Any craft that involves small parts and delicate work will catch my interest. I have studied webpages on watcmaking, goldsmithing (can you say that?), miniature cannonbuilding, you name it. On forums, in real life, in emails, on conventions and meetings.Īnd I do not limit myself to railroad modelling, or even modelling. I do, and redo over and over again.Īnd I search the net like a google index-bot for webpages, discussion forums and companies that can aid my modelling. So the main reason I have gotten this far is mainly because I am a stubborn b****rd. Not to mention the (literarely) total meltdown of parts that happens occasionally. Some times I am so frustrated when things gets out of alignment, parts get accidently desoldered or blobs of solder gather in the wrong places. My soldering skills are very basic, for starters. Post by: Chuck Doan on September 09, 2009, 03:19:59 PMīut belive me, there is plenty of room for improvement.
Title: Re: Work in progress: Westinghouse boxcab electric
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Stillwondering how to keep everything in just the right place while soldering up everything. Up next is the rest of the assembly of the pantograph. It takes some practise to tighten up the joints and still have them loose engough to move freely. In this picture all the parts have moving links: So the first pantograph will be a semi-operational one, since I realised that to rivet together a fully functional set of bars and piston, a lot of the parts would have to be assembled before soldering up everything. Since this is my first scratchbuilt model ever, I have to learn as I go. The white "ceramic" isolators are machined teflon rod, a great material for this use since it is heat resistant and you can solder right up against it! raised and ready is a fake, it is stuck together with white glue just for the photosession.). The model is mainly etched brass with some lost-wax brass castings.Ĭurrently I am working on the pantograph (That picture with the P. Have been working on this model on and off for more years than I care to think about, but I am hoping to finish it pretty soon! To hear them tell it, it weren't no joke.Īnd let us not forget that during the same period it was Democrats throughout the United States who organized and ran America's premier terrorist organization – the Ku Klux Klan.Seems like I havent bothered you gentlemen with any pictures of my 0m (1/45 scale, 22,2mm gauge) gauge boxcab electric building project in a while, if ever. I have family members who grew up under Jim Crow. Those Democrats created a nearly century-long, legal racial caste system that relegated blacks to the lowest educational, political, economic and social strata. In the late 19th century, Democrat governors and Democrat-controlled state legislatures in the South couldn't pass Jim Crow laws fast enough. Soon after the war ended, it was a Republican-controlled Congress that rammed through the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution that, among other things, abolished slavery, guaranteed equal protection and due process and addressed blacks' right to vote. With the stroke of his pen, Lincoln destroyed the last real hope the Confederacy had for a victory. 1, 1863, the height of the Civil War, squelching any chance that the European powers of the day would intervene in the conflict in favor of the Confederacy. The party's first president, Abraham Lincoln, issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. I have already seen comments on CNN's website, claiming that this document is a fake. If, by doing this now, he can preempt such court battles, all the better. Even though its clear that the campaign would win court challenges to these laws, it would take time, money and legal effort to overcome such laws, all of which would be better spent on the campaign. Obama's camapaing is going to be making arrangements to be on the ballots in all fifity states, beginning early next year. The measure in one midwest state would even require that the candidate prove that his/her PARENTS were citizens, which is, in effect, adding requirements not in the Constitution. I think that the timing of this has more to do with the pending "birther bills" in 13 states, that would demand that a candidate convince someone in that state that the candidate was, indeed, a natural born citizen. How could they move a document that they didn't have. of Health, and that only the head of the agency has the key. Even Fox News is reporting that it was moved from its normal storage to a locked cabinet inside a bank-type vault in the Hawaii Dept. Trump's contention that Obama's original BC is missing is ridiculous.