TMarshJeff- Yep. Lean burn was iffy at best. One thing learned, if you had problems, just replace it with the ignition box on the wall type and a new distributor. Don’t even think about getting a new lean burn brain.
Amen to that! I saw a lot of B150's, Power Wagons and Cordoba's burn to the ground because the red hot exhaust pipes overheated the floor panels and set fire to the mats and whatever else was laying on the floor. More than once I saw catalytic converters glowing beyond cherry red, almost melting in some cases. Quite a number of the bigger trucks and vans in the B250 class came without cats. Mine was one. It doesn't even have the hangers that would have held them. Those were welded to the vehicles that had them.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Good morning .
Yesterday, I cleaned up a huge mess. As I already said here yesterday, our freezer in the garage stopped working several days ago. An entire hind quarter of black angus beef was spoiled. I had to lift out numerous packages of bad meat sitting in a pool of bloody meat juice. Then I filled a gallon milk bottle completely and 2 12 oz paper coffee cups with it. The meat was dumped in the lake as I rode in my friend's boat to do that. He dumped it where he likes to catch catfish under the US 68 bridge. I cleaned up the freezer, but I do not know yet if it is fixable.
Below is a photo of an osprey nest in the bridge. (I took the picture with my smart phone) This is where my friend fishes for catfish. This is an approach span before the big trusses that carry the highway over the main part of the lake. Ospreys are large, fish-eating birds about 2 feet long with wing spans of about 4 to 5 feet. It's a huge nest. The 80 year old bridge is being replaced within the next two years and construction is starting in a few months.
Todd ... The freezer is a "teachable moment". The lesson learned is never ever buy a used freezer from a guy on Craigs List who meets you at a truck stop parking lot to sell it to you.
Ulrich ... I looked anyhow at the backdrop and you have made a good start. I know what you mean about it not looking the way you want it at this stage. It will evolve into a beautiful sky if you continue to be patient as you work on it.
Vincent ... Glad to hear you may be starting a layout in the garage. I like the Walthers cabooses, too.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good morning! It's warm and sunny already. I've continued to water the new grass on the lawn, and it's filling in pretty well. Still a long way to go. My fear is another really dry summer. The problem spots are on sloped parts of the lawn, so it's hard to keep them moist without at least a bit of rain. The water itself isn't expensive, but they charge for the sewer based on water, so we pay a lot more for that even though he water is going in the yard and not down the drain. And, they won't let you use a separate meter for watering the yard unless you have an in-ground sprinker system.
Galaxy, Penny loves her iPhone. So does daughter Annie, and they love their MacBooks, too. I'm happy running Windows XP on my desktop machine and not getting any calls at all on my cell phone. One reason that I like the Aurora Basin area when skiing at Sunday River is that there's no cell service.
This was a quiet weekend at home. Penny was at the memorial service for her nephew. I was "excused" from attending, which was just as well, as I either had a stomach bug or a bad reaction to upping the dose on my new sugar meds. Let's just say that that use of the sewer was justified and worth the charge. The other "quiet" was the sky, as the local airport remained closed following that plane crash Saturday night.
I did get my car fixed. I drove to the VW dealer in town, pulled my bike out of the car and rode home. A half-hour later, I got a call that it was done, so I reversed the process. Then I had the car washed by the high school football team. I love small-town stuff like that.
We lost a freezer full of stuff once, but it was our own fault, combined with some questionable wiring practices by the guys who built our house. It was just the top freezer section of the beer fridge in the basement. We had just come back from 2 weeks in Hawaii, and couldn't figure out where the smell in the basement was coming from. As it turned out, we had shut off the heating system while we were gone, and that "oil burner emergency switch" was also wired to the plug in the other room that powered the fridge.
And, lest we forget why we're here, I glued down and ballasted the last piece of track on Phase 2 of my current layout. Next up will be more benchwork for Phase 3.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Morning guys,
Warm out and sunny right now and calling for some storms later on. I hope we get some rain as things are getting a bit dry. I am taking my bike in tomorrow for some repairs that I dont want to try because I know what will happen,lol. I also have some bike parts coming that I can put on myself. Since its nice out I may take a short walk to the hardware store to pick up some simple green.
Did some more w*rk on the background from lunch till now. I think it´s coming alog, although the pictures show quite a few areas I need to do some "brushing up".
As I have already published a picture of the background, here are one (or two) more:
The transition between the different "blues" definitively need to be w*rked on, but that´s not going to happen today.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a bowl of Vanilla pecon granolla, and a cup (several most likely) of Seneca Lake Blend Dark Roast coffee in my FGLK mug please, and thank you!
Currently 79°F outside here in the Finger Lakes with a bright yellow thing up in the sky. Last couple of days have both netted about 28 kWh of electric for me and today should be up around 25 at least. Later this evening they are calling for thunderboomers to grace our area....
I have a couple places to visit, the drug store, and the Value Hardware Center to get a few things.... I will have to fill the car with dinosaur stuff tomorrow. Depending on how far I drive on electrons today and tomorrow I could end up with my first 90+ mpg tank on the PiP. If it weren't for driving to the museum once a week I would be well over 100+ mpg this tank. It was 94 mpg on the computer before heading out to the R&GV RR yesterday. By the time I got home it was back to 87.
Blackie had his pills this morning and promptly threw up.... I think I may give him a half pill before liunch to get him through until tonight... Hairball city around here. I gave him some of the hairball medicine a few minutes ago when I found the pills on the floor....
I too have had the pleasure (not!!!) of dealing with a dead freezer with some "dead" meat in it.... In my case my son had gotten a frozen turkey from where he was working at the time and wanted to store it until Thanksgiving in my old. old small upright freezer down cellar. I told him sure as I had one down there I was saving for the Thanksgiving feast at my house as well. We went down there, I opened the freezer and closed it back up real quickly.... Wow! Gaggy and then some.... The old thing had evidently quit running some time earlier and I hadn't opened it in several weeks (months?). He helped me double bag up the dead turkey and the frozen garden vegetables that were the only things in it while holding our breath! (We then would run outside gasping...) I grabbed a gallon of Clorine bleach and dumped about half of it into the foot or so of water, blood and who knows what that was still in there after getting the very dead bird out of it... Amazingly that killed the smell very quickly. I let it stand over night until I could go back down there without gagging, emptied out the water. My son helped me haul the old freezer up out of the basement to the back lawn. We tipped it over to get the rest of the water out, I hosed it out really well, and then we loaded it onto the pickup and dumped it off at a recyling center for such things downtown. I now do without a chest type freezer!
Catch you all later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Hmmm
~Well we just spent 30 minutes of "intuitive" time figuring out how to make/receive calls on our "ituitive use" "smart" {but very dumb} phones!
At that rate it will take a whole year to figure out the whole thing?
~ for approximately 1.5-2.5 seconds, MOH and I had part of our "15 minutes of fame"..we were on TV...TWC news did a sweep-by at the auto show we went to yesterday {oldies!!!}, and we were in the sweep-by! so for the very first 1.5-2.5 seconds of the video of the report, we are front Rt on the screen! MOH mentioend at one pt yesterday "we might be on the news"...I thought, well, OK, but I NEVER saw the cameraperson...I was to busy looking at the cars and trucks!!!
I miss my '87 chevy fullsize 4x4 k10 truck! Black and gray, I finally had to sell it to pay the rent before my disability came through when i could no longer work. The landlord let me keep it while he held the title,but I had to sell her eventually ..i feel similar to KEn...about his mopar! Of course I'd also liek my '83 GMC s-15 4x2 back too! Red fade to silver! FOudn one in Checy version in Red/white for $4500 on Craigslist locally but too much for it and it was stnadard lower package of equip. than mine, woudl be a bit of a let down!
~GarrY: NOPE< I'd not buy a freezer off CL either..are you sure it worked and worked well before putting themeat in? Maybe something got jostled during transport?? We trhough out a small stand up freezer adn teh top refridgerdator freezer PACKED FULLL of meat when Hurricane/super storm irene {lee?} came through here awhile ago, I had JUST STOCKED Up! I know what you are going through...
~Todd...Mr. B:
I am sure i will get used to it,,,but at what cost? I guess I was happy with my flip phone too, but may use the smart phone more? One phone was gonna cost $100/m, why not put 2 on and the tablet is only $10 of the total...
We supposedly get wifi free too, and there apparently is a close by wifi here {don't know if i got on it or what by accident?}, I can also find the neighbors cell phone line on here....it shows them that is...
I will have to learn is all.
I am finding it harder to deal with a SMALL keypad! And new symbols for things!
Intuitive! They Lie!
~ well, I'd better register for the classes...
Just took me 15 mins to try to register online for the classes...instead i called the guy at the # listed...he said basically that he doesn't belive ANY of the "intuitive stuff" either! He believes you must be "shown how to use them"...
~Oh, MOH's Hip? MOH has Pagets Disease! a Bone disease! Surgery not in the near future and should by all means WALK a lot, not sit and wiat for a fracture!
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pagets-disease-of-bone/basics/definition/con-20020138
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pagets-disease-of-bone/basics/causes/con-20020138
so, it is so-so news? MOH will apparently be ok, and may break bones easiER, but not necessary by "stepping off a curb" teh DR. Said.
Well, I have things to do!
Later
OH ULRICH: Looks good...except for a few striations in teh sky yesterday, there was only one little puffy cloud like you have there in the sky yesterday at the car show!
later!
-G .
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.
Galaxy, do you have cable internet? If so, all you need to have wifi is a wireless router. My old XP box is the only thing left in the house that doesn't go through the wireless system. Even the printer is wireless. There are no ethernet cables going to the porcelain appliances in the bathrooms, either.
The girls run all their iToys over the wifi.
And after all that time I put into running cables all over the house so we could put the computer where we wanted...
I named my wireless network "choochooman."
The evening train has finally arrived. Folks are hurrying home to their loved ones. Time to call it a day w*rking on the layout.
MisterBeasley Galaxy, do you have cable internet? If so, all you need to have wifi is a wireless router. My old XP box is the only thing left in the house that doesn't go through the wireless system. Even the printer is wireless. There are no ethernet cables going to the porcelain appliances in the bathrooms, either. The girls run all their iToys over the wifi. And after all that time I put into running cables all over the house so we could put the computer where we wanted... I named my wireless network "choochooman."
and give the Cable company MORE of my money??? They want another $50 for wireless service!!
now we have to decide about dropping the landline..it is hardwired and we have phone when the power is out too! All Our neighbors DON"T!
I wasn't suggesting that you pay the cable company a dime. You can buy your own wireless modem, plug it in to their box and use it. It's a one-time charge, no monthly fee. After that, you've got a strong signal, even inside your Faraday Cage, and you can use laptops, iPhones, printers and whatever, all at once. My iWomen have theirs set up to automatically use the choochooman network when they find it. That way, they don't overrun their data plan and end up paying more to the phone company.
MisterBeasley is correct. I bought my personal wifi for 40 bucks at walmart. It gives a good signal for 40 dollars, and I get it all through the house (I think they recogmend getting booster units if you have a bigger house of course). Afternoon all, Rigatoni and meatballs-thanks. Today was a little stressful, but I am glad to be working.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
Hello ladies. I need a Dr. Pepper and a slice of that pineapple upside down cake with some candles on it if you please. I am officially 21 today. I hope everybosy is having a good Monday.
David Parks I am the terror that flaps in the night!
Geez! I can't remember being twenty-one.
Neither can I Jeffrey but we must have been. Anyway.... Happy 21st David!
Hmm, that reminds me, I have a birthday on the 4th but it sure as heck isn't a 21st. More like 6 times 21 plus a bit.. How did that happen.
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
chochowillieHmm, that reminds me, I have a birthday on the 4th but it sure as heck isn't a 21st. More like 6 times 21 plus a bit.. How did that happen.
Train Master Hello ladies. I need a Dr. Pepper and a slice of that pineapple upside down cake with some candles on it if you please. I am officially 21 today. I hope everybosy is having a good Monday.
Well, Happy 21st! Go have a or a with your hope you get lots of !!
Evenin' folks!
Janie I'll have a decaf and.... Ah, is that a pineapple upsidedown cake over there? It is? Why is there candle wax all over it? David's 21st. birthday? Well cut me a piece and we'll get ready to sing the song... Ahem... Are we ready?
Galaxy, is your internet through the cable? If it is all you have to do is add a WiFi box between the computer and the modem. Only cost is for the equipment. I did just that here even thopugh most of my equipment is still hard wired together. I got a Airport Express on sale at the Mac store I go to so that I can use the laptop anywhere around here. It is also set up with a password so guests can use it. My Son from Chicago went online here with both his iPhone and his iPad to check some stuff last time he was home. I have had other people sign on to it as well. As long as you have internet through them there is no additional monthly charge as internet is internet and you could hardwire as many devies as you want so you can hook as many as you want through a WiFi system.
I got another raised bed weeded today. Tomorrow I shall add a bag and a half of MooPoo and more topsoil. Went over to a local owned farm store and picked up some onion sets and a pack of Blue Lake Bush String Beans. Also drove to the Menonite garden store and got some pepper plants and a couple eggplant seedlings. I hope to get the second raised bed done and planted tomorrow. Before the end of the week I shall have all three done for this year. I also picked up one more hanging basket for the fence as I still had about 8 petunia plants left over. I also had one more place empty on the fence to even it all out. I may gat a photo of kt to post tomorrow... We shall see.
Tomorrow evening is the sign up event for the new Cub Scout Pack. I still haven't heard back from the District Executive about materials, time for setup and a few other things I would like to know before the event... Have a pack presnetation on Wednesday I will be helping with. This time to BOCES Classes at a school about 20 miles for here. I will be answering a few questions and helping to pass out materials and smiling a lot....
Just as I set down to dinner tonight (Cornell recipe BBQ Chicken, a baked potato with onion chip dip on it, and some fruit) thunderboomers started firing up! I quickly shut down the computer for a while and enjoyed the light show. After the show was over Manét came over to be reassured.... I wondered where Blackie was. Went looking. He was nowhere to be founbd. I looked ion all his hiding places, under the bed, behind furniture, under the couch. Every place I could think of! Even checked the bedrooms I use for storage to make sure he didn't follow me in there sometime today. He was nowhere! I started to get almost panicky. Checked outside around the house wondering if he somehow went outside when I went out to grill the meat. He never shows any interest in going out and usually runs away when the door opens, but I was getting nervous by that time. I finally thought, "Oh well, he will show up (I hope)". Sat down and started the computer back up, went back into the living room to get something, and he was sitting by the couch with his head cocked to one side as if to say, What's wrong daddy? He must have somehow gotten under the couch.... and was completely hidden. He doesn't like thunderboomers!
Not much accomplished today. I got the doc appointment moved to tomorrow morning. My sister will come pick me up in the morning and take me there, Afterward I'll call her and have her pick me up from the docs office and we'll go grocery shopping. It won't be much. Between my food stamps and what little I have left from my SSI I'll have about $78 to do my shopping with.Today I made a special disk drive to test computers with. It's a drive controller card with an SDFloppy disk drive emulator attached via a pigtail cable. The SD card in the emulator contains all the test and diagnostic software I need. The card holds the equivalent of sixteen floppy disks of programs. Since I have two of these SDFloppy emulators (one from my niece, the other from my sister) I put one on my //e to save information to SD cards for archive storage and the other to create an aid in my tech work.My friend with the IIc came by to get the disk drive I modified recently. He seems very happy with it.
Evening Dinners!
Flo I will, what do you mean waite a minute? Todds tap? Cash up front? Well yes I was gone for a while but I am back now. Vinnie says so and no checks? Well all I have is a $50.00 dollar bill, OK for for a starter? OK, thank you and can I now get a pleases? Thank you Flo.
Work Front nothing really to speak about. Did have a exchange that had a $150.00 spiff on it, but she replaced it with a mattress with a $100.00 spiff so I am not that far in the hole. A sad note, I am one of the highest earning sales person in the company? Only person beating me is working 6 days a week. Marvi is going to start sending out flyers so hopefully sales goes up!
Because I am such a good sales person I have been told I will be working more in St Charles Mo. Guess Paul forgot one of the Quite NTB Is Because I was Tired Of Driving To St Charles!
Mr B "beer fridge in the basement." You are the man!
Ulrich Looking better so far! Can you make a video of the layout running?
Well I pooped, see you all Tuesday
Ken
I hate Rust
Garry:
Sorry about your freezer! Messy!
Do you happen to know if there will be any measures taken to help the Ospreys re-establish their nests when the new bridge is built? It doesn't take much. A simple platform about five or six feet square with a rim around it can be mounted just about anywhere and the Ospreys will take to it like kids to cookies.
In Ontario the utility companies put extra tall poles in suitable locations with platforms on top to provide nesting spots. I think they will also erect poles on private property for the same purpose. We have one just up the road and it has a new brood in it this year. The babies are still small but you can see their heads poking up out of the nest when mom or pop returns with food. I believe the nesting platform program was started to replace the loss of suitable trees due to land clearing.
They are thrilling birds to watch, especially when they are diving for fish.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Morning Folks!
It´s a lovely day outside - with sunshine, but also lots of interesting cloud formations to watch. Seems as if I am not too far off with my background. I´ll be adding some gray to the lower end of the clouds, as this is what I have observed in the past couple of days.
My order of ballast is on its way to me, so that´s what´s going to happen in the next few days, painting the track and ballasting. I hope that O scale ballast is a little easier to apply than N scale ballast, which hardly stays where it is supposed to. When that is done, I will go for my first building - the engine house, providing I can get some leftover pieces of veneer free of charge! The only expense I can afford is a jar of white glue...
Have a good one!
I'm late as MOH monopolized hte 'puter for work related testing courses
Today is the Funeral of NYS Trooper Chris Skinner, killed in the line of duty due to a PERSON {I cannot use the appropriate word here} purposely driving into him and killing him while the trooper was giving a ticket on the Interestate. Let us have a moment of silence for him and his family....
Quotable Quotes:{I like the first one}:
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. -Allen Ginsberg, poet (1926-1997)
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. -Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet (1840-1928)
galaxyToday is the Funeral of NYS Trooper Chris Skinner, killed in the line of duty due to a PERSON {I cannot use the appropriate word here} purposely driving into him and killing him while the trooper was giving a ticket on the Interestate.
How awful and absurd! Prayers for those he leaves behind!
Mr. Murphy has taken permanent residence in my train room!
I started addig a shade of gray to the lower part of the clouds and it looked just awful! I completely goofed it up! As soon as the paint had dried up, I took a big brush and covered nearly everything up with the remnants of the light blue paint I had left over. Looks better than before, more like a hazy day with various degrees of haze in the sky. I am not going to touch it for a while, but will continue with the things I know how to do
Good morning, and a lovely day it is, too. Mid-60s, not a cloud in the sky. Of course, that will change by tomorrow, but it's nice while it lasts. Of course, I'm stuck inside all day. But, that might not last even the short time I've planned. We just heard that our company did not win the significant contract they'd hoped for, so there may be voluntary layoffs again. That's my personal Yellow Brick Road to retirement.
No guarantee on that, of course, but it sure would be nice.
More immediately, I was glad to hear that we are not going to Maine this weekend after all. It would have been another episode of my wife's continuing saga of dealing with her brother and his dysfunctional family. But, her brother had other plans, and really, Penny needs to decompress. With her trip to Ireland, getting ready for her trip to Ireland and the nephew's memorial service, she's been going straight out for 2 months. Instead, I hope to get some lumber and start on Phase 3 of my layout.
I drink Dr Pepper sometimes, too, but David, you're "of age" now. Have a . A nice India Pale Ale.
Heartland Division CB&Q Good morning, everybody Birthday front: …… Our granddaughter is 13 today. Galaxy … Your experience was storm related. We had a similar experience with the 2009 KY ice storm. We had no power for 9 days. … Also, Galaxy: Sorry to hear about the Trooper’s death.
Wish your granddaughter a happy "teen" B-day for all of us! Look out now! next comes hormones, boys, hissy-fits, alienation of the "authority figures" as she asserts her indpendence...adn MORE! Oh goody!
Garry: whenever there is now moderate flooding around here, we get nervous as the substation that feeds us is in a flood plain, and when it gets flooded, there is automaticaly 5 days at least of no power! They have to wiat for the h2o to go down, then the station to dry out too....
Have a great day! I'm off soon to a class on how to use the phone. I finally got the automatic voice-activated control to work!
Zoe, just a bowl of organic granola cereal and lots of Seneca Lake Blend dark roast coffee to keep my R&GV RR mug filled for a while...
So much for working in the garden today... Sitting here at the computer waiting for the thunderboomers to be added to the rain that is currently falling outside. Currently 72°F outside under dark cloudy, rainy, stormy, skies. I certainly have enough to keep me busy inside todaqy after making the rounds of errands I have on the list. Have a Cub Scout Event to attend tonight, one early tomorrow m orning, tomorrow night, and again on Thursday. Remember Scouting doesn't take much of your time, just an hour a week... Oh well, I do enjoy what I do for Scouting still after 38 years as a leader.
Galaxy mentioned the State Trooper murdered near Bighamton, NY. As an FYI, here is an article about what happened. The police tracked the guy using dogs and helicopters and found him without any clothes on hidden in the woods... Guess he thought he could hide better without clothes. Something went seriously haywire with this guy!
Better get myself moving before the storms hit!
Later!
Afternoon Folks!
I am running on a high level of frustration today. A week´s w*rk down the drain!
To have at least some kind of success I painted the track with my own mixture of railroad tie brown. Looks a lot better than those shiny rails and shining black plastic ties. The ballast will most likely arrive tomorrow, so ballasting will take me to the weekend!
The backdrop will rest a little while as I have to rethink my options (in view of my abilities).
Good morning. It's 82° and feels like 85°. The humidity is 66%. The high will be 90°, it's cloudy and there's a small chance of rain. with Got the doc appointment out of the way. My sister dropped me off at the docs office and picked me up when I was finished there and we went to Wal-Mart to get the grocery shopping done. I spent $82 on groceries so now I'm officially flat broke. The appointment was for a general checkup, EKG and lab work (urine sample and feed the vampire).I have no further plans for today. I'll just take or duck whatever comes along.