Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: 2019_04_28 Tradesman bitch!! and more wiring

2019/04/28

2019_04_28 Tradesman bitch!! and more wiring

2019_04_28 So what does a tradesman make an hour and what do you get?

About a year ago, I invited this guy to install my $2000 (huge) Panasonic Air Conditioner (Thanks Good Guys for a "Friday" discount,on top of an already great price which was hundreds under Harvey "GST" Norman.

When its on the drain drips over the doorway, straight down the back of your neck. The fix was to wrap it with insulating tape which fell off two days later. I thought that was what blue glue was for?

I was quoted $850 install, because a gap had to be cut into roof above air conditioner to allow air to enter at top. I cut hole and they used it to install the unit over door. When I asked them to box it in, they went away for more materials. Never saw them back again, however the bill arrived and was upped to $1580 for the extra work involved. They never came back. I paid them cash for job (Yes big mistake) I hope they paid GST because I asked the taxman to check if they did. They worked 3 hours. Well one guy did. The electrician was there for only an hour. So 4 hours into $1600 is about $400 an hour and I had to get another Tradesman (actually a real tradesman ) to finish the job.

Cutting the hole out properly (I am not a tradesman :blush: ) After removing the roof iron and insulation.

Build a box and seal it into the ceiling. Paint and voila!

Now the ceiling cavity can get hot or cold, and the airconditioner can circulate the warmed / cooled air and operate more economically. Thanks to my son Dale Young... A real tradesman.
Now as long as the door is not opened or closed as the large door flap drops down when AC turned on and off. The rest of the time it sits neatly out of the way.

Back to the Model Railway :D

More wiring, and yesterday and today, I have continued on with the project to get this job finished and trains running again. Al and I started this on Thursday, last. the wiring is slowly progressing, and of course it is even slower as a one man operation.

The big news is that I how have all six districts connected into the system, and the short circuit appears to be fixed. No breaker alarms at all for a week Ha Ha.

Have a sound loco advancing down the SG track as each dropper is connected. Out of shot a GM does same thing on the BG... This is exciting!!

Cheers
Rod Young

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About my Railway

The Australian National Railways was established by the Whitlam Federal Government following a commitment made in the 1972 election to invite the states to hand over their railway systems to the federal government. In July 1975 Australian National Railways was formed taking over the operations of the federal government owned Commonwealth Railways.

The state governments of South Australia and Tasmania whose railway systems were deeply in debt, accepted. During the next two years discussions between these two states and the federal government resulted in a number of staffing and operating agreements being made that resulted in all South Australian Railways services (except for the Adelaide metropolitan passenger network) and all Tasmanian Government Railways services transferring to Australian National Railway in March 1978, the latter being re-branded AN Tasrail.

At first Victoria declined to hand over its Railways, however a change of Government after Bolte retired meant Victoria could be absorbed into AN as well.
Despite doing everything they could to tarnish ALP leader Clyde Holding, The ALP were able to defeat Hamer who was seen to be just another Bolte, doing more of the same into the future.

Clyde Holding handed over Victorian Railways to the Commonwealth where it prospered as a division of AN retaining its VR colours until later when AN decided to re-brand it as V/Line.

My Railway thus reflects what could have been ;)
And of course National Rail (Pacific National) has no place in my little scenario. Australian National was never privatised and has continually taken East Coast loads off the Highways. As well many branch lines were upgraded and Whitlam's policy of decentralisation actually moved employment to towns with a ready pool of workers, which of course took the pressure of Melbourne which was starting to expand as bush kids moved away from the Country in search of education and employment ( just as Gough Whitlam envisaged it would do)
Rod Young

Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!

2019/04/28

2019_04_28 Tradesman bitch!! and more wiring

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