What happened at your workbench today?

[grizzmo]

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 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.

 

[grizzmo]

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

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.

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.

 

[PhilP]

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!

I do hope this isn't a euphemism!

I had Cichlids in my fish-keeping days..

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

PhilP.

 

[Grover65k]

I do hope this isn't a euphemism!

I had Cichlids in my fish-keeping days..

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

PhilP.

Hi PhilP ,

Meet Pink Floyd and his girlfriends!



At their Summer home... "the Billabong"



PS: Floyd (aka "Tiny") is 90cm long and weighs about 6kg.

 

[dunnyrail]

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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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.
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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.

Also helps if you screw them to the seats.

 

[Chris Vernell]

Also helps if you screw them to the seats.

ooh errr missus

 

[Rhinochugger]

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 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.

 

[Grover65k]

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.

Thank you 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

 

[Chris Vernell]

- or as a dodgy acronym - the "PWGTV" bridge

Sounds Welsh

 

[Jasper]

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

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.)

 

[Northsider]

Sounds Welsh

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...