If someone here takes the time to do this kind of conversion, and documents the steps with high-res photos, it could easily earn him/her $200 with publication in the magazine. Just the type of how-to I'm always looking for.
Yeah, Allan, you know I've had this thought eleventy-seventy times through my 60+ years of this hobby. When something tried turns out successfully, it's the fun thing to do...share the story.
But here's been MY version of (drum roll, please!) THE PROBLEM! It's always an afterthought!!! And my project was a one-off effort. When it's done and over and I'm basking in the glory, sipping the merlot, listening to Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries while watching my gizmo, scenic achievement, mechanical marvel, completed complex contraption...it's only THEN that I realize: Phooey!! I shoulda taken step-by-step pictures and measurements, written coherent sentences around chicken-scratched notes and hieroglyphs deposited on scraps of paper, paint-smeared postcards, glue-goobered package material, et alia.
And, of course, all of that would require the lucidity of a person half my age.
In short: No forethought. And, unless I need a second (third, fourth, ....nth) additional of the same, doing it all over just for the sake of replication, documentation, publication, remuneration,....!....is not a bucket-list priority.
Maybe it's because most of what I do PRIOR to that one shred of success, is the obligatory series of 'failures', school of hard knocks, trials and errors, etc., etc., blah, blah. Hey, guess what!?!? I'm unique! (
) Not everything I try works the first time!!
Well, I did succeed in sharing a story ONCE....back in 2001...for those "other" guys. I could put a check mark on that bucket list item.
BTW, at least for moi, it's not about the $$$. Sharing, alone, would be enough. It's what I enjoy doing across the Trains counter at the LHS, too. (We call ourselves 'THE department of counter-intelligence'
)
No, I hear you, pal. Guilty as charged.
And, sorry, Roger....I didn't intend to 'hijack' this posting with this posey-picking.
KD
