Good Morning,

Rick thanks for the coffee and breakfast this morning. Save travels to De Moines. Thankfully the second Dentist visit was included the the price already.

Curt I feel your Paine with all the errands; they tend to eat up a lot of your time.

Mike glad to hear the ol' peepers are good now. Enjoy the family time.

Dave hopefully having #2 done will straighten out your vision. Spam seems to be everywhere; we must get probably 15 spam calls a week, Thankfully our digital phone warns us if it's spam or not; if yes then "Leave a message" which of course they never do.

Philip in NYS if the "money light" comes on you can pretty much figure it's time for a different vehicle.

Jerry have fun shingling.

What's on your agenda.

It's a sunny 57 with a high of 67. Need to finish up the garage straitening this afternoon then maybe lawn mowing again. Going to throw down some grass seed where the dirt pile once resided. Bench time?

Have a great and safe day!! Be well.

Morning everyone

Nice breakfast Rick and the coffee is hot!
Great picture.

Curt nice pictures again this morning.

Mike glad the eyes are doing okay.

Morning Dave.

Philip sorry to hear about the car problems.

Weather in South Jersey is cloudy/59.  And that's the best it's going to be.
Speaking of cataract surgery I had one done 20 years ago and then the second one 10 years after that.
I hope today to get back to shingling.

Everyone have a great day!! 

Jerry

Quote from: labdad on May 21, 2026, 06:39:14 PMFWIW I think embossed rivets are acceptable, especially in your scale.
MJinTN

Found my pictures of my rivet tool. I made this probably 30 years ago while I was still employed at the place I was employed working in the toolroom. It's a copy of an article that was written up in Model Railroader except the guy used wood. I used a piece of cast iron and tool steel.





I like making my own tooling when I can. Helps to have machine tool's and also helps to have knowledge of how to use them properly.

Bernd

Quote from: deemery on May 21, 2026, 06:48:41 PMAre you thinking something electro-mechanical for the stop like a limit switch, or something digital?

dave

Staying away from "electro-mechanics" as far as I can. They are too troublesome when the electronics don't want to work anymore. Half the time you can't find the same components anymore because they updated the device or chips. It will be strictly a mechanical stop. Kind of like a railroad type bumping post. Solid and immoveable at slow speed.

Bernd

Quote from: labdad on May 21, 2026, 06:39:14 PMImpressive!!!!!!!
I look forward to more.
FWIW I think embossed rivets are acceptable, especially in your scale.
MJinTN

Thanks MJinTN. There will be more but at a slower pace. Summer outdoor projects plus time at the camp take presidents over modeling during the May to October time frame.

Here's a picture of a On30 boxcab I had built many years ago on the now defunct RRL forum. This and a second one went to William Andersen (aka Gezzer(RIP)). I can't find a picture of my shop built riveter. I'm at camp now and on my portable computer and don't have access to all my pictures.



Bernd

Morning gang.

Not certain where this week went....several short trips for food, medication, and gardening supplies.

Gena's car went full dumbass in the evaporative system. The money light was on. Sorted that out after spending bookoo bucks! All in the name of gas vapors!

Raining now so garden activity has paused. The corn is up!

Did a bit of casting and 3dp the last couple of days.



All from my foxhole!






 

Another blast of spam applications today, ugh.  I'm in that period between cataract surgeries, when nothing works quite right for close vision.  

dave

Very well done details!

dave

Quote from: friscomike on May 22, 2026, 08:05:06 AMGood morning folks,

Rick, thanks for opening, coffee, and breakfast. Safe travels and good luck at the stereo shop.

Curt, good luck with your errands.  Have fun painting all those figures.

It's a hazy morning. Eye appointment went well.  The cataract surgeries were a success.  I ordered new glasses yesterday.  It will be busy all weekend with family functions.

Have fun,
mike

Did you do both eyes at once, or was this Eye #2?  I'm in that strange state between eyes.  The new eye is very nearsighted, and I'm going to look for cheap readers today.  For now, close vision is mostly using the very blurry other eye, and I'm feeling some eye strain.  Eye #2 gets fixed in 2 weeks.  

The big blast of spam applications continues, I've asked Keep It Rusty if the forum software allows to block the one IP address where all this crap is originating.  

dave