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robert3985

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Re: My first EBAY purchase
« Reply #15 on: June 05, 2022, 06:21:24 PM »
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No, I don’t have a problem.  I’m not the one who showed up to burst someone’s balloon about buying manufactured turnouts and then, once again, tooted my own horn about my own accomplishments.  It was unnecessary, irrelevant, and, as far as I’m concerned, unwelcome in a thread where the OP was happy to receive Atlas turnouts.

So, I don’t need to take a couple of breaths and calm down.  This is just model railroading.  Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.

DFF

Haha...yeah, I just wait in the shadows to leap out and "burst people's bubbles'...sure.

Exactly what "bubble" did I burst this time??  Since my post was in reply to @porkypine52 's comment, which I quoted, about how he was "...And I'm looking at HAND LAYING also!"...emphasis his, not mine...my post was to encourage him.

Looks like your comments are the bubble bursters...not mine.

As for "...tooting my own horn"...I rarely comment about anything nor give advice on something I haven't actually done myself.  As is a common saying here "Pics or it didn't happen", I supply photos too.  If you think I'm aggrandizing myself, then you should hold the same opinion of others whose work is better than mine, who also share photos of their work with us.

Only way to not construe self-aggrandizement is to never post photos of your work nor give advice based on personal experience or skill.

As for my post not adhering to being relevant to the OP's initial posting, we ARE at TRW, right??  Since I quoted porkypine52's comment...and not Chuck's...it doesn't take a high IQ to figure out Chuck's comments weren't the subject of my post.  And, your post to me IS relevant to the OP's initial posting???  Oh, that's right, it's okay for you, but not for me.

No, YOU go away (to quote you) with your personal insults...it IS, after all, only model railroading.

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Re: My first EBAY purchase
« Reply #16 on: June 05, 2022, 07:17:42 PM »
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Re: My first EBAY purchase
« Reply #17 on: June 06, 2022, 08:55:19 AM »
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You got a DEAL!!!   2 ea.  #7's   and a #5!   For $24 and change.  Of course shipping and TAX.   Not bad--not bad.  With availability of ANY Atlas code 55 at this moment.

No #4's or #5's for me.   #7's in the yard and #10's out on the main.   Ya gotta allow for it when you are running BIG STEAM!   And I am looking at HAND LAYING also!

   
 
Hand laying is the way to go.  Just takes time to make 'em, but it's not rocket-science.  I've been doing it since the early 80's and have saved thousands of dollars rolling my own.  Properly constructed hand-laid turnouts will look better, run better and be more durable than any commercially available turnout in N-scale...and be a helluva lot less expensive AND always be available.

Get to it!  :D

Cheerio!
Bob Gilmore


…except I don’t see the word “only”.   :?

Me neither. and there's been no edit of the post to remove one.  I think a lot of people mentally ad in "only" when they read that combination of words.

I don't see the big deal since, as Bob says, he was replying to porkypine's post in which he himself says he's looking into hand laying turnouts (emphasis added).  No bubble bursting that I can see, in fact the opposite it seems as Bob was agreeing and reinforcing porkypine's notion of hand laying turnouts.

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Re: My first EBAY purchase
« Reply #18 on: June 06, 2022, 09:46:05 AM »
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Offsetting penalties, replay the down.   :)
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