Ah, the sixties, when a lot of the nonsense started. My friend's sister, was dating a guy (they eventually married and I believe are still married, to this day) and he worked at a local five-and-dime store and sold some kid a tube of model glue, the kid sniffed it, jumped off a bridge, and drowned. They prosecuted (persecuted) the guy, trying to convict him of manslaughter for selling the idiot kid the glue. The case dragged on and on but he was eventually exonerated. Doug
Yep, with huffing spray paint also gaining popularity. Today, spray paint has instead found use in vandalizing railcars. Looking at the bottle of Plastruct Bondene on my desk, it warns to "not take internally". Who'd have thought?
Well color me educated! I had no idea Hardcoaler had a layout in work, but now I do. As I read thru the pages, I saw your Kato piers needed to be shortened. It seems your method worked--if you have a bandsaw, I'd have recommended building a jig, using a fence and using your bandsaw to consistently cut the same amount off. I have a hobbyist band saw, a 9" tabletop model and it's done lots of neat work.
When I read your post, I remembered that as I was hand cutting my Kato piers, I thought of how handy a small bandsaw would be, one with a speed slow enough to cut (not melt) the plastic along with a fine tooth blade. A band saw is one of those precision tools that there's just no substitute for and a small one would be easier for me to store.
I'm a tool junkie, and I'll use any excuse to buy new tools! I don't think mine has speed control, though.
You can probably add a foot pedal speed control on the AC end of your band saw. May or may not work depending on your band saw.
Finally recieved the elusive Ford Email this AM. Scheduled for March 7. Subject to change. Could be moved up slightly, or pushed out a week or more!
Oh, pics will be required!! At least it’ll miss the snow season here, this year!! Looking forward to getting it! Have already seen someone post that they hit just over 601 MILES one a tank of gas!! Be nice to only have to fill up maybe once a month!
My wife made egg and sausage biscuits this morning, and they turned out extra tall. Thinking of modern railroading, she said "Stacks".
Much of my N Scale hasn't run in many years, so I set out to add a wee bit of lubrication to my Kato Mike. As I located my LaBelle oil, adjacent to it was a similarly shaped bottle from Faller that caught my attention. I paused, read the Faller label and, recalled that it was GLUE and then saw that I'd highlighted that fact in yellow. For the record, I never came close to putting glue into my Mike's geartrain, but I was struck that the mistake could easily be made. Be advised if you might have similarly shaped containers for products in your collection. I've decided to write GLUE in black marker on the Faller bottle as an additional warning and to keep them in separate locations.
Especially when we know Faller made some of the smoothest-running locomotives out there. It is great to get old locos out, lubed up, and running again, isn't it. Doug
It sure is. I hadn't run my extended oval of track in the new layout since Christmas and when I tried last night, I had a dead short. This isn't a quick thing to troubleshoot on my layout with incomplete sections of track and inputs for a DC powerpack, DC walkaround and DCC. All were showing a short, so it helped me narrow it down. After a lot of puzzlement, I put on my optical visor and found a tiny piece of loose solder had fallen away and bridged the contacts on a toggle switch. Good thing I don't build spacecraft ........
"Sir, it appears we are headed to the PLANET Pluto instead of to Mars!" BTW, your wife's sausage and egg biscuits look delicious Doug
