11-30-2010, 07:25 PM
Ah ... I wish!
Brass purchases have been curtailed "for the duration." Recent medical expenses have dictated that all non-essential-to-maintaining-life monetary outlays be scrutinized for "verifiable proof of need." Yeah, I have no wife to nag me, so I have to be tough and closely regulate myself! (This C. diff. colitus infection is finally responding to the latest prescribed medication - the last resort - more expensive by weight than gold - the "Big Gun" of all anti-biotics, Vancocin.) At this point, I'll spend every penny I have to be rid of this nastiest of all nasty infections ever known to man. I wouldn't even wish this on an enemy ... well ... maybe ...
The bucks to be spent on this EOY project are only being spent because I couldn't find any of the needed brake parts on my "cast-off parts bin" nor in my box of N.O.S detailing parts - brake parts, yes, but not ones from the proper era! I had thought of using automotive bondo to repair the surface of the casting, but then thought better of it. Squadron Green Putty is by far the better choice.
I'm actually looking forward to making the casting a beautiful, smooth-surfaced base on which to add some brake parts and a few formed wire air lines and a railing, and then coat the whole thing with some atomized pigment, a faded version of Reading Green.
But now I must get back stripping paint from wheel sets ... it's a tedious job, but no one else has come along and volunteered to do it, so ...
Brass purchases have been curtailed "for the duration." Recent medical expenses have dictated that all non-essential-to-maintaining-life monetary outlays be scrutinized for "verifiable proof of need." Yeah, I have no wife to nag me, so I have to be tough and closely regulate myself! (This C. diff. colitus infection is finally responding to the latest prescribed medication - the last resort - more expensive by weight than gold - the "Big Gun" of all anti-biotics, Vancocin.) At this point, I'll spend every penny I have to be rid of this nastiest of all nasty infections ever known to man. I wouldn't even wish this on an enemy ... well ... maybe ...
The bucks to be spent on this EOY project are only being spent because I couldn't find any of the needed brake parts on my "cast-off parts bin" nor in my box of N.O.S detailing parts - brake parts, yes, but not ones from the proper era! I had thought of using automotive bondo to repair the surface of the casting, but then thought better of it. Squadron Green Putty is by far the better choice.
I'm actually looking forward to making the casting a beautiful, smooth-surfaced base on which to add some brake parts and a few formed wire air lines and a railing, and then coat the whole thing with some atomized pigment, a faded version of Reading Green.
But now I must get back stripping paint from wheel sets ... it's a tedious job, but no one else has come along and volunteered to do it, so ...
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln