RE:COFFEE POT #11 November 2011 for all to take a drink and chat. 6+ years and going. Plenty of coffee and sweet ice tea to drink. Plenty of GRITS, oatmeal and Cheerios for the heart.

[AF53]

Just stopped in to say Brutus! Have a on me!

Ray

[submmbob]

Well I just shovelled the first snow of the season. We got a few more inches today. A bit early for us. Normally we don't get more than a dusting until at least Thanksgiving. Still in the clouds, but hopefully it will clear off so we can observe later. Fairly cold, about 15 F.

Joe - you know, I've never used a camera in a cell phone before, but heck I just got another cell phone. Moving into the 90's I guess...

Brutus - Happy Birthday!

Jeffrey - like the new additions! Did I spy an HO model of a Pacer? You just know there had to be one...

Ray - hope the trip is going well. Watch out that Chief doesn't put any grits in your bag on the way back.

Managed to fix one of my AM radios last night. This one has been a long time in coming. Was a bit of a basket case when I got it. It's old old Silvertone in an interesting trapezoidal wood cabinet. Won't be able to actually try it out 'til I get home. Telescope is a big faraday cage. First time I used my vacuum tube voltmeter to check a negative DC voltage. Very cool! Probes and wires going everywhere. Mad science! I love it!.

Watch part of the Pentrex Big Boy Collection after I got off shift. I never tire of that. I continue to be impressed w/ the size of those locomotives. Just the tender is as big as the locomotives that we had on the Nevada Northern. I been next to #4005 in Denver, but to actually see one of these breathing fire, well that must have been something.

Bob

[ChiefEagles]

Evening all.  Just got home.  Had to drop of deer at processors.  Fred shot a 5 pointer this AM.  He saw a big 6 but no shot.  Saw 4 more deer but no shot.  All I saw was a ton of squirrels and birds.  Moving my stand away from field as they come out after dark and go in before light.  Think there is too much highway traffic too close to the field.  Lots of doe and some big buck tracks.  Fresh since it rained.  Moving my stand to a logging lane 100 yards farther inside the woods.  Fred has his on one in another part of the woods.  I will be able to shoot over 200 yds each way.  

Tried to sign on this AM from stand.  Kept says page was down.  Probably so as all the other forums I visit were up and I posted.  Long day as I left home before 6 AM. 

Happy Birthday Brutus. ]]]]

[jeffrey-wimberly]

submmbob

Jeffrey - like the new additions! Did I spy an HO model of a Pacer? You just know there had to be one...

You sure did. That's a model of a 1978 Pacer. I had two Pacers when I was younger. A 1975 Pacer X and a 1979 Pacer DL. The X had a 258 long block with a 2 barrel and it was a fast thing. We used it over in Germany and it had no problem maintaining 110 mph on the autobahn while pulling a one and a half ton French Caravan. You go 60 over there and you'll get run over! The DL had a smaller 258 with a 1 barrel carb. While it performed well enough it didn't have the power of the earlier model. I actually have two Pacers for the layout. The one you say at the shell station and a junked one that's partially burned and most of the windows busted out.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.

[Banks]

Hello all,

Brutus

Ray how goes the trip?

Corn is all picked, Corn crib is full to make feed for cows and chickens. Have five wagon loads to be shelled and sold. Hopefully this will cover next years planting expenses. I'm not sure what the mill will be paying for shelled corn but they are selling for $18.00 per hundred. It was $12 or $13 last year. Soy bean harvest will begin tomorrow.

Have given up on using Gravely to gather leaves, yard still too soft. Hired a teenager to rake the worst onto a tarp and drag to garden. What remains will be "mowed'  using walk behind Toro son uses to mow Grave yard.Digging Dalia's, Gladiola's and Cana Lilies will commence on Wednesday. Mud or no mud

Laz, How'd you like the Ozzie and Harriet show. I thought it was great. Did any body else check it out?

Still undecided on Greenberg Show at Monroeville this weekend.

Mrs & I celebrate 36 years together tomorrow.

Off to bed

 

Prayer for those in need

[Anonymous]

Brutus,

              

Bob,

           With the carphone in the GL, I feel like I am moving backwards technology wise. 

Not much going on today.  I spent the weekend on the GL and ordering parts.  Ran Seafoam through the PCV line Saturday, then it jumped time.  Nothing serious, and it gives more evidence that the odd sound coming from the timing cover was a pulley or tensioner going out.  I crawled underneath, and the underbody is great.  No rust there.  Rust here though...

I need to figure those fuel lines out asap.  The filler neck is solid, so no worries there.

I won't be able to make the Monroeville Greenberg show this weekend, but I want to get going on the Christmas layout soon.

[KRM]

Hi all,

Long day today 11 hours in the fertilizer truck. In the truck by 6:30 AM and got out at 5:30 PM in the dark. Trying to get as much done as we could before the rain. I am beat!! 

 

 

 

Brutus - Happy Birthday!

Doug :Thanks for the info on the train show. Hope to go if I don’t have to be in the fertilizer truck.

Jeffrey: I made an epoxy patch for that rim. Going to re-mount the tire and see if it leaks tomorrow if I get called off work because of bad weather..

Have a good night everybody.

Kev.

[Brutus]

Thanks guys!  I had a pretty good day just goofing off mostly.  I did spend a couple hours rearranging my books and rotating some to storage for a while at my wife's request.  Dusty work!  UPS delivered my Aristo-RMT Bang S4, which looks great.  I need to move some stuff so I can hook up the power and test run it on my circle of track on the table.  TARDIS is ready and we have cake and banilla, so let's get going guys!

[8ntruck]

Thunder, lightning and rain this evening.

I've been busy lately and have not posted in a while.  Had a business trip to Detroit last week.  Stopped in a couple of train shop theres and came home with some flat 4 conductor wire, and a passenger platform.

Saturday, we hosted the main course for a progressive dinner.  Cooked chicken fijeats for 20.  Of course, we had to rearrange the whole house to get enough tables set up and spent most of Sunday putting the house back to normal..

Brutus - Happy Birthday.

KRM - cast wheels can be described as a collection of voids held together with a lattice work of metal.  With age and use, it is not unusual for enough of the voids to connect and create a slow leak.  Your epoxy fix should do the trick.  Alternate fixes include a sealer made by Loctite, and if you know where the leak is, you could close it mechanically by hitting the leak with the round end of a ball peen hammer - a process known as peening the leak shut.

My SD70 got back from Lionel last week.  The repair report said that they re-soldered the wires in the sound system.

My wife is in charge of a reading of The Polar Express as a children's program at the KATY Depot later this month.  I've been drafted to construct a PE layout.  I think I'm going to try a variation on the 'Three Times Around the Tree' layout from CTT a few years back.  Will have to mock it up and debug it at home before moving it to the depot.

All for now.

[RockIsland52]

8ntruck

............My wife is in charge of a reading of The Polar Express as a children's program at the KATY Depot later this month.  I've been drafted to construct a PE layout.  I think I'm going to try a variation on the 'Three Times Around the Tree' layout from CTT a few years back.  Will have to mock it up and debug it at home before moving it to the depot.

All for now.

8n.............it would only be proper for you to support your wife in her selfless endeavor, buy a Polar Express set (don't forget the extra cars), and set it up for her reading with the children.  It's for the children, after all.

Brutus.......it was your birthday yesterday?  I thought it was Buckeye's. .....a tad belated.  It would only be proper for your wife to support you in your declining years, buy a Polar Express set (tell her not to forget the extra passenger cars), and tell her to set it up on her dining room table for playing with the children.  It's for her children and her aging geezer, after all.

Banks.........it would only be proper for you to support your wife in this blissful marriage of 36 years, buy a Polar Express set (don't forget the extra passengers cars), and set it up for her around the tree for Christmas.  It's for her and for all of the wonderful years you have shared together, after all.    Happy anniversary!!!!

Jack

[dougdagrump]

Evenin' All.

Brutus, and many more !

Banks, Happy anniversary !

Looks as though the halloween layout gets a one week reprieve. A couple of yesterday's guests have a relative who is a "trainhead" who would take great delight in seeing the layout. For those that had asked I posted a few more shots on SPF.

Nite All.

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill....

It is a cold and sunny 28 degrees. Going uup to 70 today with sunshine.

Today is an easy day. I have the usual exercises and chores to do and a few phone calls to make. Then, I can relax.

Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Tuesday.

Chuck

[laz 57]

Hi GUYZ, Nice day on tap today gonna take my dog for a nice 3 miler after school.

PROBE, little oxidation going on there?

JEFF in LA, love the AIRSTEAM.

Stay frosty,

laz57

[Demay]

Konbanwa,

I had a bunch of meetings and briefings to attend today at work, but somehow the day still flew by.  I went to lunch with my boss and a couple of officemates.  We went to a Japanese curry restaurant (Coco's).  It is a chain throughout Japan.  The Japanese curry is a little different than Indian or Thai curry, but it was very good nonetheless.  I had mine with a breaded chicken cutlet and rice, and I had it at a moderately high spice level.  I will try the cuttlefish version next time.  I will hopefully take the family there soon; my princess will love it.  My wife went grocery shopping off base to a Costco today.  They have local Japanese fruits and vegetables we cannot get on base.  She also photographed some packaged octopuses for sale; however, she did not buy any.  I will upload all the photos tomorrow.

Doug M - We had pizza once since we've been here, but it was from the Pizza Hut on base so we didn't have anything outrageous on it. 

Charlie - Very nice. 

Subbob - My wife takes all the photos with her iPhone.  I believe the Blackberry the Air Force issues me has a camera as well, but I don't know how to use it.

Banks - Happy Anniversary.

8N - Your project should be fun; please share photos of the progress.

Dougdagrump - Great job on the Halloween layout. 

Sayonara,

Joe

[laz 57]

HAPPY ANNIVERSERY BANKS!!!!!!  36 YEARS way to go!!!!!

laz57

[fifedog]

Mornin' y'all.  Sunny & 60's here in the Mid-Atlantic region.  Need to mow as many leaves before rain gets here Thursday.  Got my folks all settled in up on Backbone Mountain (WV) this past weekend.  Came home to see 14 in Victory Circle, and the RAVENS win over Pittsburgh.    

[fifedog]

Let me get caught up here:

1) Brutus!

2) Happy Anniversary Banks!

3) RockIsland - our very left-leaning Governor made all those "abuses" legal...

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Happy anniversary Banks.

 

Good morning. It's 66 and cloudy. The high will be 79 with a 40+% chance of thunderstorms throughout the day.

Hopefully I don't have a project that requires I work on it outside today. Radar shows a very ugly looking line of thunderstorms coming across central Texas moving fast toward Louisiana. I saw a lot of yellow, orange and red in there indicating heavy rain. There's really nothing much to work on today so I'll probably just clean up some areas and give the track a wipe down.

I'm feeling better than I was yesterday so that's a plus. The container flat I worked on yesterday is in good shape but the containers are the old 24' truck trailer bodies. I don't believe anybody uses those anymore. Maybe I'll just make a 40' container to go on there.

[sir james I]

Good morning

52 with light rain

Happy Anniversary Banks

Going to vote and then some grocery shopping. Granny wants to go so its gonna be a slow walk through the store..Yawn...S.J.

[ChiefEagles]

Morning all.  Election day.  One individual called and was concerned.  He noticed a large number of a certain "element" of voters at the poles.  He thought they might have an underground movement to write-in their candidates to replace the two Town Commissioners and myself.  If so, good.  Then I retire to the lake house.  Some folks.

Pretty day here and very warm.

Banks, happy Aniv. [poor Mrs. Banks].

Better go vote or I might not get re-elected.

Later. 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

For my project of the day I made a paper shell of a 45' Hi-Cube container for the Tyco container flat. With dozens to choose from it wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. I finally settled on a rusted design, downloaded the jpg image and printed it out on card stock. I made a slight error in the scaling and it came out as 46' long but who's counting.

[KRM]

cnw1995

  Kevin, the next DuPage show is this Sunday, the 13th. It is the second Sunday of each month at the fair grounds - the fall and winter ones are the hugest.  http://www.greatmidwesttrainshow.com/

 

Thanks Doug M !!!

 I think I will check it out with a friend of mine who lives in Batavia. 

 Thought you may want to check out this show in Princeton about 30 miles west of me on I80. It is on Saturday 9:00 to 3:00. 4th Annual North Central IL. Train Fair and Farm toy Show. $ 4.00 to get in. I have been there for gun shows and it is always good for them.

http://www.eventcrazy.com/Princeton-IL/events/details/52575-North-Central-Illinois-Model-Train-and-Farm-Toy-Show

Kev

[cheapclassics]

Good afternoon all,

IIABSDISEI with temps near 70.  It has been a busy 3 days.  Sunday and Monday worked in attic to get rid of stuff or store it in barn for possible yard sale items.  Ran Lionel Classic 384E for a while as well.   Today voted, fixed rear view mirror on our 91  Dodge Spirit, washed it, and put in a new light fixture in barn.  Been a nice four days off.  Back to work for two days and then a 3 day weekend.  I could get used to this.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[sir james I]

Good Evening

63, 69 was our Hi today, no rain yet.

Granny did good at the grocery store, used the cart like a walker and moved right along.

Chief I hope you win, but I didn't make my usual 5 votes for you because your check bounced and I don't except grits as payment. Banilla is ready so bring the thingy this way tonight..

S.J.

[ChiefEagles]

sir james I

Chief I hope you win, but I didn't make my usual 5 votes for you because your check bounced and I don't except grits as payment. S.J.

Normally you take GRITS.  Its official.  I got 100% of the votes for Mayor.  I actually got more votes than the two Town Commissioners.  Thought it would have been equal.

Tired and sleepy.  Got this sinus thing still going on.

Sleep tight.

[sir james I]

Congrats Chief

100% is a pretty good win.

[wrmcclellan]

ChiefEagles

  I actually got more votes than the two Town Commissioners number of registered voters in town.  I Thought I paid to make sure it would have been equal.

What else is new???  

Rained a little here this morning. Other areas got some decent rain. Jeffrey - I sent it your way!

Got the cracked molar worked on and looks like the tooth will be saved. Permanent crown will not be here until after Thanksgiving unfortunately and then they cannot get me in until Dec 12th.

Banks - Happy Anniversary 

Have great evening all!

 

[dbaker48]

Congratulations Chief !!!!   

 

Another 4 years, right ?

 

Now does that mean,  as the Head of your West Coast Security Force, I should be expecting that salary increase soon???  (I mean after all, I know your getting that SS increase so pass it on down the line!)

Kerching !! 

[8ntruck]

Cloudy and rainy here today.  At least the rain has been heavy enough to knock most of the remaining leafs off of the trees, expediting the seasonal clean up.

Banks - Happy Anniversary

All for now.