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    Quote Originally Posted by Kimmi View Post
    A week of training in Fairfax, VA during summer 'vacation'.

    If you're going to send me to a conference, at least send me to the beach or to Disney, or someplace else fun.
    Remember, could always be worse. How, I'm not sure, but it could be.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Spudboy View Post
    The leads at the end of track pieces can oxidize and cause poor contact. Then, of course you have the electrical strips on the track surface to deal with! I always had very good success using an old fashioned ink eraser. They were more abrasive and worked quite well.

    Then you have the resistor inside the controller and it's contact.

    Then the brushes on the armature and commutator.

    I still have my 1/24 cars in my hall closet.

    I also have circa 1966-1968 Aurora HO Thunderjets including The Batmobile and Green Hornet.

    Sadly, Robin and Batman have both been decapitated.
    Oh my goodness....... I'm just trying to get two of the four tracks working.........

    Swapping out pieces..... cleaning....

    I used an eraser...... then a nickel on the rails and a cloth...............

    the thing has been sitting around for about 4 years though....

    just ordered some 320 grit sand paper........

    these things are so tempermental.............. no wonder they aren't a thing any more.......

    but you should have seen the parties we had during the first F1 race in Austin........ amazing..... I want to get a monthly F1 league going...
    In the town where I was born
    Lived a man who sailed to sea
    And he told us of his life
    In the land of submarines
    So we sailed up to the sun
    'Til we found a sea of green
    And we lived beneath the waves
    In our yellow submarine

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    Quote Originally Posted by SoxHop View Post
    Oh my goodness....... I'm just trying to get two of the four tracks working.........

    Swapping out pieces..... cleaning....

    I used an eraser...... then a nickel on the rails and a cloth...............

    the thing has been sitting around for about 4 years though....

    just ordered some 320 grit sand paper........

    these things are so tempermental.............. no wonder they aren't a thing any more.......

    but you should have seen the parties we had during the first F1 race in Austin........ amazing..... I want to get a monthly F1 league going...
    I just got one lane out of four running cleanly........... WOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

    I think you are right Spud........ some pieces are being a pain and I think I'd seeing some oxidation on the connectors......

    back to cleaning.....
    In the town where I was born
    Lived a man who sailed to sea
    And he told us of his life
    In the land of submarines
    So we sailed up to the sun
    'Til we found a sea of green
    And we lived beneath the waves
    In our yellow submarine

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    Quote Originally Posted by SoxHop View Post
    I just got one lane out of four running cleanly........... WOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

    I think you are right Spud........ some pieces are being a pain and I think I'd seeing some oxidation on the connectors......

    back to cleaning.....
    You can also use acetic acid ( dilute vinegar ) to try to remove some oxidation in conjunction with the mechanical processes.

    Of course your track will smell like a douche nozzle but hey!
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    The end of this dude's story belongs in What Floats Your Boat.


    I was waiting in line for a ferry in Washington state. There is a big parking lot and everyone waits in their cars till you load up on the ferry.

    The guy next to me obviously does not know I am looking at him and he turns around and smacks his crying 2 year old while his 6-7 year old daughter is watching. He hit him 7-8 times in a pure rage style beating. He looks over and notices I am watching and tries to pretend nothing happened.

    I get out of my truck and start to head over to the cop they have around. As I am heading over there the guy runs up, stops me and asks me what I think I am doing. I kept trying to get around him without a confrontation; he kept pushing me but I was able to sneak by so he tripped me.

    I got up, walked into plain view of the officer and the dude punches me in the back of the head then spit in my face. The officer saw all of this and came up and put the guy in cuffs. All of this is in view of the small children in his car.

    So I took a punch and got spat in my face but in the end the children were taken into protective custody and I pressed full charges. There was another witness to the guy hitting the kid and they had security footage of the guy assaulting me so I didn't even have to go to court.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Northern Star View Post
    The end of this dude's story belongs in What Floats Your Boat.


    I was waiting in line for a ferry in Washington state. There is a big parking lot and everyone waits in their cars till you load up on the ferry.

    The guy next to me obviously does not know I am looking at him and he turns around and smacks his crying 2 year old while his 6-7 year old daughter is watching. He hit him 7-8 times in a pure rage style beating. He looks over and notices I am watching and tries to pretend nothing happened.

    I get out of my truck and start to head over to the cop they have around. As I am heading over there the guy runs up, stops me and asks me what I think I am doing. I kept trying to get around him without a confrontation; he kept pushing me but I was able to sneak by so he tripped me.

    I got up, walked into plain view of the officer and the dude punches me in the back of the head then spit in my face. The officer saw all of this and came up and put the guy in cuffs. All of this is in view of the small children in his car.

    So I took a punch and got spat in my face but in the end the children were taken into protective custody and I pressed full charges. There was another witness to the guy hitting the kid and they had security footage of the guy assaulting me so I didn't even have to go to court.
    Holy crap...what a psycho. Sorry for the damage you took in the line of duty. Good to know the prick got nailed. Hopefully those kids turn out OK.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bellhorn04 View Post
    Holy crap...what a psycho. Sorry for the damage you took in the line of duty. Good to know the prick got nailed. Hopefully those kids turn out OK.
    Hopefully, the kids are removed from his care.
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    Chaim, you are in the big leagues now. Drawing 10,000 fans a game is not going to cut it, and people don’t buy tickets to Fenway to talk about the Farm

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    "Relief pitchers are a crapshoot." No, the truth is "Crapshoot pitchers are relievers."

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    Holy fuck.

    Anyone who a woman or a child should be in jail being fucked in the ass by Bubba.

    I am glad that you did the right thing and that the kids were taken away. Hopefully the kids will be removed from his custody.

    Well done.
    "Hating the Yankees like it's a religion since 94'" RIP Mike.


    "It's also a simple and indisputable fact that WAR isn't the be-all end-all in valuations, especially in real life. Wanna know why? Because an ace in run-prevention for 120 innings means more often than not, a sub-standard pitcher covering for the rest of the IP that pitcher fails to provide. You can't see value in a vacuum when a player does not provide full-time production."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Northern Star View Post
    The end of this dude's story belongs in What Floats Your Boat.


    I was waiting in line for a ferry in Washington state. There is a big parking lot and everyone waits in their cars till you load up on the ferry.

    The guy next to me obviously does not know I am looking at him and he turns around and smacks his crying 2 year old while his 6-7 year old daughter is watching. He hit him 7-8 times in a pure rage style beating. He looks over and notices I am watching and tries to pretend nothing happened.

    I get out of my truck and start to head over to the cop they have around. As I am heading over there the guy runs up, stops me and asks me what I think I am doing. I kept trying to get around him without a confrontation; he kept pushing me but I was able to sneak by so he tripped me.

    I got up, walked into plain view of the officer and the dude punches me in the back of the head then spit in my face. The officer saw all of this and came up and put the guy in cuffs. All of this is in view of the small children in his car.

    So I took a punch and got spat in my face but in the end the children were taken into protective custody and I pressed full charges. There was another witness to the guy hitting the kid and they had security footage of the guy assaulting me so I didn't even have to go to court.
    You are truly a "Northern Star!

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    I don't think this was NS, I think he was sharing a story from elsewhere. However, I agree with the sentiment.
    Quote Originally Posted by YANKEESRULE View Post
    Yea got hand it to the Sox, they just could not go queitly into the night. Well, they are just post-poning the inevitable.
    - From the 2004 ALCS Game 4 Gamethread. A reminder that no game is over until the final out is recorded, and things will always get better. Misspellings unchanged as a reminder that Yankees fans are just terrible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Northern Star View Post
    The end of this dude's story belongs in What Floats Your Boat.
    Not me, just a random story I pulled off the internet. If it was me, I wouldn't bother with the cop.

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    (Well, unless the dude was bigger than me).
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    So shut up because you have no idea on what you say on anything as evidence of some of your ridiculous posts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spudboy View Post

    Anyone who a woman or a child should be in jail being fucked in the ass by Bubba.
    Add animals to that list.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Northern Star View Post
    Add animals to that list.
    Certainly.

    I will never buy the idea that Mike Vick is rehabilitated.

    It takes a certain type of sociopath to kill dogs for sport. That type of trait can stay with a person.
    "Hating the Yankees like it's a religion since 94'" RIP Mike.


    "It's also a simple and indisputable fact that WAR isn't the be-all end-all in valuations, especially in real life. Wanna know why? Because an ace in run-prevention for 120 innings means more often than not, a sub-standard pitcher covering for the rest of the IP that pitcher fails to provide. You can't see value in a vacuum when a player does not provide full-time production."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spudboy View Post
    Certainly.

    I will never buy the idea that Mike Vick is rehabilitated.

    It takes a certain type of sociopath to kill dogs for sport. That type of trait can stay with a person.
    Yep. A sick person.
    The King of TalkSox has Spoken.

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    Chaim, you are in the big leagues now. Drawing 10,000 fans a game is not going to cut it, and people don’t buy tickets to Fenway to talk about the Farm

    Quote Originally Posted by notin View Post
    "Relief pitchers are a crapshoot." No, the truth is "Crapshoot pitchers are relievers."

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