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another quest |
Posted by: jim currie - 02-01-2024, 05:22 PM - Forum: Swap Meet
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the last wanted was a dud and this one probably will be also, what I'm looking for is a box for a AHM Rico Station, i bought one several years back for a memento of times past as I bought one in the early 70's that got lost in one of our moves but the one i got i stored in garage and the silver fish thought the box was a free lunch . so what i'm trying to find is a box in fair shape to replace the shredded one.
Jim
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Burn out |
Posted by: ezdays - 02-01-2024, 09:02 AM - Forum: Upper Berth
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Just a question regarding everyone's dedication to the hobby. Do you ever get what I'd call, "burn out"? That being when you loose interest in anything that you've done or need to do with your layout. Or have you gotten away from the hobby for other reasons at times, sometimes not touching your layout for a year or better. I'll leave this poll open, and you can check multiple things in the poll and comment as you would like, this is a topic for discussion.
I'm just curious, some folks go missing from Big Blue at times and come back, some never do. A few keep in touch but say they're too busy to do any modeling. So I ask, have you ever been burned out to where you've left the hobby, even if you've come back to it later?
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Antique automobile |
Posted by: ezdays - 01-31-2024, 11:43 AM - Forum: All Other Hobbies
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OK, I'm a glutton for punishment, but I went and got a couple more of these wooden puzzle things. I'm kind of hooked, they are fun to build, require total concentration or you can screw up big time and so you shut out the rest of the world while you're working on them. Plus, when you're finished, you have something you can display.
This one is an old antique automobile built sometime around 1918. No particular model specified, but it looks close to what was sold back around then. It has a total of 298 parts and does not have any motive power, but that's OK. The steam engine did and the power train fell apart on it and so it wouldn't run. The machine gun however shot rubber bands and ejected "spent cartridges", and it did work.
I will try to remember to take progress photos, this one is of step one. There were nine sub-steps and 23 individual pieces for what looks like the beginning of the underside.
The goal:
The "how to":
Step 1 completed:
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N Scale Controllers |
Posted by: GreenDiesel - 01-26-2024, 03:52 PM - Forum: N/Z and Smaller Modeling
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Long story short, I may have been using controllers that have too high a voltage for N scale. I had been using an older Tech II transformer that has an output of 20VDC and this may have burned out the motors of two of my locos.
I have ultra basic Railpower ones but they have an output of 15VDC -- is that still too high? What transformers would you recommend for N scale?
I live in Canada but our products should be similar to the US's.
Thanks in advance.
Rob
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