Hi Bert, I have steamoil for blood and I run very slow...on a cold day I can hardly get going at all...heh.heh...getting ready for a steam up and putting the loco back to bed is half the fun of running live steam...then you have all that great time under steam...the fun never ends!
Talking about taking time...my latest project of building some buildings is Sloooow...first building the plugs then the molds...just pull my first set of castings out today...this little Tudor building started three weeks ago...just have to make a chimney and inside supports and the first one is ready for trial build...ya after all that I still have to build it!!! Picture attached...Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bert & Edmunda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Small-scale live steam discussions" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 3:14 PM Subject: Re: [SSLiveSteam] SSLiveSteam Digest, Vol 2, Issue 15 > Pete, > > My hobby is model railroads, preferably live steam. I prefer live steam > because I have to take time to prepare my machines for a run. fill > them with gas water steam oil and oil round them. I then have to take > time until I have steam. Then I can run them for a proportionally > short time. After that I can clean them and start the process all over > again. That is what I enjoy, every bit as much as building them. > My computer is a necessary evil. The 4 seconds that I wait for > a picture is no problem for me. I have a problem understanding why > everyone these days it seams needs the newest, the fastest etc. In > the meantime the art of doing everything s l o w l y by hand is > running through the fingers of modern life. From the CAD to the > production no one needs to think or indeed has any time to. The first > thing young machinists ask when they see my lathe is "where is the > monitor". The next one is where is the jig?. etc. Sorry Pete I am told > that my PC is running DSL. I don't have a stop watch on my desk. I > just switch on sit back and wait until the picture appears. The > picture you enclosed was for me at least well worth the wait. Thank > you for sharing it with me. I think if all had to happen so quickly I > would suggest car racing or aircraft may be more fitting. I understand > that the worlds industry has to save that what costs most. The man > hour, but this is my hobby and this is my personal opinion. Please > understand I am not saying I am right, it is just an opinion and your > opinion is as valid as mine. I hope I have found the right words to > express my opinion without causing any one reading this distress. I > hope Dave is not beginning to regret making the photo service > available. Sorry this is long winded but there you are. > > Regards > > Bert > > > ------------------------- > Bert & Edmunda > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > SSLiveSteam mailing list > Send messages: [email protected] > Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam > Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: firstpullwesize.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 46819 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://postfix.45mm.com/pipermail/sslivesteam/attachments/20051028/5e4802ee/firstpullwesize.jpg _______________________________________________ SSLiveSteam mailing list Send messages: [email protected] Cancel subscription: http://postfix.45mm.com/mailman/listinfo/sslivesteam Rules: http://www.45mm.com/sslivesteam_guide.html
