02-07-2012, 07:08 PM
I'm surprised no one has said "Kadee coupler springs"! there is probably a trillion of them around, but Once you loose them you'll never find them. They tend to just dissappear at random.
Green_Elite_Cab Wrote:I'm surprised no one has said "Kadee coupler springs"! there is probably a trillion of them around, but Once you loose them you'll never find them. They tend to just dissappear at random.Yup, definitely agree with that. By now, underneath my workbench should be knee deep in springs and small screws but there's something magical about them when the fall, they disappear, never to be found again.... poof :o
modelsof1900 Wrote:Kadee coupler springs are not the problem. These you can get at each better hobby shop.
Many more problematic are truck springs of brass models; they jump off similarly and you can get replacement parts only very, very seldom!
Green_Elite_Cab Wrote:I'm surprised no one has said "Kadee coupler springs"! there is probably a trillion of them around, but Once you loose them you'll never find them. They tend to just dissappear at random.No chance, they are made in US. They have a constitutional right of free jumping
faraway Wrote:Good one Reinhard!Green_Elite_Cab Wrote:I'm surprised no one has said "Kadee coupler springs"! there is probably a trillion of them around, but Once you loose them you'll never find them. They tend to just dissappear at random.No chance, they are made in US. They have a constitutional right of free jumping
faraway Wrote:No chance, they are made in US. They have a constitutional right of free jumpingJumping is OK but hiding is very suspicious and tells us that they have something to hide.
Green_Elite_Cab Wrote:So you're telling me that going through several springs with them flying off into oblivion constantly is not frustrating? They may not cost anything, but if you have more than a few couplers to "respring", it can be annoying. I'm sure it gets worse as we age and little things like that in HO are impossilbe to see or hold steady.
nachoman Wrote:LOL, Michael! You must be a model railroad nostalgist like me. I love those old issues of Model Railroader. Some pages have great ideas, long forgotten. Others have the same old complaints that apply today. It's funny. Purists of the 50s were worried the "shake the box" kits (hence the derogatory name) would kill the hobby. Today, people worry the death of kits in general is killing the hobby.
BR60103 Wrote:(has anyone noticed that this thread has more life than the things we like to do?)Not really, you may love your job and have a great boss, but there's always something you're not particularly pleased with doing, or something you don't agree with what your boss says or does. That's human nature. If someone were to say that they love every aspect of their job or hobby, I'd wonder about them. And even if they did, there's always something they like to do a bit less than anything else, and that's what this thread is all about. I'm in the middle of a lot of trackwork which is at the top of my "things I hate to do", but at the bottom of my list of things I like to do, so it's still on my "like" list, just not very high up. Perhaps I worded the title a bit harsh, maybe I should have said, "things you like to do the least".....
(do we really hate model railroading that much?)