The Big Bambu!

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Re: The Big Bambu!

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Fri Oct 27, 2017 6:30 am

DaveJfr0 wrote:.........the little mini layout I've started on has a max radius of maybe 40.5" anyways.


A man's got to know his limitations....
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Re: The Big Bambu!

Postby up148 » Fri Oct 27, 2017 7:39 am

Great quote and so true!!!!

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Re: The Big Bambu!

Postby Tom Dempsey » Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:30 am

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:A man's got to know his limitations....


Kinda' takes the challenge out of life, doesn't it?
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Re: The Big Bambu!

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:37 am

Tom Dempsey wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:A man's got to know his limitations....


Kinda' takes the challenge out of life, doesn't it?


Maybe, it will also eliminate excess failure.

And, it will keep some from doing amazingly stupid things, like buying a brass engine that one can't run on one's layout, or having to take out a loan to buy. My CFO takes a dim view of my excesses....
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Re: The Big Bambu!

Postby Tom Dempsey » Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:42 am

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Maybe, it will also eliminate excess failure.
And, it will keep some from doing amazingly stupid things, like buying a brass engine that one can't run on one's layout, or having to take out a loan to buy. My CFO takes a dim view of my excesses....


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Re: The Big Bambu!

Postby E7 » Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:47 am

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:And, it will keep some from doing amazingly stupid things, like buying a brass engine that one can't run on one's layout, or having to take out a loan to buy. My CFO takes a dim view of my excesses....


Agreed....if you're borrowing to buy this kind of stuff, you have a PROBLEM. As for CFO's, never hurts to have a "sanity check"! :D
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Re: The Big Bambu!

Postby DaveJfr0 » Fri Oct 27, 2017 2:24 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
DaveJfr0 wrote:.........the little mini layout I've started on has a max radius of maybe 40.5" anyways.


A man's got to know his limitations....


Or I get it and run it on a future layout. This is sometimes a hobby of just stashing away models in closets for decades, amirite?
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Re: The Big Bambu!

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:20 pm

DaveJfr0 wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
DaveJfr0 wrote:.........the little mini layout I've started on has a max radius of maybe 40.5" anyways.


A man's got to know his limitations....


Or I get it and run it on a future layout. This is sometimes a hobby of just stashing away models in closets for decades, amirite?


If you have the disposable cash and space, maybe. That future may never materialize...
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Re: The Big Bambu!

Postby J. S. Bach » Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:27 pm

DaveJfr0 wrote:Or I get it and run it on a future layout. This is sometimes a hobby of just stashing away models in closets for decades, amirite?

I know a few like that; myself included!
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Re: The Big Bambu!

Postby sarge » Fri Oct 27, 2017 5:13 pm

I agree.

A man's got to know his limitations, for how else can he feel the satisfaction that comes from exceeded them?
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Re: The Big Bambu!

Postby Tom Dempsey » Fri Oct 27, 2017 5:29 pm

If you exceed them, then, you didn't really know them, did you?
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Re: The Big Bambu!

Postby sarge » Fri Oct 27, 2017 5:36 pm

Tom, I believe that depends entirely on who imposed them.

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Re: The Big Bambu!

Postby Carey Williams » Sat Oct 28, 2017 11:15 am

Hello all

Here is a door stop era Big Bambu ......hand crafted out of wood, bristol board ? steel + brass , 4 trucks with lots of brake stuff...pity the poor brake man turning the brake wheel as this car rolls down a hil . Price was right ..was added to a pile of vintage cars with no increase in outlay . Can we assume there were plans to make one of these in MR at some time ?
If it can not turn on a 48" radi ...may just have to live on a siding .

Cheers Carey

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Re: The Big Bambu!

Postby E7 » Sat Oct 28, 2017 11:20 am

Pretty neat stuff Carey! Never figured I would see one of those in Doorstop Mode!

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Re: The Big Bambu!

Postby E7 » Mon Oct 30, 2017 3:03 am

Rolling right along at $900+.

Not really my cup O' tea, but interesting.
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