It seems 36" is the largest wheelset I can get for HO, I did try OO just to see "if" and it's a "no" so I just bought a cheapo proto 2000 40' boxcar in kit form, now I don't have to demolish one of my other freight cars to see how I can fix this annoying problem, all I need is the axles and chassis to basically kit bash/cut, glue/add to, without having to worry about breaking anything else accidentally, Yes I know, it's a weird way of doing it, but I'm a brit, we do have a reputation to uphold.Hi Folks
Well, welcome to 2022 lets hope this year gets a little better shall we.
Today was pretty much a wasted day, decided to finally try out my collection of HO loco's, freight and passenger cars. I need not have bothered, Loco's run fine except the SD 60, that has to run about 20 mins hood first before I can get it to run cab first, otherwise it derails in opposite corners ????
None of my cars will run behind any loco, bloody KD's are different heights and barely touch, after several hours of fecklin' and getting peed off, I decided to try the few offset KD coupler's that I have, tried them, but the height difference was still bad and uncoupled every chance they got, thought about the new Walther 33" wheelsets I bought, nope, made it even worse.
The coupling's on the cars are also shot, and wont stay coupled up, some is my fault as there are a 1% gradient, but they should cope with that.
I can't lower the couplings on the Loco's unless I want to chop chunks out of the front and rear counters.
So I'm down to plan D or F, whichever it is:
remove couplers from trucks and fit to body frame.
get more offset KD's
and/or
get bigger wheelsets.
Plan G
Flog the lot and go back to OO scale.
Nothing wrong with leaving for a bit and come back lots of us do because of life I’m one of them. Summer months I’m always too busy for my Hobbies. The difference is I don’t leave and keep coming back with a different name or leave and post stating this will be my last post good bye. We’re all to old for playground games like that at least I am people like that to me just want attention. If you love trains like he does post your stuff when you can and stay on don’t go leaving and coming back all the time because some one ate the Icing off of your Cupcake. Sorry I have a low tolerance for these kinds of people.
Sherrel- My wife drug out the left over Christmas ham from where she hid it from my ham sandwich lunch time. I added it to the peas with mixed veggies and several spices. My third helping was not as good as the first two. I got full before i could finish my food.
Hughie- have you considered making it an inn, with foods and rooms.... by the hour?
LOL it is what is known as Morris Dancing. The horses head is unusual if I am honest, although colourful. The white hankies are often seen though, and bells on the costume are normal, so as they dance they might do staccato dancing with the ringing part, it is usually males who dance although modern ones have more women in them. flowers on hats are popular. if you do an internet search you’ll see they often do their own music, a violin / fiddle is very popular, or a wheeze box, tambourine or a whistle or recorder, nowadays guitars are fairly popular, but it derived from village dancing around the time of dancing around the pole, this horse head - most unusual does have sone satanic overtones it reminded me of a certain gangster movie, but the idea was that a member of the dance team had died and his mates were out in force to commemorate him, so the coffin, the church, the film crew as having Morris dancers at a funeral is unusual.
Oh yes road runner and coyote on a dessert would be fun……and mate I certainly thought your teasing in keeping with this forum and I was often amused by your comments,playfulness is exactly right here in my opinion. He mentioned he had been kicked off forums before, so I suspect he may have a habit of leaving before being booted, some forums have no truck with anything they think lacking, and people with loads of friends,well followed threads, supposedly ‘better’ skills, are not above crushing anyone to beef themselves up, which is why I like it here so much,people are just kinder,tongue in cheek, and have a sense of play, and if I am honest there are sone people who go places to seed discord, I do not think he was such a one,some people enjoy hobbies in different ways,and honestly as we get older we can use the use of our hands, I have seen a few modellers reduced to advice givers as they age,I have also seen them ridiculed for not putting up new work,and I have got into the odd Barney over it, people who lose a home for their layout especially if downsizing,people who end up in care, or moving in with family as they need assisted living can have loads of knowledge,but cannot produce the work, I did get the impression we were unlikely to encourage any sense of scenery however simple to undertakeI do hope no one takes offense at anything I type. I tend toward tongue-in-cheek humor.
My normal greeting "Well, howdy there..." is a direct copy of one of my favorite youtubers with a redneck bent on current events. And I've started trying to find themes to add to each greeting based on the previous day's conversation.
Christian seems to enjoy finding new ways to make a simple oval more complex, so I enjoy teasing him about his stunning terrain skills (I love his cacti, but he really needs a coyote and roadrunner).
Nope, I never take offense about what anyone types. I was going to talk to you about the weird new avi, though...
