What happened at your workbench today?

Yep, Facebook, don't see the point for anything serious.

My two big gripes are that things disappear, away into the blogosphere, so returning back to anything is a nightmare - a big no-no for online retail.

Secondly, on feeds where I have put a potentially controversial comment (in accordance with my beliefs) and the topic has had a lot of comments, I find it nearly impossible to get back down to reply to someone who has responded to my comment amongst the other few hundred comments which are squeezed out by the original picture.

It's not a helpful platform and I think it's instantaneous appeal - here today, gone tomorrow - actually feeds the anger and vituperative comments.
 
Rhinochugger said:
Yep, Facebook, don't see the point for anything serious.

My two big gripes are that things disappear, away into the blogosphere, so returning back to anything is a nightmare - a big no-no for online retail.

Secondly, on feeds where I have put a potentially controversial comment (in accordance with my beliefs) and the topic has had a lot of comments, I find it nearly impossible to get back down to reply to someone who has responded to my comment amongst the other few hundred comments which are squeezed out by the original picture.

It's not a helpful platform and I think it's instantaneous appeal - here today, gone tomorrow - actually feeds the anger and vituperative comments.
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Precisely. I also have my own beliefs, and will post something on FB about them. Any feedback is quick and short lived. Onto the next subject.....:wondering:
 
Rhinochugger said:
Yep, Facebook, don't see the point for anything serious.

My two big gripes are that things disappear, away into the blogosphere, so returning back to anything is a nightmare - a big no-no for online retail.

Secondly, on feeds where I have put a potentially controversial comment (in accordance with my beliefs) and the topic has had a lot of comments, I find it nearly impossible to get back down to reply to someone who has responded to my comment amongst the other few hundred comments which are squeezed out by the original picture.

It's not a helpful platform and I think it's instantaneous appeal - here today, gone tomorrow - actually feeds the anger and vituperative comments.
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Agree with all you say Rhino. It appears as if developed for the short minded as anyone who may have watched the film ‘the social notwork’ will appreciate. I would certainly not use it to sell anything as to my mind there appears to be no protection for either sellers or buyers, though I am open to correction on that view. But then many use it big time so we may be in the minority over our views. I hate it.
 
It just seems a platform for half wits to use to vent their spleen, pretty much anonymously, knowing there's not going to be any come-back
 
The RailPrint munitions wagon has had a coat of primer, and as I hoped/expected this removed its Coco the Clown appearance.
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I could have left it like that, but of course the Jiminy Cricket obsessive started whispering in my ear: "that's the wrong shade of grey, and the ironwork should be black"...
So I brush coated it in a Coach & Wagon Works light grey, and then set about masking it up for the black; I was about ⅔rds of the way through this by the close of play tonight.
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BakerJohn said:
So, this post is not What happened at [my] workbench today? but rather What happened to [my] workbench today? And... it was a couple days ago...

I built myself a workbench!! For the past few years, I've been modeling on a plastic table or whatever small surfaces I could find to work on. But, as of two days ago I finally have a space to work that is dedicated for my projects.
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This is installed in one of our apartment's closets, over this silly bump in the floor (for the stairs below) and directly in front of the attic access. So, it folds up...
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(please excuse the mess in that photo, I took it while I was still installing the workbench)

A few build photos for your enjoyment...
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The only downside to this arrangement is that my stock lives in the other closet. Not enough space in this one. But, everything else (tools, parts, etc) are all within arms reach of my seat at this bench. So, I'm quite pleased with it. (Just don't look at my woodworking skills too closely please!)
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Superb novel solution to the eternal lack of space problem.
 
Coach update, a lot of faffing getting the tumble home right on the chassis and after producing vast amounts of sawdust, today saw body and chassis united.20250207_144448.jpg
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End beading and partitions next.
 
Fezwig said:
Coach update, a lot of faffing getting the tumble home right on the chassis and after producing vast amounts of sawdust, today saw body and chassis united.View attachment 338631
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End beading and partitions next.
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Just realized you have a kitchen table workbench, we probably all have used one of them in our time. Some of my better work was produced on one, proper workbench never came into my lexicon till I extended the house at Horbury Bridge around 1979. Even this was only a small table, but it had a tiny draw for some tools and was in a dedicated Model Railway room.
 
John Randall said:
Proper railway men do !
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Was always said when I joined the railway in 1964 that the railway ran on tea and copulation, well a word that meant that anyway.
 
dunnyrail said:
Was always said when I joined the railway in 1964 that the railway ran on tea and copulation, well a word that meant that anyway.
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There's not much tea these days on the privatised railway....
 
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