Coffee Pot #5 MAY 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.

[anjdevil2]

Thanks, Jeff....it's the simple things..........

Worked perfectly...

[jeffrey-wimberly]

anjdevil2

Brent or Jeff.....need some help.  My Firefox  went full screen with my fat fingers and cannot for the life of me figure out to get it back to "normal".  I know its a simple thing....it just eludes me....

Take your pointer to the edge of the of the screen. There it'll become a double pointed arrow (one end points left, the other points right). Left click and pull in toward the middle. Do this to any edge of the screen you need to.

If that does nothing go to the top right corner. Next to the X is a symbol that looks like two boxes or screens, one on top of the other. Click that. It should turn into one box or screen. Try again to adjust the screen size as outlined above.

[KRM]

lion88roar

Kev - You only need 3 layers of plaster cloth if you are going to place something on it without support underneath. For my buildings I did what Fife does and made platforms for them to sit on. Depending on how I want it to look I will either make the platform the same shape as the item, or a little larger. For example my radio tower has a small parking lot next to it for the DJ and Producer's cars.

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Thanks Brent, I thought you said 3 layers. The liner is done and is nice and firm. I am not sure what or how I will do the rest yet.

Slow day at the dealer so made for a long one even though I got out early. 

 Thanks for mopping up the mess around here again,  Jeffery.  It would be great if we could all wear the others shoes now and then so we could open up our minds and better understand the differences of opinions this world has to offer..

Got to do the dishes before wife gets home.

 

[anjdevil2]

Back from PT and lunch.....company for lunch makes all the difference!!!

PT was good, therapist says I'm making great progress, gave me some tips on how to adjust a little better, but things are looking good.

Brent or Jeff.....need some help.  My Firefox  went full screen with my fat fingers and cannot for the life of me figure out to get it back to "normal".  I know its a simple thing....it just eludes me....

Major MVA while I was at therapy, US Route 130 closed at NJ 33, truck vs car with fatality....looked like a Taurus, the TV Choppers are all over the place .... (NBC 10 Philly...for sure).  Traffic backed up big time, I took the back roads home

OH yeah, forgot..I'm all for Banks and Fife providing those CTT weekend getaways......

[SPMan]

Jeffrey, I support your effort to keep the forum civil and fun to visit.  Sorry I allowed myself to get sucked in on one topic but I felf like I had to say something in self defense. 

Chief, great layout photos!  Thank you.

Ray

[cnw1995]

We'll be lucky to get a tarp or a lean-to made of branches in Banksland and Fifedom.  

Here is a nice celebration of Frank Hornby's birthday at Google's site in the United Kingdom:  http://www.google.co.uk/

[RedfireS197]

RockIsland52

anjdevil2

Banks - Nice acreage in KY......You and Fife must have talking to my Dad.....the parents have a place near the intercostal in NC - REAL shopping is like 1 hour away....I could never....Thank GOD McD's is open 24 hours....

Rich......look at the bright side of things.  Banks and Fife will both have plenty of acreage to build us all a guest cottage so we have some place to stay when we come to visit!

Jack

I am with Jack on the Pot guest cottage.

Rich,

          I am not sure McD's is a viable alternative to southern cooking.  It seems dicey either way.

Had the Mustang out this morning.  After seeing the quality of the shop's work, it seems better now than it did on 6-11-11 when I bought it. The only thing better than the quality of their work is how they treated me throughout the process. Great people make all the difference in those situations IMO.

             

[lion88roar]

Kev - You only need 3 layers of plaster cloth if you are going to place something on it without support underneath. For my buildings I did what Fife does and made platforms for them to sit on. Depending on how I want it to look I will either make the platform the same shape as the item, or a little larger. For example my radio tower has a small parking lot next to it for the DJ and Producer's cars.

[RockIsland52]

anjdevil2

Banks - Nice acreage in KY......You and Fife must have talking to my Dad.....the parents have a place near the intercostal in NC - REAL shopping is like 1 hour away....I could never....Thank GOD McD's is open 24 hours....

Rich......look at the bright side of things.  Banks and Fife will both have plenty of acreage to build us all a guest cottage so we have some place to stay when we come to visit!

Jack

[anjdevil2]

RJ - Nice progress!!!

John - Thanks for the back up - I thought I remembered my Rural Urban Interface basics!!

Banks - Nice acreage in KY......You and Fife must have talking to my Dad.....the parents have a place near the intercostal in NC - REAL shopping is like 1 hour away....I could never....Thank GOD McD's is open 24 hours....

Cloudy here in Central Jersey....but warming up.  Going to Therapy today at 3, stopping for lunch in Trenton with a close friend.  I have to be in the area, so.....

Thank you Jeffery......I mean, seriously, I agree with SJ...this was a nice place to visit.  Vacation from the 'Pot?  Horrors....but I'll stick around.  Think Princess and the Pea....

I have almost finished my N5c caboose, need to find printable decals and I can finish the outside.  I'm scheming to install 2 white LEDs inside.  The plastic is very thick and no light shines through.  Hopefully can finish before the end of the month.  Picture on Sunday....if everyone shows up!!

Ryan - make your apartment as best as you can.  You'll feel better about it in the long run and with the money you save, you can create your dream pad.  I love my parents, but I'm still saving up for my own place.  Living solo has it's ups and downs, but you can make it work.  Trust me....If God opens the door....I'm steppin in, baby. 

Off to get ready....

[Zero Export]

SJ i guess I should have been clearer.   untill my mth engines are done with the start up sequence and crew babble    the BCR is ready.    

Charlie Brown, looking good

Ryan

[sir james I]

Bright sun and 76 degrees now.

BCRs MUST be charged first. Turn on the power to at least 12 volts for 1 minute BEFORE trying to run the engine. BCRs will then stay charged while running the engine and for a few hours after. My BCR2 will stay charged for days.Had a nice chat with Brutus,  Charlie and RT last night. I hope to do some garden shoveling today but we had some rain overnight so I will see how things go. I try to garden just what we will eat and a little extra for friends. Canning tomatoes, we buy...S.J.

It's Wednesday so happy hump day we are half way through another week.

Jeffrey, I just read your post, surprised you did not stop them sooner. You have been very tolerant with some of these guys and it appears they have taken advantage of it. Don't let them ruin the great place we have to chat.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

OK, it's one thing to knock off the union talk. That's good. But, I've been receiving complaints of late about a certain member here, you know who you are, I shouldn't have to list any names, who has been using the pot as his personal attack platform to make personal attacks on other members. This won't be tolerated. This has been going on long enough that some members are thinking of taking time off just to get away from these attacks. Anyone seeing such attacks can contact me or Blownout Cylinder. Those responsible will be contacted via PM. The problem(s) will be handled by the mods or if severe enough will be handed up to the admins to pass judgement on. I'm getting tired of these back and forth attacks and they will stop NOW.

[lion88roar]

charliebrown

Good Morning.

Here are a few pics of layout. I still have some tweaking to do. I'm thinking I may move the stringers on the legs. I might reattach them at a 45 degree on each leg. Either that or bolt the section to the wall. I have the 1 by's coming off the long skinny sections to the wall. I'm going to attach a board to them and bolt that into the wall. Still have the last to sheets to screw down on them and cut the ends off where the bridge will be.

On to a new question. Is there anything I should cover the top with?

Holy Crap you have been busy! Looks awesome.

1. I would remove the 'stringers' and reattach as 45 degree bracing
2. No need to bolt to the wall. What you have will be immovable once it is complete - well unless your house is eaten by a sink hole, or a bull dozer comes through

As for what to cover the top with... any sound deadening material will work. I used 2x4 accoustic ceiling tiles because they are easy to move, easy to cut, and cover a descent amount of space. Others use soundstop (comes in 4x8 sheets). Others use 1/2 inch - 2 inch foam. Just depends on what you are attempting to do. When you attach the track to the layout you screw into the sound deadening material ONLY, if you screw to the plywood you will create a 'drum-like' effect.

[cnw1995]

Aloha. Thanks for your birthday wishes! I soon realized I had nothing going on at work yesterday and took the rest of the day off to go sit in the sunshine - I was fortunate to get electronic subs to a few model train mags and a gift cert to a local hobby shop to get a companion or resources for Ivor. I also got to show Ivor's layout off to several friends who stopped by with celebratory libations.  And it sure was a beautiful day. Glad to have shared the celebration with HudsonJohn. 

8n, that looks like a beautiful plot of land. 
RJ, the layout makes good use of your space. I don't think you need to remove / move those braces. 

Remember to celebrate Frank Hornby's 100th birthday by running some tinplate! 

[Hudson#685]

Good Morning! 57 and sunny here at the Jersey Shore!

Thanks for the Birthday wishes!

Today it is check out why one of my son's machines stopped running and then take Mom for her checkup with the surgeon and take her for dinner.

Rich: You are right about the under brush. That is why the State Forrest Fire Service does controlled burning.

Everyone have a Great Day!

John

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning. It's 63° with 100% humidity. Cloudy today with a chance of rain. The high will be 82°.


Looks like we have a chance of getting wet today. This morning I have the GP40's running. Later I'll switch them out and bring on either the four FP7's or the two GP7's, GP35 and slug. I haven't really decided yet. Other than that I'll be doing some cleanup work and watch a few movies. I'm still having some bouts with the dizziness this morning. That should clear later. Hopefully it'll be an uneventful day.

[Blueberryhill RR]

Good Morning from Blueberryhill RR....

It is a warm 62 degrees. Sunny. Going up to 80 today.

Today is a busy day. I have a bunch of chores to do and a small project to finish. Lunch and a nap, later.

Indians game this afternoon.

Dining car is here with Cheerios for breakfast.

Y'all have a great Wednesday.

Chuck

[KRM]

Cloudy and warm.

 Nice property 8N,

 Great job RJ. PM me I have a suggestion and can show you what I have used.

 Not a problem Jeffery, I guess we can only print what some people believe in.   

Off to work.

Good day.

[blownout cylinder]

Good Morning

Well, after our return to winter we are now in summer mode...going to a high of 76F feeling like 84F....

Today will feature some train running and cleaning out the lost cause that is our so called garage....

Have a good day!!

[RockIsland52]

WOW, RJ.......you have been making a lot of progress!!!!!  Thank you for the pictures.

Jack

[charliebrown]

Good Morning.

Here are a few pics of layout. I still have some tweaking to do. I'm thinking I may move the stringers on the legs. I might reattach them at a 45 degree on each leg. Either that or bolt the section to the wall. I have the 1 by's coming off the long skinny sections to the wall. I'm going to attach a board to them and bolt that into the wall. Still have the last to sheets to screw down on them and cut the ends off where the bridge will be.

On to a new question. Is there anything I should cover the top with?

Sunny day here!!

[Lehigh Valley 2089]

Good morning.

Same story as yesterday. Tomorrow it will be the usual getting up at 5 in the morning.

[Zero Export]

V8VEGA   those BCR's are the best thing,  just put it on the track and go

8N  nice lot

Finally gonna be in the 80's today.  maybe i'll be able to turn the heat off

if things dont pick up at work real soon,  I'll be squating on Fife's or 8N's land by the end of summer

Ryan

[blownout cylinder]

8ntruck

Sunny and in the low 80's today.

Here are a couple of pictures of the 5 acres in Ky. we just bought.

Kind of put a dent in this year's train budget.

Something has changed in Photobucket.  I'm not sure why I got small sized pictures here.  I copied the URL address, like I usually do....

 

All for now.

photobucket has an IMG file that says thumbprint...it seems that was what got posted. There are 2 IMG's now...

[submmbob]

Hello all

Day four of this cold. Getting kinda old. Would have been nice to have spent the day off working on the car or something, but noooo...

Nice pic Jeff!

And Happy Birthday Doug!!!

8N - that's looks like a prime site for a live steam railroad

Time to find a pillow

[Brutus]

Happy Birthday Doug - God bless!  

Nice pic, Jeffrey!  Nice picks Bill - those look like the woods behind my house, minus a lot of underbrush and wild roses and scrub.  I've been cleaning mine out, but it's a losing battle right now - we'll see.  Yep - I had 2nds on the banilla last night  TARDIS is ready, so let's get out of here and have some fun!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Please folks, no more union talk. I'm getting complaints about it no matter where it's posted. Kev, I deleted some of yours from Chief's photo thread after I got complaint's about it.

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Watched some sci-fi movies today. Later I gave four GP40's a good long run. Three are Bachmann rebuilds and one is an Atlas. Guess which one is loudest. It ain't any of the Bachmann's and only one of them is anywhere near new. My father and I went to Fox's Pizza tonight. He had lasagna with a side salad and root beer and I had a 9" taco pizza with a Dr Pepper. I sitting at home now typing this and watching the four GP40's pulling a thirty car freight train. All four have DZ125 decoders.

[8ntruck]

Sunny and in the low 80's today.

Here are a couple of pictures of the 5 acres in Ky. we just bought.

Kind of put a dent in this year's train budget.

Something has changed in Photobucket.  I'm not sure why I got small sized pictures here.  I copied the URL address, like I usually do....

 

All for now.

[blownout cylinder]

ChiefEagles

Some train box photos in a separate thread.  Too many to post here.

Great work on the box...love how it came together.  Do you have the plans for it still around?