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Counting Down to Mik's Build Challenge 2016

The MIK - Annual Build Challenge
#81

Devon Sinsley said:

John Passaro said:

I have a request.

If, for the third year in a row, somebody gets his or her feelings hurt, would you please take your grievance up in a private discussion with the person whom you feel has wronged you, rather than expressing yourself in the Challenge thread? For myself, I pledge not to come in off the bench and gratuitously offer opinions on someone else’s issues.

I really very much enjoy the challenges, the friendly competition, and the electronic fellowship around the challenge. I agree with Maynard that I hope we go this year without a public tempest.

Amen!

John,

I can’t figure out a way to enthusiastically agree with your comment enough for it to show in virtual reality. I now that I can, sometimes, be abrasive, as can others. But this challenge is supposed to be fun. Fun above everything. I have said it before I came to LSC because the challenge was here. It is the highlight of my year on here. So while we might pick at each other outside of the challenge lets all be nice, supportive, and let everyone have their fun

I promise to delete one extra time! nudge nudge

The Quiet guy

#82

Taser battery pack takes 8 AA NiMH so at 1.4 volt each that’s 11.2 volts. Thats about perfect for a nice critter

#83

Then we could make up an eight cell battery pack and just say it is for a taser! Of course if we incorporated a taser in the project we could use it to clear the tracks of any real critters we don’t like!

I used to have a large ground squirrel on the layout I could have used it on! But my wife is a good shot and she hit him a few times from 100 feet with a bb gun and he took up residence somewhere else! We will see what Spring brings!

#84

Make it a bunny train and you can taser hawks as they swoop in!

There, got us back on track!

John

#85

Naw I like the red tailed hawk. He has decimated the tree rat population. Since the tree rats used to sharpen their teeth on my one bridge, I had to remove what was left of it at the beginning of the 2015 season. Once I watched a tree rat cross my pond on my other bridge, the problem was there was a train in his way. I watched that furry bast animal, swat the train out of his way. So if I were to use a taser, I would have to bump up the voltage just a bit. I wonder what char broiled tree rat tastes like.

#86

Tree rat was a Pioneering staple, can’t be any worse than Possum Pie. Didn’t every kid have a squirrel gun?

I enjoy watching my Harrier’s glide in below me as I stand on my deck tossing peanuts to their prey… my fat quail are Goober-birds or GooBirds, they love half a pea. Funny to watch them steal and horde them.

John

#87

John, did I read that right? You feed the tree rats, so the Harrier can swoop in and eat them. Oh man! That is mean! That is cruel! That is… a good idea!

#88

Hawks complained so I feed all the critters, variety is nice, sez he.

#89

I have eaten both squirrel and chipmunk. Squirrel is actually OK tasting but chipmunk was not so much. Very strong flavor.but it was survival training and any port in a storm.

#90

Devon Sinsley said:

I have eaten both squirrel and chipmunk. Squirrel is actually OK tasting but chipmunk was not so much. Very strong flavor.but it was survival training and any port in a storm.

Note to Self: Never eat in a hamburger joint in Idaho.

#91

Dave had better save this thread and give us a real morsel!

Left to our own devices and we can roam…

#92

Now, Just a couple of days to go…

I had stated that I was going to make some changes to this years challenge from last years.

The Main change is that I would like to get back to Mik’s main idea of the whole thing.

RULE #1 Will be applied to more things. It’s the build! It’s the get off our lazy butts and just build something.

And trying to get back to more of the spirit of Mik, There will be much less emphasis on the prizes, both in volume and sizes.

Yes there will still be “The Spirit of Mik” award, and a couple of other token prizes that are yet to be decided by all of you guys. I have a couple of suggestions in mind, but I will let you all come up with your preferences.

I do like the “First Timers” category. As an encouragement to get new members involved. And the “Best Of” for bragging rights.

The fun is about to begin.

OK one wild and obscure hint, just so Devon doesn’t go postal on us… “800”

Dave

#93

Dave Taylor said:

OK one wild and obscure hint, just so Devon doesn’t go postal on us… “800”

Thank you Dave I was developing a twitch in my left eye (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)oh wait that the right eye

#94

There you go, Devon. Before the challenge begins, go out and buy yourself a package of 800 toothpicks.

Actually I have found the time approaching the challenge to be too short, as I have plenty of projects on the go at any one time. I have been doing several upgrades on the 0-4-0 I mentioned earlier. Nowhere near finished as there have been many social obligations over the past couple of weeks. Also, I have been faced with a deadline for the year-end club newsletter, and I’ve been working hard this week to get twenty pages composed for that.

O.T.: Finally I have taken on an new English pupil, an Egyptian Coptic Christian refugee from the Islamic monster that is plaguing all our countries. He’s a surgeon, and in order to practise over here he must of course pass a difficult English examination. It is a great pleasure to be able to help these people, and the insights they have given me about the extent of the imminent muslim threat we all face have been most enlightening. If you want to know what’s going on, you couldn’t get better answers than you’ll get from a Copt.

#95

John Passaro said:

Note to Self: Never eat in a hamburger joint in Idaho.

Don’t blame all of Idaho, John, most of its occupants are more or less normal. There are a few of us though that are. . .well off color. Lets just say I had a very enthusiastic Boy Scout leader and as such I was well trained in the art of survival even having had the opportunity to teach it later on as an adult. Now before you go off and think I am one of those post apocalyptic bunker dwellers, its a different kind of survival. I learned and taught how to survive in case of accident or being lost for a few days until help could arrive. Basic skills like fire starting, water purification, shelter building, and yes food acquisition. And yes there is s certain amount of personal satisfaction in snaring a chipmunk, building a fire with a flint and steel, cooking the little bugger to get an ounce of protein. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif).

I will save you the gory details on how to extract pure water from urine using a Walmart shopping bad. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-sealed.gif)

Lets just say if you lost int he woods I am a handy guy to have around.

#96

John Le Forestier said:

Finally I have taken on an new English pupil, an Egyptian Coptic Christian refugee from the Islamic monster that is plaguing all our countries. He’s a surgeon, and in order to practise over here he must of course pass a difficult English examination. It is a great pleasure to be able to help these people.

John, I feel sorry for this gentleman. . .i mean learning English from a Canadian. . . he will forever be spelling everything wrong and adding “eh” to the end of everything. . .(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-innocent.gif) just kidding. I think it is truly wonderful that your willing to give personally of yourself to help. What will, at the end of the day, be a small investment of your time you have on Earth, will be life changing for that man. It is very rewarding to do something personally that makes a difference and changes lives. To be a part of it is a bigger rush than any drug. Good on you and God bless your endeavor.

#97

He will always get an “eh” (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-yell.gif)

#98

Devon Sinsley said:

John Passaro said:

Note to Self: Never eat in a hamburger joint in Idaho.

I had a very enthusiastic Boy Scout leader and as such I was well trained in the art of survival even having had the opportunity to teach it later on as an adult…Basic skills like fire starting…

Lets just say if you lost int he woods I am a handy guy to have around.

When my older son was in the Boy Scouts for a while, I volunteered to help out on a few camping weekends into the mountains. My idea of “basic fire starting” was a quart of lighter fluid and a cigar lighter. The boys admired me but the troop leaders were dismayed.

However, I’m bringing my trains and moving in with you when the apocalypse comes.

#99

Tick tick tick, it’s almost time! The brain is only running at half speed but oh well! It’s time to Have Fun!

#100

800 ???

http://www.autoevolution.com/news/ru-800-s-is-a-monster-that-replaces-2-kilometers-of-track-each-day-video-94276.html

Well it’s railroad related and there’s an 800 in there…

As a natural pyro I taught my troop leaders about ‘kindling’…

John