Although I'm not a klutz in the 1:1 world, I seem to be experiencing some problems in my 1:87 world. Mind you, I don't skate through life with the grace of Peggy Fleming, but I'm relatively accident free.
Not so with my recent modeling efforts. I find you have to move a little slower and more deliberately. This may seem obvious to most of you but I'm finding out the hard way. Yesterday while placing some structures on a diorama, I caught my rolled-up sleeve on the already in-place wrought iron bridge - good thing there were no people on it.
A few days ago while working on the same bridge, I knocked over an open bottle of plastic cement and wiped out half of the printed grid on my cutting mat - it didn't self heal.
Do you have any idea how delicate steps and grabs are on passenger cars? Oh, and I sneezed on some ground foam before the adhesive was dry - wish I could do that on my real lawn.
Just looking for some moral support here - or any of your own musings.
Two things I seem to have to be veeeeeeerrrry careful doing...soldering and getting down off my three step stool.
I have only singed myself lightly once or twice, and that is understandable, but it is in swinging my arm to get the cord to extend more so that I can reach what I am trying to solder that I have had the occasional "D'oh!!" The first time, I swiped the hot tip across the thin, formerly very white, plastic covering over those fibreglass ceiling tiles, the flimsy ones by Armstrong.
I have miscounted any number of times when descending from atop that stool, and once I actually fell heavily, narrowly missing the edge of the layout, and ended up jamming my thumb, but good.
So, I ask you, is that klutzy?
Howcome no one has mentioned the perenial favorate: superglue and the misplaced finger(s)/hand or whatever.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
G Paine wrote: Howcome no one has mentioned the perenial favorate: superglue and the misplaced finger(s)/hand or whatever.
That's nothing! Here in north Jersey, about 2 years ago, a woman mistook superglue for her eye drops!!! Don't know if she was a model railroader, but it makes you wonder!! I'm not at all klutzy - just because I stepped on the cord of the soldering pencil I was carrying & took a few seconds to realize what that smoke was from before I dropped it
My layout is up in the finished family room, which has a nice carpet, so I'm careful to do as much painting, etc., as is humanly possible down in the basement workroom. When I solder connections beneath the layout, I've got one of those plastic boot trays that are meant to leave wet shoes on when you come in from the out-of-doors on a rainy day. It has saved the carpet from numerous burns when drops of solder fall off the iron.
The one drop that didn't end up in the tray was intercepted by my hand. Man, that hurt.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
lvanhen wrote: G Paine wrote: Howcome no one has mentioned the perenial favorate: superglue and the misplaced finger(s)/hand or whatever. That's nothing! Here in north Jersey, about 2 years ago, a woman mistook superglue for her eye drops!!! Don't know if she was a model railroader, but it makes you wonder!! I'm not at all klutzy - just because I stepped on the cord of the soldering pencil I was carrying & took a few seconds to realize what that smoke was from before I dropped it
I used to buy my CA in bottles. Then I started wearing contacts and needed to start useing eyedrops. I went to grab my drops and got the top off only to look down to see I had the CA in my hand. Now I only buy my CA in those little metal tubes and I threw out all chemicals that even looked like a bottle of eyedrops. I can't even imagine how bad that would hurt.
jblackwelljr wrote: Do you have any idea how delicate steps and grabs are on passenger cars?
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Jerry SP FOREVER http://photobucket.com/albums/f317/GAPPLEG/
thanks, Jim, for starting an entertaining thread.
Anybody have problems with bifocals while working on the layout? ... or those Kadee coupler springs flying off the work table to.......... uh........... gee...... I don't know where they go...
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Oh yea, bifocals in this hobby are interesting, though think how fun it would be putting those grab irons on without them, though after having said that, couldn't put them on without my Optivisors anyway. My other "favorite" so far has been inserting those Kadee centering springs in the 30 series conversions that require uncrossing the ends of the spring to tense it while loading it in the draft box. This meets the case definition of klutz.
Jim
You can add me to the population of Klutzville also...
Today has just been one of those days. First of all, I put tiny little road numbers on the number boards of a Southern Pacific F-7 black widow A unit that had to be cut out with a razor blade, and after I'd already sealed them, realized there were parts of the decals that I'd cut away still attached to some of the numbers. Then I thought I had trimmed a Santa Fe herald all nice and square, but when I glued it to the back of the observation car, it was a little off, so I ended up mangling it all up with a hobby knife trying to even it up. After that, I said to heck with it, and went out to play nine holes of golf, but before I could even get ten feet away from the pro shop, I backed over the cart charger cord and pulled it out of the charger by the roots... Not only that, but I'm willing to bet it was the worst score for a one man nine hole game in history!. I think I'm just going to crawl back in bed (under the bed) and not come out until tomorrow. Maybe it'll be a better day.
Tracklayer
Just yesterday I was making a loading dock. I needed to cut the edges off the back to leave a tab sticking out in the center to reach the door, which is recessed from the building. While I sat there paralyzed, some one or some thing took control of my body and did just the opposite, leaveing a nice u-shaped cut out in the middle of the back edge of the dock.
Tom
Life is simple - eat, drink, play with trains!
Go Big Red!
PA&ERR "If you think you are doing something stupid, you're probably right!"
Lets not even go there the memory is still fresh in my mind from last night So I couldnt let go of the instrustions maybe I really liked them lol.
BRAKIE wrote:Garry,Actually those springs fly into the parallel dimension.
I agree. Has anyone ever found one? It wasn't the one you lost. It was lost by another model railroader in another parallel dimension. Like the speed of light is constant across all rest frames, the quality of Kadees is constant across all model railroading dimensions. That's called "Railativity."
Well, the other day I was leaning over the layout to re-rail an errant Walther's dining car, and when I leaned back, somehow the pilot of a brass 4-8-2 on the loco service track had become attached to one of my shirt buttons. Luckly, it somehow hung on long enough for me to catch it by the tender, before it took a 5' drop to my cement floor. I mean, when you're staring down at the headlight of a 3-cylinder Rio Grande 1600 and it's looking back up at you very innocently, saying "It's your fault, you use little buttons", it can cause you INCREDIBLE palpatations, LOL.
So, yes, I am President of my local Klutz-Klub.
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
This is the best thread! Can we vote on the biggest Klutz award ?????
Or how about the most scary........... such as Tom's 4-8-2 shirt button story........ Tom, did you have any stress related illnesses after that?
Well, at least I'll never get lonely in Klutzdom.
The picture I can't get out of my mind is Loathar's arms flailing around with the backdrop and florescent bulbs exploding all over the layout.
My wife actually found one of those little springs stuck to my pants - she asked me if it was the mainspring to my brain.
That little ramming manuver to hook onto a freight car shoves it off the edge of the table.
Putting the dish with the decal water between you and the project that you are trying to do.
Making your workbench space so tiny that a elbow knocks your parts cabinet to the carpet.
A little bit of solvaset did not seem to work, add more.
I live in the land of the unorganized, not Klutzdom. I did go there for a visit when I knocked a near full bottle of Polly S rust onto the floor. Good thing its concrete and appearance isn't top priorety.
-beegle55
Garry--
STRESS? WHAT THE *&$@ do you mean STRESS!!!!!!????????
Oh, that. Well, uh--not that I can think of, LOL!
Gee, you fella's have made me feel a lot better about myself. I live at #1 DOH! St., Klutzville... if you're ever in the neighborhood, drop in. No, don't drop... after reading this thread that's a bad word to use, VISIT!
JaRRell
emdgp92 wrote:glue small parts to my fingers