Cleaning items can be sensitive gifts in a relationship.
" The last fight was my fault. My wife asked ‘Whats on the TV?’ I said ‘dust’. " Red Skeleton. 
Victor Smith said:The big dif being whether it is your idea or hers, I think.
Cleaning items can be sensitive gifts in a relationship.
Some ladies (darn few, maybe?) actually WANT practical gifts. Especially over “wasting” money on stuff they don’t want. Kim is one of those. Our last big disagreement was because I bought her something non-essential (and not really all that expensive!) that she had been “looking at” for months, rather than saving the money towards getting the dogs their shots, or snow tires …
Steve Featherkile said:
My lovely bride wanted a floor scrubber for Christmas.I got her cross country skis.
Big mistake.
I slept with the dog for two weeks.
Steve if you get me skis Ill sleep with the dogs.
Caution - Major revisions ahead! I probably should have been working on the Derrick today, but I wrecked this thing and started over, instead… It probably was no real secret that I wasn’t all that happy with the Aristo cylinders. And since Kim vetoed me buying a c-16 to make into a Camel, my options became pretty clear.
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In the bottom of Vic’s goody box there was also a set of cylinders from a Stainz. After about 2 hours of fussin’ and cussin’, I managed to figure out how to make them work.
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The Lionel 0-6-0 is really, really short. So my Camel will be a short firebox version by necessity. 89c worth of pvc pipe, some leftover plexi, and an empty pill bottle, and I was on my way!
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Since about the only way to lift this thing will be by the cab sides. I needed a way to ensure that the cab was not only level, but attached securely. Drilling the boiler to put some 1/8" music wire under the floor sounded like a pretty good idea.
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The old Lionel cab floor pieces were re-used… waste not, want not!
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Fenders were fabbed from a bit of leftover c-16 boiler shell and coffee stirrers. They should look OK once they are painted.
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sand boxes installed and cab started…
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I’m thinking it actually may look more attractive as a Camel than it did as a Vauclain…
I’m sure I asked you before but you glue some really unlike things together successfully, What did you use to glue the pill bottle to the pvc?
Doug Arnold said:This time I used E-6000. Welder will work too. You just need to roughen up the waxy finish on the pvc a bit so the glue has something to adhere to.
I'm sure I asked you before but you glue some really unlike things together successfully, What did you use to glue the pill bottle to the pvc?
The big thing to remember is to let the glue set at least 24-36 hours before trying to paint. ---- For whatever reason Polly S paints will actually soften the contact cement and cause the joint to fail if you don’t. I tried shortening it to 12 and had to re-glue the domes and sandboxes. Apparently the main boiler joints were wide enough that I got away with it there.
Courtesy of
Rodney Dangerfield
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
“I asked my wife, ‘On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you
rate me as a lover?’ She said, ‘You know I’m no good
at fractions.’”
My wife is such a bad cook, in my house we pray after the meal.
I’m so ugly, when I was born the doctor slapped my mother.
I could tell that my parents hated me.
My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
I’m so ugly…My father carries around the picture of the
kid who came with his wallet.
When I was born…the doctor came out to the waiting room
and said to my father…I’m very sorry.
We did everything we could… But he pulled through.
A few more:
I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.
My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday.
My wife isn’t very bright. The other day she was at the store, and just as she was heading for our car, someone stole it! I said, “Did you see the guy that did it?” She said, “No, but I got the license plate.”
My marriage is on the rocks again. Yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.
Hi Mik:
Can the rear axle be removed from the power block to build an 0-4-4T loco?
Norman
Norman, if I used one of those lines with my wife she’d wire the layout to 110 and tell me to go touch the rails!
Norman Bourgault said:
Hi Mik:Can the rear axle be removed from the power block to build an 0-4-4T loco?
Norman
The motor drives the rear axle. It’d be easier to remove the front one
OK, some update pix… Upper cab started using one of the resin windows I got off Dave Ottney cut in half.
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I think it looks pretty darn good for a camel (they’z ugly, smelly beasts, lol!)
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That low firedoor give me a backache just looking at it
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Cab interior started. I gotta get all the controls and stuff installed before I can do the end walls, my fat fumble fingers barely fit now! Walking surfaces on real early stuff was usually painted with a non-slip pale yellow or light grey. The ‘sunflower’ I usually use was dried up, so I found it rather amusing to use ‘camel’ instead
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I could use some advice… If you look closely at this pic, you’ll notice that the headlight is mounted off-center, actually beside the funnel instead of the usual location
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It’s a cool variation, but how would you model it so it looks prototypical, but is still strong enough to withstand the real world bashing it will probably get (especially during a roll-over derailment!)
Great job Mik! As for the headlight, Accucraft’s Mich-Cal shay #2 has a similar headlight configuration. it is mounted a little higher than on the camelback, but could be mounted similar. In one of your photos i see a hole (for a handrail im gessin) just below the stack on the smokebox, i would probable make or modify a headlight base that could be atached there with a screw or glue a piece of rod into the hole and then atach the base to the rod. just my 2c worth. looking forward to the finished result!
Mini update! Front cab wall went in the lazy way. I cut a bit of cd jewel case to fit the hole, then glued coffee stirrers and basswood to look like doors… I think I want at least one back door open, so it will be more work.
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After studying the Hayes Camel restoration pics, I felt confident enough to finish the controls. Mr. Mogul dude will do for an engineer. I also burned a bit over half an hour drilling holes with a pin vice and sticking HO track nails in them to look like firebox stays since otherwise it was a great big boring
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Headlight in the offset position installed and wired. The LED is a high intensity white, so it’s rather too harsh for a kero - but it was here, and I really didn’t like the color of the yellow one I had.
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Now listen here, and I’ll tell you how to make you wife happy.
Ifin she says she wants a new washer for her Berfday ten by golly you’d better be gitten her a new washer.
I wasn’t married for over 43 happy years to the same women by not listening to what she was saying.
besides a washers much better help to her than goin out, U go out’n that’s it, but she’ll use dat washer evenry week.
PS. Love the music on you AV vid
Years ago, my dad had a bumper sticker (He got it at Strasburg, I think) that said “Steam Locomotives have a tender behind”… well, this one has a serious case of “ghetto booty”.
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It’s probably the last free Delton shell around (the fleabay guy is OUT - has been since I got this one from him 4 or 5 months ago ), so I’m loathe to whack a section out… especially since there’s always a chance of really screwing up… but I’m not sure a tender should be longer than the locomotive, either. Anybody know how long a LGB Mogul tender is?
Mik;
Perhaps you could find a tender from a junked Lionel Hogwarts battery set. Those GWR Ry tenders are short, but probably could still be rebuilt with two trucks (short, chunky trucks like New Blight’s).
It’s a long shot, but it could work.
Best,
David Meashey
How about just scratchbuilding a tender for it? basically just a tank with a coal pocket on a flatcat…only hast to have a coupler at one end too!
Well, after dithering for about 12 hours, I decided to bite the bullet and butcher the tender. The B’mann frame could only get just under 3/4" removed. The flanges just barely touch on r-1 curves now… and yes, those air tanks needed to go next. Both to clear the new wheel location and because there were no such thing as air brakes in the 1860s!
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Oh, the huge manatee!!! Such a shame, but about 1-3/16" simply hadda go…
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Splicing back together… I will have to file a vee joint and then putty to hide the seam better…
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A bit better now
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While the glue was drying I decided to attack the pilot. I usually dislike wooden (cowcatcher) pilots, mostly because they’re so overdone to the point of almost a cliche`… but this thing begged for one. Except I wanted a front coupler too. A bit of further butchery on the broken Lionel one that came with the chassis resulted in this.
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It’s… getting there. The big thing really holding up the show is the r/c truck (radio donor) that seems to be lost in the mail. Since I need to see how much space I’ll need for the circuit board(s) and antenna
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