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    Gary Pfeil's scratchbuild

    Gary from my tree building i find that take what fiber you woulds think you need and then half it .
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    wire glass update

    ok i was not happy with the black netting so went to Joanns and got some gray and brown. as you can see from the pics that the gray is a bust too hard to see but the brown looks just right to me ,what do you think ? the black is on the left the gray center and the brown right i also included...
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    Conductive grease

    Don the neither the C5 or the silver goop will show conductivity below 50 V. talked to a friend of mine that has his pilled higher and deeper in electrial engineering he said that the liquid surrounding the metal will stop and current flow till the voltage gets high enough to jump the gap but he...
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    A few Train show deals.

    looks great Don don't paint them just put a square of paint on the reporting marks and add your marks just like the real thing :)
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    another Wal Mart find

    found this as wal Mart yesterday:thumb: its 1/87 (HO) for just under $2.50 its Die Cast.
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    Ok Val here we go

    Val we were chatting about using nylon net to make chiken wire window glass (early safety glass) i put down a layer of clear acrylic medium on a sheet of urethane and when it was still tacky i laid a peice of the netting on top of it them coated it with more medium . I think the black is too in...
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    scatch golf course

    you mean the greens or just the hole's ?
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    for Catt

    ok Catt if we go in tomorrow will pick up all i can .
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    for Catt

    let me know if they have them if not, we might have to run to town tomorrow .
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    for Catt

    hi here is the pic of the ford Van .
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    The Great Wahl Clipper Oil Experiment!

    Your right Bob i got a bottle over 15 years ago and its half empty and thats because it fell over and run out :oops: dont think you would use a ounce in 20 years.
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    Anyone know the name of. . . .

    theres Instant Horizons ( Walthers), Faller and Vollmer that I know of .
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    Time to take the wheels off two locos...

    whoops kyle i did not take time to read and comperhend i thought the IC was a IHC loco the blue on blue is a bit hard to read you can take a paper towel put a bit of what ever you use for a cleaner and lay it over the rails and drag loco over it.other than that can't help you because i don't...
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    Time to take the wheels off two locos...

    is the GP40 a IHC also?
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    What was I thinking.....

    would love to see the finished product.:D sounds like a LOT OF WORK.
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    my engine speeds up and down on its own

    Russ gets my vote sounds like a track joiner problem.
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    trip to Tucson

    the third tank is also a larger one at Rillito across from the Arizona Portland Co. missed another smaller one at Red Rocks.
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    trip to Tucson

    the next water tank is in Gila bend it a larger tank note the interesting thing in the second pic looks like the steel shell was just a form and the real tank was concrete.any one know if this was a standard practice?
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    trip to Tucson

    on our road trip to tucson (by the way the Ace hardware store is a great model shop :D ) we drove on I8 which runs next to the old SP main for about 1/2 the trip found a few old water tanks still standing, the first one is at Sentinel was used to fill water trucks for the feed yard behind it in...
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    The Great Wahl Clipper Oil Experiment!

    Ralph i do the same thing:D I also have used the masonite block as a way to Wahl the track.