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Shannon shops build challange 2016

The MIK - Annual Build Challenge
#21

Last weekend my mom was down with a bad cold.(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-frown.gif) I was at a train show.(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-smile.gif) The latter part of this past week I have been fighting off the onset of a cold, probably the one my mom had. Last night I went to bed early, and I woke up late this morning. I made up for that by taking a nap this afternoon. So very little progress has been made. I did survey the site, and its larger then I remembered it being, so I should have no problem placing the well there. I also found the broken 1:32nd pick up truck I want to use for this project. Yea, I model in 1:24, but I hope I can make the truck work in this instance.

No, I don’t have pictures of me sleeping, Rooster. But I hope to make some tangible, and photographable, progress tomorrow.

#22

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#23

Don’t sweat it David, still 4 1/2 weeks to go. :wink:

#24

4 1\2 weeks, 4 and one half weeks, like 4 weeks and 3.5 days. S@%t I had better hurry, I am behind

#25

Devon, me too. Tonight I dug some ceder scraps out of the barn, and I hope to make some sawdust.

#26

Hope your feeling better David. Now let’s get after it!! Time’s a wastin’.

#27

I did make some sawdust last night. Tonight I need to make some more, and then I need to thaw out my glue.

#28

Thaw your glue??? what kind of glue? I ruined a nearly full gallon bottle of tight bond 1 by leaving it in the shop for the winter. Turned it to a big gelatinous blob. Never again does my glue stay outside during winter. I know it can take a little cold weather but truly freezing it.

#29

I had some New and Improved Super Stik glue in a tube, it froze and is now useless…

John

#30

David, if you need sawdust, I will send you all you want!!(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)

#31

My shop doesn’t really get cold enough to freeze, but it feels like it sometimes.

Dan, I have plenty of sawdust, thanks for the offer though.

#32

David… if you’r turning your saw into dust, you’r doing it all wrong!!! I think that you would be way happier sticking to wood.(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-smile.gif)

#33

Humm, Doesn’t challenge township have a lumber mill, Shouldn’t they be making the saw dust for us?

Anyway, I have full faith in you David, Some of of us just work better under self induced pressure. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

#34

Randy Lehrian Jr. said:

Humm, Doesn’t challenge township have a lumber mill, Shouldn’t they be making the saw dust for us? -snip-

Sometimes it can’t be just any dust, my termites would get fat on your dust! They’ve found a way to eat cedar, old growth cedar! The sun bleaches the surface and they come along and remove .05" worth!

I can see where they’ve ‘cleaned’ the surface, the only yellow in a sea of grey. Seems to be a treat here in the desert.

John

#35

Randy Lehrian Jr. said:

Humm, Doesn’t challenge township have a lumber mill, Shouldn’t they be making the saw dust for us?

Anyway, I have full faith in you David, Some of of us just work better under self induced pressure. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

If you read the third episode of Large Scale Central TV’s series on the Steam Propulsion Laboratory you would learn that the Badger works is being supplied lumber by Loyet Lumber and roofing fromTaylor Tin in Challenge Town

#36

Dave Taylor said:

David… if you’r turning your saw into dust, you’r doing it all wrong!!! I think that you would be way happier sticking to wood.(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-smile.gif)

Dave, I am turning wood, namely ceder, into dust.

Randy Lehrian Jr. said:

Humm, Doesn’t challenge township have a lumber mill, Shouldn’t they be making the saw dust for us?

Anyway, I have full faith in you David, Some of of us just work better under self induced pressure. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

Randy, its not that, its that I started with sinus congestion the week the challenge started, and that has progressed into a very inflamed throat. I guess I shouldn’t have pushed so hard to shovel the driveway in one go. I have been chipping away at the project, but there is no great progress to report. The glue lam beams are almost done, then I can start assembling the thing.

#37

Saturday, the Allegheny Currier reported a disturbance at the unused Pittsburgh Metal Airplane assembly building;

At 8 am this morning the police were called to a vacant building owned by the Pittsburgh Metal Airplane Company. There was reportedly a disturbance inside the building. When asked about the disturbance, Police Chief O’Hara said that 2 men were arguing loudly in a Scandinavian dialect. It appears that they were disagreeing about a pile of lumber that they had arranged on the floor of the building. O’Hara said that it appeared to him, that the 2 men were trying to construct some kind of A frame structure, and they were arguing loudly about the construction of this structure. Since the 2 men, Hans Schmitt and his brother, had permission from the building owner to be there, they were issued a warning to keep the noise down.

Also reported in the Currier;

The Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon railroad, the West Belt railroad, and the Pittsburgh and Southern railroad are back to operating on normal schedules, after last weekend’s blizzard, that covered the area south of Pittsburgh in as much as 8 feet of snow. The continued warm temperatures have helped in the clearing of the deep snow, and the warmer temperatures are expected until mid week.

Since the trains are running again, Jessie decided to take a ride by her property to see what progress has been made on her oil well. She was very disappointed to see that not one shovel full of dirt has been turned, and not one bit of brush cut down. Jessie is concerned that maybe she chose the wrong people to build her oil well for her, again. The last I saw of her, she was quite depressed, and she was going into her home, with a bottle of spirits in her hand.

#38

I think Jesse had better break out a saw and hammer and get it done herself(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)

#39

Devon, I refer you back to an earlier post. Jessie is smart, but lazy. She may know how to frame up a shed, but she sure is heck isn’t going to.

#40

Ok, some pictures. The railroad and saw mill were closed last weekend, because of the “blizzard”

But that didn’t stop me from laying up the glue-laminated beams. I laid them up in a piece of aluminum angle stock, so they should come out straight and even.

What I was finding, since I am using polyurethane glue, is that the glue wasn’t setting up very fast, because the air in my shop was so dry. Polyurethane glue uses the moisture in the air is a catalyst to set up, and with dry air, it just takes a lot longer. But, today, I had 2 beams done and started laying out the derrick.

So far I am week behind my planned build schedule, I was so sick last weekend that I spent most of my time sleeping. So, the challenge part for me is to get caught up and done by the deadline.