What happened at your workbench today?

Grover65k said:
Finally getting back to trains – the pink giant gouramis in the swimming pool are getting ready to breed, so I keep being distracted by them!

This week’s effort was to re-paint a distressed truss bridge and then stress test it (courtesy of a visiting Stainz loco!). I believe that my engineering work is not yet complete. Looks like I will need to add sloping end-post beams to each of the portals to better replicate a truss effect. Have no idea what type of truss this is as the design uses criss-cross patterns.

Still, it should hold up OK once I have some decent anchorages (abutments?) at either end. I keep admiring the stone walls grizzmo grizzmo produces They’ll do nicely!

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They are easy to do Tony and cheap too :), just don't get the blue "bastion" brand XPS bunnings sells. It is rubbish for hobby use.
 
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So my wife brings me a cup of tea to the workshop today, just as I am drilling a hole in the last figure.
She looks at what I am doing, looks up at me shakes her head and walks out without saying a word :D
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In my defense I had a good reason, they are easier to paint with a handle, and it seemed the best place to stick one.:D
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I found these when cleaning up the train room, must of bought them years ago when I had no carriages to put them in.
The guy with no feet is to go in my log truck.
This will keep me busy painting for next few evenings.
 
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PhilP said:
I do hope this isn't a euphemism! :tmi::giggle:

I had Cichlids in my fish-keeping days..

grizzmo grizzmo He must be foot-loose, and fancy-free?

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Hi PhilP PhilP ,

Meet Pink Floyd and his girlfriends!

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At their Summer home... "the Billabong"

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PS: Floyd (aka "Tiny") is 90cm long and weighs about 6kg.
 
grizzmo said:
So my wife brings me a cup of tea to the workshop today, just as I am drilling a hole in the last figure.
She looks at what I am doing, looks up at me shakes her head and walks out without saying a word :D
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In my defense I had a good reason, they are easier to paint with a handle, and it seemed the best place to stick one.:D
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I found these when cleaning up the train room, must of bought them years ago when I had no carriages to put them in.
The guy with no feet is to go in my log truck.
This will keep me busy painting for next few evenings.
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Also helps if you screw them to the seats.
 
Grover65k said:
Finally getting back to trains – the pink giant gouramis in the swimming pool are getting ready to breed, so I keep being distracted by them!

This week’s effort was to re-paint a distressed truss bridge and then stress test it (courtesy of a visiting Stainz loco!). I believe that my engineering work is not yet complete. Looks like I will need to add sloping end-post beams to each of the portals to better replicate a truss effect. Have no idea what type of truss this is as the design uses criss-cross patterns.

Still, it should hold up OK once I have some decent anchorages (abutments?) at either end. I keep admiring the stone walls grizzmo grizzmo produces They’ll do nicely!

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It's a development of, and the same principle as a Warren girder truss.

Probably to be more accurate, the Warren girder was a successor, as I would guess that it could be more efficient - in terms of material used to weight carried.
 
Rhinochugger said:
It's a development of, and the same principle as a Warren girder truss.

Probably to be more accurate, the Warren girder was a successor, as I would guess that it could be more efficient - in terms of material used to weight carried.
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Thank you Rhinochugger Rhinochugger !

I'd looked online for truss-types and figured it was a 'kit-bashed' version; but I'll call it a "Proto-Warren Girder Truss Variant"
- or as a dodgy acronym - the "PWGTV" bridge :wasntme:
 
grizzmo said:
So my wife brings me a cup of tea to the workshop today, just as I am drilling a hole in the last figure.
She looks at what I am doing, looks up at me shakes her head and walks out without saying a word
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I remember a story in Model Railroader many years ago, where someone was putting together a station scene for a photo session, and decided that the Station Master needed to be looking to the side instead of straight ahead.
So he took a saw and began to cut off the Station Master's head, and at that moment his wife walked in and produced a very loud shriek.

(In the end the Station Master was in the shadow, and you couldn't tell where he was looking in any of the photos.)
 
Chris Vernell said:
Sounds Welsh
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There's no letter v in the Welsh alphabet; a single f represents the v sound, with a double f producing the soft f sound that we associate with the letter f in English. Unlike English, Welsh letters only have one, consistent, sound, so they always produce the same sound regardless of any other letters they may be standing next to. So there's no doubt around pronunciation as there is, for instance, with plough/tough/cough/dough/Gough in English...
 
Northsider said:
There's no letter v in the Welsh alphabet; a single f represents the v sound, with a double f producing the soft f sound that we associate with the letter f in English. Unlike English, Welsh letters only have one, consistent, sound, so they always produce the same sound regardless of any other letters they may be standing next to. So there's no doubt around pronunciation as there is, for instance, with plough/tough/cough/dough/Gough in English...
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So where's the fun in that :giggle::giggle:
 
Well… it’s not quite ‘kit-bashing’; more acquiring somebody else’s hard work! And it does reference back to the ‘flying Krauss’ and its home on the Buderim-Palmwoods Tramway…

The Tramway was only 7 miles long (11.6km) – running from the Qld Government mainline railway station of Palmwoods, over undulating terrain to Forest Glen, and then 600ft up the mountain to Buderim. Which in G scale I think is probably do-able to re-create if you have acreage, 500m+ of track, and a 26½ft hill!

The tiny station of Forest Glen was 3½ miles along the way – halfway between Buderim & Palmwoods. ( PhilP PhilP – pls note inclusion of station cat!)

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With another view of the station showing off the rear-end of the Krauss and the BPT First-class coach –

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But of real interest to me was the switch lever!

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Thanx to GSC, I found the post “Bertram Heyn Point Signal and Lever” which is full of useful information and ideas.

That led to my search for the closest match to the BPT one - this simple HEYN 05902 example in Germany. Two were acquired and they have been tested quite happily on some R1 points today – looks like my outside layout will always have a couple of manual switches (even if the rest are remotely operated).

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The camera caboose was used to trial the switches which are being thrown by my best switchman – Lamano Dedios :angel:

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Thank you Herr Heyn :clap:
 
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As promised. - Though I have to make something, and get it in the post...
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This is rather nice. - Though the wiring leaves something to be desired.
Huge and heavy.. Brass, some of it quite thick.
Brake-stand 'plugs' into the charging socket. Reversing switch and rotary speed control in the 'cab'. Off/On under the bonnet.

Dare I try to fiddle with the? White-metal? Lamps, to make them work?
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They appear to have bolts cast into them?

PhilP.
 
PhilP said:
A tiny (by comparison) Yatton Hibbarb:
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Needs some tidying up, and I am not sure of the offset motor?
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Looks to me as if someone has tried to align the worm.

Having built a home-made gearbox that ended up with an accidentally mis-aligned worm that worked smoothly and quietly, if it runs smoothly I'd be tempted to let sleeping dogs worms lie.
 
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