If any of you have IT experience, I’d love to hear your thoughts on what it would take to get the search engine on this Wiki working. Probably over half of what I know about modules was gleaned from this Wiki, but the more I explore, the more frustrated I get. I realize that the nature of wiki’s is that page owners let their pages get outdated, but it seems like this thing has some underlying structural deficiencies.
I sawed a little piece of my thumb off on this thing back in ‘71, and since then, I’ve been pretty careful. After adding several wings, a 5’ outfeed table, and improved fence, It is a good piece of machinery. So has anyone come across an aftermarket riving knife that can be installed to make it safer?
This engine has less than 80k, and obviously has not been driven that much. Idle was very rough and I pulled the IAC and cleaned it. Idle improved considerably, but still isn’t smooth as I think it should be, especially at a stop light. I replaced the vacuum hoses a while back just because. What else should I be looking for here? A new IAC, or some other sensor? I didn’t clean the throttle body.
Has anyone seen, or actually constructed, a module using sheets of XPS? I’m referring to the dense stuff that comes in pink, blue, or green. I am thinking of laminating a couple of layers and somehow banding the whole thing with some 1/4” plywood. #HO
I am sorta the logistics guy for our club and for a recent show I fabricated a carrier to get the corner modules from my van to the far side of the venue. It worked, but not the greatest. I give it a pretty mediocre C grade. A simple ratchet band strap kept the sides from flaring out, but the whole thing was still a bit shifty. I didn’t weld the unistrut to the bottom angle iron frame, and so it was not structurally rigid from front to back. Adding the two side pieces of plywood helped, and a couple of strap iron X-braces were considered, but a couple of issues remained.
The modules were hard to get into the carrier because of the track protruding over one edge of the module, even with tilting. I wouldn’t have thought that such a small thing would cause such a headache. Scenery took a hit at this point.
There were several modifications to the thing as I was building it to try to get specific issues resolved, and I spent some time and gas to the hardware store to get things improved.
So all this to say, I don’t recommend this as a good solution to the storage & transportation challenge of HO scale corner modules. This is a lessons learned type of post.
I have been working on a different approach and will relay my ideas in a separate post.
If I purchase a P1S and some filament of some flavor and download a file from one of the 3d sharing sites onto my ancient Macpro can computer, what else is needed to make things?
I haven’t done that much research into what printer would be a good starting point; sound off if I’m heading in the wrong direction. Thanks!