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Cutting zamac or other die-cast stuff
What's the right tool for cutting zamac or other die-cast materials? I just rather laboriously used a razor saw to cut pieces off of an Athearn blue box frame. Not only was it a pretty fair amount of work but it seems to have pretty much used up the blade in the process. Yet it was only about 3/16" square, several times.
I guess I could have used a cutoff disk in a Dremel, although I'm not keen on that as I don't like the consequences of breaking one of the disks.
Building a home for a GE 85 Ton Locomotive: Wiring and switches complete
The temperature outside has been a daytime high of -25 for the last 30 days, so I have been inside spending a fair bit of time working on my layout.
Six Ways From Sunday... Testing Trackwork on the BNML
Fully Tested the final leg of staging trackage today.
Tested 6 ways from Sunday... pulled up, pushed down, pushed up, pulled down, slow & fast.
A few cars needed some tweaking, but after that, no more derailments - YAY
Staging and hidden trackage: APPROVED!
Dear Santa
You're too big to sit on his lap, but you can post a note to tell Santa what you want to find in your stocking on Christmas morning.
HO, HO, HO! (Or maybe N, N, N?)
card stock buildings
Anyone use card stock buildings? If so where do you purchase them,and what is availble?
Animation Possibilities
OK, say it... I live under a rock. I know robots are popular DIY projects nowadays but other than seeing them on television I never gave them much thought. Today I stumbled across a web page that captured my attention for a long time. Not so much for robots but thinking about animation on a model railroad. Holy smokes, they have everything you would ever need regardless of what animation application you dream up.
Check it out: http://www.dfrobot.com/index.php
Starting the landscape at Ullapool station throat
Hello,
yesterday and today I started with the construction of the landscape at the station throat end at my Ullapool
Watch for Update Grande Pacific
Watch for detail slide by slide and video of this section of the Grande Pacific Model RR. Flat Irons on the GP.
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