02-07-2015, 09:03 PM
Had an interesting situation today. Two streaks down the windshield, right in front of the driver -- looked like the ones where washer fluid runs down. Except they didn't clean off with washing.
So, after a day or so, I attacked them with glass cleaner and paper towel. No change. Couldn't even move them with a fingernail. Start to worry: what could have gotten into the glass like that?
After we got home again, I tried with a scrubber from the kitchen (yes, Dayle gave it to me). Then one last try: inside the windshield. Came off perfectly.
New perplexing problem: How do you get stuff running down the inside of a windshield?
Other than that, I'm working on a station (rail) entrance. Most of it is going down right on the baseboard (Homasote) with no roadbed, so I needed some ramps down 3/16". I found a way. Take a sheet of 2" styrofoam insulation and some 1" wide stripwood.* Pin the strip wood to the styrofoam on both sides to make the ramp, running from 3/16" in at one side to the edge at the right spot. Make sure the grain goes the same way on both sides. Take your hot wire cutter and run it down the wood strips to cut a lovely ramp with a feather edge. Shift the wood (and turn it around) and you can cut off another ramp in the other direction.
* Don't use balsa. I could only get that and the wire lifts splinters and gouges nicks in it. We need a better hobby shop in town than the art store.
So, after a day or so, I attacked them with glass cleaner and paper towel. No change. Couldn't even move them with a fingernail. Start to worry: what could have gotten into the glass like that?
After we got home again, I tried with a scrubber from the kitchen (yes, Dayle gave it to me). Then one last try: inside the windshield. Came off perfectly.
New perplexing problem: How do you get stuff running down the inside of a windshield?
Other than that, I'm working on a station (rail) entrance. Most of it is going down right on the baseboard (Homasote) with no roadbed, so I needed some ramps down 3/16". I found a way. Take a sheet of 2" styrofoam insulation and some 1" wide stripwood.* Pin the strip wood to the styrofoam on both sides to make the ramp, running from 3/16" in at one side to the edge at the right spot. Make sure the grain goes the same way on both sides. Take your hot wire cutter and run it down the wood strips to cut a lovely ramp with a feather edge. Shift the wood (and turn it around) and you can cut off another ramp in the other direction.
* Don't use balsa. I could only get that and the wire lifts splinters and gouges nicks in it. We need a better hobby shop in town than the art store.
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.