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by wayno
Mon Feb 12, 2024 4:33 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Around Waynos house
Replies: 1337
Views: 559456

Re: Around Waynos house

I bought all these [avers(8" X 16"), 3 days ago I started installing them, near my patio I had to dig out dirt to make it level with the patio cement throwing it towards the garden railroad ties, working my way out towards the garden I had to dig less and less, about have way I started using the dir...
by wayno
Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:35 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Around Waynos house
Replies: 1337
Views: 559456

Re: Around Waynos house

I have made more progress on this dob structure, I did a lot of everything, mostly I worked on the base this time, I installed the side bearing pads on the base that the side bearings rest in, the pads were made a several months ago, so all I needed to do was remove some material and install them so...
by wayno
Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:15 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Around Waynos house
Replies: 1337
Views: 559456

Re: Around Waynos house

I have made headway on the telescope parts. https://i.postimg.cc/Kz1GZJdM/DSC01289.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/NMZgLRcP/DSC01290.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/7Y3xYCQm/DSC01294.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Dw77W29F/DSC01295.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/yNdBPL6b/DSC01296.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/4xwsVDGc/DSC01297.jp...
by wayno
Mon Feb 05, 2024 2:51 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Gray Man, Inc.
Replies: 403
Views: 100780

Re: Gray Man, Inc.

I wish I had that kind of engine compartment room in my Datsun 521 trucks, I can barely get the hoods closed.
by wayno
Fri Feb 02, 2024 1:05 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Around Waynos house
Replies: 1337
Views: 559456

Re: Around Waynos house

I finally got my telescope aluminum parts back, I told the guy I was not in a hurry which maybe was a mistake, but everything looks good so far, his welding looks great. https://i.postimg.cc/ZRtVgg1W/DSC01276.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/90B8ypgr/DSC01277.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/mZ35xLZB/DSC01278.jpg h...
by wayno
Fri Feb 02, 2024 12:48 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Around Waynos house
Replies: 1337
Views: 559456

Re: Around Waynos house

Winter time projects. I’ve always thought train setups were cool but I don’t think I’ll ever have the patience to build one. Around Christmas time here every year they set up a very large (probably close to 1000 foot of track) diorama at the children’s museum (McWane Science Center) in Birmingham f...
by wayno
Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:31 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Around Waynos house
Replies: 1337
Views: 559456

Re: Around Waynos house

Is this N or Z scale? Either way, pretty cool. You know I read this post again and realized that it is Z scale, but I now wish it had been N scale, all hobby shops have lots of N scale parts/accessories, Z scale is hard to find, there are only 2 hobby shops in the Portland/Vancouver area that carry...
by wayno
Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:56 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Around Waynos house
Replies: 1337
Views: 559456

Re: Around Waynos house

DRIVEN wrote:
Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:48 pm
Really cool
You and the previous builder obviously spent a lot of energy on that.
I am the previous builder.
by wayno
Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:06 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Around Waynos house
Replies: 1337
Views: 559456

Re: Around Waynos house

I went to a new hobby place yesterday and today, yesterday I bought 3 more two foot flex track pieces and finished the extra(for fun) center area, while I was there I looked at other things also like the power unit/controller that controls the speed and direction the train moves, they had a newer ty...
by wayno
Fri Jan 26, 2024 2:10 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Gray Man, Inc.
Replies: 403
Views: 100780

Re: Gray Man, Inc.

Well that just double sucks. Hopefully her insurance company treats her fairly. Fact is he was house sitting, and the trees falling on it were an "Act of God" according to the home owners insurance, she has something that is paying for the car rental and the people that own the house she was house ...
by wayno
Thu Jan 25, 2024 4:13 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Gray Man, Inc.
Replies: 403
Views: 100780

Re: Gray Man, Inc.

Well at least you have a replacement. My sister is driving a rental because 2 trees fell on her Subaru Forester, one fir tree fell on it and squashed it, then later another fir tree fell on it and totally flattened it before the first tree was removed I believe, either way mother nature did not like...
by wayno
Thu Jan 25, 2024 4:05 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Around Waynos house
Replies: 1337
Views: 559456

Re: Around Waynos house

I have spent hours playing with this coffee table train, what I do is get each train on its own circuit running smoothly without anything derailing, if it keeps derailing in a known spot I move all my attention to it and then either adjust something, or pull the track up and either put new track dow...
by wayno
Thu Jan 25, 2024 3:17 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Gray Man, Inc.
Replies: 403
Views: 100780

Re: Gray Man, Inc.

Is that your vehicle? Sorry, I do not know as I do not even pay attention to modern vehicles, my neighbors have to flash their lights and honk at me before I even notice them and then I think I did something wrong until I see their faces, then I wave as fast as I can before I drive past them, most t...
by wayno
Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:50 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Around Waynos house
Replies: 1337
Views: 559456

Re: Around Waynos house

I have been thinking about that, today I was looking to see if anyone made Z scale trees for the edges mostly, I pulled out my Monopoly game and looked at the houses/hotels for size, it appears to me the hotels are houses, and the little green houses are tiny homes, I am not sure I want to take apar...
by wayno
Fri Jan 19, 2024 1:43 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Around Waynos house
Replies: 1337
Views: 559456

Re: Around Waynos house

This was my fix to keep the water moving when it was 14 degrees outside. https://i.postimg.cc/Pr3NgF7h/DSC01227.jpg This is my coffee table train, all the wood-colored wood is where new track will be added. https://i.postimg.cc/DzFVB7cz/DSC01229.jpg Painted gray like gravel would look. https://i.pos...
by wayno
Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:05 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Around Waynos house
Replies: 1337
Views: 559456

Re: Around Waynos house

Its been cold here, one day the high was 19 degrees and the low was 14 degrees, my pond filters, tubes, and exits into the pond were freezing up faster than I could keep them clear, the filters started over flowing so I turned the pump off, now I cannot let the pump not run as the entire pond would ...
by wayno
Fri Jan 12, 2024 12:23 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Gray Man, Inc.
Replies: 403
Views: 100780

Re: Gray Man, Inc.

As I was reading your post too fast I did not see your comment "I also addressed the sketchy previous wiring "repair." All soldered and in shrink-tubing now.", when I seen the photo I thought that I hate that kind of wire crimper that just flattens/crushes the wire connectors, I have the old school ...
by wayno
Wed Jan 10, 2024 4:50 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Around Waynos house
Replies: 1337
Views: 559456

Re: Around Waynos house

OK, I did more work on the Z scale coffee table trains, so far I leveled the new area outside the existing track with the upper level of that existing track, here it is before I did the ends, you can see it is level on the front and back as I already did them in these photos. https://i.postimg.cc/CK...
by wayno
Wed Jan 10, 2024 4:23 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Around Waynos house
Replies: 1337
Views: 559456

Re: Around Waynos house

DRIVEN wrote:
Tue Jan 09, 2024 6:31 pm
Is this N or Z scale? Either way, pretty cool.
This is Z scale.
by wayno
Mon Jan 08, 2024 12:50 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Around Waynos house
Replies: 1337
Views: 559456

Re: Around Waynos house

I made some progress on the installation of the drop in part, I cut the hole in the base I made and dropped it in the hole, I am doing it this way because I want it as low as possible so when I make the part around the drop in part that part will step up as it reaches the sides yet nothing will hit ...