Laz,
Good to see you were paying attention and clearly demonstrating the "KNACK!"
You get an "A" today, an "A+" if you remembered to celebrate at 1.59 EDT.
If you missed it, 1:59 CDT is in just a few minutes.
I would stay and chat but the dancing girls are about ready to jump out of the PI....3 - 2 - 1 -PI!
Regards, Roy
cnw1995 wrote:Don, what do you use to get the wallpaper off the walls (anticipating the bride asking me to do this in a few weeks)
Don, what do you use to get the wallpaper off the walls (anticipating the bride asking me to do this in a few weeks)
Doug, Already got a lot of good advice. Not too much different from what I've been doing found these things out in the process... (My first time at this...)
1. If the wallpaper is washable, then typically two layers. If your carefull you can pull the top layer off. I was able to do entire strips that way, working it from a corner then rolling it in my hands and pulling evenly.
2. Pick up a wallpaper "scorer", it fits well in the palm of your hand and has two rolls of teeth, run it over the adhesive layer that is left. Vertically, horizontally, or figure 8's. (Idea is to let the water spray penetrate to the glue.)
3. I first used a steamer, and it was ok, but didn't seem to provide any real big advantage. I then used a garden sprayer, and well saturated two or three strips. You can also get a wall paper scraper that fits in your palm. I have found this to be a lot better than the putty knife. I have a tendancy with the knife to lean one way or the other creating a gouge. With the wall paper scraper I was able to apply direct pressure, and could remove a 4" x 12 or 18" long strip at a time.
Have fun, just finsihed all our wall paper removal, now just two accoustic ceilings to pull down. Then texture and paint.
Gee, its taken me 22 years to get around to this, maybe the incentive of the train room had something to do with the current motivation ??
Don
Way to go Don!
How are you removing the acoustic ceiling stuff if you are talking about the spray-on vermiculite junk that was used in the late 70's? Luckily I have just one ceiling with it. A buddy of mine used an old hand pump fly/bug sprayer (who remembers those, eh?) with water in it to loosen it up and then he scrapped it off. Pretty messy no matter witch way you go.
wrmcclellan wrote: Afternoon all!This is a very important day for those of us with the "knack!" This is national celebrate PI day! 3.14 (March 14 for the unwashed - 3.14159... for the enlightened).2007 19th Annual PI Day That wonderful little number that allows us with the "knack" to manipulate all things round!http://www.exploratorium.edu/pi/history_of_pi/index.htmlSo get your party hats on and celebrate!
Afternoon all!
This is a very important day for those of us with the "knack!"
This is national celebrate PI day! 3.14 (March 14 for the unwashed - 3.14159... for the enlightened).
2007 19th Annual PI Day
That wonderful little number that allows us with the "knack" to manipulate all things round!
http://www.exploratorium.edu/pi/history_of_pi/index.html
So get your party hats on and celebrate!
What a great day for us with the "knack"! We had a big party at work where we did some slide rule demonstrations, logrithems, sine and cosine, and tangents and cotangents. Only Christmas and St. Patrick's Day make me feel this good. It was great calculating that angular velocity again.
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
TCA 09-64284
Buckeye Riveter wrote: wrmcclellan wrote: Afternoon all!This is a very important day for those of us with the "knack!" This is national celebrate PI day! 3.14 (March 14 for the unwashed - 3.14159... for the enlightened).2007 19th Annual PI Day That wonderful little number that allows us with the "knack" to manipulate all things round!http://www.exploratorium.edu/pi/history_of_pi/index.htmlSo get your party hats on and celebrate!What a great day for us with the "knack"! We had a big party at work where we did some slide rule demonstrations, logrithems, sine and cosine, and tangents and cotangents. Only Christmas and St. Patrick's Day make me feel this good. It was great calculating that angular velocity again.
Yes, we celebrated too. Almost as much as our
Annual " Co-efficient of Friction " Day.
Buckeye, Are you one of the few still around that can still use a slide rule? Last time I looked at mine I found the old eyes had trouble with seeing the fine lines.
wrmcclellan wrote:Way to go Don!How are you removing the acoustic ceiling stuff if you are talking about the spray-on vermiculite junk that was used in the late 70's? Luckily I have just one ceiling with it. A buddy of mine used an old hand pump fly/bug sprayer (who remembers those, eh?) with water in it to loosen it up and then he scrapped it off. Pretty messy no matter witch way you go.
Yep, nothing new one super BIG mess, but it is easy as long as you keep the stuff wet. Got some painters plastic, 400' x 12' for around $15 I think, just spread that on the floor and jump in. Then roll it all up and to the trash. At least it isn't asbestos. Back to work no time for partys, ugh
John- I still have my sliderule around, it was a good conversation piece on my bookcase when I was still working as an engineer. Last time I tried I could still multiply and divide but it's difficult to see the lines anymore.
Yeeeesssss - it was a good day for those of us with the KNACK!.
Brent - congrats. I plan on being at York this spring - I can smell the funnel cakes. We will have to have another CTT Forumites gathering at the CTT booth.
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
Evening all. Another busy day. Shade cloth on greenhouse, watered greenhouse, repotted big tomato plants [got to get reeds from pond tomorrow AM to stake them up so tall], ate lunch with oldest [in Raleigh], got pete moss and special soil [from Lowes], fixed wife's raised [outlined with big skinny chunks of old monument] herb bed, grilled burgers before wife got home, washed wife's car and my truck. US Airways has a new screwed up system. Took two phone calls to get boarding passes printed. Sounds like CTT's new system when we went to that. Bugs everywhere. Jimbo Apitz called my cell while I was washing truck. "Peeing" in his pants. He had reworked the Polar Express smoke unit [like several of us have done] and it smoked him out of the train room. Got early fishing trip to pond tomorrow AM with buddy [that can not saw trees] and then off to airport for long flight to Bosie. Long day tomorrow. Even longer next Monday flying back [got big seats for that one].
Microwave popcorn time.
BTW: I have found that the Lord has a way of handling strife in the Church. They usually split. Then two Churches appear where there was only one. Both grow.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
ChiefEagles wrote: BTW: I have found that the Lord has a way of handling strife in the Church. They usually split. Then two Churches appear where there was only one. Both grow.
Our Church has spun off many Churches due to dissagreement on the big "M" word and how it is best spent. And by the way the Church is not the building but where 2 or more individuals are in agreement about the word. opps I opened a can of worms lets go fishing
On less taboo discussion I got off work early on Monday and as soon as I got home the phone rang and it was a company wanting me to have an interview the next day I work every other day so I went for it and the interview went well so I am hoping I get the job.
great CSXect hope it works out for you .
not much happening my co worker today told me he didn't think I could move that quick when a tree came loose from the excavator and rolled towards me as I was cutting it. (let go of chain saw and jump back quick lol) chain saw was still running and in the tree when it was done tree rolled only about 3 feet but still enough to do damage if I didn't move quick. (Guess who was at controls of excavator not the person with chain saw in hand )
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Bill, That sounds like a pretty close call ! Glad noone was hurt.
CSXT - Good Luck with the interview !
Dennis - You would be proud of us. Chris and I had a consoltation regarding the degree of amputation that would be required for our guests, who have ventured out on our UP excursion. As it turned out we did not have to amputate the femur, just the feet. So were on the way. (We are adding ramps to the passenger loading areas so as to be in compliance and provide assistance for our passengers.) And there were only 8 passengers that had to go thru this ordeal. Unbelievably they were all lined up waiting, fortunately the recovery time was immediate, and they were the first ones to board the train. Seems like a small benefit, given the price they had to pay for riding in the Observation Deck. Unfortunatly the only antsthisia that was available was some JD and Coke. (Chris had the Coke, I had the JD to help steady the Dremel tool - We didn't have a scaple.)
Surprisingly enough the other passengers don't realize the fantastic deal they got. A lifetime pass on our UP, (Just like the RR employees used to have.) It seems that someone had spilt a considerable amount of Super Glue in the seats. One poor lad didn't realize the dasterdly deed that had been performed, and had sat down on the toilet in one of the suites, and HE left the door open. And, he is visable from the platform. For now we are not going to take any action to address the situation, but wait and see if any complaints materialize.
Good morning from New England!
70 degrees yesterday. 60 today. Expecting a foot of snow tomorrow! Winter's last gasp? I sure hope so!
Look ma, I'm fixing my own trains!! Well as the Chief reported last night, I took my Polar Express Berk apart and replaced the old smoke unit "stuff" with pink fiberglass insulation. I also removed the wicking sleeve from the heating element. It was completely black and crispy. I was hoping for an improvement, but what I got was way beyond my expectations! The locomotive literally smoked up the entire room! I was concerned that the smoke alarm would go off! I need to shoot some video of that! This was a 15-20 minute project that payed huge dividends.
The Chief is the one responsible for showing me how to work on trains. He sat with me one night and helped me get a derelict old post war steamer back up and running. It reminds me of that old proverb - give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. But teach a man to fish and you feed him for life. Sincere thanks, Frank!
Making a tunnel portal tonight for someone we all know and love. I'm loving all these little projects. Keeps the hobby interesting.
Have a nice day, all!
Jim
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
About time you got that portal done. Had one done some time ago. Those crazy big holes in the wall are not good. Hey, where are my decals? Can't get a thing out of that New England Yank. Good to have a good friend like Jim.
Long day for me. Buddy is coming to fish this AM. Then get ready for long flight to Bosie. Mountain Time there and arriving at 10:45 PM. That is 12:45 AM my time. Another hour to get to hotel room. Ambien CR and Do Not Disturb sign on the door. Better get moving and down another cup of coffee before buddy get here.
Have a great day.
Sorry for the delay, Chief. The wife can't keep her hands off me. Pretty soon, I'm gonna start blowing smoke like that Berk!!!
It is a mess in Buckeyeland today. Flood warnings all over the state and now sleet is hitting the window panes here at the ranch. Why do I pick days like this to run around outside?
The CTT truck is great. I only found a $100 bill inside my truck. Maybe someone else won the big prize.
Still a little hung over from all the great activities of PI day. Just can't handle the excitement as I age, graciously.
Jim, sorry to hear that the wife has been slapping you around again for all your misdeeds in life.
Let the games begin.
See ya down the tracks,
HI GIZ,
57 and rainy. Yesterday was75 and little rain late in day. Tomorrow 32 and 6 inches o SNOW, WOW! what a way to celebrate PI?
Happy Friday Eve!
laz57
Good morning all,
It is a wet and windy and cooling day in SE Indiana with temps falling thru out the day into the 30s. It was an interesting drive into work for sure. All this talk of slide rules and calculators reminds me of a lesson learned in college. I used a slide rule in high school physics, but when I went to college, the first hand held calculators were becoming available. I brought one to the physics class when we were choosing lab partners, and one of the prettiest girls (and smartest) came over to me and asked me to be her partner. Right there I learned that geeks and nerds still had a chance with the ladies as long as they had the right CPU.
It was a good evening last night. I did weights and kicked the soccer ball around at the YMCA, and ran the 318E set. I watched a little bit of "Lost" and taped the rest. I had some bacon and biscuits on the dining car this morning and there is plenty left for "Points East". I hope everyone has a good day.
Keep on training,
Mike C. from Indiana
Buckeye Riveter wrote: It is a mess in Buckeyeland today. Flood warnings all over the state and now sleet is hitting the window panes here at the ranch. Why do I pick days like this to run around outside?The CTT truck is great. I only found a $100 bill inside my truck. Maybe someone else won the big prize. Still a little hung over from all the great activities of PI day. Just can't handle the excitement as I age, graciously. Jim, sorry to hear that the wife has been slapping you around again for all your misdeeds in life. Let the games begin. See ya down the tracks,
"Oh 2 - only 2 days till the most important holiday of the year!"
Brent - Erin go braless!
Ooooh, your gonna catch flack for that comment! (What about Christmas?).
I will be at the St Patty's event bright and early at 7am. I'll probably be seeing double by 11. I'm not driving though.
So I just got the final word that I am going to the Philippines in April, for work related stuff. I just looked at flight information, and that is a 24 hour flight...That doesn't sound like much fun at all. I start getting uncomfortable after about 4 hours on a plane accross the country. Because of the international time line, I arrive 2 days after I take off. I think I'm going to have to take Nyquil and sleep through as much of it as I can.
Oh well,
Wes
jaabat wrote: "Oh 2 - only 2 days till the most important holiday of the year!" Brent - Erin go braless!
Yeppers! IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! YEAH!!!!
Good Morning from Blueberryhill....
It is a rainy, 39 degrees. Going up to a rainy, 48 degrees. What wonderful weather. We had a lot of lightining and thunder last night.
Today, is a stay at home day. After a few chores around the house, I will spend some time in the train room. It's time to clean some track and dust a few cars. I found a real neat brush for dusting small. hard to reach places on cars. Works great. I need to run trains today.
Dining Car is here from " points west ". Breakfast is served.
Y'all have a great Thursday.
Chuck
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