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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
last mountain & eastern hoggerJEFF, Glad to hear when the sky fell that it only got chicken little. Glad to hear those old trees are getting cleaned out, just hope you don't loose to much shade.
Johnboy - I just sent you an answer via PM.
Today's a day to mark on my calendar. My nephew came over and worked on my van without me having to tell him to do it. He put in a good battery, started it up then adjusted the carb until it 'sounded' good to him. That doesn't work for me as my scrambled up hearing rips the sounds apart and reassembles them in a different order. Now he's out driving it to see if see if it'll vapor lock on him. I told him that test is easy. Drive it to town, let it sit for about thirty minutes then try starting it again. If it performs as usual he's gonna need to get a jump to get it started. What's yanking my chain is he's now claiming that he 'fixed' it. He put in a battery and adjusted the carb. Gimme a break! He didn't take anything off or take anything apart. And he says there's no such thing as vapor lock. I told him that technically he's right. It's vaporization of the fuel in the line between the fuel pump and the carb. He needs to face facts. That statement would get him laughed out of any garage staffed by knowledgeable mechanics who KNOW what they're doing. Now I'm waiting to see if he brings it back in ONE piece. He took off out of here driving like some irresponsible punk kid.
The van runs good now. Not great, but good. My nephew figured out the problem with the hot starting. Turn the key on and push the starter button. the coil won't fire. However, turn the key all the way to start and hit the starter button it'll fire up. He found it out accidentally while fooling around with the wires. Now there's a NEW problem! When he was bringing it back it blew a big hole in the radiator. So it's STILL useless to me. Tomorrow my nephew is going out in search of a triple core radiator.Here's the kicker. He set the idle way down. I told him the problem with that is that it probably won't idle worth a darn on a cold start until the engine has warmed up. He got mad and started screaming about this this and that then he went to the truck, raised the hood and took the coil wire off so I couldn't start it. I called my father and told him what he did. Presently my nephew comes back WITH the coil wire and my father close behind ready to kick him in the butt. He put the coil wire back on and that was the end of that.That's all for now. See y'all tomorrow.
Evening Dinners
Flo, and Proten Shake!
Jeffery Thank You on the heads up about Charcot Foot. We have spoke of this before. Sometimes I would get the pain for say 30 minutes then it was gone. I have had the pain well over 24 hours now but I seldom feel it. On a scale of 1 to 10 it is a 1. I go to the VA Hosptial this coming Friday and I will tell my Doctor about it! I don't have the Symptoms they have listed but I believe there might be a problem.
One big mistake I have made when it comes to my feet is working out. I have not been wearing my diabetic shoes because of the Rocker Soles on them. Makes me unstable when standing but fine for walking. So I have been wearing house slippers that have no arch support! With me standing the weight my feet are carrying a lot of weight. Then I added another 60 pounds when I am lifting? Yep, I can see the problem with the arches of my foot!
I have dug out a older pair of diabetic shoes with flat soles and think I will skip the house slippers for now in the house!
Workout Had a great one tonight! Had a great looking peak (well for me ) on the Bie-Cepts and hit 10 reps on all but the arm curles, last one was only 9 reps. But I had added 2.5 pounds to every exercises! While I am no where near as strong as I was in my late 20's way better than two months ago!
Was still feeling good after the workout. So I went to see how much I could bench press! I use to bench 275 pounds, but I was around 28 at the time and very fit. All so had been lifting for two years! 3 months ago I could not bench press 75 pounds. Tonight that is history, I benched press well over 110 pounds! While 110 pounds is nothing to be proud off, I am gaining! I hope to bench press 150 pounds befor the end of 2014.
Corner Clamps I guess Home Depote or Lowes would carry them? How thick of wood will they handel?
See you all Monday
Ken
I hate Rust
Evenin' folks!
Janie just a cup of decaf for me right now...
We had a very busy day out at the museum today. The first 5 or 6 trips were packed. Over 50 people each time. They had a Fire Engine show up at the Transportation Museum and that brought in a lot of people. It was also chilly out there all day. Temperature got all the way up to 60°F here. It was nice and sunny for most of the day, and if you could get in the sun, it was quite pleasant. We did have one little glitch that was easily taken care of. The 80 Tonner decided to get a couple clogged fuel filters half way through the afternoon. The fix was one of our maintanence guys who was there brought the two large fuel filters up the line while we headed back up to Midway. While the people were getting off the cabeese and waiting for the trolley, they shut down the prime mover that was coughing and not running well and reved up the other a bit . The crew and the maintanence guy removed the old fuel filters and filled the new ones with diesel all the time using an old plastic bucket the keep anything from spilling all over the place. By the time the guests were boarding the trolley and the new bunch were getting off the trolley they were finished, the prime mover rolled over and the 3rd. or 4th. cylinder fired it right up. Back in business!
About all I have got accomplished after getting home tonight was too make a list of things needing to get done tomorrow!
Guess I'll check my blood sugar, take my evening pills, and head out to bed. Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
cudaken One big mistake I have made when it comes to my feet is working out. I have not been wearing my diabetic shoes because of the Rocker Soles on them. Makes me unstable when standing but fine for walking. So I have been wearing house slippers that have no arch support! With me standing the weight my feet are carrying a lot of weight. Then I added another 60 pounds when I am lifting? Whistling Yep, I can see the problem with the arches of my foot! Bang Head
Todd
Central Illinoyz
In order to keep my position as Master and Supreme Ruler of the House, I don't argue with my wife.
I'm a small town boy. A product of two people from even smaller towns. I don’t talk on topic….. I just talk.
TMarshJeff- Your nephew is an interesting individual isn’t he. How old did you say he was? 11? 12?
WEll, I think today I call the plumber. The kitchen drain again is drianing slowly so needs to be roto-rutered again. There is one {expensive} plumb/heat company advertising will do it for $129. They did it before nad really wanted to replace the whole pipe for $1600. Thtas right, $1600.00. I siad no thanks, the new water heater comes first, they offered that at $1300. We got ti done from Lowes for $650., half the price INSTALLED.
I will SEE if they still do the $129 special and how much extra for a furnace servicing? while he is here, might as well get boht done, unless they only send a licensed plumber out for the clean and scrape routine. It DOSE drain better this morning, but I haven't yet filled the sink with dirty dish washing water. Yet.
Chilly in here, only got down to 66 though, set the furnace to come on at 63. That is our usual winter temp to run it at whne it is really cold. This time of year, though, we may run it at 66-67 early, then the A/c later then the heat again to take the chill off the house. 65 without heat running is a bit chilly-feeling.
well that is about it for here, for now.
Jeffrey: two and a half? sounds more like going on two. He's just "fixing" your van now I bet so you will keep your hands off the truck! SO he thinks!
well, better get the rest of the day started.
Have a great one!
-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.
galaxyJeffrey: two and a half? sounds more like going on two. He's just "fixing" your van now I bet so you will keep your hands off the truck! SO he thinks!
Good morning. It's 66° with 100% humidity. The high will be 88°. It'll be cloudy with a slight chance of rain. with Not feeling good this morning. My nephew got me REALLY worked up yesterday and I got no sleep whatsoever. I've had a headache all night and I've got a throbbing ache on my right side just under the ribs. No plans for today other than getting my dressing changed. Yesterday I reported that my nephew took the coil wire off the truck and pocketed it. He only put it back because my father made him do it. Before I do anything else this morning I'm going to have a look under the hood. If the coil wire ISN'T there he's in real trouble. That would indicate he sneaked over during the night and removed it. That's trespass and theft!
'Morning everyone! I'll have a cuppa coffee, and biscuits and gravy.
Glad to see you all had decent weekends. Mine was crazy busy - I didn't even get a chance to drop into the diner.
Saturday was the openhouse at the roundhouse I volunteer at. While it's generally open to the public "whenever", the open-houses are actually what draw in crowds - think there were about 200 people there. Not a bad turnout when you consider the morning was a rainy mess, and the NKP 765 was in town.
Spent the entire day doing brakeman / conductor duties for the short run we were giving people down the yard lead (total out & back was about 1800 feet or so). Brakeman duties are bad enough with freight cars -- having people on board is a good way to increase the "panic" levels to 11 ... especially when they do dumb stuff, like trying to get under the cars for a picture of the frame / brake rigging / etc. Thankfully, we didn't have any of that.
Sunday was out and running errands to get some of the honey-do list done, and then went over to my parents to watch the game. Dunno how we did it, but we ended up winning the game (first W on the home opener in 10 years, and only the 2nd since the field opened in 1999).
-Dan
Builder of Bowser steam! Railimages Site
Went out and checked the truck. Didn't raise the hood. Just checked that it would start. It did. Appears the guy is smarter than he acts. I'll be keeping my movements to a minimum. Every step out there and back hurt really bad.
Good Morning Y'all. I haven't been in here for quite a long while. Heck, I'm not sure if I lived in Tennessee or Pennsylvania the last time I was in here. Now in BFE Nevada.
I have been up since 2:30 am western time. It is too hot and humid to sleep. Looks like I will be kicking on the swamp cooler and taking a nap after work today. Supposed to get up in the 90's again. I CAN NOT WAIT for winter!!!!
I was out in the storage shed going through some totes of stuff and found a stack of MRR that I forgot about. So I am reading through them again. Also tearing apart some old module benchwork I started years ago to build at least one decent module to set up in the computer / guinea pig's room.
Hope you all have a great day. Ugh, mine is going to be a long one!
Robert H. Shilling II
Monday. At least the Patriots won yesterday, and in the dominant manner with which they should dispatch lesser teams. I sat in front of the TV and finished the assembly of the bridge superstructure that will span the gap to the new layout section. Now I can work on the scenery and start fastening down the trackwork.
I checked the temperature before heading out this morning - 38 degrees F. It was in the 80s last weekend. Good old New England weather. We got all the car swapping done over the weekend, so I'm back in my Jetta and daughter Annie is back in her Corolla. Now it's time to get my car inspected. It's only a year old, so it should be just a formality and a waste of time and money.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Morning guys,
A cool fall morning out today. They are calling for rain later on tonight but at the moment its sunny out. I work a short shift today 12-7 so hopefully it goes fast. I might get a couple games of football and hockey in on the playstation before I leave,lol
Jeff: Sorry to hear your nephew is treating you like that, sounds like he is very inmature.
I should go grab some breakfast now and want to go outside to have a look at the flowers. I think they will have to be pulled up as they are starting to die off with the lack of sun
talk to you guys tonight
Have a great day
JeremyBJeff: Sorry to hear your nephew is treating you like that, sounds like he is very inmature.
MisterBeasley Now it's time to get my car inspected. It's only a year old, so it should be just a formality and a waste of time and money.
Mine's 2 ... but it has the 3 year "it's all covered" standard service, so I'd be surprised if you had to pay anything (well, other than gas to get there).
Well
GOT the plumb/heat guy tomorrow late afternoon to unclog the kitchen sink. Again. Once more. I have heard it all for reasons why: oil/grease down the drain{very little as I keep a jar in the fridge for oil/grease to go to the garbage weekly}; to the type of dish soap {Dawn specifically}; to the slope of the trailer asks water to go uphill {slightly true}; to the pipe is "too long"; to the pipe has "too many elbows in it"; to the "wrong type of pipe" { black instead of white}; to "it's freezing in the pipe" {winter only, then why does it clog summers? DUH!}; to "there is a bow bending/sag in the pipe that clogs"; to "you need to replace the pipe...we can do it for only $1500"...
I think it is the "mush" that forms between and in the bond of food particles and the soap, simple as that. I find it in the screen drainer catcher thingies-which I can clean out into the garbage, and it clogs pipes. I bought a different brand of soap, but I think it will be the same...I DO do a 'dish at a time" instead of filling the sink and probably use more soap than necessary as it runs out of the scrubber sponge, i replace it {the soap}, so probably too much soap. Maybe try to do it one full sink of water to a few drops of soap. MAybe last longer. I also think that the pipe, being the cheap black stuff is probably scored from being roto-rooted {even though it is "safe for plastic pipes"} one to many times and sludge latches onto the scrapes. The old "fill up the sink to the top with cold water and pull the plug to drain her out and blow that gunk out" did NOT work, either. I DO agree maybe new piping, but I will shop around another time to get a quote lower than $1500 for oh, about some 40 feet of piping that costs only about $50 at Lowes. It cost us $3200 a decade ago to have all the supply lines replacing the old gray plastic pipes that crumbled as they aged. THEN we foudn out AFTER the fact that the company was ordered to pay for replacing it as they sold it knowing it crumbled, and we COULD have gotten it done for free, but to late, to late.
Thta about sums that issue up. I asked about a furnace servicing..he said I could "discuss it with the guy when he gets there"..really? they don't have a standard price for servicing a 3 year old natural gas furnace? Probably could get away without servicing, but like to get it done. Just in case. I did fire her up as it got down to 65 in here and was to chilly for me, so I fired her up and she did good. She refired later twice too then I turned the 'stat down to 63 again from 68. I only did it to take the chill out of the house. Good. Later I will probably put the a/c on as the sun is to be out making it "warm" today...a relative term when "warm" means mid-60s. But that will mean the trailer will heat up to 75 again, just a tad too warm. Its already 70 in here now. I gotta remember to change the batteries in said thermostat when he is servicing, so if IT fails, he can install a new one. Its been about a decade,and it no longer takes programming well, so it may be dead/on its way out too. I don't mind not programed, as we change which time we are up and to bed so never know when to set it to what, just as easy to do it manually when needed. Base line is always 62, though.
Those illegal aliens V8 mentions might freeze to death at 62!!! They shoud be used to hot temps, maybe not 100 and somehting, but at leas the warmer temps.
I forget who posted here last winter, a southwesterner all his life, who took a job back and forth to St. Loius I think it was, and he said he had "a new respect for you guys who live in the north" when he found out what cold/snow/ice was all about and how we continue as best we can with our regular routines regardless, unless blizzards or ice storms blow through, and even then, as soon as possible back to the same old grind!
May we be blessed with a mild winter, and early spring.
later
Hmm.
Prince Harry turns 30 today.
Inherits some $17.3 million dollars. Plus another $2 million from grandma the Queen. Plus other assets Mother left the boys for when they turned 30.
Must Be Nice.
Actually it was supposed to be inherited at age 25, but the "high court changed it to age 30". Bummer for them.
Only thing my grandmother left me was a picture of herself.
And a property through my mother, unless my father sells it first as it is his now that mother has passed. I told him to do what he thinks best regarding keeping/selling it, as will I, IF i get it. My father then made it clear to me that it was HIS inheritance, not mine. At least not yet. Maybe I will inherit, maybe not.
Morning Galaxy,
Simple preventative, >> Liquid Plumber twice a month, cheaper than a plumber and I have had great success with it at home here and at a rental property when a problem occurs.
Johnboy out.........................It's great when your plumbing works properly.
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
last mountain & eastern hogger Morning Galaxy, Simple preventative, >> Liquid Plumber twice a month, cheaper than a plumber and I have had great success with it at home here and at a rental property when a problem occurs. Johnboy out.........................It's great when your plumbing works properly.
Actually, Liquid Plumber or any others, make it WORSE. It clogs faster. the problem is most likely further down the pipe as they tell me. either too many elbows, or the black cheap exit lines really DO need to be replaced, just as the supply lines did. It was built in 1983 as cheaply as basic code would allow. We are not releshing putting much or much money into it, it isn't worth it.
SOmeday we will either: afford a house of our own; inherit one, two or three of one two or three houses; or inherit money to buy something with; or inherit nothing and buy a newer trailer ourselves...live in a tent in the swamp nearby., or the back of the minivanin the parking lot at Walmart...
MOH would dearly love to replace the carpeting, remodel things like the bath and kitchen, turn the semi-enclosed porch into an enclosed room addition, but I nix all ideas. Its not worth putting that money into it! Doing the roof and the water heater this year was enough, the stove was too, but the stove we COULD take with us if we sold it. same with the recent washer/dryer.
thnaks, though
We had another good weekend of railfanning, although Saturday was very overcast & quite chilly. Sunday was a little nicer, but still too chilly to sit outside the car. Anyway, we caught 9 trains on Norfolk Southern on Saturday in 3 hours. 4 intermodals, 3 mixed freights, 1 auto rack, & 1 unit train of about 70 Norfolk Southern covered hoppers.
On Sunday morning, we headed over to the other side of Pittsburgh to CSX, where we caught 1 mixed freight & 1 auto rack. We left there, stopped for a burger, & went back to our spot on Norfolk Southern. There we saw 6 trains. 2 mixed freights, 1 crude oil, 1 coal, 1 Herzog ballast train, & 1 intermodal.
Foreign power seen this weekend were 3 BNSF & 2 Union Pacific.
Sunday while we were watching CSX, I had gotten out of the car to take some photos. When I got back in, the wife said a NS dispatcher had told a train he was going to have wait at the signal for quite some time, as there was a derailment west of Conway Yard, & things were getting really backed up. Sure enough, on our way over we saw a couple of trains just sitting where we normally don't see that. For the next 2 hours, we only saw eastbound traffic. Then around 1:00 in the afternoon, westbound signals started coming up & traffic began to move. I haven't been able to find out anything about a derailment though.
This DODX depressed center flatbed was spotted & I thought it interesting because of the stairs & railings going up from the both ends of the well:
The other car that caught my eye was this NS scale test car:
Today was our usual Monday, with Breakfast at Bob Evans, grocery shopping & some errands. Now I'mdoing laundry. That will fill out the afternoon I'm sure. Oh, the furnace kicked on last night. It went down to 41 & I got up in the middle of the night to go downstairs to turn the furnace on. This isn't the way I was planning on easing into winter. I would prefer a more gradual approach so I can get my old body adjusted. Other than that, nothing else of any great importance to relate, so I'll wrap this up for now. Take care & stay safe.
Tom
Pittsburgh, PA
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, a RBF would do very nicely right now.
Tom, interesting car in the last photo. I think that is the type of car the Museum President wants to get a hold of to take the old H12-44 out and put in notch 8 for a while. It would probably tear our museum tracks apart to try that on the home line....
I have half cleaned the old 20 gal. aquarium so far today. Scrapped down the algae and crud on the glass and vacumed out some of the crap on the bottom of the tank. Right now I am waiting for more stuff to settle to the bottom so I can continue the process. I'm going to dissappear to the train room for a while and start putting the plaster cloth in place where the line going to the bridges is, then finish cleaning the aquarium.
This will ba another horrifically busy week around here with lots of NMRA, Scout, and MLK business to attend to.
Later!
I went out today to see if I could get the vans engine to turn over. I wasn't very surprised when there were no indicator lights on the dash. I raised the hood and saw an empty space where the battery had been. My nephew had pulled the battery out and put it back in my mothers old ski boat, the Myna bird, a sixteen foot 1963 Lone Star Medallion Impress. Big boat with a big motor. 1980 90hp Evinrude, rebuilt of course. Typical. Only those things important to him are worth thinking about.Had to go to the hospital this morning to give a blood sample then came home to get my dressing changed then got a call from the hospital saying that my blood sample had been fouled up and they needed a new one. So they came out here and drew the new sample. Nice of them. Later I finally got the call I was waiting for. Arrival time at the hospital was set at 0630 tomorrow. 6:30am for you civilians. Notified my sister as she's my ride there and back. Two hours later they called back and said the time had been pushed back to 10.00 or 10am. Again I notified my sister. She was happy. She could sleep in! I asked the nurse that came out to get the blood sample why I was required to have so many blood tests. I'd had a total of six already. Turns out it's because I'm an extreme high risk case. They keep coming back for more I might start charging for it.
Eneing Dinners
Flo, Beer Please
Work was pretty boring today. So that is covred.
Working Out Well not that I am lifting some real weight, I have a problem. My old weight belt is not close to fitting, I had a 32 inch waiste at the time. While I can find the sizes belt I need on line, I cannot afford the $60.00 plus shipping. Well I will figuer something out. Did strain my back a little tonight, right now just a tad on pain in the lower right. I wonder what it will feel like in the morning.
Tuesday I am Off! For a change I dont have a ton to do. Only real thing is cut the front grass. Well maybe the back as well? I have been doing some planing on building a Precher Bench for arm curles. It will keep me off my feet for two to three exercises. Only thing I think I lack is drywall screws to get started. Have a lot of left over lumber from when I built the current layout.
Jeffery Soory about the knuckel dragger that is your nephew. I will have to let the guys know at the Mopar Site that there is No Such Thing As Vapor Lock! Here we Mopar folks have been fighting it for years for no reason!
See you all Tuesday
Good Morning!
Summer seems to have come back into my neck of the woods. It is a bright and sunny day here, temps will reach a (still) comfortable 22°C today, but will rise close to the 30´s during the next days. I try to enjoy the weather while it lasts.
The layout is ready to go, but it´ll be another 3 weeks before it actually does. I am glad when it´s gone, I have second thoughts about my move, now and then. Still no plans for its successor. I will take my time and save up some funds for a good start. At the rate I can save money, that could be more than just a little while.
No plans for the day. The HD list is short, so there will be plenty of time for odd thoughts and twiddling thumbs.
Johnboy - nothing in today´s mail. I guess it will take a few more days to arrive.
Ken - October MR has a nice room-sized track plan, which appears to be quite close to what you wpuld like to have. Let me have the dimensions of your layout space and I´ll try to rework it for you!
Galaxy - we had issues with our pipes as well. Liquid plumber did not help at all, but actually made it worse. I ended up buying this:
That thing sure does its job!
Have a happy day!
Sir Madog Good Morning! Galaxy - we had issues with our pipes as well. Liquid plumber did not help at all, but actually made it worse. I ended up buying this: That thing sure does its job! Have a happy day!
I would need a motorized 50 footer! Its NOT a short pipe. It is about 46' long. The kitchen is in the very front of the trailer, and the sewer/hookups/discharge line is the next to the last room in the far back of the tailer.
They DO actually sell them at Harbor Freight, If you can find one. One 25 footer manual model comes with drill attachment, and is only $15.99 currently on sale for $11.99..BUT IT IS TO SHORT.
The electric 50 FOOTER is $259.00 on sale! since it does cost about half that for the drain cleaning service, It might be worth it as it seems now to require two cleanout jobs a year at $129 a piece. Or more.
Problem is, my luck, I'd get the danged thing stuck and have to call a plumber anyway!
So If THEY get it stuck, it is up to them to "fix" it. Me? can't.
As I said maybe time to change all the outlet pipes from the cheap thin black plastic installed to minimum code in 1983 to the heavy duty 1/4' thick walled pipes.
The company that's coming to do it, will want to sell me on replacing the pipe, but since we sunk money into the roof re-do; the stove; the water heater etc this year, no room in the budget for now. They wanted $1500 to replace it last year. Hah! Probably $1800 now. They also offered to do the water heater when i said "it comes first"..he quoted me "a real good deal for cheap" onthe water heater...just a mere $1350. Lowes did it for less than half that. $3000 for th tankless on demand water heater! MY father is NOT happy with his he had installed, so I think not. It DOES shut off periodically and the water turns to cold when it does. There is also a delay of getting the hot water to come out whereas our tank model has hot ready and waiting.
Plumbing, you can't live with it, can't live without it, but I sure don't want to go back to outhouses like my hillbilly relatives in the Applachians Kentucky have! The durn seat to the toilet may be cold in winter, but at least it's INSIDE!
well, the plumber will be here later today. SOon soon.