Afternoon all,

Busy weekend here.  My son and the grandchildren just left.  The house is so quiet.  I'm taking a break from the chaos before doing some cleanup.   

Jeff

Nice looking car.

Jeff

Great looking rolling stock.   Clever traps for the weights.

Jeff

Morning all,

Seventy six and headed to upper 80s here today.  I need to mow this morning and finish washing off the deck.  Late lunch/early dinner and then this evening we're going to tour some of the local new construction "parade of homes".  

Jeff

Afternoon all.

Showing up late today.   I've been  back to work over the weekend and yesterday.  Knee isn't an issue, but some fatigue.  Woke up late today and had a haircut this morning.  Some outside chores planned for this afternoon (it's headed to 90 degrees here).  

Jeff

Jeff, I as mentioned to Mark, I'm going to do the lower ones on a template, I don't know why the kit didn't do it this way.  

Jeff

Hi, Mark.  I saw your article in John's emag.  I think I will try assembling them on a flat surface for the lower ones.  Building them in place as the instructions state, seems (and was) very difficult.  

Jeff

Thank you, Curt.  

Jeff

Thanks, Tom.  After this build, I may use only indoor (hidden) stairs (kidding).  

Jeff

Morning all,

Getting ready to head to the Ford dealer so they can do a software update to the car that apparently couldn't be done when it was there last week.  A trip to the grocery store later.  Unfortunately, it's my last day off post op, and I have to go back to work tomorrow.  

Jeff

Adding the railings was EXTREMELY difficult for me.  I almost gave up and just removed the stairs.  I probably spent well over an hour on this.  Many of the posts were glued on several times.  I initially used Elmer's, but it didn't seem to hold.  Superglue worked better.  The top rails aren't perfect, but they will do.  The sides went on fairly easily.  There's large glue globs, but I'll live with it.  I may try to make a template for the lower ones to see if it's easier to build and attach them that way rather than build them in place.   And, yes, I knocked off some of the lower posts putting on the upper rails. 

Jeff

The posts were glued on and this is where I left it last night.

Jeff

Thanks, Jeff, but it hasn't been easy.  

I knew the posts needed to be all the same size, so I assembled my fancy schmancy Ultimation cutter and sander so I could get them identical.  I hadn't added on the accessories until now.  With my Chopper, I was used to feeding from the left and this one needs feeding from the right, but I got used to it.  Then into the sander to make them all identical

Jeff

Morning all,

Sunny and upper 70s here today.  A walk is on tap for later this morning.  Still working on the stairs on the FSM kit.  

Jeff

Excellent build and details. 

Jeff