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As we build layouts we discover new materials, new ideas and new techniques. Here is a new technique I would like to share with all of you.

I discovered it this morning and it amazed me.

 

Do you know how, when you pull the capper on the white glue, you sometimes have to re-open the top of the cap as the glue sets and dries.

How would you know if the cap has clogged unless you try it, or, even better, squeeze the bottle next to your ear and listen for the WHOOSH of air.

That way, you know it is open even before you try it. This technique works !!

 

This morning I filled my bottle with a 50/50 solution of glue and water to the very top. Not a drop of fluid could be added. I was so pleased.

I could get to work on my scenery with a completely full bottle.

 

As I reached the table I checked to make certain the top was not clogged.

I placed the bottle right up to my ear as I always do and gave a good squeeze.

 

One half hour later, after finally getting an earful of glue out of my ear, I resumed work.

 

WHAT? WHAT?

I CANNOT HEAR YOU . . . . 

WHAT?

 

PS: Do you have a funny layout story? Please tell me.

 

Scrap Ear Scher

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My funniest layout story happened recently, but was posted over on the Control forum, so I'll repeat it here. I still laugh (at myself) thinking about it. I had just tried to install an ERR diesel railsounds unit into an F3B with TMCC but no sounds. I could not make it work with my CAB-1, but it worked fine with conventional transformer control. EXCEPT: I heard both diesel horn and steam whistle each time I operated the whistle control. It took me quite awhile before I realized I had a B&O Box car with steam rail sounds on the same live track.

 

B&OBill

Always save that dry white glue. Take a piece of it and mold it a bit and stuff it or glue it to the bottom of a vertical drain pipe on the side of a building. It gives a fairly believable appearance of water dripping out of the drain pipe.

 

For added realism, put a glob of white glue on the sidewalk and let it dry. It will dry murky clear and give the impression of a puddle beneath the dripping drain pipe.

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