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Well, howdy there internet peeps and those who aren't day-drunk on the telly.

It's Troy again...

The Titanic build is facing it's first setback. Much like the SecDef nomination. Although I hope to recover better than that.

One of the hull sections is designed to just barely fit on the plate horizontally. But I want to print it vertical to reduce the supports I'll need. Now it's too tall for the printer - by a couple of cm.

OK, I can cut the piece in the software and turn it into two print jobs. Did that and got 95% done with job one. Then I woke to this...
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Fortunately the part lying down on the job is the fan shroud. It's got magnet to hold it in place. Looks like the tree supports sticking up in the back right side of the hull came loose and knocked it off. the printer was smart enough to pause. I treated this as a failed print, and resliced and reloaded to see if it's savable.

If this piece defeats me, I may have to scale everything down 5% to get it to fit on the plate, and begin a new attempt. That means reprinting the three sections I have done. I'd prefer to finish as is, but we'll see. If this fails again, I'll make the re-size and begin with section 1

So I'm watching the printer now. Like a hawk.
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Wow, the trials of our hobbies. Hope you get it figured out to your satisfaction
 
Good morning from a balmy 22f/-5c degrees in So. Central Wisconsin heading to 37/+3c. A nice day if the winds stay calm.

The Christmas tree in storage will have its 3rd year as I set it up this morning. We got a fantastic 35 years out of the previous tree that was given away as it was too big for us (Terry) and the local church who ended up with it sets it up this week. I set up the tree and bring out the Christmas bins and then get out of the way till called as needed.

I hired a house cleaning service. The lady who does the daughter’s place was just a more engaging personal person. Her and 6 family members are her cleaning teams and she came highly recommended. They start this Thursday. I took NorthBrit’s (David) advice. I will have estimates done for an elevator and a chair lift. We had decided a few months ago about not getting a chair lift (too intrusive) but we’ll see what they actually cost. We believe we found a good space for the elevator though it eliminates an upstairs closet and possibly a downstairs fireplace (we can manage without both).

Enjoy the day
 
Good Morning All. Cloudy and 49° with spotty showers. Porch is almost wet but nothing in the gauge yet. Temps staying in the mid-50's until Sunday when they are supposed to be in the mid-60's. There will be a nasty cold front arriving tomorrow night dropping us into the upper-20's.

Plans for today have been in a flux. We both have a doctor appointment at 9:30 for the semi-annual earwax cleaning. Always interesting since he uses a mini-camera and there are monitors on the wall so you can see what he is doing. In our last discussion last night we decided to make the weekly grocery trek right after, since we're going to be less than a half mile away. Fridge is bare since we didn't go last week. Beer fridge is fine though. Wife will probably go to Walmart while I do the groceries. I do not shop at Walmart.

Another short day out in the train shed yesterday. I continued my mission of adding more trees around the layout. I wanted to run a few trains, but I was also cooking a Prime Rib for supper and I had to attend to that. Very delicious. It was one that I got on sale a few months ago and has been taking up room in the freezer ever since.

Here are a few pictures of a Downtown Deco hydrocal structure that I painted a couple of years ago.
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It reminds me that Jaz liked this structure. I hope that she is still doing well.

Those locos that Mac posted, all look like caterpillars to me.
John - None of the 6 Rolling Stones concerts that I went to turned out like Altamont, but some were pretty raucous affairs, audience-wise. I won't go into details here, but the 1972 show in Tarrant County (Ft Worth) Convention Center where Stevie Wonder opened was pretty eye-opening. Nudity and open drug use all over.
David - Don't fret, I haven't seen any Die Hard movies either.

Today is the 73rd birthday of controversial sports commentator Skip Bayless. The only reason that I mention him is because he was the lead sports columnist for the Dallas Morning News for 21 tears, and I met him informally in the 80's sometime.

Everyone have a great Wednesday.
 
TLOC said:
. I took NorthBrit’s (David) advice. I will have estimates done for an elevator and a chair lift.
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Off course it is everybody's choice to their circumstances. We went for the elevator as Dawn say she feels safer in it than a chairlift. The fact the elevator goes into our bedroom is a massive help (especially if she is having a bad day').

As an aside: The elevator is great for me if any items - suitcases, large boxes etc need to be up or downstairs. Saves the hugging, tugging and lugging on the stairs. Even today Christmas presents were all loaded and sent up by 'Scotty'. Yes Dawn has named the elevator 'Scotty'.
 
NorthBrit said:
Off course it is everybody's choice to their circumstances. We went for the elevator as Dawn say she feels safer in it than a chairlift. The fact the elevator goes into our bedroom is a massive help (especially if she is having a bad day').

As an aside: The elevator is great for me if any items - suitcases, large boxes etc need to be up or downstairs. Saves the hugging, tugging and lugging on the stairs. Even today Christmas presents were all loaded and sent up by 'Scotty'. Yes Dawn has named the elevator 'Scotty'.
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Beam me up! Love it.

We are going to check a few things out like an elevator and the chair lift. No decisions need to be made yet but I have looked at Condo listings online and I’m pretty sure they are too small and too far from the grandkids. Thanks for the elevator idea. The 1st company will be out tomorrow but the 2nd next week. No response from the 3rd.
 
Hello shop dwellers!

I have been so busy lately. I had a job change within my career in September, so not much to report other than a few purchases here and there.

Getting settled for the winter months with yet a few more things to take care of. 16 degrees F this morning. I have been working on my train room re-model as I am re-locating it to a different room in the house now for a much larger space. So, at some point I will share that info. It basically has doubled in size, and I will be doing a double decker system with 2 helixes.

I finally got my last SD70I Tsunami 2 Union Pacific #4014 that was part of the Big Boy move from CA to Cheyenne before it was restored! Took a long while to find one available. I got a great price for it 222 bucks plus 20 for shipping. Very happy about that! So that concludes all of the units that were part of the move, running in excursions etc. for now. So now I have SD70s 4884, 4014, 8444.....and a few others.


Hope everyone is doing well. I will catch up on this thread soon enough.
 
NorthBrit said:
Off course it is everybody's choice to their circumstances. We went for the elevator as Dawn say she feels safer in it than a chairlift. The fact the elevator goes into our bedroom is a massive help (especially if she is having a bad day').

As an aside: The elevator is great for me if any items - suitcases, large boxes etc need to be up or downstairs. Saves the hugging, tugging and lugging on the stairs. Even today Christmas presents were all loaded and sent up by 'Scotty'. Yes Dawn has named the elevator 'Scotty'.
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Good thing she didn't call the elevator "Snotty":
 
Boris said:
Tom: How bad is the Lake effect in your part of the world? My son came home to 23" Sunday night, this after detouring the long way around to avoid I-81 above Syracuse.
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Where I'm at in Niagara County, north of Buffalo we had nothing till Tuesday. Areas south of Buffalo have anywhere between 30" to 60". Lake Erie and Ontario are only down to 47 degrees from 52 so they are warm enough to cause the lake effect.
 
CambriaArea51 said:
Where I'm at in Niagara County, north of Buffalo we had nothing till Tuesday. Areas south of Buffalo have anywhere between 30" to 60". Lake Erie and Ontario are only down to 47 degrees from 52 so they are warm enough to cause the lake effect.
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Guess the Lakes will take a while to cool down, yet, so the snows will continue. Hopefully by Christmas, it will settle down.
 
I bought a case of Nos about a month ago. It's an energy drink. I like to sip one first thing in the morning instead of coffee.
Anyway, Nos has about the same taste as the original Red Bull, just terrible.
Years ago, I found this concentrated water flavoring, MIO. Just a quick shot in a bottle of water and it becomes a nice sweet, flavored water.
Well, I bought a little container of MIO and applied a double shot to the Nos and the receipt works.

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