Mornin' FellasFife - continued prayers for Alexis! Thanks for the birthday wishes. Was a long tiring weekend.Started off Friday night by getting my car prepped for a weekend of repairs. First opened the hood and started removing parts for the tune-up. Had to pull the upper and lower cabin filter trays - no big deal. Then needed a T45 socket to remove the upper engine cover (did not have a T45 - tool #1 added to tool list). Found that my spark plug sockets were all bad (tool #2 to tool list).Got up Saturday the morning and headed to BMW to get parts for TheQ's 5series washer pump replacement project, got the parts I needed, then off to Sears for tools. Ended up getting Torx bit set, spark plug socket set, replacement universal joint set (two of mine were broken and I kept forgetting to replace them), and some tool chest organization supplies.Got home and lifted the rear end for a brake job - could not budge rims one bit... so lowered car to take to local tire shop for tire rotation and balance (needed to be done). Had to finish tune up first - 30 minutes later it was done... while under the hood TheQ comes into the garage and hands me her cellphone... "Here talk to my brother, our hot water tank is dead".............. Um... OK. Talk to BiL, he is going to come out and help replace the tank. Just have to order a new one and get GatorBite hoses. Back inside, check stock at Lowes, they have everything, call store and CONFIRM INSTOCK STATUS (keep this in mind). Take car to local tire store. Walk in tell them what needs to be done. 'OK, does it have wheel locks?' "OMG! I left the key at home" 'We will need that'... back home and look for wheel lock key... it is no where to be found... "OMG I LEFT IT ON THE WHEEL!" Call store and tell them I think it is lost and will get car later.BiL arrives and we head to Lowes. Get to Lowes 'No order for you sir, and we don't carry the hoses here. Looks like you ordered from Lowes on other side of town.'... Go to other Lowes. 'We have your hoses, but the tank is a special order item and will be here on April 1st' "You are kidding? If I show up back home without a tank I'll be living in the dead tank." 'Well you can go back and find one you want and bring it up and we will do a price adjustment.' I told the lady about calling and confirming stock status and she said she didn't know what the person was looking at because it isn't in stock. Head back to plumbing... Find the tank I ordered on upper shelf, have guy get it down. Take tank to service desk. Lady sees issue. Same MFG part number, but different Lowes Item Number. Get tank home and installed.BiL takes me to get car. Pull into parking lot, and there is the wheel lock key ON THE REAR WHEEL! Take key off and put in glove box, take key inside and ask to have work done in the morning.Wake up Sunday, all going good. Cellphone rings. 'Hello Mr. L. This is local tire place. Your rear tires are worn to near no tread and need to be replaced.' "Dang! I was hoping to get that done in May. The tires are supposed to have 60,000 tread life and only have a little over 45,000 now." 'Well we can give you $30 off per tire and give you the coupon rate for the alignment. $620 out the door." 'OK. Git Er Done'STILL have NOT done the rear brake job, nor the oil change. Hope to do that this weekend.Oh - those old spark plugs... had hardly any point left. Guess I got my 98,000 miles out of them!Hudson John - can you ask your neighbor what code Table 20 2A16 - "Diagnostic Tank Module Leakage - Finest Leakage" means? And how to get it to stop popping up?
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WOW Brent, and I thought I had problems getting the simple things done. Mr Murphy must of been around.
Happy birthday to Granny SJ.
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Fife, Mike, and anyone I missed,
Keeping the going.
Brent,
That's definitely one of those weekends. Hope your brake job goes easier than mine. When I set out to just replace the rear pads on the Mustang. Just the rear pads snowballs into both rear rotors, special tool set to wind pistons back in, front pads, LF caliper bracket, and both rear parking brake cables (cables are dealer only parts). Don't ask me about spark plugs on that car...
Friday night was interesting for me. Installed Flowmaster Outlaws on the Mustang around 5:30, then took it out for a drive at 6PM. Came back after less than 20 miles and took them off. Too loud and way too much drone. Sold them Sunday night.
Finally got the Probe over the 200K mark yesterday. Now, I can relax a bit.
Jim
KRM WOW Brent, and I thought I had problems getting the simple things done. Mr Murphy must of been around. Happy birthday to Granny SJ.
Hello all,
Belated to 88 and Sir James Mrs.
More for Alexis.
Never did get back on Friday. I was tuckered out. It was another 750+ at the fish fry. Saturday was another one of those days where nothing gets done but you’re busy as he**
Sunday was interesting to say the least. Went to Altoona train show early. Found a guy with a lot of Gilbert HO parts. Bought most of what he had at a very reasonable price. He said he has a lot more. Went home and picked up Grandkids after Sunday School and returned to the show. Then bought KFC for entire family and returned to my folks house to enjoy it.
Just after we finished eating Mom was acting different, stroke symptoms. A call to 911 brought ambulance. Long story short she suffered a TIA. I got back from hospital and into bed about 11:30 PM.
Monday all tests revealed She was better than expected. She returned home via DIL Tuesday evening.
6:00 AM Tuesday found me in route to Pittsburgh International for a flight to Baton Rouge LA via Atlanta GA. It was in interesting trip. Spring has sprung there. Meeting with potential customer went well. I enjoyed consuming much seafood as well as my first sampling of Alligator. YUMMM
Returned to Pittsburgh International about 2:30 Thursday PM & made it home to a verry relieved MRS by 6:00
Still plan'n to go to York if nothing interferes.
Best get back to the SS Fund
Prayers for those in need
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
lion88roar Probe - don't believe it! The speedo reads 0mph. Did you just sit there and wind the odometer?
I tried take a video with my phone as it crossed 200K,but I almost took out an Equinox in the process. That would've been a win-win.
Good afternoon.
Not a killer amount of homework to do, but it may take a little while to do. Beyond that, plan on working on the P-38J Lightning for the first time since getting back from D.C..
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Good Afternoon, 45 and the sun is coming out.
Decorated the store for Easter/Spring. Now to get ready for school.
SJ: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO GRANNY!!!
Chief: What happened to Global Warming! Better yet what happened to Buckeye. last we heard he was going to Newark, NJ! I hope he did not wander into the wrong part of town.
Brent: I will get hold of Joe tonight.
Jim: You sounded like my Son il law doing brakes on my Daughter's Mustang.
Anybody hear from Bo?
Jake: Forget about working on the P-38. I would be working on Danette!
Brutus: Hang out the beacon, looking to make the Tardis tonight.
Have a Great Evening.
John
Banks: Prayers for Mom.
Hudson#685 Anybody hear from Bo? Yes, I am sending you a PM John
Yes, I am sending you a PM John
Looks like somebody got the message that the Samba wasn't going to cut the mustard. Now they're ready to go places.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Banks ---> for Mom. As for gator - tastes lak chickn?
submmbob - I get the mental image of Sheldon & Co milling around your work place.
Brent: It is a fuel tank vent leak. First check that the fuel cap is tight and it seals. If the cap is good, it needs a valve or one of the lines repaired. Hope that it helps.
Kev, thanks for the message. I miss his sense of humor.
Fife: That is the same image I got about Bob's Observatory.
Off to School,
Hi GUYZ,
No work on the Shay. Called BOXCAR BILL he is sending me a new harness for it. I did swap out bad speaker and have a nw one soldered in. Cleaned up my guardrails for road, now got to spray paint them but need warmer weather. Cleaned bathroom and shower, took dog for another 2 plus miles in woods.
PROBE, AWESOME 200k U DA MAN!!!!
BANKS for MOM.
laz57
good afternoon every one.
what a crappy day at work. we had alot of customers, but it was all 2 dollars here 10 dollars there, I wish this darn weather would break......... it really keeps people away.
I really don't feel like doing anything tonight.
I stopped and got take out wings (hope my doc isn't reading this) And my goofy cat assisted in eating one.
And BTW, the three and half legged cat is putting on good weight, but I am just not sure of him just yet. He seems to mean well, dosnt bother the other cats (I let him out supervised, and keep him in the spare room during the day and at night due to him having the FIV)
the wifes still in Florida and I havn't been able to contact her since Saturday. She's with her parents, so I assume if something happened, some one would have been contacted by now? Now before everyone panics, she was a tad, actually extremely mad prior to going to Florida. It was a long quiet ride when I took her to the air port last Wensday.
Later
Ryan
Hey John (Hudson #685), I'm out here! I kind of stepped back and I know I've been AWOL for awhile. I found trying to keep up with you guys not easy. I don't tend to spend a whole lot of time on the computer and trying to keep up with you all was challenging. There's so much going on in everybody's lives. That's a good thing, but like I said trying to keep up with it all, man I don't know how some of you do it.
Kev, got ahold of me the other day and wondered what was up? I told Kev I'd check in. I see that there has been a lot going on. I'll try to stay with you all, but probably not post everyday.
I try to focus on working on the railroad each day after running errands and doing the occasional chores. Sometimes after all of that, I'm like Chuck (Blueberry Hill) and think a good nap is in order. Today, I spent some time working on trying to landscape the edge of a peninsula on the layout. Here's a "before" shot:
and a couple "after" shots.
Still have some work to do before I'm ready to landscape things. Need to chisel on the plaster a little bit to rough the rock face up some more, but it is coming along.
I will have start packing pretty soon as I'm travelling to Arkansas later this week to reenact in the Battle of Elk Horn Tavern (Pea Ridge). This will probably be my last year reenacting. The average age of a Civil War soldier was 25/26 and I am well beyond that. Sorry Chief, I would like to report to you that we won that one, but despite the fact that we out numbered the Yankees, we got "outgeneraled"! It's true, it sometimes happened! The outcome of this battle pretty much saved Missouri for the Union.
Well guys, I need to get down in the basement and chisel on that plaster before it turns rock hard. I stay tuned in and will keep in touch. Thanks Kev, for checking on me. By the way, did I read that you picked up a #1615, a little 0-4-0. Love those little switch engines. They don't look all that mighty, but they are a lot of fun to operate. Nice little locomotives! Bo
Heres a picture of the "Broken One" He was a stray. really nice guy, good looking cat, but way off....
He eats hot wings, plays in the snow, loves being out in the rain he has NO sense of ballence , I don't even think he understands the concept of purring...... he just does it. Once he was laying in the sink, and just for fun I turned on the water, and the entire sink filled up around him before he got out.
Yes, he is laying on a bag of trash............
His name is Scruffy
Ohayō,
Whenever I’m on leave from work I always become more envious of the retired guys. I enjoy waking up when I want to (or when the youngest wants to) and not having to use the alarm clock. It is sunny and will probably be as warm as it was yesterday, with the high somewhere in the high-60s or low-70s.
Laz – We play catch to warm up and then we do pitching practice. Next, I hit him balls for fielding/fly ball practice and we end with me pitching to him for batting practice. Yesterday, we also worked on bunting. No matter what we do, we always have fun. We did all sorts of baseball variations growing up in the 80s.
Happy Birthday to Granny. I hope her back feels better.
Bo – Your SPF photos are always great to see. You are doing amazing things with your layout. Don’t worry about keeping up with all the Pot’s posts. I know I felt overwhelmed my first few months too, but now I’ve been on the Pot for almost three years. I can’t wait until I make it to York one day and actually meet some of these characters in person.
Sayonara,
Joe
Evening all,
Beautiful in Southern Ohio. Sunny but real windy. Kids have homework done and playing with the neighborhood kids.
Bride is in Fla. to drive her mom home. Her mom is saying this may be the last year in Fla. She's is a healthy 84 but who knows.
Railhead - Great looking mountains
Jim - Congrats on the 200K; I hoping the Avalon get there too, currently at 163K
Taking Wednesday off to drive the twins class to the state capitol, should be fun.
Good night and may God bless
Ryan,
The broken one is a swell looking guy. To Him trash is better than cash. Kind of a spin on a old tune from Steve Miller. Our George "the cat" is in the house because it is colder than the hubs of He?? here today and for the next few days. I have sent all of the Robbins to SJ's place and told them he is the one who wanted March. Kind of hard to get a worm from frozen ground.
Bo, Good to see you back. I wish I knew how to do the things you are doing to your layout. It looks great. Heck I am afraid to start because I am afraid I will screw up, not to mention broke,
Yep, The 1615 is a cool little switcher. I will post some pictures of it and the under construction addition on SPF. Oh yeah, have a good time on your trip. Sounds like fun.
As some would say,,, y'all have a good night. Spit out those GRITS and speak English.
railhead53 I will have start packing pretty soon as I'm travelling to Arkansas later this week to reenact in the Battle of Elk Horn Tavern (Pea Ridge). This will probably be my last year reenacting. The average age of a Civil War soldier was 25/26 and I am well beyond that. Sorry Chief, I would like to report to you that we won that one, but despite the fact that we out numbered the Yankees, we got "outgeneraled"! It's true, it sometimes happened! The outcome of this battle pretty much saved Missouri for the Union.
Bo thanks for the layout progress photos. Did not know or forgot that you are/were a Civil War reenactor. I don't recall reading about Pea Ridge but if it's in Shelby Foote's trilogy (Three volumn narative) history of the Civil War then I must have read about it. My only contact with the reenactors (from both sides) was in Gettysburg a few years ago about the time of the anniversary of the battle July 1st, 2nd and 3rd 1863. We were there in the late 90's. If I were younger, I would have enjoyed doing that myself. We visited the encampments of both sides but spent a little more time with the Rebs. Got to shoulder one of their muzzle loading rifles and feel the weight of it. Saw a Rebel Civil War band give a concert in the local High School that same week using period instruments. Whole thing was a memorable experience.
Submmbob, I finally decided what to do with my MTH E6 diesels. I shipped the whole shebang, lock stock and barrel back to MTH in Maryland today for estimate and diagnosis after talking to a tech from there. This is one of my favorite engine consist. I would not spend as much on any other engine I have.
V8 Dennis, sounds like they need to add another train on that route if it takes 10 months reservation but Amtrak is a sore subject with some members of congress. They would like to get rid of all the trains. Then we could all ride the big grey dog.
later,
Ray
SPMan
Temp is 28, twas a gloomy day.
Granny Pat says thank you for the birthday wishes. I tried all day to get her to go out to eat but she said no. We are not sure how she hurt her back. Nothing new in my train world. Banilla will be ready for the Tardis.
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
Hudson#685 Brent: It is a fuel tank vent leak. First check that the fuel cap is tight and it seals. If the cap is good, it needs a valve or one of the lines repaired. Hope that it helps. John
It's gonna be 50 tonight with a possible 50% chance of rain. I got more stuff off the layout today and the phone didn't ring ONCE! Bad thing is I haven't gotten off the extension yet. There's still the east side on the main part of the layout and there's a bunch of stuff under the layout. I also managed to twist my left knee a bit and mow it's aching. The consist of four FP7's is doing so well I'm thinking about moving one of the other two consists back to the display rack. But which one? The F unit Frankenlocos or the GP7's and the GP35 Frankenloco? They all run great but each consist not being used takes up a siding or spur where I could store something else.Well look at the time. I need to wrap this up and call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.
Thanks guys, good to be back! The rock facings still need to be colored, weathered and landscaped. I've got some trees to plant on them as well. Kev, I'll take a picture of my 1615 before I leave so I can post it on SPF upon my return Sunday evening. I'll have to dig it out as it has not been on the rails for sometime (years)!
Kev, the rock facings along the cut are not to tough. I made a few castings using Woodland Scenic molds, broke them up a bit, glued them in place, and then filled in between the castings with plaster. I colored the plaster I used to make the rock facings a light gray so that later there will be no bright white plaster showing through. I then used a putty knife and a regular kitchen knife to carve things up a bit. As the plaster hardens I use a small chisel to further carve and rough up the rock surface. You really don't have to use the rock molds. You can just carve the plaster, just work a small area at a time as the plaster sets pretty quickly. You really can't mess it up. Just keep adding a little more plaster until you get it the way you want it.
I've got to let things dry a bit, then I'll show another photo after I've done some coloring and weathering.
Ray, I participated in the 140th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg back in 2003. It was a lot of fun. There were perhaps 14,000 re-enactors. This year is the 150th Anniversary. I do not plan on participating, but it will be a huge event. I wouldn't be surprised if there were 30,000 to 40,000 re-enactors involved, perhaps more.
Bo
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BMW = Bring More Wampum.
ACURA is from a secret language and so far i have been able to decode enough that it means "yet another transmission"
Banks - hope you make it to York!
Bo - nice!
SJ - B-day wishes To Granny !
Weather is cool and cloudy. Never got real cold this winter but it has not been warm either. Will be bug empire this summer...
Buckeye is not reporting in cuz he is in the South savoring the warm weather and cannot admit it
Have a great evening all!
Regards, Roy
Hello all
The MIT hoard continues to prepare, adjust, and run Allen Variance tests.
Fife, John - I had heard of that show but never seen it (I don't watch much TV). I just watched a couple of clips on youtube and, oh yeah, that's pretty much it. I got a special laugh out of the one guy describing an exciting evening as repartitioning his hard drive for linux. That would be my boss
BMW - Break's My Wallet
Bo - have fun w/ the re-enactment. I've never been to the re-enactment of the Battle of Picacho Peak here, but have always wanted to go. I've have been to the other site near Dragoon, AZ where a group of Rebel soldiers were attacked by Apaches. Five soldiers were killed and the graves are still there. Yes Chief, it's true, Tucson and southern AZ were under Rebel control for 6 months. That ended after the Picacho Peak battle. I would like to find an Enfield, 2-band replica some day. Apparently the 2-bands were also used by the Navy.
SPRay - hope things work out for your diesel consist
Ryan - The orignal TO-92 package voltage regulator can't take the heat put out by the smoke unit. I replaced it w/ a comparable unit once, but ended up w/ the same trouble after the unit has run for a bit. Using the T0-220 package w/ the extensions seems to help w/ that.
Jeffrey - that VW might actually be able to get that trailer moving. They were actually rated @ 1 ton since 1963 and had some reduction boxes at the axle that really stepped the gearing down. I once moved a 1/2 ton of dirt inside my 65. We used to use my buddy's 63 at the shop to tow a two axle car trailer w/ another VW on it However you would not get that rig moving very fast and god help you if you stepped on the brakes too quickly. The Dodge is a much better choice
The the 1950's Jewel 4-tube has been reduced to it's component parts. Don't shed a tear for it. It was a fairly crappy radio when it was new. I got it for $5 off the bay. The case was warped and cracked so I eventually ditched it and tried to make a breadboard radio out of it. It was one of those projects where things just seemed to get worse each time I messed w/ it. Well, now I have a bunch of nice parts that can be used to help other radios live on.
Talked to the guy who brought up the spectrum analyzer. He was happy to pass it on to me for free, but I offered him a couple of storage boxes that would fit his wife's Jeep that I never installed in mine. A good trade I think, and one less thing I have to trip over in my storage unit.
Hopefully I will get a chance to align the S-38C tonight.
All this trading recently has got me thinking. My local electronics shop which deals in surplus as well has a 1960's Hallicrafters S-120 on the shelf. Not needing to spend more money on yet another radio, it occured to me that I might offer to trade a couple of items I want to get rid of. Both items are bigger than I want to ship to sell them online. With a two for one trade they might just go for it.
Bob
Tucson, AZ (aka the Ol' Pueblo)
Home of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern Boiler Shops
submmbob Ryan - The orignal TO-92 package voltage regulator can't take the heat put out by the smoke unit. I replaced it w/ a comparable unit once, but ended up w/ the same trouble after the unit has run for a bit. Using the T0-220 package w/ the extensions seems to help w/ that.
Ryan, I will post a picture of Bob's smoke unit Upgrade/ fix tomorrow. It works perfect.
Bo, I may need to give you a call when I get the $$$ to start on the landscape. Thanks!
Evenin' All.
Imaginarium Table and track are finished and tied down in the p/u for delivery tomorrow morning. Hope my "kid proofing" holds up to the munchkin mob that visits the museum.
Bo, Glad to see you dropped by. Layout is looking great.
Fife & Mike, Continued prayers for your girls.
Here's a link for your viewing pleasure, after watching the first one he has at least four more. Talk about a big layout, and it's not a club ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNo5F6vlVuY
Bob, If my Plymouth smoke ever dies you'll be my go to tech for repair info.
As Easter is just around the corner I wonder what the chance would ever be for a remake of this set.
Going up for auction at one of the east coast auction houses. Be interesting to see what it goes for, this is the first one I've ever seen but have heard of a few.
Time to get ready for bed, nite all.
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