season last night.  No YMCA.  Too tired.  I had a little extra on the dining car for breakfast before sending it on to "Points East".  TBIL and I can drive.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

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Posted by anjdevil2 on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 7:54 AM

Happy Tuesday! Banged Head

 

60 now, cloudy and very gray, up to a blistering 66, then rain and violent weather on the way or so says the weather gurus....Sign - Dots

 

Finished off the last of the Thanksgiving Turkey.  Took Princess to dance class, discussed the PHL move with a friend that lives in DE and he has the required PA inspection license.  Got some insight and some ideas from him.  I have to wait until the “new” manager shows up (a week from yesterday).  If it were just me, I’d be gone, just so many itmes and loose ends to tie up before I jump. 

Decisions, decisions.....

 

Started looking at the track plan for the tree, a double track main and a Fastrack trolley.  Hope to start work on it tomorrow, after I get the rest of the ornaments on the tree and vacuum the needles up.

 

Thursday looks like outside lights will get done, sans the roof lights, that’ll wait until Saturday, after the HOG meeting.

 

Jim Phish – got the package, looks good, will open it later in the day.  Nice pictures of my car on the SPF!!!

 

The last 2 cars will be on the Christmas layout, pictures in the next week or so then on to Nawth Caroliner.

 

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Posted by sir james I on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 8:16 AM

Good Morning

30/40 for today, some sun right now.

I got page one because I was in the neighborhood at the time, so just jumped in. No biggie.

I have plans for the day but I am not so sure right now if a body function will allow me to go out. Unusual for me but whacha goin do. I smell bacon so off I go.

Happy December 1st and Merry Christmas.....S.J.

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Posted by cnw1995 on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 8:55 AM
Aloha from a sunny and cold Chicago where I am at the office for the only time this week. Gotta burn some vacation before year-end. Mike, that is a good idea re suitcases. Our 'family' suitcases are more than 20 years old, but they still work. The bride is always looking for an excuse to get new ones.... Since she is going on a retreat tomorrow and Thur, I hope to get some good train time in! May you feel better, Sir J. Rich, you seem to be wisely considering your options about your possible new situation. Never been to Philly. Oh wait, once I was on a train from NY to Washington that had to detour to Philadelphia. Made the first page!

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Posted by Ole Timer on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 9:18 AM

fifedog

...guess it don't take much for someSign - Dots folk

Mornin' boys.  A crisp 34 here in the Mid-Atlantic region.  I've got court this morning.

 Fifedog ... I was cruising by Harpers Ferry the other day and crossed over to the Maryland side and there was a huge sign about a train museum there ... have you been or do you know anything about it ?  One I've never seen ???

I must have missed something ... sounds like I'm glad I did .... someone must have gotten testy about something ... huh ?

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 9:51 AM

dbaker48
Confused

You stay Confused  Whistling

Morning.  Busy day.  School Board swearing in at 3 PM, reception and their Board meeting with new majority at 5.  Should be interesting.

Had first freeze of the fall [got to 32 degrees].  Crazy weather.  Raining last night and had to run A/C on truck going to IL's.  Stopped raining and got windy by the time we left.  This AM, looked like snohio it was so white.  Temps already back up to 50's.  Suppose to be cool tomorrow and as new front with big rains comes through, temps sore to summer levels.  Even calling for T'boomers.  Rule is, T'boomers and in 10 days, snohio.  

Later. 

 

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Posted by laz 57 on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 10:09 AM

HI GYZ,

  WOW lots o stuff I missed out on.  Glad all had a nice Thanksgiving.  Well Buck Season started yesterday, rainy and mild.  sat out in rain till 10 am then started raining real hard, came in ate lunch then went back out only saw 2 deer.  Not much shooting.  Oh well got til Dec12.  Maybe get lucky?

PAT glad to see your family and you take that walk.  Get rid of those calories.

DENNIS glad to see turkey broiler worked well.  Oilless?

BUCKEYE, belated TGIF, get the ROCK and RYE out for that cold.

Stay frosty,

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Posted by Papadiesel on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 10:34 AM

Good Morning,

Just returned from the Dr. Had an echo and was given my H1N1. This old fart is no longer expendable. Created an excuse to go to my local train store. So Daisy and I are GONE!

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 11:10 AM

Jim,

        Thanks for the heads up on the 761, but I'll have to pass right now. When I am ready to buy a semaphore, I think I'll hire Sam for the job.Big Smile I've always liked the looks of those.

 I spent last night servicing the 4 piece 302 that I bought at the show. I installed new brushes and springs, because whoever was in there before stretched the coil springs to make slotted brushes work. The commutator has a very slight groove in it as a result of the stretched springs and incorrect brushes. I am going to leave the commutator as it is and see what happens. Are blue sparks between the brushes and commutator okay? I've never paid attention to that before. The commutator, as well as the brush tubes, is clean and shiny, and the brushes and springs are brand new.

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Posted by fifedog on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 11:12 AM

SORRY. Oops Just tryin' to be cute, and must have caught a few of you before your 2nd cup.  It's all good.

Ole Timer - It's a small layout on the hillside, and IMHO, not worth the hassle you have to go thru to get into Harper's Ferry.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 11:32 AM

fifedog

SORRY. Oops Just tryin' to be cute, and must have caught a few of you before your 2nd cup.  It's all good.

Fife,

         I sat through an economics class (1.5 hours ZzzZzz) this morning, so it went right over me.WinkSmile

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Posted by anjdevil2 on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 11:47 AM

pssst - Fife - I caught the humor....Laugh

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Posted by dougdagrump on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 12:04 PM

Hey Y'all.

Came on late last nite and got Confused with two "pots" and didn't know which to use so just went to bed. Clown

Fife, Some of us old geezers are a tad slow, sometimes even a 2nd cup isn't enuff.

Stayed up way to late last nite, at least for me, working on the cars for the Christmas Train. The eyes are definitely a bit irritated and fuzzy this morning.

No museum this weekend for me, with the "Christmas on the Prado" festivities all the museums are free and open til 9PM. Generally we will see 5K +/- a day for the event.

Time for another cup.   

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Posted by phillyreading on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 1:46 PM

green97probe

Jim,

        Thanks for the heads up on the 761, but I'll have to pass right now. When I am ready to buy a semaphore, I think I'll hire Sam for the job.Big Smile I've always liked the looks of those.

 I spent last night servicing the 4 piece 302 that I bought at the show. I installed new brushes and springs, because whoever was in there before stretched the coil springs to make slotted brushes work. The commutator has a very slight groove in it as a result of the stretched springs and incorrect brushes. I am going to leave the commutator as it is and see what happens. Are blue sparks between the brushes and commutator okay? I've never paid attention to that before. The commutator, as well as the brush tubes, is clean and shiny, and the brushes and springs are brand new.

Jim, if it don't spark too much with the AF # 302 and it don't get really hot, warm OK, I wouldn't worry about it as the old AF's spark a lot at the brushes.

Been working on my trains a bit, got my Williams F-7 AA units to pull my Atlas Amtrac 21 inch passenger cars, at first the single A unit did fine until I got half way into a curve then a derailment. I added a second A unit and it worked great the second time, the trick was to put the front end coupler by the Atlas passenger cars for a longer swivel point.

Still have not been able to use the uncoupler feature on my PS-1 MTH steam loco. Maybe I will take it apart and see if it works by jumping it out with a small test transformer and some wires to it.

Anjdevil, I have heard that the Reading Railroad owned 51% of the stock of CNJ during the 1960's. Maybe that is why the CNJ & Reading were friendly towards each other and allowed freight traffic from other to move easily thru.

Still a bit hot down here in south Florida for early December, 83 for a high today, overnight about 67.

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Posted by Sturgeon-Phish on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 2:02 PM

Afternoon all from Sunny Southern Ohio

 

Rich – Glad you have the cars.  I have your car boxed up and ready to mail out Wednesday hopefully.  I bet you will be glad to get your car back.

 

Jim – The sparking may settle out after the commutator face and the brushes mate to one another.  I’ve set a loco in a stand before and let it run to mate the surfaces where I could keep an eye on things.

 

May God bless

Jim

 

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Posted by jonadel on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 5:55 PM

Big day here in the Heartlands with a non stop day of get 'er done before it get's cold, I am tired.  Got the bike back today after a major tune up AND an evaluation on what she's worth on a trade in on a Goldwing.............  not quite sure how to approach the boss on this one but I do have a few idears.  Also dropped off the ATV for a tune up as it's about time to push snow plus I dropped off the riding lawn mower for a tune so she's ready for spring.  Fortunately, I did get a big work out in this AM before the drop offs took place. 

 Our Iowa November and Dec. 1 has just been wonderful weather wise, certainly superior to nort caroliner.  Time to get the  Christmas trains ready for the tree's, that's sure fun for me and the boss, it's always a party setting those items up.

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Posted by SPMan on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 8:11 PM

Happy December first all,  It is 6:00PM here now and I almost missed another whole day on the forum.  It has been a lazy day but my son and I mangaged to get up some Christmas lights on the house today and will do some finishing touches tomorrow.  Had to get them up in self defense as my neighbors had theirs up while I was gone on Thanksgiving.  On December 5th, it will be two years since my last emergency surgery for an intestinal problem.  It is also two years since I quit smoking.  Best thing I ever did but I sympathize with those still fighting it.  It is a tough thing to kick.  In my case it was made easier by waking up with an oxygen canula stuck in my nose.  I only need oxygen at night now and do well in the daytime on my own.  I have been enjoying my scale Golden Gate Depot Pullman cars that I bought at Cal Stewart.  Ordered two more 12-1 Pullmans from Justrains.  Another train meet coming up Sunday.  TTOS Southwestern Division Christmas meet and is an open house.  Got a card from another train show coming up this month at Ontario, California Convention Center.  This is a meet for all gauges and open to the public for $8 admission.  I think I'm spent out though on buying trains for a while.  Yea right! we've heard that one before.  Well I think I am unless I see something that really grabs me.  Best wishes to all of you for the coming Christmas season and prayers for those still suffering in one way or another.

Ray 

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Posted by Brutus on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 8:14 PM

Hey Lee - I think we hit the mid 50's here today in St. Louis!  But, never fear, we are due for our first snow storm tomorrow already Sigh

Fighting with the kids to get their science projects done.  I think this was described as being akin to "herding cats" by some politico - fits this situation Banged Head  On the bright side, we have like 1000 pounds of M&Ms left over from my daughter's experiment.

Tardis is ready and I see some beacons are lighting up - won't be long now Laugh

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 8:26 PM

Jim and Lee,

                    Thanks for the info. 

Brutus,

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Posted by chicochip on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 8:45 PM

Jim,

It's obvious that the previous "repair" method  was simply turning the brushes over with the slot turned downward towards the commutator plates of the motor coils. The slot in the brush was designed to hold the tension spring in place - at the other end. I'm concerned now that your brushes will gradually take the shape of the commutator plates (in obverse) and become even more inefficient.

Sparks are NOT typical.

I suggest you disassemble the motor again, burnish the brush ends (top and bottom), and thoroughly clean and burnish the commutator plates. USE VERY, VERY LIGHT ABRASIVES for both brushes and commutator. Actually, toothpaste is not a bad choice! Just be sure to clean up the parts well with some rubbing alcohol.

Meanwhile, shop your local swap meets for parts and pieces. You may find a few brushes or two...

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Posted by sir james I on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 8:58 PM

Good Evening

I made it to the mall, Not much else today.

Waiting for Brutus and the thingy, Banilla ready.

S.J.

 

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