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Pandorum Stage II - MountainMan - 05-09-2011
Reconstruction commences...pictures to follow.
Re: Pandorum Stage II - Sumpter250 - 05-09-2011
I can guarantee that you have and audience of at least one !!!!
This is one time where "building walls" is not a bad thing.
Re: Pandorum Stage II - MountainMan - 05-09-2011
Walls, ceiling, electric, air conditioner...oh...yeah...and maybe someplace to sit.
This part should go faster, but while I'm doing that during the day, Stage IIIa - layout design - is also underway.
Re: Pandorum Stage II - Steamtrains - 05-09-2011
Now comes the fun parts....Planning & building..!!
I haven't got through those parts yet, and have been at it for about 9 years....
Re: Pandorum Stage II - Sumpter250 - 05-10-2011
Steamtrains Wrote:Now comes the fun parts....Planning & building..!!
I haven't got through those parts yet, and have been at it for about 9 years....
For me, the fun parts are, building, and building again......layout planning is about as useful to me as an extra earlobe...
, the fun for me is in the building, so if I have to rebuild ?....that's just more fun.Walls ?,---------------------------------------------------------------------------Check.
ceiling ?,--------------------------------------------------------------------------Check.
electric ?,-------------------------------------------------------------------------Check.
air conditioner ?,----------------------------------------------------------------Check.
and maybe someplace to sit ?.-------------------------------------------------Check, and double check.
Coffee pot, or 'fridge to keep a cool one or two in--------------------------Check, and double check.
Running trains ?, ----------------------------------------------------------------Are we there yet? !!!
Re: Pandorum Stage II - MountainMan - 05-13-2011
Dear Diary:
I'm perplexed. I have removed a couple of hundred nails and twice as many staples from the trailer's interior framework so far, and I have encountered some truly weird construction practices.
Maybe if I write it down I'll feel better.
Is there such a thing as Fastener Fetish? I think there must be; otherwise, this makes no sense. How many fasteners does it rake to secure a single sheet of thin plywood? Aren't nails enough? How about nails and staples? How about nails, staples and screws? How about some really tough adhesive before any of the fasteners? And where can I buy some of that adhesive? The plywood has lost it's structural strength after fifty-plus years of hard service, but that glue just keeps on sticking, and yet the best stuff I can buy today wants to fall apart in no time. Probably some prehistoric recipe involving the boiling down of dead horses.
Another question I have for you, Diary, is why the insulation was put on from the outside, and then stapled down, and then the siding fastened over that from the outside with nails and screws? Does it hold better? If so, why do they need all those staples? And by the way, why is the insulation installed backwards? the printing on the outside of it, against the trailer's outside wall. clearly says "THIS SIDE TOWARDS OCCUPIED LIVING SPACE"... :? Is this one of those tricks of the industry, and if so...what does it do?
Well, that's all for today, Diary. I have to go and cut off large nails and screws that stick INTO the trailer...maybe tomorrow we can talk about the purpose of those.
Re: Pandorum Stage II - Russ Bellinis - 05-14-2011
Welcome to the world of "trailer living" where there are minimal codes because the house trailer was built in a factory by unskilled labor, not by a contractor with skilled workers who have to have a local building inspector sign off on everything they do.
Re: Pandorum Stage II - MountainMan - 05-14-2011
You're telling me...and this particular travel trailer was built in the mid-sixties!
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Re: Pandorum Stage II - Sumpter250 - 05-14-2011
MountainMan Wrote:You're telling me...and this particular travel trailer was built in the mid-sixties!
Hey!, be nice now, a good part of my life, was "built in the mid sixties", and not by a "skilled worker", it was my first try at "life-building". 
Re: Pandorum Stage II - Sumpter250 - 05-14-2011
Come to think of it.........I s'pose it'll be my only try .
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Re: Pandorum Stage II - MountainMan - 05-26-2011
Technically speaking, I am now in Stage IIA, in which I struggle mightily to come up with a coherent track plan.
Sigh....
Re: Pandorum Stage II - Steamtrains - 05-26-2011
It's doodle time..!!!
I haven't come up with the plan for the peninsula on my layout....Been at it for a couple of months now..... :oops:
Re: Pandorum Stage II - MountainMan - 05-27-2011
Yeah...I'm once again fighting with XTrkCad in a vain effort to produce a plan on paper instead of just winging, which I often do.
Re: Pandorum Stage II - ScrewySqrl - 05-28-2011
can you post a picture of the space (even just a drawing) and a quick list of what you want to do with it? (point-to-point, a module that connects with the rest of the railroad, or self contained layout?)
Re: Pandorum Stage II - MountainMan - 05-28-2011
If I can figure out how to move an image from XTrkCad to this forum... :?