Let's see your Corona projects

[peteski]

Holy cr*p!
Thank you for posting those photos!   Just as I was depressed watching American Pickers going into borderline holders / dealers houses/outbuildings Anne thinking I am close to that...even if I unpacked all my boxes and dumped all the plastic tubs I wouldn’t be as “bad” as that!  Still have to find homes for Uber excessive inventory but manageable.
Charlie Vlk

Yes, I'm also in awe of Cody's workshop!  I thought mine was a semi-controller chaos, but I see that compared to his, mine could be considered neat and organized!  Not that there is anything wrong with his.   

[jargonlet]

Off topic but I wonder if you would know about restoring instruments? My Alto Sax from when I was a kid was in a flood. I didn’t realize it and I opened it up to play it as I do a couple of times a year and it is mouldy. I’d like to take it apart, clean it, and re-pad it. It’s probably more worthwhile just to buy a new one, but then it would t be mine. Perhaps you you PM me?

Craig.

I spent five years repairing musical instruments for a living. Theres a lot of variables to consider when deciding if its worth it to restore that horn. Shoot me a pm with questions and ill try to help you figure it out. By the way, I'm a sax player too. Mostly tenor and Bari but I do play alto occasionally. I mainly play pre 60s' horns.

[MK]

My off-and-on project has been the slow reclamation of my old “workbench” and surrounding area out in the studio.

These photos are after three days (approximately 6 total hours) of work.

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Here’s an overall view of the studio from the doorway:

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There's got to be a layout in the picture somewhere??? 

[VonRyan]

There's got to be a layout in the picture somewhere??? 

The ACP box in the foreground houses my 11x17” Nn3 layout, DKS’s Trenton Transportation Co. is out of frame to the left, and you can the two current sections of Cedar Creek Gravel Co. there up front.

There’s also some yummy botulism-infested 1970s MCIs (Meal, Combat, Individual) somewhere on that first table on the left.

[VonRyan]

Yes, I'm also in awe of Cody's workshop!  I thought mine was a semi-controller chaos, but I see that compared to his, mine could be considered neat and organized!  Not that there is anything wrong with his.   

And just think, this is after I’ve been doing some cleaning. It looked worse.

Only time the studio looks halfway decent is when I’m off at a living history event and all my WWII headquarters stuff has gone with me.

[brill27mcb]

There are just too many interesting things in the world...

Rich K.

[djconway]

VonRyan,

Thank you for posting the photos of your space. Mine was / is very much the same.  Started the cleanup effort last fall when I had the dumpster here for a full kitchen rebuild.

[Kentuckian]

I’ve been taking stock of tenders/steam projects. This tender goes here, this boiler might work there. I had so many notes to myself I decided to get started. First up was replacing the Like-like Berk too short tenders with the Bachmann Kanawha tender shell. Jeff Ashby had an article about this in the 2017 Ntrak Steam Annual. This photo shows the expert craftsmanship used in lengthening the Life-like tender frame:



Mated with the locomotive. Still a lot to do to convert the Berk to a Kanawha, but today is about tenders. I did two of these. Looks like I need to square up the body on the frame.




I took the two old Lifelike tenders to make one correct size for the Kanawha. This one is for a future project, something to pull the newly announced George Washington . Details to follow I hope
The leftover pieces are in the background.





Next up, probably Mikes.

[samusi01]

Amongst other things, been working on artwork for a sheet of decals. Intention is to try and cram everything onto one sheet but I'm starting to question the wisdom of that idea... we'll see how it works out. The era (1970 or so) artwork looks like this at the moment (please ignore the to-do in the upper left):



I need to inventory how many of each I need, and then start the copy/paste work. The incomplete modern stuff looks like this at the moment:



Still need to add some background stuff and then rescale.

[James Costello]

Swift set is looking good Sam 

[nkalanaga]

Kentuckian:  "Craftsmanship" doesn't matter if it can't be seen, as long as everything is straight and structurally sound.

Samusi01:  Looks good.  If you decide to sell them, I'm willing to buy at least one set.  I'm doing my own, but I imagine your printing will probably look better, especially if you can print white.

Incidentally, the SeaLand scheme you show used metal panels for the side name and logo, so my containers have that printed on paper and glued on!  I've seen a few pictures showing one of the panels missing, not always the same one, but the "SEA", "logo", or "LAND".  Looks a little odd, but if one wants to do a specific container, it could be interesting.

[pjm20]

Started working again on a HGLW 16mm diesel kit:



I'm getting so much done now  .

[RRRover]

Samusi01:  If you decide to sell the decals, I'm willing to buy a couple sets.

[ns737]

Just replaced three drivers on a bachmann  2-8-0 connie. the holes for the pins where split. I have three donor mechs. and now the member from the big E n scale club has a good running engine. I also rebuilt one for my self. and it runs good.

[parkrrrr]

Started working again on a HGLW 16mm diesel kit:



I'm getting so much done now  .

I've been looking for a decent thread gauge, and toying with just making my own, but since I don't have a lathe I couldn't figure out where I'd get all of the properly-sized rod stock for such a thing. And then I saw your photo and realized that I don't need rod stock, I just need to drill and tap TWO holes and put a screw in one. So, thanks for that. Now I have another new project.