RSJB18 posted:p51 posted:RSJB18 posted:p51 posted:I grew up in North Florida. Nobody would want to (or I think could) model the terrain there.
Florida has no terrain 😂😂😂
I once frequented a form of diorama builders and there was a guy who asked people to challenge him to model terrain types. He usually met the challenge, too.
Until I started posting.
I showed photos of around Olustee and "Tate's Hell" and he finally said he had me stumped, as he couldn't figure out how to model that.
I'm not Florida bashing but the average elevation above seal level in the state is 6'.......
Actually, I think one of the first Trrrrains was out of Talahassee before 1850.
Starting the math to figure out seal level is a beach...😏
Your shots have been exceptionally good lately Lee.
This has been driving me nuts lately...it's "Gorilla brand "gel super glue"".
"Gorilla Glue" to any carpenter/builder is an expanding foam glue not suitable for most modeling. THAT product made the brand; not gel super glue, nor did they invent gel super glue, and other brands are just as good imo, maybe better. "Gorilla Glue" was expanding glue only, years before I saw their "super glue" (or call it "Krazy Glue" they were first 2 old brands of the 70s advertisements, now "universal" names for cynoacrylate glues)
Mixing this lingo is eventually going to lead to someone making a huge mistake in product use.... I was in charge of product choices for a few years, and saw that a lot of names and marketing are the root cause of costly mistakes... believe me it's going to happen to a novice sooner or later. This "mistake" is happening enough I would ban the brand in my departments.... sooner or later, I swear. (I also did ad work, so noticed the trends more so maybe, always being interested in interpretations/influence of them)
For balsa use wood glue and a clamping overnight or close to it. Doing this the grain along the bond is more likely to give way than the bond. Clamping doesn't have to be intense. Strong rubberband, plastic hobby/craft clamps are ok; but leave on for 24hrs. (I built balsa gliders from a couple of solid blocks. They gotta land and survive, and those landings might be nose dives every now and then. For how light it is, it is really amazing how much shock and abuse the wood can take once you work with it. ("... it is, it is ..." took 25 key presses to type due to google"spellwreck", the crap os hate it so bad here...second time, it doesn't care, lol )
Odenville Bill, that grade in the curve seems steep by eye, even as a downhill only. Can you start the grade's rise right at the under crossing? it would stretch that grade, lowering it and derailment, mininum voltage might be too fast. Going down into curves throws centrifugal forze on top of the downhill AND inertia from the dead ahead momentum... I think (inertia and momentum are tied but not the same 
) (Also, check steam cowcatchers and drawbars don't bottom out and short on the center rail at the bottom of the steep grade. You have to ease into that 5% with X inches of 1%2%3%etc. to stop bottoming lower inia grade, or flanges sailing over rail tops at the top )
Mark, spray glue in the shade, bottom to the sun😑..while the face...
..and arms get hit with sunscreen 😁
Elliot, I know that sound too 😯Only one thing does it😕 Rest it now while you might have a shread of tendon left to heal on without a reattachment. I swear they tried to pop mine fully(twice) at phsical therepy wanting to operate. It took years but that lifelong limp and never running again they promised? Where is that limp today Doc? 🙄 (I was back to running miles daily by babying it for a few years, then breaking it in again slowly...not in months, years. Worth it imo.)
Lets see... I found a Bluetooth speaker that got ran over a year or two ago. 
The crate cover for the red Altec Lansing mini h2o BT speaker that I threw together a few weeks back works pretty good, so I began to coax the crushed BT speaker unit back to life to provide a "whistle shack or billboard" type piece, but in another form that might be a moving load or stationary scenery. I noted long ago that my Tyco HO whistle billboard's box shape and color remind me very much of the roof top industrial HVAC units I worked with. I added some "fan covers" and "voila", no strings attached ( ) HVAC. ("Needs" some panels scored in really, but "good enough for mine")
I first needed a new speaker after reattaching wires and cleaning the mud and crap that had made it into the formerly waterproof device (a BTS-06..forget who made it.. a hands off, phone operating device vs simple speaker)(see I'm not a strict Luddite, I'm not a tech junkie either. I bought enough crap that sounded better described than it was to use ) ... the whistle/bell is really all I'm doing it for, the chuff you heard hasn't been on again since the video. 
....But anyhow, looking for an old phone handset(landline) I found an old walkie talkie to rob a tiny speaker from instead. While working on the electronics, I was thinking about what my new cover might be, the old Tyco, and a type of hvac/cooling tower unit I always liked for the shape, called a crossflow unit (see pic) The shape itself is more prevelent in industrial applications than comfort hvac, but "whatever". It's a rooftop look that varies from 4' tall to 40'; and I saw it in the walkie talkie shell already dissassembled for the speaker. It is a crossflow unit. Or part of one anyhow, it will have a lower section in a second.
here is a big one... like I said, 4'-40'.
It took some modding inside; old speaker offset and misc. bracing removed until it was flat and smooth because I needed the speaker to fit further up inside, to fit best, and sound best (better than orig. spot),which also spoiled my plan for the usb charging port to fit into the oval up high and an led jumped from the BTS-06 to the panel's round hole. Oh well.
The buttons/board should end up behind the battery panel, Im not to sure if it will fit. I want to run a sheild plate so the magnet doesn't wipe out any chip memory by accident (its how you "erase" some customizable chips and data storages)
So I might have to jump in two new off board switches(for on/off and volume up at least) It has auto shut off and resets volume if off.
The back side batt. cover looks like a hvac panel cover. The battery will sit on the bottom panel/floor, to help offset the speaker weight which is making it top heavy and tippy right now. 
The battery cover even has a triangle and lightning bolt like a big electric panel 
. The press tab to open it looks like a handle so I'll paint it silver/black to help that thought along. Rare, but I've seen handles kinda like that on machines, so, "Sold".
I need to sound deaden this plastic housing though, as it resonates and emits what sounds like a speaker rattle but isn't. It makes the noise even if he speaker is just set next to it.
I've got rubberised undercoat spray; thick rubber tape (bike inner tube trick); aluminum duct tape (industrial, a thicker metal/adheasive than big box versions), two different mill thicknesses of regular duct tape,some rubberized clear vinyl tape I got at a yard sale, like clear electrical tape; or some soft hot glue..... I'm thinking undercoating spray might be easiest, but I'm worried on plastic reaction to it long term as well.
Kinda neat. The 1st speaker was for music, I just decided to play around and it lead to fixing another... so both were more or less free, one by finding and fixing one by coincidence of a music player working out via size alone. (there are smaller BT speakers too)
I've also done more on the popcicle stick barn expansion. The east wing has a skin, roof, 3 windows cut, 1-½ of them framed. Needs some glass, paint and eventually a months late revival of the group build thread that inspired it for a full "reveal"; but so far so good on it being modular/convertable. Each wing lifts off. When done, I should have a barn/shed; a carriage house; and two large market stands/3 wall shelters, etc; or a combo choice somewhere between that. (Like one veggie stand, a shed(sm barn), "carriage house"(no barn shape ) and tool room(one wing left attached to carriage house). Or a business with two wings & a shed... etc. One wing, one window and not finished... the roof joists have slots on the left here, that simple slip over the beam on the lower center(carriage house) next to it.
Crap. My picture files are still huge and my clipboard isn't holding once I move from the browser. (15mpx camera makes some big ones) . I need to eat, then edit/crop them smaller and update this. Maybe an hour or so...?
. Just spectacular!
