Hey Bill
Send a little of that heat our way. When I went to buy some trains at a garage
sale it was only 55 here and felt like a winter day with the wet breezy fog..
Howard Sheffield
Fort Bragg, CA
On Aug 20, 2011, at 7:21 PM, scale S only wrote:
> Hi Bob and all --
>
> Today was the beat the heat train meet in Prescott. Its called that
> because we are usually 20 degrees cooler than Phoenix, and today was perfect,
> maybe 75 to 80 for the morning part of the meet. I also found two books for
> $5 each, one of which is VERY hard to find, so my day was made.
>
> While I was there, I ran into a couple of guys who had some interest in scale
> S, so I invited them over when their time at the meet was done. Of course,
> when I got back I continued to work in the trainroom to make it easier for
> the guys to see what I was up to. They finally showed up about 3 and we went
> up to run trains. Well about the 4th trip around the layout the first train
> quit, and a minute later the second one stubbed its toe and quit. Gremlins
> and guests! Well, we all decided that they had seen enough already, and this
> just made a good excuse to send them on their way.
>
> So tonight I had to find out what happened. The loco that stubbed its toe
> will need more tuning up. This is not a surprise, as it is the newest and
> until a few days ago it had barely turned a wheel. The other problem was a
> bit more difficult, because it was not in the track, train or wiring. It
> turned out that one of the neaten up things I did was to put a retainer
> ring nut on an electrical switch. That was not the problem, but what I had
> done was flipped the toggle to connect the industrial yard to the buss. That
> was not the problem either, but I was narrowing it down. It finally turned
> out to be a short in a car sitting on one of the sidings that had not seen
> test power before, so the car had not been detected as being a problem
> before.
>
> Someday I WILL be really ready for an open house...
>
> More fun!?
> Bill Winans
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>
> All it takes is a tour to get things flowing again!
> Bob Werre
>
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