KenfolkLet the strong northwesterly wind die down before trying to unload and carry the 4 x 8 foam sheet from the truck into the garage. Note: This applies to various colors of foam equally. Likewise, thickness.
Let the strong northwesterly wind die down before trying to unload and carry the 4 x 8 foam sheet from the truck into the garage.
Note: This applies to various colors of foam equally. Likewise, thickness.
Or from the Menards store to the vehicle that it wont quite fit in. While the wind is still blowing.
Mechanical Department "No no that's fine shove that 20 pound set all around the yard... those shoes aren't hell and a half to change..."
The Missabe Road: Safety First
Always make sure that lighting fixtures have enough power in your series circuit to light up and light up bright enough before soldering, taping, and putting the Christmas Tree on top of your new 4X6 winter scene...it sucks see the dark depot and dim lights...
Steamfreak; You got that right----sssszzzzzzzz----click!
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
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blownout cylinderIn a slightly off topic area---do not work on electronic equipment while still ON!!! I did this on a tube linear amplifier---thought it a good idea to pull high voltage cap off big tube and did go----FFFFFFFRRRRRTTTTSSSSCCCG!!!!!!!---right across the room.
In a slightly off topic area---do not work on electronic equipment while still ON!!! I did this on a tube linear amplifier---thought it a good idea to pull high voltage cap off big tube and did go----FFFFFFFRRRRRTTTTSSSSCCCG!!!!!!!---right across the room.
And now when you stretch your arms to the sides you make a pretty decent dipole.
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
In a slightly off topic area---do not work on electronic equipment while still ON!!! I did this on a tube linear amplifier---thought it a good idea to pull high voltage cap off big tube and did go----FFFFFFFRRRRRTTTTSSSSCCCG!!!!!!!---right across the room. So, heed the above---piece is off and UNPLUGGED.
Don't carry a freshly unplugged soldering pencil and walk with the cord dragging on the ground - and if you step on the cord, let go of the xxx thing!! The scar went away, but the memory lingers!!!
Ahhh, I can relate to most of these! And to add to them...............
- When soldering rails, it is bad form to use your fingers as heat sinks!
- Turn off your fancy electric paint stirrer BEFORE removing it from the bottle!
- Think twice before closing your legs while trying to catch a dropped Xacto knife!
- The smallest dropped parts will bounce the farthest!
- Murphy's Law has a tight bond with model railroading!
And last, but not least, the more delicate the model, the more likely it will be in an accident!
ENJOY,
Mobilman44
ENJOY !
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
Don't forget to check all paints are put away and That They are CLOSED. It is kind of rough on paints---awfully dry after they been sitting around---kind of rough on wallet too---
Never put Icy-Hot on your gonads. Not train related, but all the same...
Dont take the cap off the super glue and then put it in your mouth. Super glued toung to teeth its interesting. But its embarasing.
Do invite 12 people to every operating session of your 4x8 layout.
Do serve massive quantities of alcohol before said ops.
Do make certian your most recent foreign visitor(that guy that speaks ten words of English, nine of which do not involve trains)is assigned to dispatch.
Do allow both twins to share one throttle(they'll be three in january)
Don't worry about derailments, that's what all those emergency vehicles on your layout are for.
1. You don't need to finish the ceiling before starting the layout.
2. The builders will always finish the roof before it rains and floods the layout.
3. There is no need for an electrical cutoff. No one is stupid enough to run trains with the swing gate wide open.
Always make sure there is some kind of ventilation when working with glues---trust me on this one----
phatkat64 loathar wrote: No cats in the train room..." src="http://cs.trains.com/emoticons/icon_smile_whistling.gif"> Couldn't agree more with that one!!!
loathar wrote: No cats in the train room..." src="http://cs.trains.com/emoticons/icon_smile_whistling.gif">
Couldn't agree more with that one!!!
Back at you, I have to deal with a POSSESED cat and she is a huge pain in the a##
If you can read this... thank a teacher. If you are reading this in english... thank a veteran
When in doubt. grab a hammer.
If it moves and isn't supposed to, get a hammer
If it doesn't move and is supposed to, get a hammer
If it's broken, get a hammer
If it can't be fixed with a hammer... DUCK TAPE!
Rotorranch wrote: loathar wrote: SteamFreak wrote: J. Daddy wrote: Paint foam only with acrylics, or water base paints, otherwise you will witness the incredible disapearing mountain.What a great way to simulate the erosion process. After all, the mountains on the east coast were once as big as the Rockies... Actually, it's a better way to simulate the Alien acid blood eating through the floor.Now that's funny!Rotor
loathar wrote: SteamFreak wrote: J. Daddy wrote: Paint foam only with acrylics, or water base paints, otherwise you will witness the incredible disapearing mountain.What a great way to simulate the erosion process. After all, the mountains on the east coast were once as big as the Rockies... Actually, it's a better way to simulate the Alien acid blood eating through the floor.
SteamFreak wrote: J. Daddy wrote: Paint foam only with acrylics, or water base paints, otherwise you will witness the incredible disapearing mountain.What a great way to simulate the erosion process. After all, the mountains on the east coast were once as big as the Rockies...
J. Daddy wrote: Paint foam only with acrylics, or water base paints, otherwise you will witness the incredible disapearing mountain.
Paint foam only with acrylics, or water base paints, otherwise you will witness the incredible disapearing mountain.
What a great way to simulate the erosion process. After all, the mountains on the east coast were once as big as the Rockies...
Actually, it's a better way to simulate the Alien acid blood eating through the floor.
Now that's funny!
Rotor
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Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
metal+electric=ababababababa OW WHAT THE #%**
never have anyone near a electrical switch you don't know all that well (trust me, I learnt that the hard way AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA)
DavidGSmith wrote: Been away a while, a 12" pipe wrench is just a small one. Have up to 24" if needed. LOL Another paint one is you will only notice the small area you missed after cleaning the brushes. Dont paint even a small quick job with you best jeans on.Dave
Been away a while, a 12" pipe wrench is just a small one. Have up to 24" if needed. LOL Another paint one is you will only notice the small area you missed after cleaning the brushes. Dont paint even a small quick job with you best jeans on.
Dave
Why not? You're not going to spill anything on them, are you?
Irv
MAbruce wrote: While it may look fascinating, whatever you do DON'T start a layout. In fact, DON'T even start up in this hobby! It's a highly addictive pursuit that can easily drain your finances, swallow up all your spare time, and test the limits of your sanity.Run away while you still have a chance.There's no hope for recovery once you start.
While it may look fascinating, whatever you do DON'T start a layout. In fact, DON'T even start up in this hobby! It's a highly addictive pursuit that can easily drain your finances, swallow up all your spare time, and test the limits of your sanity.
Run away while you still have a chance.
There's no hope for recovery once you start.
What's sanity? Isn't that how clean something is?
-Morgan
Now he tells me!
Dallas Model Works wrote: Never carry an open bottle of paint (or other gunk) over a floor surface that cannot be cleaned easily.If you do, then somehow, some way, your feet will act as thought they've never worked together before and a spill that makes the Exxon Valdez look like amateur-hour will ensue.
Never carry an open bottle of paint (or other gunk) over a floor surface that cannot be cleaned easily.
If you do, then somehow, some way, your feet will act as thought they've never worked together before and a spill that makes the Exxon Valdez look like amateur-hour will ensue.
And don't forget that you'll also discover that your spouse and family have also become "enviromentalist fanatics."
I've got another one! I've injured myself this way several times over the last couple of years: don't leave sharp things clamped in your vise when you've finished, or are taking a break from, a project. I'm in the throes of fabricating riveted air tanks for my Thomas Consol rebuild. Rather than make up the ends, with the pipe fittings, run rivet rows on shim stock wrappers, then solder them together in a normal way, I decided to add a little weight by turning cores from 3/8"D brass rod, with fittings to take 3/64"D wire "piping," embossed the rivet rows, then tinned the wrappers and cores, intending to "spot-solder" them together with my American Beauty resistance soldering rig.
This method had worked fine when soldering rivet overlays to the firebox sides (they're really supposed to be stay-bolt heads), but even with the slightly thicker shim stock, I succeeded in producing a lot of pock-marks in the cylindrical wrappers, which were held in place with aluminum wire. "Okay," I told myself, "it's time to unlimber my mini torch and sweat-solder the two pieces of each tank together--but how do I hold the wired-up assembly while applying heat?" I just got one of those little old-fashioned clamp vises, so I clamped it onto my workbench pullout work surface, clamped a piece of soft steel wire (from one of the bale handles from Chinese takeout: most model railroaders are packrats!) in it, and stuck the tank assembly on it, vertically, through one of the pipe fittings.
When I'd soldered the wrapper on, fileting the joints at the ends with solder, I pulled it off and started cleaning up the solder joints--almost always a necessity. Within a couple of minutes I'd jabbed my hand with the steel wire, still clamped in the vise. It's not the first time it's happened, but I hope it's the last, as writing this has indelibly imprinted on my brain the necessity of not leaving something sharp in any of my vises (I have three, one permanently mounted [a Colbert Panavise], and two clamp vises). Luckily, as a diabetic, I've had my tetanus booster shot...
Jake: How often does the train go by? Elwood: So often you won't even notice ...
Packers1 wrote: Kenfolk wrote: DavidGSmith wrote: I use a 12" pipe wrench to open stuck paint bottles. Dave Now we know for sure Tim "the Toolman" Taylor is into model railroading! Of course, he would soon repower that with a lawn mower engine, then a V2, then your average V6, then a huge Hemi V8.
Kenfolk wrote: DavidGSmith wrote: I use a 12" pipe wrench to open stuck paint bottles. Dave Now we know for sure Tim "the Toolman" Taylor is into model railroading!
DavidGSmith wrote: I use a 12" pipe wrench to open stuck paint bottles. Dave
I use a 12" pipe wrench to open stuck paint bottles.
Now we know for sure Tim "the Toolman" Taylor is into model railroading!
Of course, he would soon repower that with a lawn mower engine, then a V2, then your average V6, then a huge Hemi V8.
Nope...he'd have the turbine powered Binford 6100 model paint bottle opener!
Guilford Guy wrote:X-acto knives, and swiss army knives are not substitutes for Screw Drivers!
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
That was how I was going to do mine actually. I found that out when woking on a project in 6th grade, made good headlights