All this because an importer had to find a new supplier of HO track which happens to be 3.370 inches shorter than the former product?
Brent sure has a knack —
I'm going to run trains
Model Railroading IS fun!
Cheers, Ed
Just for the record, here on a train forum, is IERS Technical Note 36. The relevant part starts on p.31.
https://www.iers.org/SharedDocs/Publikationen/EN/IERS/Publications/tn/TechnNote36/tn36.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=1
gmpullman All this because an importer had to find a new supplier of HO track which happens to be 3.370 inches shorter than the former product? Brent sure has a knack — I'm going to run trains Model Railroading IS fun! Cheers, Ed
Rich
Alton Junction
Lastspikemike Scotch is not whiskey it's whisky.
Scotch is not whiskey it's whisky.
https://www.britannica.com/story/whats-the-difference-between-whiskey-and-whisky-what-about-scotch-bourbon-and-rye
You are now 0 for 4 on this thread.
maxmanMetric time? Time to pass out the 7.62 mm ammunition and permanently get rid of those varmints.
Soeaking of 7.62, I'll pull out my M1A
The one part of the US that is metrificated is the military. We speak ierms of distance in "clicks' (kilometers), weapon calibers are in milimeters (5.56 NATO, 7.62 NATO. 120mm M246 tank gun, 155mm howitzer, etc). Time isn't metric, but we do use the European 24 hour clock, where 2:40 PM is 1440 hours. (the Navy still uses the number of bells in a watch, so "two bells in the Forenoon Watch" is Nine AM. Watches are Morning Watch (0400-0800), Forenoon Watch (0800-1200), Afternoon Watch (1200-1600), First Dog Watch (1600-1800), Second Dog Watch (1800-2000), First Watch (2000-2400). Middle Watch (0000-0400))
Oh, by the way, 7.62mm is .30 caliber (if you're Russian ,"Three Lines" from an even more obscure system than Imperial), which is decimal based. (.30 caliber is 0.3 inches). And 7-62mm is not the same as .308 Winchester and 5.56mm is not the same as .223 Remington. SAAMI says so
Lastspikemike It's difficult to correct me.
It's difficult to correct me.
I'll have a go. The difference between 1/2" and 12.5mm is 0.2mm (about 0.008"), not 0.02mm.
So you are wrong by a factor of 10 and now 0 for 5.
This forums sometimes goes on like a bunch of fish-wives!
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
riogrande5761 This forums sometimes goes on like a bunch of fish-wives!
You are now 0 for 1 on this thread, Jim.
TF
richhotrain Lastspikemike Scotch is not whiskey it's whisky. This is a United States forum. In the U.S., it is spelled whiskey. https://www.britannica.com/story/whats-the-difference-between-whiskey-and-whisky-what-about-scotch-bourbon-and-rye You are now 0 for 4 on this thread.
This is a United States forum. In the U.S., it is spelled whiskey.
Scotch is a whisky (no e) that gets its distinctive smoky flavor from the process in which it is made: the grain, primarily barley, is malted and then heated over a peat fire.
Reference to any bottle of Black will establish this beyond further argument. If it's Scotch, it can be a boiler, it can be a yoke, it can even be tape ... but it is always "whisky".
You'd have been on firmer ground castigating him for that whopper about 'whisky' meaning 'water'. As with everything else he sucks the life out of, he left out the 'beatha'/'Baugh' in the Gaelic that, as with its source in 'aqua vitae', is an essential part of both names.
I haven't disputed that the Scots call it whisky. It says so right on the label. We Americans takes liberties with spellings known as spelling variants. Merrian-Webster accepts and acknowledges spelling variants. It's a local thing. You will find many, many references to blended Scotch whiskey in the literature. For example...
https://www.thescotchadvocate.com/blended-scotch.html
LastspikemikeAh, but I never claimed that Gaelic for whisky is uisce. That's just the abbreviated Anglicism. No Scot's speaker could possibly have been mislead.
Somewhat ironically the Gaelic word literally translates to "water".
And in America, we follow Fowler in despising your greengrocer's apostrophe, and the word is 'misled'.
We have a saying in the United States, 'know before you go'. That can be applied to intellectual wizzing just as it does for action or travel. Now you have a great deal of pee on your hands and nothing to show for it.
LastspikemikeThe question is why every half an hour
The 'devil to pay' is the same one in 'between the devil and the deep blue sea' and the longer form 'the devil to pay and no pitch hot'.
I confess I don't know how the critical seams got their name; I always suspected it was from that delightful Britannic intensive use of theological terms, the tradition that gave us the ineffable 'zounds!' and 'gadzooks!' "Those seams are the very devil to pay"... (the pay, itself, being I believe one of those amusing British pronunciations of French words, in this case some version of 'poix').
richhotrain riogrande5761 This forums sometimes goes on like a bunch of fish-wives! Fishwives is not hyphenated! You are now 0 for 1 on this thread, Jim. Rich
Fishwives is not hyphenated!
I don't care.
riogrande5761I don't care.
riogrande5761 richhotrain riogrande5761 This forums sometimes goes on like a bunch of fish-wives! Fishwives is not hyphenated! You are now 0 for 1 on this thread, Jim. Rich I don't care.
LastspikemikeAh, that old "context" problem. There I thought...
the context was water, not whisky.
Certainly the English word "whisky" is derived only from the one Gaelic word "uisce" and so my hands remain clean...
BTW, the English are notoriously pathetic with their transliterations of Gaelic names in general, so best not attempt to excuse your solecisms by invoking linguistic incompetence.
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LastspikemikeThen my very first contribution was met with an absurd "correction".
You had a far better contribution just prior, in the post where you invoked the small single-malt distilleries and the nonsense of the dram. Even re-reading it makes me thirsty for a taste of the many I haven't yet tried...
From there it is all fishwifery, all the way down.
Overmod As with everything else he sucks the life out of
As with everything else he sucks the life out of
Look, it's all in good fun, not trolling. I'm not seriously using ad hominems as insults, and I would plead that you not, either. It was a play on the part of usquebaugh he left out, not an actual piece of invective.
This thread's development reminds me of something...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dttymMREONQ
(As LSM has an interest in model ships it's apropos... )
It wasn't by no shape or form directed at you Overmod. Just a bit of fun taken off your statement.
Things get quite analytical around here at times taking the fun out. It was indirectly meant but not meant to point fingers at anyone.
Could have some truth to it sometimes but all in good fun
Yep, just like every Saturday night when a large group of friends gathers at our house. The men go watch the game(s) on the big screen with suitable beverages being dispensed. Soon the fate of the world is in our hands as the debating begins. It goes on for six or seven hours and then the wives come out of the kitchen and look at us and say, "time to take them home".
We all say "see ya next Saturday". Someone says I'll bring the rum and another guy says you are always soooo quick to volunteer for the rum just because it is cheaper than the Whisk y. Okay, I'll bring the Scotch next week but then we're taking turns. And no trying to sneak in that homemade hooch.
Another Saturday night with the friends I love, we have saved the world once again. I really miss my Saturday nights with the guys, it has been over a year.
So what about that shortened track anyway?
See ya next Saturday.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
BATMAN So what about that shortened track anyway? See ya next Saturday.
Yeah I miss the get-togethers with the guys on the weekends too Brent.
The solving the world's problems conversations get rather ridiculous and also hilarious but they sure do make sense at the time
As far as the shortened pieces of flex track go. The way I figure it, if you had a big layout that required 50 pieces of flex track. Ordering that track thinking it was one meter lengths but only one yard long would be a problem.
A meter is 3.37" longer than a yard. According to my calculations you'd be exactly 14' short of track on your layout That's alot! It isn't like you can put a scrap in-between that gap.
Track fiddler The way I figure it, if you had a big layout that required 50 pieces of flex track. Ordering that track thinking it was one meter lengths but only one yard long would be a problem. A meter is 3.7" longer than a yard. According to my calculations you'd be exactly 14' short of track on your layout
Isn't ordering flex track like ordering floor tile?
You don't buy what you need, you add a certain percentage to make up for losses and small cuts.
I think the most you would need to order extra would be one or two pieces.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Yes you're right, you always order 5% more material in construction so you ain't running back to the lumberyard.
But Man! Flextrack is way more expensive than a 2x4 per stick. I don't think I'd be ordering to much more of that stuff
Yep, with tile I usually got about 4 extra pieces in case of a mistake too. We did a lot of 45-degree work.
P.S. I corrected my 3.7 to 3.37 mistake on my last post. The 3 key didn't register
I remember having to help with a speedy dismantling of a layout once. It had about 500' of track and it was all soldered together. One of the other guys said we had to desolder all the joints which would have taken forever and we had to get the layout out of the house that day.
I just snipped all the track on either side of the soldered joints and it went in the box. In the end, each piece of flex was an inch or two shorter but was undamaged and reused on the next layout. It doesn't matter how long the flex is as long as you have enough.
That is so true but if you dismantle an old garage to move it to a different place in the yard and cut all the stud ends off 3" so you don't have to pull nails. The ceiling is only going to be 7' 6" high and the tall guy is going to feel confined and uncomfortable having a beer in there eh?
How much beer you got?