Monday, June 15, 2026

[Zephyrus52246]

Morning all,

Sunny and headed to 80 degrees later today.  Might go for a walk later. 

I did get the Tortoise fixed.  It's now screwed in place and I don't think it will fall off again.   I should probably try screwing in the others, but that will have to wait as my daughter and her family will arrive next week and there is still a lot of cleaning to do, including vacuuming the layout, cleaning the dust off the cars and track cleaning.  Not to mention vacuuming and dusting the "TV room" down here. 

Jeff

[deemery]

Cooler than yesterday, with sun most of the day.  We had overnight/early morning showers, much appreciated but we're still quite dry.  Today I take the dogs to the vet for their annual check-up.  The challenge there is collecting 'specimens'.  I found a lid to slide underneath the female, the male is a lot easier to catch.  

And yesterday I did a bit of work on the layout!  I'm building a concrete base for a smokestack, just a block of wood treated to look like concrete, but the challenge will be getting the smokestack to sit plumb on that base.  And I putzed a bit with the LED light strips.  I ordered half-lens reading glasses, which should work well for installing those, we'll see (at least I hope I'll be able to see with those...)

dave

[Raymo]

Morning. Two more Mondays after today, I can see the light at the other end of the tunnel. I actually spent a fair amount of time at the bench Saturday trying to avoid the heat, I was done working in it on Friday. Hopefully I'll start posting some finished projects again here shortly. 

[Orionvp17]

Mornin,' All! 65 and sunny, headed for 68 here in the northern mitten.  Nice!!

Raymo, best wishes for what appears to be the light at the end of the tunnel!  Learn how to say "No," because the demands on your time will rapidly increase!

Dave, getting that stack "plumb" is less threatening than you indicate.  If the concrete base is mounted to the railroad, use a small level to check all directions.  If one side is higher than the other, then you can mark the stack, use the level to help get an idea of how much to file out, then do it ever so slowly, checking all the time.  Let us know how it all works!

Make it a great day, All, and stay safe!

Pete
in Michigan

[deemery]

Pete, the stack is tapered, which makes it a lot more challenging to align.   But yeah, I'll test-fit, rotate 90 degrees, and continue until I get the same distance from the plumb line (a machinist square oriented vertically adjacent to the stack.)  Now if I had a lathe, it would be easier to cut the base to make sure the base was perfectly square to the vertical line of the stack.  

dave

[GPdemayo]

Afternoon all.....

[KentuckySouthern]

Cooler weather, bright sun many humids have left, 1:1 has not.