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  1. News: When Dayle went out to hang up the bird feeder this morning, her favourite red squirrel was waiting for her. I don't know who I buried yesterday.
  2. My wife was somewhat upset this afternoon. We came home and there was a dead squirrel in the road. She was sure that it was her favourite little red that patronises the bird feeder and it was. I finally took it off to a wild area nearby. Little else of consequence. ***see correction below***
  3. I did this in OO. My approach was to isolate the slip fully on all 8 rails. I cheated a little by putting the insulators a little way down one of the tracks so that I wasn't soldering feeders to an expensive piece of kit. Then wire the slip through contacts on the point motor at one end to connect to the appropriate track at the other end. Which one will depend on how you want to run the rest of the layout. The slip will now be connected to the appropriate block coming in to it. You may also want to do something about the normal point on the other track. I first read about this back in the 50s. It was called "X section -- simplifier of route cab control". You could get away with putting a cab selector switch on all the little blocks involved. When I do wiring like this, I like to use test leads with alligator clips on the ends to link wires together until I'm sure that all the rails are connected to the right poles on the point motors.
  4. When I had my retina re-attached, it produced a cataract. I also had a little bit from a laser in the other eye. The one eye had cataract surgery and the colours are bright, but there is a fold (or something) in the retina and everything is wavy. I now look at the carpet and the one eye thinks it's beige while the other calls it ecru. (signed) He who stares down lasers with both eyes. And happy pi day for Thursday.
  5. Lionel used to measure the gauge to the middle of the rail -- the top of the circular railhead. This was shown in their manuals. My piece of O27 track measures 1 3/16" gauge, but called 1 1/4" 1 3/16" is scale for 4'9" gauge -- only 1/2" too wide. (using 1/4" scale)
  6. Andy: The ~ symbol means AC; the straight lines are DC. General principal is that Amps (current) is measured with the meter in circuit. Volts are measured between two points. You can get the Voltage of the battery by using the two posts. Resistance is also between two points,but try not to do it on a live circuit. I'm not sure have absolutely no idea what difference is if you measure using the AC settings.
  7. Tomorrow starteth Daylight Saving Time. Although it is now 4 hours to go before the 0200 starter's whistle, I have adjusted all the clocks I can find on the main floor. (Except the telephone. I can't find a setting! and I've done it before.) There remain a collection downstairs in the railway and storage rooms. I have just managed to do the phone.
  8. Andy: I recommend a pair of Cataract sunglasses. These go over regular glasses but come around the side and over and under. They keep out most of the light that other glasses let in. We use ours regularly as they fit well over our normal glasses. You might come home with an eyepatch.
  9. A couple of friends are currently on a 5-month round the world cruise. They are supposed to end it going up the Red Sea and Suez canal. They haven't posted anything yet about changes.
  10. I've had problems with point motors in parallel that are different makes or even different eras of the same make. I think one unit may suck all the current from the other ones.
  11. Is RMWeb social media? Then I am on. elsewise ...
  12. VIA Rail in Canada is trying to replace cars built in 1954-55. Need a good government authorization and funding.
  13. John was a professional photographer. He took a close-up photo of a friend's locomotive and told him "Every place where you can tell it's a model is a chance to improve your modelling." He also had a wicked sense of humour. He did ads for one of the model companies that included scenes like the lynching of a diesel salesman. And G&D #13 was a dinosaur for switching in the yards.
  14. The Canadian national anthem was written in French and later translated. The Quebecois don't sing it because it's about Canada. The rest of us can't keep up with the changes in the words to match changing social feelings. Of course, I know the original words to the American national anthem but don't dare sing them. To Anacreon in Heav'n, where he sat in full glee...
  15. One of my friends is very into folk music. I lent him my 5-string banjo (that I never learned to play). He said he had the same problem with it as the ukulele: the nearest string is the highest. I think that ukulele tuning matches guitar top 4 - except for the string that's an octave too high. So guitar chord fingering works on it.
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