No no no, all you will achieve is the creation of a short circuit! Engine frame right rail, tender frame is left rail.Simple thing is to cut a1/2 inch piece from a steel tin can about 2 inches long; double it over with pliers.
Use the old draw bar as a pattern to cut out another bar, drill your holes and screw in the new bar into place.
Takes less time than ordering from the internet.
The price is O.K. but the shipping is horrendous! Should not cost any more than a first class stamp?I was an Mantua repairman and have this to say. Above all things, DO NOT use any metal to make a draw bar. They are available on ebay
There are a lot of other drawbars listed on eBay for sale. That was just the first listing I came across. Just do a search for Mantua or Tyco drawbar and a list of listings will appear.The price is O.K. but the shipping is horrendous! Should not cost any more than a first class stamp?
I would make one from a piece of plastic - any number of things could be used.
I know when Terry put the down payment on the Roadster from Tesla she got emails back saying when production of the model starts, you will be notified. That’s it and a receipt! From what I read the Roadster is a ways off. Just a strange Company that Mr. Huckster has created.I have a couple more trains worked into the op session. Worked last evening on it till I got tired of standing.
I think I'll start cleaning the basement today. Lots of equipment laying around that isn't needed for the ops.
I'll typically start installing scenery if it doesn't require a lot of equipment, i.e. trees, touch up surface work, put furniture back where it belongs.
Gonna be raining today, so no reason to go outa the house.
I have to wire my final payment for my Tesla today so I can pick it up from the dealer a week Thursday. I have yet to talk to a single Tesla person over the past year about this car. Everything is either automated, (can answer) or ya have to wait half an hour or so on the phone to talk to someone. I've sent them emails, left voice mails sent online questions but no responses at all. Prolly a great car but customer interface is absolutely the worst ever.
I'm starting to wonder how service support will be. Write a letter to Tesla, wait for a response? Bring the car and drop it off then wait for a response? In the meantime, walk wherever I need to go?
Daughter got something like this a week ago. She started the assembly and found that Ace was your friend and has ( so far ) made multiple trips for this or that. Masonery bit, some other fasteners and such. Wait till she finds out that she will need a hammer drill to bore the hole AND put the fastener(s) in! Hers is 10x12 and she has a pad to set it on. Idea is to get her stuff outa storage at $60 month. Wife split the cost with her. She is in Missoula and checked with the city. Should be good to go although she wanted to 'do it right' with a building permit, site inspection and all that sort of crap. Kinda gave up on that after finding out the $$$ involved. Since it is in the backyard and more or less out of sight, she is going to prod on and raise it. Only power provision is an extension cord for a single light in the thing. Don't know how well it will hold up to the extreme temp swings and wind they get there. It is somewhat protected from the elements, we will see.I haven't posted in a while. Too busy with projects around the house. The chimney needed 8 courses of bricks removed and replaced. An extremely difficult job. I had to buy a chipping gun to remove the old bricks and fill. Get that off the roof and bring 120 new bricks & mortar up the ladder 6 bricks at a time. I knew a mason from the golf course to lay the bricks. That was $300.00 I did all the rest That included forming out a new concrete cap. I added a drip edge with some 1/4 X 1/4 inch molding glued to the form. I had to go up and down that ladder 50 times or more. On another project I bought one of those 7 X 7 Rubbermaid sheds. Not that easy to put together but got it done. I thought the plastic walls were kind of flimsy so I decided to frame the thing out with 2 X 4's.
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I'm not sure what you are referring to, the sewer line, the fence on the model, or the icemaker replacement???Willie- I feel for you. I've done one and it was enough.
Are you using JMRI?Sound... I wish locomotive manufacturers would stop trying to make their sound recordings play every little sound you MIGHT hear a loco make.
I feel like I'm watching a movie where they overdo the sound. I can't hear the actors speak, but I can hear every little clink of a glass in the busy restaurant scene.
Is it just me? I don't want to hear the conductor burp, for crying out loud... But I would like the horn to be louder than the diesel idling. And I don't need to hear an air pump that's louder than the brake squeal.
I know, I know... I can set the volumes. But setting each CV one at a time is a very clunky interface. And what the hell is up with "automatic bell"???!!!????? I don't want my decoder to automatically start ringing the damn bell whenever I want to toot the horn. Just... stop... trying.. to... make... it... more... than.... it.... needs.... to... be.....
I just want to blow the horn.... it doesn't need to make me coffee at the same time.
Willie, nice bank. I know I took pictures of a couple banks in Springfield that Lincoln supposedly banked at. I have quite a few washed out shots and I cant find it.Good Morning All. Clear and 78°, going up to 100° today if Mother Nature cooperates with the weatherman. Right now the NWS is calling for rain, a week from today!!!
Yesterday, I did do some more mowing with the push mower while waiting for the plumbers to show up. He doesn't start real early on Sundays. And since his wife is his helper, I didn't want to offend by going into the pool. Otherwise the day was quite a waste as I was on standby to assist him with things like flushing, providing electrical service and general supervising.
Thanks for the many likes and comments about the fence post photos from yesterday; Guy, Gary, OB Ken, Hughie, Louis, Rick, Tom O, Patrick, Sherrel, Curt, Tom, Karl, Smudge, Mikey.
I didn't make it to the train shed yesterday, a sad day indeed. I won't be able to make it up today although I will get some time out there.
From the archives. Last week I showed a cardstock model of Abe Lincoln's boyhood home. I mentioned that there was a whole series of HO scale cardstock models from the Illinois Historical Association that related to Abe Lincoln, although some are a bit of a stretch. Here's two others that I have built from that series. Both are banks that are somehow connected to him.
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I think that they are both in his hometown of Springfield.
They both need a bit of upgrading before they will be completed, but they are in their eventual homes in uncompleted layout areas. I built many structures while the train shed and layout were under construction and I am now going back through and completing many of them (areas and structures) one at a time.
Tom O - No need to feel silly about the steel coil inquiry. I learned a lot from all of the varied answers, and while I may not make any, at least I know how. Right now all of the steel coil on my layout travels in covered coil cars, but like everything else, that is subject to change.
My freight car spreadsheet has been really helpful at times. I find the maintenance records especially helpful in remembering what I have done to a car before. My records go back to 1997 and I am easily able to see when I put Kadee couplers on a car or when I added weight, etc. I also like to compare running characteristics of similar cars to see what differences I may have caused.
I had the opportunity to re-inspect every car in case I had missed any, when I moved into the train shed between 2012-2013. I upgraded the entire spreadsheet system then as well. It can now be used as a switching program that tracks cars (for ease of finding them), although I don't use that feature yet. I have about 800 freight cars logged into it.
Terry - I am just not real sure that many surge protectors do anything more than provide extra outlets.
Curt -
I'm not sure what you are referring to, the sewer line, the fence on the model, or the icemaker replacement???
Snowbirds are not a seasonal thing here as we are too far from the coast, but they and left-coasters are moving into parts of Texas and bringing that phrase and their politics with them.
Karl - Yes indeed it was a crappy day! But it least it wasn't my hands in it this time.
George - That chimney job seems like quite an ordeal. Driveway looks good as does the walk. Great idea about adding the bracing to the Rubbermaid shed. I'll have to remember that. How did you make the attachments?
Louis - This plumber is close by as distances in Texas go. He's just six miles away and we pass his house every time we go anywhere. He has to drive a minimum of 30 miles to get to most of his jobs.
Ken (D&J) - I know that you posted before, but how long was the wait from the time that you ordered the Tesla? Was the payment yesterday the payment "in full"?
Today is the feast of the Feast of the Assumption for all of us Catholics, and a few other religions.
Everybody have a great Monday if that is possible for the working class. If you're the President, you're still on vacation.
Terry - I am just not real sure that many surge protectors do anything more than provide extra outlets.
I always thought that stuff had to be protected to prevent rusting. Shows how much I know.....As an ex truck driver, coils like those mentioned were not covered, as they would be taken to the buyers factory for final processing, they would be offloaded into a open storage area till required, anything from 2/3 days to possibly months, depending on orders recieved and the manufacturing rate for whatever they produced.
I frequently took similar loads to East Germany, where the factory produced various types of automotive springs.
No, not yet. I do have a spare MRC Prodigy Advance Squared system. I got it since it can interface with a computer, but I have not yet dropped the $50+ for a USB serial cable that is proprietary to the MRC system.Are you using JMRI?