Good Evening,
Had a good day and weekend, went to local train meet this AM, talked with Ray and a couple other friends. Didnt buy much just a RR patch.
I mentioned the other day about my JLC Big Boy, had it in a train shop since first of March, picked it up on Friday. He didnt even have the parts or order confirmation. TODAY I was able to get the parts on order, with a confirmation of the order. Hopefully ordered the correct parts.
Had kinda of an unusual experience with my El Camino, the past few days.
- Three years ago, had the Air Shocks replaced by F...stone. (Air shocks are standard on the El Camino, and haven't really much of a problem ever since I've had the car, bought it new.) So they replace them and it isn't really driven that much. A year ago or so, after I had been increasingly been having to add air, decided to seem about getting them replaced, since they had a lifetime warranty. I was told then the warranty covered the shocks, but not the labor. So for whatever reason I didn't at that time.
- Last Thursday, I take it to the same store, they say the shocks are OUT of warranty, only 2 year warranty on air shocks! I was surprised, and indicated I would go check my paper work. The rep, (turns out service manager), said he would further investigate the term of the warranty, and call me back on Friday. In the meantime set up an appointment for Monday, to do the job. Estimate with warranty approval was $175, ($130 labor, new air line $15, $25 labor for airline.)
- Friday afternoon, havent heard anything. Called the store talked with a different rep, asked him the status. He told me the shocks were NOT under warranty and cost would be $445. So Friday afternoon decide to check a couple other places. Check a smaller shop I have worked with before, and they will do same thing for $289. Well thats a no brainer. Ask them about the air lines, they said no problem that it is included in the box, and labor is part of the job. (The shocks are the same manufacturer and model number at both locations.) I was suspcious of the air line on the right side, because I had checked them looking for a leak. And found the right line pinched between the frame and shock mounting bracket. Asked the installing tech to look at that for me. He did and indicated it was severly pinched, completely closed. And most probably caused the failure of the right shock. So Friday evening I was very happy, new shocks, saved $160. Disappointed in F...stone, initial error of pinching line at installation, warranty misrepresented, and extra charges for air line kit.
- Saturday, get a call Saturday PM from the person I orginally talked to on Thursday, saying he was able to get the warranty coverage. And the original quote of $175 is valid. He asked to confirm the appointment. I said OK to buy me some time.
- Today, Sunday - Decide to go by the store and tell them to cancel the Monday appt, and share my feelings, regarding the warranty and initial installation. After I tell the Service Manager about my conversation with his store on Friday. He said that it was not right, and the person that indicated there was not warranty did not the authority to say that. And even though I got it done at a lower price, I still paid a $100 more than I should have, and offered to give me $100 ! I was shocked !
Sorry for "another" long story, but never experienced anything like this before.
Doug dg, The B-29 video was great, thanks for sharing.
Take care all......later
Don
Good evening all,
Should have worked outside today as it was much cooler. Did a puzzle with wife and watched TK go from 22nd to 7th for AJ at Detroit. Put together a Plasticville building and a Lifelike kit for the railroads. I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
fifedog Evenin' boys. Finally stopped raining in Fifedom. Had nice visit with the oldest princess's clan. It was great to be around the grandsons, and we spent a lot of time in the train room. Presented oldest boy with a LIONEL Marine Corp missle launch car, which he went ga-ga over. After they left to head back to Baltimore, started working on bringing BIL's Seaboard 602 back to life.
Evenin' boys. Finally stopped raining in Fifedom. Had nice visit with the oldest princess's clan. It was great to be around the grandsons, and we spent a lot of time in the train room. Presented oldest boy with a LIONEL Marine Corp missle launch car, which he went ga-ga over. After they left to head back to Baltimore, started working on bringing BIL's Seaboard 602 back to life.
Any day with the grandkids is a good day
Doug......great story on the B29. Love seeing the B17 and B24 from the Collins Foundation when they are at the local airport.
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
Hello there,
It's been raining pretty much all day. The ground was a lot on the wet side bbut son got his corn planted and bean ground worked yesterday.
Yesterday afternon went to a soccer game. Grandaughters team got beaten soundly. Her team had no subs and the other almost enough for 2 complete teams. They were worn out by the heat & humidity.
Spent last evening at the drags making adjustment to try and improve friends times. Tried a couple things but we went the wrong way so changed the opposit way and I came home. He was out of one class when I left but good in the other. Never heard how he ended up. Tentatively going to a diferent track next Saturday.
Hillclimb today was a muddy mess. We called it after the 1st round because the rain kept getting heavier.
Off to bed soon
Prayers for those in need
Afternoon All !
Coming back to life. Was at the museum Friday til about 3pm when the gas tank went bone dry. The BetterHalf was down there with me, my chaperone, so she brought me home. Crashed on the couch for a few hours, woke up just in time to grab a quick bite and take my evening pills before heading to bed. Other than taking quite a bit of time to unpack Friday's stuff on Saturday, I vegged the rest of the day.
Did anybody catch the story on "Roadside America" this morning on CBS ? Pretty good short.
Here is something for the other "flyboys" in here:
http://mortefontainevillage.pagesperso-orange.fr/marcbrecy/b29.html
Time to finish cleaning up the dinner mess, I fixed Shrimp Creole.
Later all.
Remember the Veterans. Past, present and future.
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Buckeye Riveter ChiefEagles Don, the only thing I'm running for is retirement December 1, 2019. That is it for me. Note to self: I would be a good time to visit Roseyville, NC on December 2, 2019. Ran the trains today. No pile ups and all smoke working.
ChiefEagles Don, the only thing I'm running for is retirement December 1, 2019. That is it for me.
Don, the only thing I'm running for is retirement December 1, 2019. That is it for me.
Note to self: I would be a good time to visit Roseyville, NC on December 2, 2019.
Ran the trains today. No pile ups and all smoke working.
Roseyville will not be there as of 2 Dec 2019 as the chief is Rosetville, N.C. after he retires so will the town
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
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Afternoon all. Not much going on here. ( as of yet ) I got up real early and went and did grocery shopping and came back unloaded and put away and went back to bed lol. Now to get up and get a few things going ( like a late lunch ) Talk to you all later
93 and some clouds. Tired from work at the farms and meds taken late last night. Did make Sunday School.
Have a good one.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Morning all!Slow day yesterday due to the heat. Watched NASCAR and Indy races while reading some web stuff. Found a cool 1902 Brown and Sharp book on gear theory - well written and illustrated unlike anything new on the subject. Late afternoon I went out and repaired 4 sprinkler heads in one zone. Yard guy with the weed eater is hard on sprinkler heads. Had to dig up two and completely replace, replaced the spray nozzle on one, and dug a tiny snail shell out of the forth that was messing up the spray pattern.Cool front came through last night, a good 10 degrees cooler and less humidity today. Needed a break!
Dennis - I inherited my iphone 5s from my son years ago. Charge it every night. Original battery. Your battery will likely last a lot longer than you think. When your battery is getting bad, I have had great luck using Batteries + Bulbs for battery replacement (with a 1 yr warranty). Do not wait until the phone dies regularly or acts up (freezes, etc.) after a hour or few with a bad battery. My son did this and it screwed up the phones operating system (OS). After several hours of research I finally discovered a reset/OS restore process on an Apple discussion forum and rescued it (Apple service said it was toast).
Kev - nice day!
Buckeye - prayers for your mother , congrats on the GS's birthday!
Gnome - good fun with the buildings idea!
MikeC - congrats on the weight loss!
Regards, Roy
Good morning,
Yesterday’s Memorial Day, week later cookout at our house was great the kids had a blast and so did I.
We did it yesterday because some of the kids had to work last weekend. Dan and Rocko both work maintenance so those guys always get stuck working when the plant is down.
The parents had too much fun as well but no calls to 911. The Gator ran out of gas.
All of the battery-operated ride on stuff got a heck of a running as well as that 110cc dirt bike. The weather was perfect.
So, it don't get much better than that.
Joined 1-21-2011 TCA 13-68614
Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
The grand niece is still asleep. Student papers are graded. Sitting here musing the way old people do.
Thursday i bought a nice plastic toy house at a thrift store for a buck. The little girl had fun with it until yesterday. Then she threw it in the floor and broke the roof.
The doors are too tall for O scale, but since it’s broken anyway, why not bash the thing into something useful for the layout? Reduce the scale. Maybe turn it into a church.
And if this works out, why not pick up more structures from thrift store toy departments and bash them? Hmmm.
Mowed yard today. Even used small mower to do some trim action. Was incredibly tired afterward. Mowed before eating breakfast and weighed in afterward. Was 228. Have not been that low in a long time. Helps if you dehydrate and don't eat LOL. Foyt team did what I thought they would at first Detroit race. Will watch second round on Sunday. Muggy weather today. Shirt was totally soaked. I hope everyone has a good day.
fifedog His Honor is a very busy man, with a lot on his plate.
His Honor is a very busy man, with a lot on his plate.
Morning all!
Whew! It dropped fast yesterday! High 40's this morning. The coffee (not instant, Don!! ) feels especially good this morning. The fog was incredible from the temperature change. I thought I was in England! I don't care, I was still wearing shorts and flip flops yesterday.
Kev - great pics!! I used to enjoy going to drag races. So many good places are long gone with urban expansion. There was website that had a bunch of the dragway "ghost towns" . I'll see if I can find it.
Roy - Nice find at the flea market.
Don - Wow, that long to have your Big Boy fixed? Hopefully you have a few other options for repairs.
Gnome - mmmm...... Kentucky stuff.......
Have a good one and prayers.
Rob
Busy day at work. Good weather for noon walk. Lots of rain in hometown. Did get the 5K walk in for Big Brothers/Big Sisters tonight. Foyt team did as expected in practice today. I hope everyone has a good day.
This morning we picked up our little grandniece and as usual she ran us ragged. She is in bed now, PTL.
After a tot of kentucky stuff, i will collapse till morning. How long will it take to find a clean up all that slime stuff? Disgusting.
got the bucket back to the hill.
Finally started to clean up the trees. It'll take a while doing it alone but I have lots of time.
Mrs is home every day now so I'll never know what day it is.
Roy. ......bummer on the eyes. You can get deals on tools at Flea markets.
I checked out the Christmas Wishbook site http://www.wishbookweb.com/the-catalogs/from another thread. Really interesting.
Watched another ball game tonight. A 5 to 2 loss Grandson played well. A walk, a couple of ground outs and a couple of good defensive plays. 1st time ever he pitched 1 inning with no runs scored, he also caught 1 inning. Another 1st.
Drag tomorrow, hillclimb Sunday Grandsson won't be racing. After the game he called me and quietly told me he wants to find a different place to race. I think it's a combination of worsening track conditions and him witnessing the crash 4 weeks ago where the rider died 2 days later. I'm not going to push him. There are a couple tracks within 3 to 4 hours we may check out.
Gonna crash soon.
Some of you may have noticed, I revised the title of this thread. I didn't want to create a negative image for the Coffee Pot. AND this is election time, and I'm certain the Chief needs all the positive banter he can generate. So for the greater good, thought I should change the title.
Had a good day today. Had to be in LA at the Federal Building to get some VA information for my FIL. Needed to be there by 8:00, left here at 6:45, and still 20 minutes late. Then came back to the house and got an order shipped. Then went to Santa Ana, and picked up a ATX power supply for train layout. Since was in the area decided to check on some repair activity on my JLC Big Boy. Took it to the train shop on 3/1, still not ready. Actually nothing done, he doesn't have the parts from Lionel. (forgot to place order, then gone on vacation, Lionel lost order, now he is on credit hold.) So I brought it home with me, I can do better. Then wanted to check on Air Shocks for the El Camino, got them installed, and found I had a slow leak in the right rear tire. Checked it out at America's Tire, and they fixed it for FREE. All in all a good day!!
Got to run, just got invited out for dinner.
....... Just got back from dinner.
Kev, Those a fantastic pictures of the drag strip. Where is it located, obviously on or near old 66. I use to attend Lions Drag Strip here, saw all the greats, The Snake (Don Prudomme), Don Garlits, Tommy Ivo, and so many more. It was fantastic.
Buckeye, Suggest you get rid of your watch and get a calendar. That's all you will need.
Roy, You need to be selling tools, not buying them.
Jim, Plans for any souvenior hunting at the mine?
Chief, Sounds like your feeling better. Great NEWS.
Hope everyone has a great week-end.
As you can see, Don can't make coffee. He can't even burn toast.
Had an busy two days. Late last night and out early this AM. Had the new pot on calendar in phone. Sorry but didn't have time. Phone will not work with this software. All other forums, yes. Gone early tomorrow.
Sturgeon-Phish Kev – What did the boy think of the drags?
Kev – What did the boy think of the drags?
Check my post Jim he loved it, I hear you on the INS BS.
My next roof on this house will be metal, living in wood it is better and you get a INC discount for having it. Wish I did it in the first place.
Good afternoon from sunny 77°F Southern Ohio,
Hard tp believe it is June already! The weather forcasters were predicting rain and it has been overcast most of the morning but no rain. I did get a lot of grass mowed, and a pile of brush burned. I stopped but the hardware store to look at the train my friend was talking about. It was a 1936 set and really rough. No engine. The price was out of line so I passed on it.
Tomorrow we are going to a reclaimed strip mine that has been turned into a wildlife preserve called "The Wilds". I'll report back Saturday.
Roy – I like the flea markets for old craftsman tools too. The older ones are so much better built.
Going to run up to Rural King for some jeans, $8.99 a pair and they carry my size! 34 x 36. Often hard to find.
May God Bless
Jim
Chief? Chief? Chief? Chief? Chief? Chief?
Kev - great pics - turnin the GS into a racer!
Whew - bushed - we went to the big monthly flea market in Canton TX today. 90's, hot, but with a breeze. Place had lotsa vendors and not many attendees/customers. So cruising the grounds was a breeze. Had some great pulled pork BBQ with slaw on a bun - said it was Memphis style!All I bought was an old set of Craftsman ignition wrenches in great shape - great for working on trains! I have 3 sets of these now so I can keep a set in several convenient places.'Cold' front tomorrow - well, it'll still be 90's but 'dryer'
Nice pics, Kev, glad you and the little one made that trip. Route 66 looks like a nice dragstrip!
Drag racing was a way of life for me in the '70s through the 90s and bracket racing was the only way to go. Yep, I miss the heads up racing.
Loved the jet and rocket cars. Funny Cars and Fuelers are very exciting....lol!
Englishtown no longer has the drags, which sucks, that was my home track.
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
Last time I started the Pot someone else started one at the same time. So I'll just wait it out.
"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
sir james I Kev you shoulda just started a new pot. Da Chief was probably dreaming about free meals and BBQ.
Kev you shoulda just started a new pot. Da Chief was probably dreaming about free meals and BBQ.
SJ I was fast asleep at 12:00AM The sun, heat and walking killed me yesterday. The little guy did not want to leave.
Dennis I agree, I don't like that BS of pulling a hole shot then slowing down to speed back up. Not racing to me but there were a lot of cars running those classes. Electronic racing is not for me.
I like these guys! It is hard to get the wheelie pictures. You got to watch the tree to know when to take the shot but I managed to get some.
75 heading to 83, way better than Yesterday.
This about covers the trip to the RT 66 drag strip yesterday with the 4 year old. We had a great time. Boy was it hot, way over 90 and when the sun was out it was a torcher.
They did run Super Gas, Super stock, stock, super street, comp and pro comp so there was plenty of action and little to no people to put up with, Cost me just $19.00 at the track and $7.60 at Macdonell's.
What cost $19.00 yesterday would be close to or over $100 the next three days when the big dogs run. It was fun and cheap and no crowd. Perfect for a first timer.
Fife - I did see that!! It appears they recoconfigured the UP signals to the PRR/NS standard to make the trip to Croxton Intermodal then to West Point, so I hear....
Wow PAGE 1!!
TGIF - Busy yesterday because of end of month. Got home last made dinner and collapsed. Should be slower today.
May make the trip to Warwick, NY for the show, need to put the big n little tires on and wash the car, even though it'll rain, it should look better than it does now. I need to prep and clean the top as well. Looking forward to the drive in movie afterwards, but not to the trip back home.
Back later if possible!!
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