Coffee Pot #4 APRIL 2013 TEN years [April 1 is Anniv.] and going strong and its for all to chat. Plenty of coffee and sweet ice tea for all. Come and join us and chat. Grits for the Yanks.

[rtraincollector]

RockIsland52

Good Mornin' Y'all From Overcast Cape Ann Taxachusetts,

RT.......me thinks with all of your acquisitions that something has to give.  A house addition or a

Later, gang.

Jack

 

See Below answer to hudson685

Hudson#685

Good Evening:

Just a quick stop by to grab a cup from the fresh Pot.

RT: I take that you are keeping the 685 Hudson on display!

Chief: Thanks for starting the new Pot.

John

John my plans are when I get the office painted sky-blue I will put shelves up there for all my Postwar trains, well what I can fit on the shelves behind my postwar engines

Not much new today did get the Happy Huff 'n' Puff train set in it has original story book and warranty card.

Talk to you all later.

[Zero Export]

Rock, appreciate the concerns, don't sweat it on by behalf.   I've know nothing bu dysfunction at holidays in my family.  it  is all i can remeber

gee wizz  three pages all ready?

and to all, "we" had an adult conversation tonight (1st in 3 weeks)  looking like this mess is going to be cut and dry, still gonna have my attorney  draw it up and file it with the courts.

and as a man i stand up and say that its NOT 100% her fault , I'll claim 40%  shes saying 75% on me...   just putting that out there. 

well, wings and (sorry LAZ) coors lights  be a calling , my darn truck ran out its inspection yesterday, so my buddy is picking me up. 

Ryan

[fifedog]

Evenin' boys.  Nasty west winds chased me out of boatyard after work.  Not before I was able to wet-sand the whole bottom of the yatchet.

anjdevil - Get better soon.  Can't be dangling on ladders with beertogo.  If I had a General, I could attend.  Will correct that in 18 days.

RockIsland - We stood up and I asked him,
"is that you smoking, or me...?"

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

Good evening. 

here's my kitbashed caboose. 

[rtraincollector]

Went down into the train room and started cleaning up some more and came across the 397 coal loader went to put it up and said hmmm let me take this apart and clean it. Man there was a ton of grease down in the bottom where the gears where but I believe the wrong type it reminded me of the red grease we used to pack wheel barrings but this was almost black and sticky so probably was just old. cleaned it all out cleaned the armature and all put it back together( will reapply grease where needed and oil when I replace the belt thats not there as it disintegrate the other night while playing with it) any way it is now running and running good.

one less thing to worry about now not sure if I'm going to keep and use or not. I do have the N&W opperating coal hopper and plenty of hoppers and gondola's

[jefelectric]

My first post on the April pot, and it's only April 1!  I think I mentioned that I am selling some (why did I ever buy that stuff) on the bay.  First item went for a lot more than my "buy it now price"  looking good.  First I've sold anything there in years.  Hope to thin things out to the point where I can run everything I have occasionally.  Have a great April, I think Spring is about here.

[cheapclassics]

Good evening all,

Cool day in SE Indiana.  Absolutely lousy day at work.  Going to bed.  I hope everyone has a good day.

Keep on training,

Mike C. from Indiana

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

Night everyone. 

[KRM]

So wife and I get back from a nice sit down lunch and the grocery shopping and I back the truck up to the house garage and we unload it. A bit later wifey tells me she is going to get gas for her car. She comes in and asked me if I can move the truck out of the way, I say sure and move it into the shed. She comes out and is looking at the back of the truck and said I hit your truck! April fools right.   Wrong she did hit my truck but in the trailer hitch so it is cool, but then I look at her car. Silverado 1 Torrent 0,                   . Oh well so much for that, the car did not fair too well. I will need to get an estiment later this week.

 I hope you guys had a better day than me and MikeC.

Nice caboose Jake.

Night.

[RedfireS197]

RT,

      The 397 is one of my favorites, and I liked it even more once I got a 456 ramp to go with it.

John,

            I am trying to move some stuff out too.  Mainly, these pieces were impulse buys that have spent their time with me on shelves.

Spent tonight going through a Flyer SIT 312 steamer to be sure everything checks out before I attempt to move it out.

[sir james I]

Temp is 31, sun today but felt cold.

I'm skipping the banilla tonight but we have plenty for the guys. Not a big news day..S.J.

[ChiefEagles]

Town Board over.  Now for some popcorn and diet gingerale.

Kev, you and vehicles are not getting along.

Really warm today.  Cold spell coming but not as cold as the past few weeks.  Then it going to be real nice.  Weatherman says by next week, might hit 80's and then stay nice from then on.

Later.

[KRM]

ChiefEagles

Town Board over.  Now for some popcorn and diet gingerale.

Kev, you and vehicles are not getting along.  Correct Chief.

  Weatherman says by next week, might hit 80's and then stay nice from then on.  80's is too hot!  

Later.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good evening. It's 68° with 55% humidity. The low will be 58°.


Well my old computer is well and truly dead. The main board and processor are fried. How it happened I don't know. Old age probably. It was however obsolete and had reached the end of the road on software and hardware compatibility with the new stuff that's out now.

I was wondering how I was going to get another computer. That question was answered this morning. My father bought me a new HP Pavilion computer. It's a 64 bit system with a 1TB hard drive, 8GB RAM, Intel i5-2320 quad-core processor and a DVD/RAM drive among other devices. It didn't include a monitor but seems happy with my old MAG DJ700 CRT. An external USB DVD burner that's Win8 compatible will be on the shopping list.

Oh yeah, that's right. This thing has Windows 8. I absolutely loathe Windows 8. To me it seems like it was designed by a 5 year old finger painting with invisible ink! Everything is hidden away but I'm slowly finding it. Since very little of the stuff in this system will work with XP I guess I better get used to it. It also needs a better keyboard. This flat as a flipping board HP keyboard is the pits! The keys are very nearly the same level as the surrounding surface and I can't rest my fingers against the sides of them

I also turned off the Norton anti-virus in favor of AVG 2013. I don't see why I should be saddled with an antivirus program I don't like. I already know how to use the AVG so it was a fast pick. If the Norton program starts making noise about being disabled I'll see about uninstalling it, though I haven't foun d the uninstall utility for it yet.

See y'all tomorrow provided I can get this thing started without having to go through the first seven steps of the ballet.

[dougdagrump]

Evenin' All.

Got a bit done today, did a lunch for the "Better-Half's" hen gathering today. While they were having there meeting I spent my time in the train room servicing a couple of new Williams diesels that are being added to the club's service fleet, track cleaning/ emergency back-ups/ etc. Why do the manufacturers seem to be so stingy on the grease in the gear boxes ? Think I've found more ear wax on a Q-Tip than was in those gear boxes.

Kev, Don't feel to bad about the car damage. My Better-Half side swiped my truck not once but twice, to add insult to injury my truck still had the temporary tag on that they issue upon new vehicle purchase. When she told me what she had done I really laid the guilt on her by saying "No sweat it's just a truck". She had figured I would hit the ceiling, which I wanted to do, but as long as we've been together what the heck.

Time to think about bed, nite all.

[submmbob]

Hello all

So far another quiet night collecting photons.

Jeffery - good to hear you got another computer. May you find all the work-arounds for Windows8.

Laz - good thing you didn't release the the 'Mil Trouts' or else you would've filled up your hip waders...

JefE - good start on thinning the herd. I've got a few train items that need to go, namely a KW, the Williams NW2, and then a set I'm sending on to a friend. I try a get rid of one item I've got in storage each week I'm off. That way by the time I move the rest of the stuff, the things I want to get rid of will already be gone. Have yet to actually sell anything on ebay yet.

Rich - hope you are feeling better

Jack -  Peep Jousting!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMmyQF35e8U

I think I may swap the Highline and Hedrick divisions of the Mt. Graham & Arizona Eastern. I'm no longer running trains on the desk downstairs since it now has a computer on it. I think the 3 X 5 will be a better fit for spanning the benches down there. Plus this will give me a bit more room to try out some switches. At home I'm just running the Marx stuff anyway which would do fine w/ the smaller real estate.

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

KRM

Nice caboose Jake.

Thank you.

Good morning.

Back to school after break (urk!), with some work this evening. Since graduation is little more than 2 months away, better make the most of it.

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....

Today it is 43 degrees. Sunny. Going up to 50 with sunshine.

A busy day. I have a few chores to do and then a big project to work on. I will be busy with this for a few days. Not much going on with trains. Maybe this weekend.

Indians start regular season today. First home game next Monday.

Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Tuesday.

Chuck

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning. It's 52°F with 95% humidity. There's a small chance of rain today. The high will be 78°F.


Well I've learned a bit more about Windows 8, having played around with it for a few hours. I still haven't found an uninstall utility. It's gotta be hidden in that mess somewhere. There's a small booklet that came with the computer, little bigger than a pamphlet entitled 'Windows 8 Basics'. It has some very helpful information about some things you might do every day including information on using touch gestures. That's nice to know about but it's absolutely useless to me as my old monitor doesn't support it in any way, shape or form. It also explains how to add things, move things around, displaying things, closing things but nowhere does it give even a hint about how to uninstall something. Not even the faintest hint of a clue. Sherlock Holmes would be baffled! Oh well, I'll keep looking. Maybe I'll find something that can make the screen revert to the Classic Windows display. You never know what might be buried in there.

Speaking of new things, I also have a new phone for my trailer, new to me anyway. When my sister and her daughter were clearing out one of the closets in the west wing they came across a laundry basket full of phones, all identical, all still in their boxes, never opened. The only identification was a model number on the box. I looked it up online and it turns out they're talking caller ID phones. I don't know where my father got them (he can't remember) but since they were going to be tossed out I snitched one for myself. It works great. Much better than the cheap Wal-Mart special I've been using the past few years. Since my Magicjack already has Caller ID (blows this phones caller ID out of the water in all respects) I turned off the phones caller id feature. It's enough for me that it rings which is more than I can say for the cheapie that I was using. I had that POC set up so the ringtone came through the computer. That was the only way I could hear it. Now I have a phone that not only rings, I can hear it in the back over the TV, the fans, the a/c unit, etc and it has fourteen different ringtones. That's a big step up for me. I live so far beneath the poverty line I have to look up a few miles to see it! So a lot of things many people consider basic seem like luxuries to me.

Oh well, enough about all that. I've got other things to worry about.

[KRM]

Good morning, Bright and cold on the North Bluff today.

 Wife is back to work, at last!

DougDG, Yes I was like you on this one, Years ago I would of gone nuts about the car verse truck deal but all I said was " it could happen to anybody " and then I went into . It is what it is and whenever I dump the guilt thing on her she ends up making my life miserable. So no point.  

Jeffery, I think I may not be too far from a new PC as mine is about14 years old now and was a referbish when I got it. We did swap out the hard drive about 5 years ago.

You all have a good day.

[blownout cylinder]

Good Morning

We have lotsa sun here!!! But, our high will only get to 28F...yay...

Got some of my taxes done...need other things now...yay....

[cnw1995]

Aloha all. Back from a trip to Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island to visit relatives. Made it home yesterday in our usual one-day marathon drive through CT, NY, NJ, PA, OH, IN and IL in only 14 hours. It goes faster when i make my passengers pee out the windows - fewer stops.   Now if only I could figure out an interstate equivalent to mid-air refueling, we could go even faster. Nice to be back but today should be a long day of catch-up at work. It's pretty cold too for April - just 29 downtown.  Hope to catch up on the Pots' goings-on later.

[sir james I]

Temp is 26. sunny but cold.

Things to do today, wish it was warmer. A good size group on chat last night..S.J.

[RockIsland52]

KRM

........DougDG, Yes I was like you on this one, Years ago I would of gone nuts about the car reverse truck deal but all I said was " it could happen to anybody " and then I went into . It is what it is and whenever I dump the guilt thing on her she ends up making my life miserable. So no point.  

My wife did the same thing despite the back up sensors that provided warning lights and ringing bells, warning her of an impending hit.  AND she had just loaded the dog in the rear of the car 30 seconds before, with the car parked behind us 4 feet from where she was loading.   Helen Keller parking strategey?  You back up until you hit something?  You ignore all of the "car in reverse" anti-collision technology?

KEV......join the club.  Skip the back-up technology!!!! They should just electrify the drivers seat and zap the driver when a collision is imminent.  THAT would get their attention!!!

Jack

PS:  Welcome home, Doug!!!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

KRM

Jeffery, I think I may not be too far from a new PC as mine is about14 years old now and was a referbish when I got it. We did swap out the hard drive about 5 years ago.

That would be about right. I built mine in 2002 mostly with spare parts. Over the years I dropped in another processor, a DVD burner and a new power supply. These old systems are now so obsolete people who have the parts for them are starting to price them like they're plated with platinum. I came across a main board (bargain basement El-cheapo type) that would fit mine. The guy wanted $330 bucks for it and it didn't even have a processor or memory sticks! I paid $380 for the one I put in it and it was brand new, top of the line, and that was with the processor AND memory.

[Hudson#685]

Good Afternoon! It started out at 29 but it is up to 46 now.

Just got back from taking Mom for her scan and tests. She is doing good.Now to relax a bit and get my school stuff ready for tonight.

Ryan: Good luck with your wife. You need a side trip to York.

Kev, Doug and Jack: You guys handled the damage situation  well. About the only damage my wife did was to take mirrors off before the cars were displaced from the front garage by my Mustang and my son's wood working shop.

Jake: Enjoy your last couple of months of HS.

Have a Great Day!

John

[SPMan]

Laz, I was green with envy when I read your fishing report.  Must be nice to live near good fishing.  In our neck of the woods, a 13 incher would be a keeper.

Jeffrey, congratulations on the new computer.  Mine is as old as the hills too.   I got a phone call yesterday from some computer guru in India who wanted to help me check out an error on something.  I had no idea what he was talking about even if I could understand his accent, which I didn't.  He led me through all kinds of steps to clear up whatever the problem was.  At the end, he just disappeared as if he hung up but on the screen it said everything was Ok I think.  I think it had something to do with microsoft or windows.  Who knows?  The guy had me on the phone for at least 30 minutes.  If they ever call again I think I will tell them to send me an E mail or something to explain what they want.

Ray

 

[RockIsland52]

Ray.....I would advise strongly against even talking to someone who calls me out of the blue.  My wife and I have been on the "do not call" list designed to get rid of telemarketers.  That has gotten rid of most of the incomings we don't want.  The rest.......if we look at the caller ID and don't recognize the numer, we let the answering device take the call......and no message is ever left!!!!!  My wife just does not get it, she wants to know who is calling us.  And every time  she picks up these calls, it is someone selling something in violation of "do not call."  Me?  I stopped answering the house phone.  If you want me, leave a message or call my cell.  How do you know that the person calling you was not trying to tap info in your PC, like account numbers and personal info.?    JACK.

[RockIsland52]

Winter has returned.  37 now, will be down in the 20s overnight.  The White Mountains got 5 inches of Snohio last night North of us and the Berkshires in the Western part of the state likewise.  March in Taxachussets was colder than normal and begs the question:  what happened to global warming, Mr. Gore?

[rtraincollector]

Evening all. well got a new plug and cord in one from Lowe's today ( 2 prong) and replaced the cord on the 1033 I got in and all if fine. A-U top volts 16.2 BU 10.8 a-u suppose to be 16 b-u 11 oh well good enough for me. turned whistle control in A-U hook-up and it went to 20.3 so that works. so my army of transformers grows 3 ZW's ( post war type) 1 R, 1 LW, and now a 1033

Took wife to the before that actually to Lowe's to buy 2 more trees and 3 more miniature rose bushes and some other plants. So had to help plant them before I could do what I wanted lol ( the cord thing above)

Oh well tomorrow is my rest day as have to go back to work Thursday.