Geezer's Lounge (Rev 1) - Volume 2

[Philip]

Looks like an outside kind of day. Watering and mowing plus. Gas cans are empty.

Where can I buy some .020 or thinner diamond plate modeling material? Plastic or metal for the Fireman deck.

Philip

[deemery]

G'day, all.  It's 67, up from 59!! last night, heading to 83.  Still humid, but not oppressively so.  

It looks like the new paint I was using on the pulleys went bad in the bottle.  It didn't mix well, and has a lot of gunk in the bottle clogging the nozzle.  And that's after 4 minutes in the vortex mixer!  I'll look at the paint job today and decide what to do next (besides checking the other bottles in that set.)  

The morning is booked, cleaners then lunch with one of my UNH geology profs.  I'm sure he wants to complain about being department chair in the face of substantial budget cuts.  I do try to help out by sending the department some money each year for student projects, and occasionally I hear back on how they spent that (one time for unbudgeted travel expenses when the ticket price doubled, another for external lab charges to support analysis of samples...)

dave

[ACL1504]

Morning all,

I've been in the yard edging and cutting since 6:30 this morning. Wanted to get a jump on the humidity and heat. I'm now finished and ready for breakfast and a shower but not in that order.

NO modeling for me yesterday but Pam and I got everything done yesterday including my two Dr. apps. My family Dr. was very happy with my weight, blood pressure, blood work and all that goes with the cholesterol count. The PSA was .01. I'm a happy camper now.

A few personal errands this morning and then the train shed is calling my name.

Have a safe and healthy day everyone.

Tom

[Jerry]

Morning everyone

Larry thanks for the coffee and breakfast.
Great customer service from Carroll Creek.

Nice picture Rick.
Sounds like you need to get out from behind the wheel for a few days.

Curt you getting them all cut?? 

Philip have a nice day outside.

Dave have a nice lunch out with the Prof.

Weather here in South Jersey is cloudy/75.  Later P. sunny or cloudy 85.
Diane and I have a trip up the NJ turnpike to pick up her niece at Newark airport.
She is staying with for the weekend.

Everyone have a great day!! 

Jerry

[elwoodblues]

Good morning Larry, Rick, Curt, Philip, Dave, ACLTom, Jerry and the rest of the crew that drops in later.

Thanks for the coffee and breakfast Larry.

TomO, glad to hear that you and Terry are doing well.

Currently 22C (72F) and partly cloudy.  Spent last night doing some more test prints with the 3D printer and looking for the flash drive that has my STL files for the electronic part storage bins that I need to make more of.  The good news is I found it.   

Have a great day everyone. 

[KentuckySouthern]

Sun and. 60s in Michigan. 70s later.

0830 Text message 0830 Hey Karl this is Darelle with Highline. I am a fiber drop technician with Highline. I see I have an order to run fiber to your house. Has anyone been by to do this yet? If not I can start heading your way. Let me know, feel free to give me a call. Thanks!

I called him, he's on the way...from Newberry 55 miles away. "High Speed" internet my a$$. Fancy update on the tin can and cotton string. Replaced with a fiberglass strand. Time will tell 


Went to see the Brad Pitt movie F1 last night. Decent action flick well produced typical formula plot. Entertaining. Not an epic landmark movie for the ages. Just a decent movie.

I had the construction manual out for my Rusty Stumps laser cut Reed-DeYoungs tobacconist building yesterday. Hmmm

Gotta run. Later all.

KS at the swamp. 

[TomO/Tloc]

TomO said:"Seems Andy Kenney's Nashville Road per his FB page has the brick front facades I'm working on. I was eliminating Facebook sites today and forgot I belong to the Nashville Road page"

Andy's brick fronts are from a now out of business company that started out making laser cut kits and moved on to make those high def building backgrounds. King Mill or something like that. Andy mounted them on black foam core boards and had them all along the Maine line that passes behind the mid layout yard. They are quite effective. They are no longer available. One of those flash in the pan one man bands that came and went.

The Nashville Rd is open during the NMRA at NoVI, next week?

No Facebook here, now or ever. Evils lurk there.

KS

I understand the evils of FB but I ignore the news feed and recommended stuff and stick just to model railroading or Rick's postings.

Interesting info on Nashville Road's papermill, thanks. I will be kit bashing lots of kit walls he has to come up with a mid 60's look to the mill. I know a group of us were going this past Spring to operate on Bruce Chubbs layout but the days he offered got changed and we couldn't make the new ones. A few of the guys going had been to Andy's years ago and were planning to contact him. That would have been fun. Someday!

Bevwell

[TomO/Tloc]

Good morning Crew from Wisconsin. It's supposed to rain but it's already 45 minutes past due! Still it's a crummy feeling day out there so it's most likely an indoor day for me.

The grandson's trio have expanded to include a new neighbor and possible hockey teammate come Fall hockey season. She's a goalie in the Summer League the boys are playing in. Also 11 years old she lives with her grandparents across the County Road from where the grandson's new house is being built and almost move in ready. She also will be in Middle School this Summer with the 3. I met her yesterday for the 1st time but have been hearing a story about her that happened 4-5 weeks ago. The grandson's 1st Summer League game turned out to be against her. Now his grandfather (yep me) has told him his 1st shot should be high at the goalie. Make them nervous!  She thought he aimed at her head. She caught the puck but then charged him and pinned him along the boards! She told him if he ever aimed at her head again she would ram her stick so far up his a.. they'd never find it. He told the story at dinner that evening. Turns out she is in the afternoon Park and Rec program like the boys and like them rides her bike there. The trio passed her one day and she joined the bike ride there and back. Now they all hang together. Yesterday the 4 were here to disassemble the slot track and move it to the new place. Took about 3 hours and typical of a women she definitely was ruling the roost yesterday! This should be interesting to watch if she sticks around.

Maybe the slot track gets assembled if Park and Rec gets cancelled. I'll be there again to supervise but the grandson and team will assemble it. If not today I will actually do something to my layout.

Enjoy the day
TomO

[deemery]

 This should be interesting to watch if she sticks around. 

No pun intended, I'm sure.  (Neighbor's daughter was on the Middlebury College champion hockey team.)

dave

[friscomike]

Howdy folks,

Larry, thanks for opening, coffee, and breakfast.  Jacob's Landing newest structure look good with the roof.  Nice work.

Rick, the Sawtooths promise lots of fun hikes.  Safe travels.

Curt, glad the 1:1 chores are finished before the weekend.

Philip, I have a friend who is scratchbuilding a loco, and he used diamond decking, so I asked him for his source.

Dave, good luck to your geology profs.  My son works at a national lab in the AI area and said the budget cuts are tough.

TomACL, congrats on the great doctor reports. Enjoy the train shed.

Jerry, safe travels out there with the English.

Ron, congrats on the USB find.  Have fun with the prints.

Karl, good luck with the fiber.  I'm having my first experience with fiber here in Georgia and getting amazing speeds.

Andy's sessions are a lot of fun, in fact, the most fun I've had operating.

How is the rest of the crew?

It's a cloudy day with rain forecasted for this afternoon.  I worked on the layout this morning and got a base coat of plaster cloth on Mainstreet and the structure bases.  It's been years since I've done that, but the muscle (brain) memories made it easy.  Later this afternoon, I'm headed to the funeral of my friend.  He was a retired police lieutenant here and loved by all.  I understand there will be a police color guard performing their ceremony.

Have fun,
mike

[KentuckySouthern]

Afternoon update:  The fiber crew arrived and got right to work and have the line in and a box on the corner wall outside for the installation tomorrow. 2 nice young men with some neat toys. They were good enough to show me all they were doing. The fiber itself is abound the size of the period here. The splicing unit for that is an amazing device. Some vague similarities to the old movie splicer. It uses heat fusion to join the fibers.

I agree with with Mike, ops at Andy's are a good time. Chubb's are as well. Too many sound units for my hearing. I've not been there but once since the Dark Times

Back on the deck, 72⁰ and a nice breeze. Chamber of Commerce weather. Too bad tomorrow's street fest has a rain forecast.

Later

KS

[GPdemayo]

Happy Friday, y'all have a fun weekend.....

[jbvb]

Good evening, all.  Philip, have you thought about engraving a small area of the pattern you want into styrene sheet, then placing .020 brass on top of it and using something like a pencil eraser to emboss the pattern into the brass?