A few gripes

[jacon12]

I get so tired of things like this happening. I go to the hobby store, buy a set of Kadee couplers, get them home and take them out of the package, and what do I find? All the little hangy down thingys are upside down. That's right! All of'em are sticking straight up in the air! Now I ask you, is it too difficult for Kadee to check these things BEFORE sending them out? I mean, what good is it for the things to be sticking UP and not DOWN like they're supposed to! They're not the only ones though. I buy a Bachmann boxcar to be put together and sure enough they always put these big, flat pieces of metal in there too. Now look, I'm pretty good at putting these things together but did you ever try to get that thing through that little tiny door? And to top that, sometimes the doors don't even open! Well, I just glue'em on top of the car and be done with it.
Transition track, oh don't get me started on that little subject. You can find all the transition track you need if you want code 83 to code 100, yessireeee. But just try to find some code 100 to code 83!! I was up til nearly 2 last night, pouring over the Walthers catalog and didn't see any, not one, nada... nyet!
I'll have to admit though it's not just in our hobby. I can't tell you how many garden hoses I bought last summer and had to take them back. Everyone I brought home the female end was on the wrong end! Gas stations? Oh brother! I pull in to fill up, step out of the car and the stupid people have put the pump hose on the wrong side. I thought I'd figured out a way to beat that though. I'd get back in the car, pull foward and turn around to the other side of the pump but sure enough the hose is still on the wrong side.
Like DOH!
So the good news is, it's not just in the model railroading industry, it's eveywhere.
If that's any consolation.
Jarrell

[ICRR1964]

Have a good day Jarrell!
[:D]

[cwclark]

I've never got a pair of Kadees with the hoses on the wrong way...i've got some that aren't complete with all the parts (like last night for example) 4 #5 knuckle couplers and only three copper springs but then a gain i've got them with more parts than required...are you sure the plate for the bachman doesen't go between the car and the underframe?..i don't use bachman cars but i do own loads of athearn rolling stock and on theirs, the weight plate goes between the car and the underframe before the couplers and the trucks are mounted...well..it's not a perfect world and i guess we have to just deal with the cards dealt to us...chuck

[pcarrell]

Two words Jarrell

HOT TUB [:D]

[GN-Rick]

A very apochryphal list of gripes. Go to beans, hoist a few, put your feet up and relax.[:D]
Have a good day!

[HoosierDaddy]

And what about trying to get a piece of curved sectional track that curves the right direction. I had a bunch that curved to the left and couldn't find any that curved to the right. The next day I looked at it and darned if it didn't all curve to the right and none to the left. That one really had me scratching my head[;)]

[pcarrell]

QUOTE: Originally posted by HoosierDaddy

And what about trying to get a piece of curved sectional track that curves the right direction. I had a bunch that curved to the left and couldn't find any that curved to the right. The next day I looked at it and darned if it didn't all curve to the right and none to the left. That one really had me scratching my head[;)]

Now that IS a problem!

[cwclark]

QUOTE: Originally posted by HoosierDaddy

And what about trying to get a piece of curved sectional track that curves the right direction. I had a bunch that curved to the left and couldn't find any that curved to the right. The next day I looked at it and darned if it didn't all curve to the right and none to the left. That one really had me scratching my head[;)]

classic case of : our boy's on drugs!....LOL

[SpaceMouse]

I had a couple drywallers that were working on my house. They'd reach in thier nail bag grab a nail, throw it away, grab another bang it into the wall. Grab another , throw it away; grab another, bang it into the wall. So finaaly I asked.

"The head's on the wrong end, " he explained.

Just then the supervisor came in.

" You dummy," he exclaimed, " Those are for the other wall."

[dave9999]

Jerrell,
Don't feel too bad... I bought an entire box of nails the other day that had the heads on the
wrong end. I had to use all of them on the one side of the building. Luckly, the next box I
got was right hand.

[dave9999]

Darn it Chip...
You beat me to it!! [:)]

[MisterBeasley]

Don't throw away those drywall screws with the heads on the wrong end! They're for the other side of the layout.

[jecorbett]

I had a can of spray paint with the nozzle pointing the wrong way. The first time I used it, I got a face full of red paint.

[jblackwelljr]

Had an uncle that bought a mule. He decided to keep the mule in the dirt-floor basement under the kitchen for the winter. Only problem was the mule’s ears scraped the basement ceiling which really irritated the mule. Seeing the saw blade coming through the kitchen floor, my aunt knew what he was doing and why. She ran down the steps and started screaming “Why don’t you chust dig out the floor a little bit?” My uncle, in his best PA dutch, scowled at her and yelled “Ya *** dumb woman – it’s his ears that are too long, not his legs!”

[SpaceMouse]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dave9999

Darn it Chip...
You beat me to it!! [:)]

Don't ya hate that?

[pcarrell]

I once had a screwdriver, the hand tool kind, that would only turn to the right. I could put a screw in, but I couldn't take it out!

[davekelly]

I'm glad to see I"m not the only one that wonders in amazement that hardware stores/home improvement centers etc do not stock what we need. I'm working on my car and needed an adjustable wrench. The car has all metric sized bolts, nuts etc. Darn it if all the adjustable wrenches at Home Depot and Lowes were English, not metric. I guess I'll have to go to a specialty shop and pay twice as much. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRr.

[Anonymous]

And hangers. Sheesh. Half the time you can't just lift and pull toward you to take something out of the closet. You have to lift, and then move it back behind the rod and then beneath it, and only THEN you can pull the clothing toward you. You'd think they'd find an answer to that irritation, too. I'm so sick of all this stuff. Specially the gas station thing.

[Anonymous]

Honest to God, this is true.

In St. Augustine Fl, they were discussing replacing the old draw bridge in the bay and replacing it with a higher bridge to avoid having to open it as often.

A lady wrote in that they didn't need to build a taller bridge, all they had to do was dredge the channel deeper so the water would be lower...

Mike Tennent

[tomikawaTT]

Never underestimate the power of human ignorance! Just try not to become an example thereof.

[pcarrell]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tomikawaTT

Never underestimate the power of human ignorance! Just try not to become an example thereof.

Words to live by![:D]

[JBCA]

"And what about trying to get a piece of curved sectional track that curves the right direction. I had a bunch that curved to the left and couldn't find any that curved to the right. The next day I looked at it and darned if it didn't all curve to the right and none to the left. That one really had me scratching my head"

You need to turn them over!

[jeffers_mz]

Standing in the driveway, puzzling my way through a set of stair stringers, I noticed our laborer heading towards me across the garage, and the rest of the crew cutting up in the window over the garage, so I wasn't too surprised when the grunt asked me where the board stretcher was.

"Out in the truck", was all I gave him. He got a few feet along and said, "well, I haven't seen it, what does it look like?"

"Like a come-along (hand winch), only with claws instead of hooks, you know, for gripping the wood to be stretched."

The gears were turning, you could tell that, but he turned back towards the truck, took a few steps, and then turned back to ask, "what wood are you going to stretch with it?"

I held up a finger, made some meaningless marks along the framing square, partly to get my own grin under control, partly to chill the rest of the crew who were struggling not to lose it watching out the window, and growled, "bucketheads at the lumberyard sent out ten foot studs for the garage partitions, and we need twelves. I ain't got time to wait for them to get it right."

He took one step for the truck and then spun around with an accusing stare, and said, "No way. Now I know you're BSing me. You might stretch one a few inches, but no way you're getting TWO FEET."

[howmus]

What gripes me is that Tortiose Machines are almost always wired backwards. At least 70% of the time you get them all hooked up and they run backwards. You'd think they could get right wouldn't you! Sheesh!

[ehowe]

Heck, I just bought a new loco that I was going to run in the #2 position, facing backwards, and the one they sent me faces forward. I don't have a reversing loop on my layout yet, so I'm sending the darn thing back.

[loathar]

I just drill a 1/4" hole in the top of my box cars and fill them with BB's and stick a cork in the whole. Never could figure that flat steel thing out.
In printing, we have an ink color called warm red. You get a newbie to hold his hand over the top of the open can to feel the heat coming off the ink and then push his hand down into it.(what a mess!)

[tigerstripe]

Does anyone know where I can get a metric screwdriver? I've looked everywhere and the people at Lowe's look at me like I'm stupid or something.
Also I think someone has been breaking into my house, drinking my beer and hiding the remote control.

[Anonymous]

Ok quit it...I think i wet myself laughing so hard......[:I]

[MisterBeasley]

Did you know that if you take a raw egg and hold it directly above your head between the palms of your hands, no matter how hard you try, you can't break the egg? Go ahead, try it.

[pcarrell]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jeffers_mz

Standing in the driveway, puzzling my way through a set of stair stringers, I noticed our laborer heading towards me across the garage, and the rest of the crew cutting up in the window over the garage, so I wasn't too surprised when the grunt asked me where the board stretcher was.

"Out in the truck", was all I gave him. He got a few feet along and said, "well, I haven't seen it, what does it look like?"

"Like a come-along (hand winch), only with claws instead of hooks, you know, for gripping the wood to be stretched."

The gears were turning, you could tell that, but he turned back towards the truck, took a few steps, and then turned back to ask, "what wood are you going to stretch with it?"

I held up a finger, made some meaningless marks along the framing square, partly to get my own grin under control, partly to chill the rest of the crew who were struggling not to lose it watching out the window, and growled, "bucketheads at the lumberyard sent out ten foot studs for the garage partitions, and we need twelves. I ain't got time to wait for them to get it right."

He took one step for the truck and then spun around with an accusing stare, and said, "No way. Now I know you're BSing me. You might stretch one a few inches, but no way you're getting TWO FEET."

That's a beautiful thing! LOL