Merry Christmas once again- everyone is doing great work.
Spent the afternoon at our local DMV office...my daughter had to renew her license since she turns 21 in early January. Root canal with no Novocain would be preferable 
When we got home I was going to run trains for a bit but the basement was upside down as my wife was packing away all of the boxes and wrapping paper from Christmas. I wandered into my shop and decided to tackle a small project. I have an old ink-jet printer that died and I'm stripping it for the motors and stuff. I'd like to do a gantry crane and have it move back and fourth on the rails. The print head mechanism looks like the perfect solution. Gotta see what voltage the motor is and start planning. Gonna need to buy the crane too.
A lot easier to take some thing apart when you don't have to worry about it going back together. 
Bob
