At least you have one done!
Bart Salmons said:I've been so busy I forgot to post.
OK.....after a year I have finished off the Triple Combine I started....thats Project No4 for those keeping score.....
Up-dated 6 articles on our club web site:
December 1, 2012 – Train work bench Hand Tools.
December 3, 2012 – Installing a Phoenix Sound P8 in a radio controlled and battery powered USA Trains GP-9
December 15, 2012 – Installing Radio Control and Battery Power in an Aristo-Craft GP-40.
December 15, 2012 – Fixing the All Electronics Connector Set Wiring.
December 16, 2012 – Wiring Tips for the Phoenix Sound P8.
December 13 - Helped Doug Matheson install battery power, radio control, and a Phoenix P8 in the USA Trains SD-70 he bought from me.
December 18, 2012 – Installed an Aristo-Craft Revolution receiver with diesel sound in one of my Aristo-Craft GP-40s, and added an article about it to our club web site.
December 22, 2012 – Installed a Phoenix Sound P8 in my second Aristo-Craft GP-40, and added an article about it to our club web site.
December 26, 2012 – Installed a Phoenix Sound P8 in my Aristo-Craft FA-1, and updated the article about it on our club web site.
Next three projects on the to do list:
Adding battery power and radio control to Doug’s trolley now that Navin has re-gauged the wheels.
Adding battery power and radio control to a couple of Bachmann Connies, and installing the new axles with brass drive gears in some others.
Updating a Bachmann Annie with a Revolution receiver.
…OK…well I didn;t make it to December 31…Life, work, holidays, health issues…but I did succeed in restarting my Mojo and getting a steady work rhythm back…I’m going to continue on with a New years Resolution to hit my goal of a dozen cars by Spring! …here are projects 5,6 and 7 all completed this weekend… No5 and 6
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A pair of LSC EBT boxcar kits I started a while back, finally done Project 7
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This is a 1:22.4 Bmann product that i got for cheap and have been using for a stand in in 1:20 operations til I can build proper 1:20 cabins. I added truss rods to make it a wood framed, ancient tiny cabin car, cant be used in heavy service due to its age andd weakness can’t be used to push on heavy consists, crews swear it rides like hell too. Finally put a patched paintjob on it…The Adventure Continues
Lookin good Bart! Really like the boxcar!
Huh? The box car was both projects 5 & 6?
Ric Golding said:
Huh? The box car was both projects 5 & 6?
Quote:I guess he only had enough film to take a picture of one of them............;)
A pair of LSC EBT boxcar kits I started a while back, finally done
Ken Brunt said:If I read him correctly, he built a PAIR of the same box cars, thus one is project five and the other is project six. Capeesh?Ric Golding said:
Huh? The box car was both projects 5 & 6?Quote:I guess he only had enough film to take a picture of one of them............;)
A pair of LSC EBT boxcar kits I started a while back, finally done
Bart has double vision.
Ric Golding said:Yes....there is a boxcar 354 that looks identical to 351 out there...........And nope not double vision.....currently legally blind in the starboard peeper.......underghoing treatment on Wed to correct it hopefully avoiding a full vitriectomy again.......
Huh? The box car was both projects 5 & 6?
Thems mighty big words, pilgrimm. You better watch your mouf!
(Aside) Anybody know what them words mean?
Take care of yourself, Bart. Ophthalmic surgery is, to me, scary stuff. Good luck.
Steve Featherkile said:
Thems mighty big words, pilgrimm. You better watch your mouf!(Aside) Anybody know what them words mean?
Take care of yourself, Bart. Ophthalmic surgery is, to me, scary stuff. Good luck.
I’ve done it once about three years ago…and really do not care to repeat it…heheheheh
I finished installing battery power and radio control in Doug Matheson’s Toronto trolley on Tuesday. Although Doug arrived at 9AM, we spend so much time chewing the fat it was noon before the 6 wires on the battery pack switch were soldered and the shell fastened back on. After having Navin re-gauge the trucks, the trolley glided though an S-curve of back-to-back switches. Yesterday I finished updating David McCurdy’s Annie with a Revolution receiver and adapter board, Sierra sound board, and Cordless Renovations lithium-ion battery pack. The headlights didn’t work which had me baffled for a bit because they did before. A little testing revealed I had forgotten to change the wires over on All Electronic 2-wire connector set I had used to connect the battery switch to the Super Socket, so the polarity for the headlights lights was backwards.
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Spent this morning with Doug, Stu and Dave (AKA The Muffin Gang) talking trains. But in the afternoon managed to put up one of the new shelves in my work shop for one of my current Shelf Queens waiting to be re-powered and have sound added.
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Over the past two months I have finished more train projects than all last winter. But that will come crashing to a halt, as the lock-out is over and hockey starts on Saturday.
Just move your tv into your shop, or your shop into your tv room. Or you could just watch boxing and not be confused by all that ice skating!
I gots TV and Internet in The Bartwerks!
I put the second shelf up today. This no shelf queen, but she won’t fit on the wall unit shelves in the crews lounge.
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I have to walk an entire 20 feet past the beer fridge, uphill both ways, to reach the crew’s lounge with its large screen TV and reclining Very Lazy Boy chairs.
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Oh look, a hockey game is on!
Annd we are 2/3rds done…Project No8 DONE!!!
Last week I wired a battery powered Mallet so the bell and horn can be triggered by the Revolution throttle. Thank you, Stan Cedarleaf and Dave Bodnar for your help!
I am presently working on installing a lithium-ion battery pack and Revolution receiver with steam sounds in a CPR Pacific. It’s a slow process because I decided to take pictures and write the article as I go. It’s easier than trying to write an article on something I did last month and find or fudge the appropriate pictures.
Before the ECLSTS I still have to:
Install battery power, radio control, and sound in a couple of Connies.
Install battery power, radio control, and sound in a couple of Dash 9s.
Repair a F3 A and B set that were fried using track power. Fortunately the Super Revolution receiver and Phoenix Sound P8 survived.
The last few months have been busy in my train workshop, but the winter months are just flying by. I guess my shelf layout will have to wait another year.
Thanks Bart for getting me jump-started.
Project No 9…Flatcar 114 DONE!
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I had debated about includuing this one…but its what I finished today…it was actually one of the first 1:20 models I ever built it was sposed to be a wood sheathed steel frame car, and it got as far as the painting stage. it sorta fell by the wayside as I went in a different direction with the rolling stock and I had pondered what to do with it…aas it was only 27ft long it was a little short for a steel framed car, so I added some trussrods to it…put on some decals for a ‘foreign’ roadname and weathered it…So I call Big Sandy Valley 24 done…thats 10…
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I like this one!
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