| 29-10 1:14:33 | rvn2001 | What's that, Stony? |
| 29-10 1:14:30 | ejshelton | I need it on or I would do that |
| 29-10 1:14:11 | stonysmith | got a bit of a dilema here... |
| 29-10 1:13:00 | rvn2001 | I have turned my cell phone off between 8am and 8pm. |
| 29-10 1:12:46 | DAZed | yeah, I was being facetious. |
| 29-10 1:12:45 | stonysmith | 4-6 snail mailpeices per day - all from the same candidates.. dozen emails |
| 29-10 1:12:04 | stonysmith | heck no... it continues |
| 29-10 1:10:07 | DAZed | Stony, I bet all of the candidates have stopped spamming you now, right? |
| 29-10 1:09:36 | rvn2001 | Both excellent ideas, Doug. |
| 29-10 1:08:59 | stonysmith | I voted last week |
| 29-10 1:08:58 | DAZed | something tells me tariffs on model trains would suddenly disappear. And social security payments would have a MRR line item with a hefty sum. |
| 29-10 1:07:17 | rvn2001 | I'm ready! Write me in!! |
| 29-10 1:06:35 | DAZed | Senator Welsch has a nice ring to it. |
| 29-10 1:06:30 | ejshelton | Sure.....of course I did....for school board....lol |
| 29-10 1:05:51 | rvn2001 | Did you write in my name? |
| 29-10 1:05:44 | DAZed | I'm planning to vote tomorrow |
| 29-10 1:05:22 | ejshelton | I voted today.... |
| 29-10 1:05:14 | ejshelton | Hi Doug |
| 29-10 1:04:55 | rvn2001 | Hi Doug. |
| 29-10 1:04:53 | ejshelton | Hi Stony and Thom |
| 29-10 1:04:50 | rvn2001 | Sorry to hear that, Stony. |
| 29-10 1:04:50 | DAZed | hi Thom, Ellen, Stony |
| 29-10 1:04:18 | stonysmith | I'm here.. felt kinda sick all day. |
| 29-10 1:03:12 | rvn2001 | Hi Ellen. |
| 29-10 1:01:23 | rvn2001 | How are you tonight? |
| 29-10 1:01:14 | rvn2001 | Hi Stony. |
| 29-10 1:01:05 | stonysmith | Hi Thom |
| 25-10 18:09:38 | GNFan | I'm going to follow Thom to the door. Later ye that shall remain! |
| 25-10 18:08:27 | GNFan | Bye, Thom. |
| 25-10 18:05:53 | rvn2001 | Well guyz, I'm gonna go check to zee that all of my trainz are ztill running. Z y'all later. |
| 25-10 17:58:37 | stonysmith | A properly shaped rivet would be more than 1000 triangles - each - and some cars have more than 2000 rivets! A cube has 12 triangles and because of the printer resolution, it generally turns into a blob anyway |
| 25-10 17:58:32 | rvn2001 | So....cubits? |
| 25-10 17:57:55 | stonysmith | i did some rivets once for Doug.. I used little cubes instead of hemi-spheres. He loved it. |
| 25-10 17:55:04 | rvn2001 | Bye Ellen, don't move too far that you can't move back. |
| 25-10 17:54:40 | GNFan | Bye, Ellen. |
| 25-10 17:54:17 | ejshelton | ZU all |
| 25-10 17:54:11 | ejshelton | My watch says its time for me to get up and move....so I best do that....lol |
| 25-10 17:52:48 | stonysmith | I am definately anti-rivet, yes |
| 25-10 17:52:17 | GNFan |
Stony, this makes you a rivet discounter?  |
| 25-10 17:50:44 | stonysmith | even in HO, most rivets are below the resolution capabilities of the printer(s) |
| 25-10 17:49:50 | stonysmith | they're more likely to complain that I start by stripping all the rivets off the whole car first |
| 25-10 17:48:26 | ejshelton | You're sure? |
| 25-10 17:48:01 | stonysmith | but I still like to get the shape "close" to the official one |
| 25-10 17:47:41 | stonysmith | nobody is ever going to take out a magnifying glass (microscope) and say "that ain't right" |
| 25-10 17:46:47 | stonysmith | the Wabtec unit is often made up of four to six separate peices.. and on EVERY crazy car they manage to configure it differently |
| 25-10 17:46:01 | rvn2001 | WOW! |
| 25-10 17:45:40 | stonysmith |
in the source drawing that I work from, the thing has over one million triangles  |
| 25-10 17:45:25 | rvn2001 | That's a pretty good size. |
| 25-10 17:44:48 | stonysmith | At the end of most cars is a WABTEC device for pneumatic control. Even in Horribly Oversized scale, the thing is a whoppping 6mm x 2mm x 2mm. |
| 25-10 17:43:43 | ejshelton | ZU Joe |
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