What Did You Get Today? (Not Model Related)

[Roadrunner]

Nice grab, Scott. I've always liked trains, and still dream of my own layout,... someday.

[Roadrunner]

A really good friend gave me this as an early birthday gift last year, but I forgot to post it.

[Jim N]

On 2/28/2018 at 4:05 PM, unclescott58 said:

Today I got Micro-Trains Weyerhaeuser Logging Train. My father worked for Weyerhaeuser when I was growing up, so I had to buy it.   

Very cool Scott.  Did I read the box correctly that the set is "N" scale? 

My dad worked for Santa Fe and is big into HO.

[unclescott58]

8 hours ago, Jim N said:

Very cool Scott.  Did I read the box correctly that the set is "N" scale? 

My dad worked for Santa Fe and is big into HO.

Yep. It's "N" scale. I don't have room for anything larger. By the way, I'm big into passenger trains. I also have two different complete N scale Great Northern Empire Builder sets. One Kato. And one Con-Cor. My next goal is to complete a Santa Fe passenger set. I have several cars already. But, not a complete consist as of yet. I also have several pieces of mainly Great Northern and Santa Fe freight equipment. I love those two old flags. 

Edited March 14, 2018 by unclescott58

[martinfan5]

[Roadrunner]

Bit by bit, the parts for my seemingly endless new PC build are arriving, this time a Seagate Barracuda 2TB SATA HDD.

[10thumbs]

@Scott, great!  I love N scale, H0 too.

Model trains are just fantastic.

[10thumbs]

On 10/21/2017 at 3:00 AM, XJ6 said:

That is Really Nice.....

Man that Cushman is a rarity!  Fantastic.

Back in the mid 50's, a ride on cousin's Cushman scooter was my 1st taste of scooter fun....still at it today as a matter of fact.  New carb installed and running fine.

[426 pack]

I got two humbodt strong stickers today to support the humboldt broncos hockey team in Saskatchewan that had a horrible bus crash.

Edited April 14, 2018 by 426 pack

[Roadrunner]

Another small order arrived today, this time two blue LED cooling fans for my new PC (I'll ultimately be running six, plus the two on the CPU cooler), a dust filter for the bottom intake, and a six-pack of SATA 6.0 connectors.

[NYLIBUD]

I received a RC Jeep Cherokee in the mail.Its just the body,everything else is on its way.

[NYLIBUD]

Hopefully I can get it all together.I don't have that much experience with RC,trucks,or anything RC.I'll paint it silver, and try to make a replica of my 2000 Cherokee.Lifted 6 inches,on 35 inch tires.

[426 pack]

Today I got 2 peerless lawnmower transaxle for my race mower.

[NYLIBUD]

4 hours ago, 426 pack said:

Today I got 2 peerless lawnmower transaxle for my race mower.

Racing lawn mowers?

[426 pack]

16 minutes ago, NYLIBUD said:

Racing lawn mowers?

Here are some pics of my mowers

this is the one that the transaxle are for.

and this is another one that I’m building.

[Ace-Garageguy]

I got a new build-battery, so I can get back to powering-up and testing my last three custom electrical systems for clients. This one is about 30% complete here, for a 572 Chebby-powered '66 Chevelle.

[426 pack]

I got all this stuff today and a 3/4” axle shaft today.

[Ro3bert]

Recieved a ring light for my camera for macro photos of models and sub-assemblies. Also got a wide angle/macro lens for the same. Unfortunately there are some problems that will complicate picture taking but I won't go into that now.

Wednesday I will be getting a package of filters for our vacuum cleaner and a new tripod for my camera (another situation I won't go into now).

Robert

[Xingu]

12 hours ago, Ro3bert said:

Recieved a ring light for my camera for macro photos of models and sub-assemblies. Also got a wide angle/macro lens for the same. Unfortunately there are some problems that will complicate picture taking but I won't go into that now.

Wednesday I will be getting a package of filters for our vacuum cleaner and a new tripod for my camera (another situation I won't go into now).

Robert

I didn't like my ring light for model photos. I felt it didn't provide complete coverage.

I took a few insect shots that came out nice though.

[Ro3bert]

11 hours ago, Xingu said:

I didn't like my ring light for model photos. I felt it didn't provide complete coverage.

I took a few insect shots that came out nice though.

I tried them both out. The ring light seems to do nicely, no shadows or reflections. The macro lens looks like it will do well however I can't use them together as only one at a time can be screwed onto the lens and Neewer (the macro lens compnay) doesn't make adaptors that will allow the ring light to go onto the macro lens. Bummer.

As soon as I can I'll post images made with the macro lens. There is much to learn here, I want to stop down to f16 or smaller but that means the exposure time is elongated. So far that has put the kabash on the image taking. However, tomorrow (May 2) I should be getting a new tripod so that should allow long exposures.

Robert

[dieseldawg142]

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[426 pack]

10 minutes ago, dieseldawg142 said:

my 1:1 crew was scheduled for paint and bodywork next month...had to stop at my painters and put it off a couple more months till  july or aug.....dipped into my truck paint fund today.

What colour are you going to do it? 

 

I got anothe parts tranaxle today and will be picking up a hole mower sometime this week.

[dieseldawg142]

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Edited May 9, 2018 by dieseldawg142

[Tom Geiger]

 

Harry would've enjoyed this..  we used to talk stamps. 

Bucket list items.  These are the first two US stamps issued in 1847.  Back then the cost of mailing was calculated by zones.  On the first one, mailed within Massachusetts, that was one zone for five cents.  The second one was St Louis to Boston, which was two zones for ten cents.  I decided that it was more interesting to have these on envelope,  or "on cover" as we collectors call it.  I justified the first one because I had a eBay gift certificate I earned with credit card points.  I was admiring the second one and my wife said to get it as my birthday present.  So I wasn't passing that opportunity.

And as far as the most expensive model kit I ever bought... these beat that by a wide margin!

[martinfan5]

New toy