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Back to School Challenge?

General Discussion
#41

John Caughey said:

I’m bowing out, health and other commitments prevail.

John

That’s quite a bummer John. I sure hope you can get ahead of your health issues I think you’re hereby granted an indefinite extension on your battery repower.

#42

Korm Kormsen said:

update?

well, i have been thinking more then once, that i should shovel free more space on the workbench and that it might be helpfull to remember, where all the pieces of the project are…

Is thinking about doing something considered progress? If so I make leaps and bounds everyday.

#43

Devon Sinsley said:

Well Fred,

Unlike the MIK challenge this one is not a competition. This was put out their by Craig (a school teacher, hence the “back to School” name) to help motivate some of us that have a pile of projects that we would like to complete. Those ones that just need a few more tweeks but we just don’t do them. So it is a challenge only in the sense to challenge our self to finish and do it in a friendly seting where if we commit to it then the gentle pressure of doing it publicly might encourage us to do it. No Prizes, No awards, just a deadline and the satisfaction of checking one more off the list.

It may not be for everyone.

Couldn’t have said it much better myself Devon! There’s a writer in there somewhere…

As to Fred, you’re telling me that you have no railroad related projects that you want to finish? A project that you’ve said for a while, “Hey, I should do this”, and you started but never finished? That’s the whole purpose of this idea, to give each of us that last little bit of motivation to finish off a project.

#44

Devon Sinsley said:

Korm Kormsen said:

update?

well, i have been thinking more then once, that i should shovel free more space on the workbench and that it might be helpfull to remember, where all the pieces of the project are…

Is thinking about doing something considered progress? …

well, considering, that for some years i didn’t even think about it (untill you guys came up with this idea), i declare thinking about it as being progress.

#45

I need to start dusting off the old, in process, projects. If a little friendly gathering would do that for me, then I am in. I didn’t say competition, because we are not actually competing.

Fred, your post left me feeling that you either missed the point, or you are being humorous on a level that I do not grasp.

After the Saw mill project, that has kinda stalled a bit, I need to jump into this gathering and pick up where I left off on something. The question is, what one of the 20 some odd projects do I dust off?

#46

OK here is where I am.

I actually am a bit further. I have one bench in. I figure I will just line the inside walls with benches all around one will be short for the pot belly stove.

#47

Lookin’ good, Grasshopper, what’s it gonna be?

#48

Steve Featherkile said:

Lookin’ good, Grasshopper, what’s it gonna be?

CR&N Caboose #42. Converted box csar

#49

The weather has turned cold, wet and a possible hurricane approaching in the next several days so my outdoor train interests have turned to indoor pursuits and I remembered this back to school challenge.

Last year I made bulkheads for 2 modern flat cars and ever since I wanted to make removable pieces to make them center beam cars when needed.

My challenge is to make the center beams for these 2 cars.

#50

#51

Devon, i can’t see your pic.

#52

It;s just a smiley face with a thumbs up, nothing to see.

#53

Is it OK if I finished before Jan 1 ?? I hit the project pretty hard due to the recent crappy weather.

Plexi glass and coffee stir sticks were the materials and I cut out the ovals on both cars at the same time using a dremel. Red primer a coating of colonial red and finally a matte clear coat and the 2 cars are good to go. The center beams are held in place with 2 screws and 2 “blocks” on the deck. Now I might need to come up with some loads for these.

#54

Nice job Todd.(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

#55

Great job Todd! How does it feel to have one less project? (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)But I think you just gained another one with the lumber loads.

#56

That looks great

#57

Well, it seems that this challenge has not been enough to get my Mojo Werkin’. My stalled projects still have all their cobwebs intact. My only progress was to buy some styrene shapes I needed for a project.

#58

John, after the show this weekend I plan on finishing the current project and then starting this challenge. Maybe we can start together.

#59

Update,

The end planking is on and two of the three benches are in. One more bench and then on the other side will be the stove and maybe a mail sack and that will all that gets done on the interior.

#60

Craig and all:

Great exercise! As a fellow teacher, I noticed the “homework” turned in on this site was consistently making something – not going out and buying it. What a contrast to school as the distributor of extrinsic rewards as grades. Here are three pages of reports on self-determined projects, not purchases, projects accomplished for their intrinsic value. Obviously, we have a group that has not confused “school” with education – evidenced by three pages of testimony applying learning for its own intrinsic value.

If we gave grades for hobbies people wouldn’t do them.

NOTE: I do remind my students that I know that the most oft asked question in school is " What ya’ get?"