Well, we're back fresh from another weekend. How did you do? As predicted, I only got as far as setting up the Galesburg modules in the new house. Good news is I now have plenty of room to work on them now! Image by Jim Wiggin posted Oct 5, 2015 at 7:42 AM Image by Jim Wiggin posted Oct 5, 2015 at 7:40 AM Moving is done, now comes the unpacking and organizing that will likely extend until our time to move again. So how about you? Did you get everything done that you wanted to? Let us know. Before you know it, we'll be back at it again of Friday the 9th. Until then, have a great week, stay safe and... High Greens!
No pics this week, but after a two day bench top cleaning spre I can now see my workbench! And following some popular decluttering advice to "do the two minute jobs right away" I spent about an hour putting FVM metal wheels onto rolling stock. SO now I'm out of 33" wheels . . . . :facepalm: Though I do have 8 or 9 axles of 36's to work with. And having been inspired by randgust's over on the Railwire, I also started painting my Stoney Smith Designs Shapweways trackmobile.
Let's see, this was a good weekend. I got the cork glued down for my turn table area. Looks like I have a loose wire on my turn table wiring. Easy to fix. I wired my HOn30 section for DCC. Now all I need to do is install decoders in them. My son and I started the cardboard mesh for the mountain. I ended up burning my hand (that hot glue is hot), while I was in the corner whimpering my son continued on. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk - now Free
No railroad modeling for me, but a friend got me into building a 1:48 scale Mitsubishi Zero kit and a model of the U.S.S. Enterprise from Star Trek. Three or four hours of pure bliss Sunday!
It took a couple hours for the pain to subside. Not bad now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk - now Free
No hot glue experiments for me... I did do a bit of maintenance on the loco fleet. I redid the jumper wires (improving contact between the truck pickups and the motor contact) on an Athearn SD40-2 that started to behave wonky. That fixed it. A Stewart C630 started derailing where no one has derailed before (I'm also a Trekkie). I tracked down the problem to the truck sideframes butting against the underframe behind the pilots. What stumps me is that this engine has never manifested this problem before - it just decided to do it out of the blue. Now I'm in the planning phase to fix that.
