Re: What's On Your Workbench 1/2023
Posted by SteveG on Jan 15, 2024; 8:28pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/What-s-On-Your-Workbench-1-2023-tp19344p19380.html
Stepping back and looking at it with fresh eyes, I'd have to say utter chaos:
But trying to deconstruct the attempted multi-tasking at work here, there's a Lambert 2-6-0 from eBay that arrived sans motor, and will be a re-motoring/DCC project, a D&RGW C-25 that the seller threw in for free with some significant damage (no lead truck, a lot of loose elements indicative of a fall) that I'm using to learn resistance soldering techniques, some early attempts at three-way stubs for Como yard, plus some parts for more standard turnouts for the staging yards, a bunch of 3D projects including 1902 coal/flat underframes, ASF bolsters, NY brake gear, oil headlights, early (flanged) tender shells, and bridle bars, the template for the interior supports for the Como roundhouse. Somewhere in there are some experimental brackets for Arduino-controlled servos for switch control.
The spray booth is temporarily occupied by the roundhouse wall segments, where I'm trying to get the random rock look near correct before doing some washes and overspray to get the overall colors right:
And over in the benchwork area, the start of the staging yard for London Junction on to Gunnison which will sit under much of Como:
And the panel for the east yard and roundhouse, which will go over the staging:
And last but not least, the DCC-EX command station a friend built for me, that has ongoing issues running a breadboarded DCC test decoder installation which responds perfectly to my NCE PowerCab, but not to the DCC-EX station, even though a second decoder seems to work fine with the latter:
All I need now is focus to finish at least one of these projects. :)
Steve Guty,
Lakeway, TX
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/What-s-On-Your-Workbench-1-2023-tp19344p19380.html
Stepping back and looking at it with fresh eyes, I'd have to say utter chaos:
But trying to deconstruct the attempted multi-tasking at work here, there's a Lambert 2-6-0 from eBay that arrived sans motor, and will be a re-motoring/DCC project, a D&RGW C-25 that the seller threw in for free with some significant damage (no lead truck, a lot of loose elements indicative of a fall) that I'm using to learn resistance soldering techniques, some early attempts at three-way stubs for Como yard, plus some parts for more standard turnouts for the staging yards, a bunch of 3D projects including 1902 coal/flat underframes, ASF bolsters, NY brake gear, oil headlights, early (flanged) tender shells, and bridle bars, the template for the interior supports for the Como roundhouse. Somewhere in there are some experimental brackets for Arduino-controlled servos for switch control.
The spray booth is temporarily occupied by the roundhouse wall segments, where I'm trying to get the random rock look near correct before doing some washes and overspray to get the overall colors right:
And over in the benchwork area, the start of the staging yard for London Junction on to Gunnison which will sit under much of Como:
And the panel for the east yard and roundhouse, which will go over the staging:
And last but not least, the DCC-EX command station a friend built for me, that has ongoing issues running a breadboarded DCC test decoder installation which responds perfectly to my NCE PowerCab, but not to the DCC-EX station, even though a second decoder seems to work fine with the latter:
All I need now is focus to finish at least one of these projects. :)
Steve Guty,
Lakeway, TX
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