Cattle Pen Fencing

Following last month’s experiment with the stupidly fine wire, I’ve gone on to refine the technique and produce enough wire fencing to keep any future cattle shipments enclosed long enough to get them aboard the stock cars. It’s still remarkably difficult to work with this material that I can barely see and that seems to […]

Throttle Back

One of the pieces that has been waiting on a bigger printer is a new back for my CVP wireless throttle. There was nothing wrong with the old back, except that it was attached to a throttle that would be found at some random place around the train room – kind of like the TV […]

Three at Once

If you’ve got a third machine that can make stuff, you really need to get all three machines working at once. So, on New Year’s Day, I revved up the two 3D printers, printing parts for the upcoming steam throttle project. While they were happily layering away, I fired up the laser cutter to make […]

The Effect of Detail

This morning The Algorithm pushed Stephen Travers Art at me, and because it is New Year’s Day and I have nothing better to do, except consume the remaining Christmas treats, take down the tree, put away the decorations, and a million other things, I clicked through to the suggested video to learn something while I […]