Good morning everyone, up real early for a retired grandfather today....we had our 1st snowfall of the entire season, a great big 1" of snow, but enough to make the roads very slippery. When the roads get very slippery, I go over the backside of the hill to pick up the grandkids and get them to their school bus stop in two time slots, 7 and 7:30. My two sons have driveways off the "mountain" that drop 160 feet from their garage, so it can be very "exciting" shall we say.....when you drive down a serpentine slippery driveway that has an average grade of 6%, 8% in areas.
Did any of you guys receive the new Athearn Genesis catalog yesterday in the mail? Some real nice locomotives!!!
MIKE: We will have our 11 month old grandson here today for about 7 hours.....you know what that means!!!!!!! Our house is not baby proof, so it will be a tiresome day for Grammy and I.
J.R. : I think it is OK to enter the Diner.....don't feel too badly about knowing all the states but running out of time trying to move the mouse fast enough.....that is the price we pay for being over 50.
Good morning!
Tall coffee for me Chloe!
Soldered two turnouts together for a cross-over section on the main line last night and tested the new 16' section of track that I had put down the night before last. So far so good!
grayfox1119 wrote: RYAN: YOU PASSED!!!!! Great job...did you give this test to your son to see if you beat him? How about the wife?Down to the Train room we go, see you guys later,
RYAN: YOU PASSED!!!!! Great job...did you give this test to your son to see if you beat him? How about the wife?
Down to the Train room we go, see you guys later,
Dick, while history was not my favorite subject in school I have now grown to love of U.S. history, especially Civil War history. Oh, and since you been going down to the train room, what you been up to down there? Interesting too about daylight savings time this year.
Paul, those pesky crowns! I had to have one reattached last year, seems the adhesive gave way, but it has been good now for over 6 months......knock on wood!
inch53 wrote: RYAN, good joke. I was going to say some thing bout the Saints getting beat by DA Bears. But I thought I'd let that one pass.
RYAN, good joke. I was going to say some thing bout the Saints getting beat by DA Bears. But I thought I'd let that one pass.
Mike, yea, yea.... Only time will tell! Kickoff is Sunday 3:00 PM EST, while all the statistics point to da Bears winning, most people are picking dem Saints. I have to go with my heart of hearts on this one and emotion in my vote for dem Saints to win and make their first ever Super Bowl appearance. Historical I say, it's history in the making!
Cheers,
Ryan
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morning guys !!! what do u guys think of these???
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Nice job Colby except maybe for the wretched poster in the middle. (Go Jets oh yeah they already bit the dust this year).
16 feet of track and two turnouts is not a bad evenings work. When you need to take out your soldered in turnouts, a dremel will cut nicely through the rail joiners and then you can unsolder the shrapnel. What are you doing for switch machines?
Just had to take a break from the Jetta repair which has a small water leak by the thermostat housing a leaky oil cooler and noisey cam followers. I think I prefer working on race cars.
Dick - thanks I need a break now and then in computer land.
CUL,J.R.
I decided that today I would convert my oldest locomotive to DCC. A 30 year old German made Bachmann GP40. The only thing I had to do to isolate the motor from the frame was to break off a metal tab and put down a strip of electrical tape. Now instead of grounding to the frame, the motor grounds to the decoder, as it should. It runs like a champ! Before it had no crawl capability and ran like a scalded ape, now it crawls with the best of them and runs at a believable speed.
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GMTRacing wrote: Nice job Colby except maybe for the wretched poster in the middle. (Go Jets oh yeah they already bit the dust this year).16 feet of track and two turnouts is not a bad evenings work. When you need to take out your soldered in turnouts, a dremel will cut nicely through the rail joiners and then you can unsolder the shrapnel. What are you doing for switch machines?Just had to take a break from the Jetta repair which has a small water leak by the thermostat housing a leaky oil cooler and noisey cam followers. I think I prefer working on race cars.Dick - thanks I need a break now and then in computer land. CUL,J.R.
J.R. Thanks! I am using a combination of Atlas, Atlas Super Switch, and Walthers Shinohara turnouts. All are code 83, and flex track is Atlas code 83 too! Thanks for the tip on the dremel tool, I used to have an old wireless one with a rechargable battery, but the copper points kept rusting out and the battery just would not get the RPM's up enough. Now I am looking to buy a new one soon with some of the Christmas $$$ left over....
Any ideas on what model dremel tool is a good choice?
Morning Gang: Another day in work land. Only 14 days total to go and 10 work days. I have to take Mary Ann to the doctor Monday for her annual check up, so that's one day shot. I may go in to work for the afternoon. Maybe.
I'm working on a technic to make corragated siding. I took a piece of silver metal tape that is used on A/C and heating ducts and used a dental pic to rub the corrgations in. I used the pics back side and it seemed to work pretty good. The test piece was only scale 3ft wide and about 2 inches long. When I got to the side it was hard to hold it in place while I did the last few lines. I think that doing a piece about 12 inches long at one time and then cut to the size of sheet needed should be faster. I have to get some tape that hasen't got creases in it to give that a try.
Not much else happining. The bar girl is ready for the detail painting. Eyes, lips, shading, and make-up. I'll make the day on that. I also want to get the gold boxes in the first scene at the Gold River reid fixed up. They need a bunch of the coins replaced since guests and others grab one or two now and then. Other then that I am not looking at a bunch of stuff that I can get done in the time left.
I'm going to cut out now and do some reading in the minutes of break that are left. See you all later.
Another coffee please Zoe,
Forgot to say my wife's packing and leaving me this afternoon. I'm almost happy
JEFF, that price on parts also included, upper and lower rad hoses, thermastate, oil change and lube. Plus a couple other things he went ahaed and fixed. So, I think we came out ok.
Dick, I've Kc again this afternoon while mommy goes to school with big brother, so it'll be fun. She's 13 months now, and even with the house baby proofed, she a hand full, runs and climbs from one thing to another.
RYAN, guess well see Sunday. I'm still taking DA Bears [as long as Grossman shows up]. Lousy cold and snowy weather, home field.
I got these pics the other day of a couple mole hills. Shows what can happen when the grounds soaked and it drops below freezing I thought it was interresting anyway.
OH almost forgot, Mother's just going to Springfield for county fair stuff. She'll be back Sunday.
inch
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309
Interesting pics Inch.
Ryan - I still have the Dremel I got when I was 14. Third set of brushes but still going. Don't use it much anymore as I was given a new variable speed model (new to me anyway it's about 10 years old). The variable speed is the cats meow as it makes starting holes or slicing with the death wheel much easier. Also matches speed to a wider variety of devices like the drum sanders which are fragile with their little 1/8" shafts. The only thing I find dodgy is using 60 - 80 drills as I feel I have better control drilling by hand with a pin vice. Still use the dremel when I need to go through metal of any thickness but I seem to break a lot of drills that way. J.R.
Smoke wrote: gear-jammer wrote: luct wrote: Good morning, All. I will just have coffee today. We were fed way too much food at my seminar yesterday.SueDid you try to eat it all or what? -Smoke
gear-jammer wrote: luct wrote: Good morning, All. I will just have coffee today. We were fed way too much food at my seminar yesterday.Sue
luct wrote:
Good morning, All. I will just have coffee today. We were fed way too much food at my seminar yesterday.
Sue
Did you try to eat it all or what?
-Smoke
Why yes. Didn't your parents teach you that there are starving children in China? I was not that bad because I had a large green salad with turkey. It was the dessert that was sinfull. Oh yeah, the biscuits and gravy were pretty yummy.
GMT, Gearjammer does stand for a Kenworth T-800 with a 48' spread-axle flatbed. My husband, Larry, drives mostly I-5 between the Seattle area and the Bay or LA. I have my CDL but seem to go less and less. I am a dental hygienist so I need to go to my real job.
Dick, The 4 x 4 did the job. It also started raining and that is the quickest way to melt our snow. The road is almost clear and Larry is just 2 hours out.
My cowboy figures came yesterday. Guess what I will be working on today?
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Paul W. Beverung wrote: I ended up having to go to the dentist. I had a crown come off last night. It looked like it took a part of the tooth but was reattached all right.
I ended up having to go to the dentist. I had a crown come off last night. It looked like it took a part of the tooth but was reattached all right.
You were lucky, Paul. Usually, there is not enough remaining to attach the crown. I would baby that because it will definately not be as strong as it was originally.
Sue: I am deffenatly going to baby that tooth. Trouble is it's a molar on the left side and I do most of my chewing on that side. That picture in your heading? Could you do an enlargement? It looks very interesting. Is that on your layout?
Wheew, Sean was just picked up by dad, I wish I had 10% of the energy that an 11 month old has......he went from one thing to the next to the next, tried to open every drawer in the house and empty it!!! He and I did take a nap from 2 to 3:30, then it was racetrack time again...wow!!!
RYAN: The train room activities are about to enter the the layout design stage. It took me quite a while to decide what part on New England I wanted to model in this smaller room. The room over the garage is much larger, I call that Phase II, and will not have a layout running there for at least a year. Dremel tools are just great..Sears has a nice one that was on sale a few weeks ago, it has the remote cable shaft which is nice....very light weight, they also had the battery model which looked real good too for better portability.
MIKE: I'm worn out Mike !!!!!! Both od us will sleep good tonight.
PAUL: Here is what you do Paul, you eat your yogurt on the side that has the repair, chew your steaks on the other side. LOL
SUE: Thank God for 4x4's, I needed mine this morning to bring the grandkids to school bus, my Explorer is a mountain goat, climbed right up that 8% grade all covered with snow like it had nails on the tire treads.
Supper bell just rang, talk later guys,
Good Afternoon All,
Waiting for the brake backing plates i just welded up to cool off so I can straighten them. Fun fitting Datsun brakes to MG axels.
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Sue - we have a little Kenworth T300 (Backround of the picture above) that we use to haul our racecars around. Our new trailer requires a full size tractor,but the guy I use to drive got himself an older Pete and we'll use that. I still drive to the races with our F350SD and a 45' Sooner gooseneck as I never got around to getting the CDL and still only carry a Class 1.
Back to work - CUL, J.R.
hoople to tell you the truth I agree with you had 2 one needed a new carborator it was a mittsibitchi motor the carborator only was $650.00 to get then the labor suposely because of all involved in changing it was another $350 and that was about 10 years ago the second one I got first the tranee went out 2 months later (used ) and got it fixsd and about 4 months later the engine went I gave it to the sheriffs boys ranch where I lived in Fl.
Okay all you n gaugers I have a gentleman that has a 4-8-4 northern that has about 30 minute run time he says it too big for his layout he has a real small one (in a closet basicly) (Santa Fe road name) said he believe he paid $100.00 for it will take $50.00 he also has 4 PA Passenger cars e wants $8.00 each for . I'm supose to get it so I can list it on ebay next week anytime these are bachmann trains give me any feedback on these if you know or if your interested make a offer and will run it by him will take pics when I get these if your interested let me know and I'll email them to you
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Evening Gang: The corragated metal experment went pretty well. I took a 12in piece of the foil tape and taped it to a piece of MDO plywood. That's the stuff that has a card board surface. I taped my scale ruler on one end and layed my small drafting "T" square to keep the lines going straight. I had already lined up the edge of the foil with the square. I then took the dentists pick and scribed the corragations one at a time. The whole strip took about 15 min with a couple of short breaks to straighten up the old back. It turned out all right. I was able to keep the corragations even by setting the T square with the scale rule. Each mark on the rule is 3 scale inches, just right. After that I took a 10-32 screw and cut off the head. The screw was 2 in long. I brased the screw to a piece of 1/8x 1in flat bar stock for a handle. I cut a piece of foil tape a scale 3ft wide and then taped it down on the MDO. I took the screw with the handle and drew it along the foil with the screw at a slight angle to the perpendicular. This compensated for the angle of the threads. It did a pretty good job of making the corragations. Now I have to try laying the corragated foil on a building and see how it looks. I'll let you know how that turns out when I've got a bit done.
It's raining here and about 35 degrees. It feels cold and damp outside so Mary Ann and I are already to go to bed. We'll have to put out hay tomorrow and it's not supposed to stop raining untill maybe noon. I just hope that it dosen't freeze. The folks in Oklahoma are going to get freezing precip again and they don't need it.
Well I'm going to see what else is going on.
Doh! here I am at the top. PC where are you when I need you? OK ladies you know the drill.
Good Night All
Good Friday evening Trackside dwellers: We are on the “rain” side of a rain and snow weather bomb that hit the Maritimes today. It should die down during the night. We’ve parked the car out from the garage so that it can get a “brushless wash” The rain bouncing off it has set the motion sensor light above the garage door wild with excitement!
JR:
The plastic will also tend to "float" more like real foam in the waves.
Ryan:
When can we see the latest pics?
TV program (Yes Minister) in 5 minutes, TTFN.
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rtraincollector wrote: Okay all you n gaugers I have a gentleman that has a 4-8-4 northern that has about 30 minute run time he says it too big for his layout he has a real small one (in a closet basicly) (Santa Fe road name) said he believe he paid $100.00 for it will take $50.00 ........
Okay all you n gaugers I have a gentleman that has a 4-8-4 northern that has about 30 minute run time he says it too big for his layout he has a real small one (in a closet basicly) (Santa Fe road name) said he believe he paid $100.00 for it will take $50.00 ........
Honestly, I just bought two brand new ones two weeks ago for $54 each. He might have to come down a bit. The pennsy cars sound like they might be a good deal though. I'd post all of them on the N scale thread and I'll bet this stuff would move.
Paul W. Beverung wrote: Doh! here I am at the top. PC where are you when I need you? OK ladies you know the drill.
Why, I'm enjoying dinner on you! Where else would I be?
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Good morning ! from Indiana.
01-20-07
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Near a cornfield in Indiana...
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Flip
Good morning everyone,
Well looks like most of the snow storm passed over me, only got about 3" instead of the 12" they predicted.
Hopple: Well did you win?
Lee
pcarrell wrote: rtraincollector wrote: Okay all you n gaugers I have a gentleman that has a 4-8-4 northern that has about 30 minute run time he says it too big for his layout he has a real small one (in a closet basicly) (Santa Fe road name) said he believe he paid $100.00 for it will take $50.00 ........Honestly, I just bought two brand new ones two weeks ago for $54 each. He might have to come down a bit. The pennsy cars sound like they might be a good deal though. I'd post all of them on the N scale thread and I'll bet this stuff would move.
I was thinking of putting them on ebay and say start the engine at $35.00 and the cars at $5.00 each or $20.00 for all 4 passenger cars for starting price thats what I recomended to him. Hes not into computors but is willing to let me doit for him.