hscsltb - Thanks bro. I do have a good chemical filter mask for painting, but can't hack those TYVEK jammies for more than 15 mins... I do my best to cover up. Will do a little better next year.
Quick hello before heading out to some friends house for dinner. Spanky, ask your surgeon about using Platelet rich plasma for your repair. Has a lot of growth factors that will aid in healing. They usually soak some gel foam in it and place it over the repair before closing the skin....it is the latest thing.
Will check back later. Hope everyone has a blessed day.Dennis
TCA#09-63805
Fife please use the right ppe when doing that kind of work.A lot of that kind of stuff can be pretty toxic.Tyvek coveralls will help keep you clean and are disposable.Please be safe.
Fife, that was funny....LMAO...!!!
I am the monster in your head...And I thought you'd learn by now, It seems you haven't yet.I am the venom in your skin --- Breaking Benjamin
Evenin' boys. Evenin' English. Sunny & 73 here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Just as nice yesterday, when I went to the boat yard after work, and spent 3 hours hand sanding the bottom of my sailboat with 80 grit. Now, let me paint this for you... The bottom of my hull is painted with Interlux Micron CSC black, a pricey copper based paint. When you sand, the black kinda comes off easy, leaving a color similar to a dull penny. You start sanding about shoulder high, then it's all curvey and down hill, where basically you really are "getting into" your work. Now, even though I used a dust mask, I apparently did a mighty fine job of covering myself with the particles. When I was done, I resembled something similar to one of those lantern wielding lawn ornaments. I got a couple double takes at the marina, but the best came when I stopped in the 7-eleven on, spotted a guy I had locked up twice. He kinda looked at me, then shook his head "nah". Wifey showed no mercy when I walked into the house...
Going to Steelton and Harrisburg tomorrow for some type of train show with my buddy, Tom.
Good afternoon all,
Just a quick update. Various "Powers that be" got together today and hammered out things at work. I am heartened by the outpouring of support from those I will be working for. I just now hope I can live up to their expectations. Also, on another front, my cousin who had the brain work done will be coming home today. Still faces a long recovery and not sure about the long term effects, but your prayers were and are appreciated. How and why this group and gathering of the 'pot came into existence is far beyond me, but I for one am grateful that it exists.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
8n,
Happy birthday. What version of the 3472 did you get? Clean everything and make sure that there is no binding before making any adjustment to the can sweep arm.
Brent,
Happy birthday.
Bob,
I watched the video that you put on YT. I figured that smoke unit would work well.
I have been swamped this past week. I spent the majority of the time studying for a test in a controls class that I am taking, which was the first test of the semester. Hopefully, I did ok. That test covered about 80 pages of notes. I've also been looking at 05 + Mustangs to keep me motivated the rest of the way through the semester. No other plans, so I'll probably take the PGT out for a bit since it is nice outside.
dwiemerIn the end, it is up to almighty God for how folks do.
Dennis, I agree with your statement that it is in the end up to the great physician in these matters. None the less we admire the "spoke in the wheel" that you are. I am grateful that there are people like you.
Ray
SPMan
DJSpanky Mornin' guys! Off to NJ after work - taking the SS along as it needs to fail inspection, then get parked for 2-3 months until my knee allows me to get back into it. Was fun to drive it into work this AM, however I took it easy as it badly needs new tires. Can't beat that feeling of a rear-wheel-drive V8. Taking Tyler's engine along with us to NJ - hope to drop it off tomorrow morning, and I hope that they can fix it then, or have it ready at the end of the day. Tyler really wants to hook some cars up to it and see it run. Gonna be a busy day tomorrow in NJ - inspection for the SS, haircut, train shop run, drop off the other car so my mechanic can fix the transmission leak and other issues, got PSE&G (power company) coming in to replace the blower on the furnace, need to pick up my dad's ashes (not sure if we're going to leave them at my parents' house or bring them down for now), need to go to my parents' house to make sure it survived the storm and to close it up. Ah, well.
Mornin' guys!
Off to NJ after work - taking the SS along as it needs to fail inspection, then get parked for 2-3 months until my knee allows me to get back into it. Was fun to drive it into work this AM, however I took it easy as it badly needs new tires. Can't beat that feeling of a rear-wheel-drive V8.
Taking Tyler's engine along with us to NJ - hope to drop it off tomorrow morning, and I hope that they can fix it then, or have it ready at the end of the day. Tyler really wants to hook some cars up to it and see it run.
Gonna be a busy day tomorrow in NJ - inspection for the SS, haircut, train shop run, drop off the other car so my mechanic can fix the transmission leak and other issues, got PSE&G (power company) coming in to replace the blower on the furnace, need to pick up my dad's ashes (not sure if we're going to leave them at my parents' house or bring them down for now), need to go to my parents' house to make sure it survived the storm and to close it up. Ah, well.
Hey Spank,
Can you bring my roadrunner back to VA so I can pick it up? But, then, you may not want the SS back....., 'specially after driving a drop top big block roadrunner.
Hey guys, TGIF
Into the 70's today...thinking about my friend in PA, funeral today outside of Philly (West Chester). Typical Friday, EVERONE here has an issue that only I can solve...go figure (job security).
Got paid and shorted, that will show up in the next check, which is ok. 2nd job came in and now bank has to hold the check 5 days - out of state and now new Credit Union rules...go figure that as well.....
OK BACK to the grindstone...Softball tomorrow, I can't wait!!!!
Good morning all,
IIABSDISEI with temps in the 60s. Did weights and some outdoor walking last night at the YMCA. Played some card games with the family. Had a two hour training session at work today. Not too awful. Old department is still trying to make life H--- for me. I cannot understand why they cannot let it go. This is beyond ridiculous. What part of "NO" do they not understand? Two more weeks....
I had bacon and biscuits on the dining car for breakfast as it rolled in from "Points East". TBIL anytime and I can drive. I hope everyone has a good day.
ChiefEagles OT, taking the wifey to the mountains. Don't forget the "blue pills". Later.
OT, taking the wifey to the mountains. Don't forget the "blue pills".
Later.
Good Morning
Sunny and 65 today, but come tomorrow morning and down we go.
My only plan for the day is to take granny out for a birthday dinner, she wants steak, so there goes my suprise trip to White Castle. Doug M. I hope your told is ditting better. Enjoy your last day of winter, spring starts tomorrow....S.J.
"IT's GOOD TO BE THE KING",by Mel Brooks
Charter Member- Tardis Train Crew (TTC) - Detroit3railers- Detroit Historical society Glancy Modular trains- Charter member BTTS
Morning. Off to pickup the new trailer with 2" ball hitch from welders. I should buy me a welder as I can weld. Then garden work to get cabbage, lettuce, carrots and onions in. Then ribbon cutting and off to the lake house.
Bob, what is that white stuff outside?
Banks, peletized lime like you use on youor lawn. Comes out of the fertilizer distributor better [pull behind JD]. BTW: my PH meter says I am a little alkiline. No lime next year.
Hope Jack has dried out.
Got to send Hudson an email and make sure he is OK. [no word lately]
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Aloha from a sunny and cool Chicago where it is supposed to snow tonight. Ah March. Looks like a good week for everyone and as Laz noted, TGIF. Hope to get a haircut at the local barber school today. Hanging out in the waiting room is priceless. Bob, wind bird looks great!
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Extremely beautiful day today .... hope it's this good tomorrow .... am taking the little english girl to Cumberland and the mountains . Maybe I can get some logs pruned today for log cars ... want some cedar this time . Was installing programs for 2 different guys most of all last night 3 way connection/link ... Spent most of last evening on the phone setting up a huge graphics program with them .... one was a knucklehead ... .... never again .... either on site or never !
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a clear 31 degrees. Going up to 66 today with lots of sunshine.
Today is a busy day. I have the usual chores and then, an errand to run. This afternoon, I have Physical Therapy. That's the nice part of the day. Next month, I am joining the fitness gym at the same building. I can go there and work out as many times, a week, as I want. I will continue to go to PT sessions twice a week. I plan on going to the gym twice a week, also. The PT therapist suggested I do this, to keep active.
Dining car is here for an omlet breakfast.
Buckeye........ TGIF
Y'all have a great Friday.
Chuck
Hello all
TGIF
Busy week. Belated to a couple of you.
Snow's all gone. Thankfully flooding was not much of an issue around her. A little in the flood prone areas.
Went to the Altoona train show on Sunday. Didn't spend much but I did get to spend time with old train friends.
Seafood buffet was crazy again last Friday. 863 paid meals. I'll be headed there after work today, keep me busy till about 8:00. By then I'll be ready for a glass of wine and the Hot Tub.
Another good thing. Son and a friend are going to haul manure today. Then plow the top of the hill for corn. Will have to wait till mid-May to plant. Sooner than that and there is a good chance a late frost will kill the corn if it's up. It will be a while before it's dry enough to plow the bottom.
Since the manure will be done I can spend some time teaching grandson to ride our old Honda 50 tomorrow.
Still try to squeeze in a few minutes to run trains once or twice a week.
Laz, nice display case
Chief, that seems like a lot of lime for a garden. are you using burnt lime or ground lime stone?
Anjdevil, Prayers for your friend
Bob, neat project
Dennis, good job
Prayers to all who may need them.
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Hi GUYZ,
34 and nice again today. To get to 71. GUYZ did the foundation walls yesterday all looks great! They are going to back fill today and do rough in plumbing.
DENNIS, U DA MAN. BIG CONGAs on the LIFELINE!
BOB, cool wiring on all dat stuff.
BUCKEYE,TGIF!!!
THANK
GOD
IT's
FRIDAY!!!!!!
Rock ON !!!!
laz57
Good Morning all
8N - Happy Birthday!
Anjevil - Sorry to hear about your friend. My and prayers for him and hs family.
Subob - Really neat pictures of the workplace.
Dennis - You are an important spoke in an important wheel.
May God bless
Jim
Morning all. Going in early as one big case and one small case to do. Thanks for the kind thoughts, but I am only one spoke in the wheel. It is a team of several that are on these cases and each one has a significant role. In the end, it is up to almighty God for how folks do. I have seen a number of cases where you think "this person shouldn't be alive" and they are. I have also seen a couple of cases where you know everything went right, but the patient still dies. These times remind us of how insignificant we really are in the big scheme of things. I have been humbled too many times in the past to take credit for the many times things go well.
Well, did get some work done on the layout last night. Hope to get more done today, but son has a friend coming over today, so we shall see.God Bless,Dennis
Well, back home after an extra day on the hill, but it was worth it. The windbird is flying again! For various reasons, this has been a long project. Lousy initial design and construction. Numerous attempts at repairing what had been done before proved fruitless. After consultation w/ one of our engineers, we have basically rebuilt the system. This is the only bird on the net, so everyone on the mountain was interested in it's reappearance.
Since you guys have heard me talk about this crazy thing enough, I though I'd throw in a few pictures:
The windbird power supply and fiber optic transmitter updated and now in a project box (not tupperware container).
The power supply and transmitter and battery in it's home on top of the VATT. The battery is charged by a solar panel during the day. The battery voltage is zero because the gauge is only for monitoring purposes.
The bird itself. Of course there was no wind when I took the picture.
The view from my workplace for the last couple of afternoons. My scope is on the left and the big box in the background is the LBT. Two 8.4 meter mirrors, the largest yet built.
Anj - sorry to hear about your friend. Thoughts and prayers for his family.
Dennis - ditto on what Mike said. I'm proud to know you.
Going to have friends over w/ their son this Sunday to see the place and the trains (he loves trains). I finally need to get the second loop and some switches set up.
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
Message for Brutus...
Stockport Police want their phone box back. If you return it unmarked no action will be taken. Otherwise it'll be five years hard labour in the jam butty mine for you my lad!
0700GMT in a sunny warm Stockport. Weather Totty says we are to get 16C today, that's 11C up on last Friday.
Time for my dental check up and diabetes check, dinner grinders should just need a scrape and polish but the vet. will tell me (again) to stop drinking and eat my five a day. I don't know about you guys but five servings of veg' is more than I can eat in a whole day!!! and leaves room for nothing more. Except for a drop of Robinsons Elixir that is?
The warm weather is raising thoughts of Lionel again, I really must make some firm moves before I get too frail to do the work. I do have a computer dedicated to train simulators with a RailDriver and about a hundred and fifty gig. of software that lets me sit in the engineers seat and drive across N America the UK etc. The Shinkansen and TGVs are very demanding.
That's all from jolly England for now TGIF, have a good and healthy weekend you all. We have friends from South Africa with us this week, so the Robinsons brewery will be on overtime.
John Baker
8NT - Wow! You're OLD! Cool buy, I'm sure you'll have it humming in no time! Happy real Birthday too! I'll mess with that bulb this weekend some time, I think.
NavyJack - GROG for the Sailors and Marines! The British Navy conquered the world on a diet of grog and salted beef and wormy biscuits
Chief - that's all she wrote!
Spanky - sorry about the knee, hope they can get you fixed up soon.
Dennis -
Took some bags of trash from the basement out to the curb today - they are heavy. Fully of broken up bits and pieces of drywall, cutoffs of wood and metal, etc. I still have 4 more bags to take out, but can't overfill the cans too much. Found some "plans" I can adapt for a little project - will make a cardboard mockup first and see how that fits with the layout.
Tardis is ready to fly! Come on over Mike and let's hit the sky road!
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Sunny and low 60's today. Supposed to be the same tomorrow, then snow?? on the weekend.
The potential customer visit went well today - hopefully well enough to advance us another notch towards getting business awarded.
Got home to find my 3472 from e-bay and the milk cans from TT on the front porch. Good timing. Unpacked the 3472 milk car and was pleasantly suprised. One small crack under the operating door, 50 years worth of shelf dirt were all that turned up on initial inspection. Up to the train room and put it on the operating track. The mechanism cycled, but unfortunately the first milk can was sideways in the chute. Pulled the body off and noticed that the insulation on the wiring was going away.
Got to wash it, lube it, and rewire it. Not bad for $13.50 plus shipping!
Can any of you gurus out there give advice on the operation of the can sweep arm? When operated by hand, it does not seem to retract far enough, consistantly enough to allow the next can to drop into the 'ready to load' position. I'm not going to worry much about this until I get the re-wiring done and set it up for bench testing.
My wife and I went out to one of the nicer resturants for my birthday dinner tonight. Turns out that the plant staff, V.P. of operations, Americas Group, some of his staff and todays visiting customer rep. were having dinner there too. Can't complain - they picked up our dinner tab and sang happy birthday when the waitress brought out my cheese cake decorated with a lit candle. This is the sort of neat thing that happens when one lives in a smaller town.
As far as my age, I'm one year older than the Space Age. DIrt was invented a year or two before I was born! You guys figure it out.
All for now.
Evening all, It is quiet on the home front. Kids in bed and a few pictures of rolling stock for SPF up loaded.
Good Night and may God bless
Good Evening All
Another great day at 67.
But not a big news day so I'll grab the banilla and wait for Brutus and the thingy to swing by.
S.J.
Scratch one fox. Last night when I left pond, foxes were running around at the top of the hill behind "Miss Dorothy's" house. They ignore trucks. Tonight I was running about 30 minutes later feeding the deer. The deer were standing in the sewer easement behind "Miss Dorothy's". Went in and fed. Came out and fed at the bottom of the hill. Drove up to the top of the hill. Stopped, left truck running, took out my .17 HMR Marlin bolt action with tectical scope. Put it on 4 power as almost dark. Suddenly across the flat rock [there is a big flat granite rock at the entrance you drive over and down to get to pond], a gray shadow came running towards the truck [yes, trucks running and I am outside of it] at a 45 degree angle. I put the duplex cross hairs on the gray shadow. About 20 yards away it turned "sideways". I touched the trigger. A loud boom and an instant scream. Hornady V MAX "went home". Gracious, all you do it touch that trigger.
Garden is ready to make beds, plant lettuce, spinsh, onions and cabbage. "Broke" with bottom plow and then disked my garden and two neighbor's gardens.
Bought 5X8 metal trailer at Tractor Supply today. Had 1 7/8 inch hitch. It is at welder's getting 2" hitch welded on in place of 1 7/8. All my other trailers have 2" ball hitches. Do this and I do not have to change hitch piece every time I pull a different trailer.
Now to clean a rifle.
i told you guys virginia was a great state. senator jim webb, ex usmc and secretary of the navy, says according to my new issue of navy times, that he recommends that dept of the navy and marine corps personnel should be allowed to have booze in the war zone to help them relieve stress...hats off to you senator....finally a politician who figured it out....navyjack
Dennis, you are so understated in your observations. You save two lives today and it is like just a normal, everyday occurence (which I guess it is). Bless you for the work you do and those that help you.
Good afternoon everyone. Bit tired as had quite a morning. Had two big cases, first one try to die on induction of anesthesia, but we were able to get him back to doing well by the end of the case. Second, tried to die after surgery was done....but she is back, although she will need intensive care for the short term. Wife was asked to substitute teach this morning. I plan to get to work on the layout shortly. Need a nap for the time being.
Will check in later when I am more awake.Dennis
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