Bob, Please have your eyes checked for Macular Degeneration. That is how my wife's eyes started going bad and there may be treatment available before it is too far along.
Required RR contents: I always enjoy your comments and wisdom about S scale. Don't want you to miss anything. Take Care Bob Boring ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Werre To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 1:16 PM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} be careful what you inhale! John, Back more than a couple of years ago. Don Thompson, sent me a few coal loads to decorate his new hopper cars. These might have been from Blue Mt. ??, anyway the bracing in the cars interfered with the coal load. I then took my solder gun and burned away some of the foam underneath the load. The fumes were very toxic and I couldn't escape them. I decided to use a modeling knife after that! I do have a problem with my right eye--I see everything distorted--no such thing as a straight line anymore with that eye. So now both eyes have a heated discussion about that information to send to my brain! So that affects my track laying too. I'm glad my work now is mostly maintenance rather than starting from scratch--and I only have one and one half chins! Bob Werre On 8/6/12 2:19 PM, John Albee wrote: I enjoy both of your thoughts and it is wonderful to see boB back in action! I've spent the last week relaying my grain elevator trackage to S scale. Unfortunately, I've learned a lesson the hard way. Because of my eyesight I have to literally lay my chin (all 3 of them) on the edge if the layout to even attempt to see soldering, track joiners, etc. unfortunately, while doing this, I inhales a lot of the fine grass and solder smome, which has left me gasping for breath at times. Let my experience warn others to be more careful than I was. Hard lesson. S
