CambriaArea51
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If you don't want to fix it you could flatcar it.
Running Bear's October 2022 Coffee Shop
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That is how much power (current) they can "endure" before they might fail. Watts = Amps x Volts. You up the current (amps) at a given voltage and your power goes up, generating heat etc, and causing components to fail. The more "watts" a resistor is rated out, the more current they can handle at a given voltage.
The more I think about it, the April Aire works pretty much as intended. I actually spent time running down to the basement with a flash light each time the furnace ran to watch the damn thing, and everything worked fine. Something happened overnight, as there was a puddle of water in the morning. Never when I was watching...Gremlins?
So sounds like you covered all you could Is the water next to the water pump aka Little Giant or else where I think the only thing I've had fail on those is the micro switch that the float operates but that's usually total failure
How about the holder part inside the aprilaire Is there maybe a small crack probable not ok where the drain line connects is it tight
OK then I'm stumped only so many places it can leak
One other place on the valve where the small water line comes out of it make sure it's tight
Since when has this hobby be cheap?
My nephew certainly took more of the attitude of a "collector" rather than a builder, I think, although he did delve into a few building kits with a paintbrush and paints.
One other thing that's changed is availability. I haven't bought anything much in several years, other'n at shows, but I do know the standard today is buying by reserve, rather than off the shelf as back in my (HO) day. Today you have to buy almost as soon as a particular model is announced, lest you miss out or be left behind, unable to find the product you wish you hadn't just missed. For someone who wants to build anything like even a small fleet or roster, you had better have your wallet, or credit/debit card close at hand, I think, and pockets well stocked--deep, that is. And you had better have a good idea...even a list...of what it is you want.
Not easy. Having the money to pull the trigger is one thing. Having a good idea--even if you have just seen the latest announcement of what will soon be available, but in limited (reserve yours NOW) quantities, is even more difficult. But you have to know ahead of time, right?
So plan your roster ahead of time, just in case. Or have some sort of plan...just in case.
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It's hard to say, really, as to cost. But I would opine, and having been away from this hobby for a period of twenty five years or so...it's changed. Today it's more of a collectors hobby. Which is why BUILDERS and detailers and...artists, are smaller in number, I guess. But those guys--you guys--are what make the hobby what it...can be. Take the collectible, rip off the label, shred the box...and weather it.
This ain't "Star Wars," and R2-D2 looks better, IMO, OUT of his bubble pack.
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There's a guy I saw on YouTube a year or so back...who took a Lamborghini and drove it to death just touring America. "The car was built to DRIVE, and not to sit in a garage looking pretty, gaining value (or not) because it might be rare (or might not)." I thought that was exactly the right way to look at it too.
Weather it. Run it. Wear it out trying to modify it and improve it, even if you never really do.
And even if it costs you. Even if it's money you'll never get back.
It ain't cheap. But it's worth spending it.
Just one of so many parts of the overall "machine" which theoretically keeps the world running. But which failed in that case.
But that's cool. And, whether you want the DD40 or not, I can't fail to have noticed your own layout rebuild. You are rockin' it too. What you have now is very much better, IMO. Not that it's a contest, but...I think we all want to progress, even if measured only against ourselves.
This hobby has something to offer for everyone. What you want to make of it is right there, and for the taking. Collect, build, plan, fail, build, plan, change, re-do...whatever. It's all there.
But you have to pay for it...cut through the bubble wrap and the molded plastic cover...and start working on it. Detail parts. Paint. Weather.
Whatever. Find your DD40 demo unit. I hope you do.
Just own it. However it goes.
There are times in life (I hope) where you see someone in distress and you think to yourself "why doesn't someone help him or her?"
But then you suddenly realize there isn't a "someone." There isn't a someone else. Because it's down to you. YOU are the man (or woman too) on the point of the spear. YOU are the someone. In this particular point in time and space it up to YOU.
So...give the guy twenty bucks. Or a hundred. Or a hug. Or both. Whatever it takes to help them move forward again.
And then go buy your next freight car or locomotive. Without worries or regrets either, I hope. Help others? Yes. But live your own life too. That's why it was given to you. To live it.
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santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Around here, October is the least expensive month for purchasing propane. It's also the beginning of a five month spell of lower electric bills due to little or no a/c. I heat with wood, so no utility bill there.
chadbag
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That is how much power (current) they can "endure" before they might fail. Watts = Amps x Volts. You up the current (amps) at a given voltage and your power goes up, generating heat etc, and causing components to fail. The more "watts" a resistor is rated out, the more current they can handle at a given voltage.
Boris
Beach Bum
Mike: I replaced the drain line before last heating season, still clear, and I can see the water flowing from the filter to the water raising pump. (My sewer is above basement floor level).
The more I think about it, the April Aire works pretty much as intended. I actually spent time running down to the basement with a flash light each time the furnace ran to watch the damn thing, and everything worked fine. Something happened overnight, as there was a puddle of water in the morning. Never when I was watching...Gremlins?
MikeGTW
Signalman, ESQ
Probably Gremlins so you better watch it they multiply if they get wet
So sounds like you covered all you could Is the water next to the water pump aka Little Giant or else where I think the only thing I've had fail on those is the micro switch that the float operates but that's usually total failure
How about the holder part inside the aprilaire Is there maybe a small crack probable not ok where the drain line connects is it tight
OK then I'm stumped only so many places it can leak
One other place on the valve where the small water line comes out of it make sure it's tight
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mara plutoni
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Willy being Dutch means I do like those bicycles! We have a dutch company Artitec that makes beautiful ones. When you have 100 of them they cost as much as some boxcars. You will need 100ths of them on a dutch lay out! But fun will cost some $$$.
Smudge617
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Since when has this hobby be cheap?mara plutoni
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It looks like a real tankcar...not that damaged after a big impact. GL with repairing.
Smudge617
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As for the tank car, don't think you'll have much trouble repairing it as you've all the part's, failing that could always make a derailment scene somewhere with it.
Snowman
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Well...it took a smaller overall bite out of the wallet back in the day, I think. Thirty or...forty years back. Athearn Blue Box kits...Roundhouse kits. Athearn at least offered locomotives, albeit rather bare of so many of the details--and particularly the more railroad specific details--available today when buying. Details were often added by buying a slew of add on parts. Detail Associates was one line, and by the time you added a number of such parts to your base locomotive, the price could add up such that a well turned out unit might cost you half the price you'd pay today for a road specific and road number detailed unit. Great if you know exactly what you want, but a bit more of a problem if you don't, and particularly if you are trying to build a fleet, but can't afford it all with one fell-swoop of the credit card.
My nephew certainly took more of the attitude of a "collector" rather than a builder, I think, although he did delve into a few building kits with a paintbrush and paints.
One other thing that's changed is availability. I haven't bought anything much in several years, other'n at shows, but I do know the standard today is buying by reserve, rather than off the shelf as back in my (HO) day. Today you have to buy almost as soon as a particular model is announced, lest you miss out or be left behind, unable to find the product you wish you hadn't just missed. For someone who wants to build anything like even a small fleet or roster, you had better have your wallet, or credit/debit card close at hand, I think, and pockets well stocked--deep, that is. And you had better have a good idea...even a list...of what it is you want.
Not easy. Having the money to pull the trigger is one thing. Having a good idea--even if you have just seen the latest announcement of what will soon be available, but in limited (reserve yours NOW) quantities, is even more difficult. But you have to know ahead of time, right?
So plan your roster ahead of time, just in case. Or have some sort of plan...just in case.
------------
It's hard to say, really, as to cost. But I would opine, and having been away from this hobby for a period of twenty five years or so...it's changed. Today it's more of a collectors hobby. Which is why BUILDERS and detailers and...artists, are smaller in number, I guess. But those guys--you guys--are what make the hobby what it...can be. Take the collectible, rip off the label, shred the box...and weather it.
This ain't "Star Wars," and R2-D2 looks better, IMO, OUT of his bubble pack.
==========
There's a guy I saw on YouTube a year or so back...who took a Lamborghini and drove it to death just touring America. "The car was built to DRIVE, and not to sit in a garage looking pretty, gaining value (or not) because it might be rare (or might not)." I thought that was exactly the right way to look at it too.
Weather it. Run it. Wear it out trying to modify it and improve it, even if you never really do.
And even if it costs you. Even if it's money you'll never get back.
It ain't cheap. But it's worth spending it.
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mara plutoni
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I do agree! When you want to earn money and be very rich...don't live your life. When its all about $$ don't look out of the window and enjoy the nice colours of october. Don't walk on the beach in the middle of a storm, feeling the wind in your hair (if you have any). Look at the beautiful things, enjoy it. Nobody is going to count your money after your death and say wow, what a good man (or woman) that was. When you are a good person, helping where ever you can you will be remebered that way. That what counts. Look in the mirror after each day...
And don't look too much at others. When they want to have a great collection of brand new loco's, spending all their money...fine. Not my way of enjoying this hobby. I like to build and I do enjoy reading your projects, finding advise along the way.
And don't look too much at others. When they want to have a great collection of brand new loco's, spending all their money...fine. Not my way of enjoying this hobby. I like to build and I do enjoy reading your projects, finding advise along the way.
Snowman
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Tell me about it. My first real job back in high school was working kitchen and food supply for patients in a well rated hospital. Our unit was, as it turned out, the source of a strep epidemic, which worked it's way up to many of the patient floors. In the end the source was traced to an orange juice machine feed tube...for which there was no oversight. No one cleaned it, was assigned to manage it, or even knew it was there at all, let alone realize it might be a problem.
Just one of so many parts of the overall "machine" which theoretically keeps the world running. But which failed in that case.
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troyphoto
Snarky Old Fart (in training)
Well howdy there internet peeps and those without snow.
Didn't get much more of the white stuff yesterday, but what we had stuck around on the grass and cooler surfaces. Supposed to be up in the 70s F this weekend, so the final put patio stuff away will happen.
I remembered at 9:30 two nights ago that I'd left the garden hose connected to the spicket. Ran out in my loungewear (jammies for those of you in Rio Linda) and got it disconnected, and brought the "expando" section inside. Of course, I forgot to grab a bucket first, so the melting snow on the hose, and melting water inside the hose pooled on the welcome mat wher I dropped it while searching for previously mentioned bucket.
Coffee and fuzzy writing buddy are locked and loaded. Heading off to word some words.
Planting red herrings this morning.
Didn't get much more of the white stuff yesterday, but what we had stuck around on the grass and cooler surfaces. Supposed to be up in the 70s F this weekend, so the final put patio stuff away will happen.
I remembered at 9:30 two nights ago that I'd left the garden hose connected to the spicket. Ran out in my loungewear (jammies for those of you in Rio Linda) and got it disconnected, and brought the "expando" section inside. Of course, I forgot to grab a bucket first, so the melting snow on the hose, and melting water inside the hose pooled on the welcome mat wher I dropped it while searching for previously mentioned bucket.
Coffee and fuzzy writing buddy are locked and loaded. Heading off to word some words.
Planting red herrings this morning.
Smudge617
Well-Known Member
Too late for me, at least in HO, I just buy what I like regardless of RR, got a thing for EMD Demo's and buy just about everyone I can find, but try and avoid getting two the same. There's a DD40 I want in Demo, I already have one in Pennsy, but I still want this one, I'll never run it mind, I just like the colour scheme.
Snowman
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Makes you sort of a wanna-be collector. You do realize....
But that's cool. And, whether you want the DD40 or not, I can't fail to have noticed your own layout rebuild. You are rockin' it too. What you have now is very much better, IMO. Not that it's a contest, but...I think we all want to progress, even if measured only against ourselves.
This hobby has something to offer for everyone. What you want to make of it is right there, and for the taking. Collect, build, plan, fail, build, plan, change, re-do...whatever. It's all there.
But you have to pay for it...cut through the bubble wrap and the molded plastic cover...and start working on it. Detail parts. Paint. Weather.
Whatever. Find your DD40 demo unit. I hope you do.
Just own it.
However it goes.
Snowman
Well-Known Member
Wow! Well spoken. And I will assume you refer to "your" projects here, in this forum, as "our projects." Some of the modelers here plow through the bow waves like they are a thin fog. Hard for me--I ponder far too much. I'm much more an armchair modeler myself--but I can't help but admire what I see here, as I gather you do too.
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santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
While I don't purchase anything that doesn't go on the layout to be run, I do have a deep respect for collectors. If nothing else, they provide sales to many manufacturers which keep more of them in business.
Snowman
Well-Known Member
I'm going to comment here, if I may, on just that one phrase you offered: "helping where ever you can."
There are times in life (I hope) where you see someone in distress and you think to yourself "why doesn't someone help him or her?"
But then you suddenly realize there isn't a "someone." There isn't a someone else. Because it's down to you. YOU are the man (or woman too) on the point of the spear. YOU are the someone. In this particular point in time and space it up to YOU.
So...give the guy twenty bucks. Or a hundred. Or a hug. Or both. Whatever it takes to help them move forward again.
And then go buy your next freight car or locomotive. Without worries or regrets either, I hope. Help others? Yes. But live your own life too. That's why it was given to you. To live it.
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