I was working on a reluctant switch machine tonight. Decided to remove it for closer inspection so I removed it from the underside of the table and tested it. Everything worked fine. It was when I crawled back under the table to remount it that I discovered I had removed the wrong switch machine.
I had a good laugh at my own expnse. Hope this brightens your day. [:I]
Tom
I spray painted flat black paint into the opening of my mine. I gave a good blast, and was just easing up on the nozzle when I recalled that I had not covered the tracks with tape.
While the basement stopped echoing,“…uck…uck…uck…”, I hung my head and went to fetch a cloth and paint thinner. [|(]
In a recent discussion on another forum, the topic was what trains can run on N scale track. Many good answers, as almost anything could run on N ‘guaged’ track. The designation would be for a narrow gauge in a regular scale.
Someone asked if everyone was aware that in HO, Both HOn30 and HOn2 1/2 can run on the same track and be true to scale.
So I responded (too quickly!) and said, “Okay, I’ll bite. How can they both use the same n gauge track.” No sooner had I typed that out when I realized the HOn30 would have a 30" gauge, and HOn2 1/2 would have 2 1/2 FEET gauge, which is 30 INCHES! DUH!!! Double DUH!!!
So I just said, “Duh!” and “Never mind! I just did the math!” and posted my comment anyway!
That’s my latest “Duh” moment. I hope everyone on the other forum got a laugh out of it, even at my own expense! Hope you enjoyed my story, too.
Darrell, DUH, but quiet…for now
I have a 4" Dremel saw & I was cutting lumber to make stacks around my sawmill. I ran my left index finger through the saw. Sadly what I took off was’nt suitable for lumber stacks.LOL.
my duh, moment just happened. kinda fits in with dgwinup’s, in that it involved a reply to a post. a guy posted a trainmaster. the pic wasnt that good a quality, so i couldnt tell if it was an athearn or atlas. i enlarged the pic, got my atlas and athearn trainmasters in my hands and spent ten min trying to figure it out. well i concluded it WAS an atlas. well, i was right but found out after he posted back, it was N scale, DOH! i assumed it was HO and spent ten min looking at an athearn for nothing.[:-^] in N scale, it could only be an atlas.[;)]
I had some super glue in a bottle cap and I was using a paper clip to put it on a some detail parts for an engine. I was watching TV at the time and got interested in the show. I guess I shifted around a little becuase when I went to get back to work my hand was glued to the workbench. It took half an hour and a bottle of nail polish remover to get free.[B)]
mine happened afew years ago. i was assembling an accurail 50 ft boxcar in ho scale and addd the weight using walthers goo, while the goo hadnt quiet set yet i put the assembled car in its box on its side and the weght shifted so it was on the shell side. i then tried to run the car on my clubs layout but as soon as i put it on the track it rolled over, i then e mailed jim hediger at model railroader and asked what i could do to save the car and he emailed me back with suggestions this question is in the december issue of model railroader in the workshop area last question, this makes 7 times that i have my question appear in model railroader since about 99 or 2000.
btw my name will appear as either thomas or tom huffman
tom
I was running a 2-6-6-2 Spectrum slowly on an approach track to my turntable while testing a newly installed auto-reverse unit. Forgot about the 2-6-6-2 when I was distracted by a derailment elsewhere on the layout. Heard a loud crash only to discover that the 2-6-6-2 had fallen into the turntable pit cause I forgot to line up the bridge track with the approach track. I should of photographed it because it reminded me of a photo that I once saw of the same thing in a Kalmbach book.
Scrathing my head then realising the power point was not swithed on…
I had a good laugh at your expense too… Been there… My latest train one was quite some time ago… Running a new loco around a blind corner in the room, hadn’t remembered I forgot to put the bridge across the door and hadn’t yet wired a safe guard… CRASH!! It ran beautifully, right off the edge of the layout and onto the concrete floor… Didn’t even have to look to see what the noise was… I just knew [:(]… Now my layout has no duckunders, liftouts, or any of that other space gaining stuff.
Jeff
I spelled “lose” using the letter “o” twice. My bad.
Jeff
This was at work but I think it qualifies.
I had just written a work order, gotten the customers keys and sent them off the the waiting area and picked up the phone to page a mechanic. Another customer comes in the door. I say hello and that I will be with them in a moment. Another mechanic asks me a question. I give him a quick answer then notice the phone in my hand and the work order I am still holding so I dial the customers cell number. They answered at the same time I realized I had just sent them into the waiting area and needed a tech to start on their car. What could I do except explain I had a senior moment?
Several months back I spent 45 minutes trying to find a loose wire which was preventing my trains from getting power. After tracing wires, playing with the tester, and puzzling it over, I realized that I had forgotten to turn on my power pack. Doooohhhhhh!
I went to spray some primer from one of those “el cheapo” cans I bought at Wally-World, it had an unusual-looking nozzle on it but I didn’t bother to examine it that closely, aimed and pressed and whammo - paint in the face![:I] […and NO I wasn’t wearing glasses or goggles]
was workin on a siding which leads to the end of the table and had my 0-4-0 running on the main with a cleaning cabboose and as i was workin i must have hit the switch just as i looked back i saw the train hit the siding and from there it was like slow motion the train continued down the siding to the bumper that i was working on which was in my hand and the old bird went for a nice ride to the train gods, so im thinking now i might have a nice static for a crash scene but thats all its good for now
From another thread…
This should maybe be under the “Duh”! thread… I had two Atlas C30-7s hauling about 25, maybe 30 cars on the flat and they stopped DEAD, spinning… Turned out that a coupler had dropped on a car near the back and anchored the train to a switch. Probably pretty rare… it took everyone a heck of a long time to figure out what had happened.
OOPS!
That’s kinda like the time I was doing some work, then turned on the power pack and nothing worked! After spending an hour or so troubleshooting I finally found the problem - I’d unplugged the pack to plug in the Dremel! After that I got an MRC pack witha pilot light on it.
Um… ever spend half an hour stomping round cussing only to find you’ve pushed your specs up on top of your head? I’ve NEVER done that… [:O]
my big duh was laying across the rails , sweating, with my shirt off, to reach a piece of scenery that fell over and forgetting to turn off the power to the track…it lit me up like a christmas tree…(good thing the current didn’t pass thru my heart or it would have sent me into instant de-fib. mode!)
WOW, I never thought the voltage applied to the tracks was high enough to be that dangerous[:0]
A few years ago I got a nice, new GP9. I hard wired a DCC decoder into it and decided to test run it before putting the body shell back on. The headlights didn’t work! So I resolved to just deal with no lights, clipped the wires and removed the bulbs and replaced the body shell. Seems I had forgotten to hit the F0 key on my throttle. The lights didn’t work because I hadn’t turned them on! Duh!
im shure more than 1 cop has done that with pepper spray. [;)]