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in and ran it for 20 seconds and tried it. It turned right off!
How about that!
I found another jar with a stuck lid, and being the brilliant
Rube Goldberg that I am, dropped it into the cleaner for
20 seconds and it would not budge. Well, I put it in for
another 20, nothing and another 20, and still nothing. It
hadn't exploded, so what the hay, the "Full Monty." 180
seconds and guess what, it came off. So we now know two
things. One, it works, and two, it won't go boom if left in for
180 seconds!
– Peter Herron
Egg carton organizer
After setting coupler heights on a group of eBay bargain
log cars which used bodies, trucks, and wheelsets from
several different manufacturers, I didn't want to get them
all mixed up in the painting process. Most of the trucks had
replacement wheels from Intermountain, but others had
Kadee or Proto 2000 wheels.
The solution was as close as the paper recycling bin. An egg
carton (3) gave me a dozen compartments – enough to hold
the truck frames and wheels that needed to be painted. The
individual spots are marked with the last three digits of the
car numbers, using a Sharpie.
Egg cartons are easy to trim to the needed number of
compartments and are a good way to keep small parts from
running away when assembling a batch of freight cars.
– Graham Line
MRH-Sep 2013
