Jack On Tracks

Jack On Tracks

Just a guy that like to run trains, build cool stuff, and learn new things.

TBS 20 Atlas/Kato RS 3 windows

TBS 20 Atlas/Kato RS 3 windows

WITB 35 JEWLERS SAW

WITB 35 JEWLERS SAW

TBS 18 Hoppers

TBS 18 Hoppers

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  • @NYandAtlantic
    @NYandAtlantic14 күн бұрын

    I prefer to not ballast time consuming

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks14 күн бұрын

    Believe me it is my least favorite thing to do but it is the biggest transformational thing on a layout.

  • @NYandAtlantic
    @NYandAtlantic14 күн бұрын

    @@JackOnTracks I’m getting better noticed 2 spots that stuff was on top of ties but I can easily get it off even when glued

  • @NYandAtlantic
    @NYandAtlantic14 күн бұрын

    Excellent work as usual

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks14 күн бұрын

    Thank you

  • @TwoRailfans
    @TwoRailfans19 күн бұрын

    Looks great!

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks19 күн бұрын

    Thank you I'm just about burnt out on this build but I'm glad it's coming out looking good.

  • @TwoRailfans
    @TwoRailfans19 күн бұрын

    @@JackOnTracks I get that and sometimes set a project aside for a while. Have a good weekend.

  • @bigthicketforge
    @bigthicketforgeАй бұрын

    Some super glues I use leave behind a frosting after they cure. It wipes off easy but it's a pain in the nooks and crannies

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracksАй бұрын

    Ivery happy with the Tamiya and only use CA for non plastic to plastic bonding

  • @bigthicketforge
    @bigthicketforgeАй бұрын

    Right on 👍

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracksАй бұрын

    Thanks

  • @blainedunlap4242
    @blainedunlap4242Ай бұрын

    Save some money and just order the gears from ALine. Nothing wrong with the wheels.

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracksАй бұрын

    those replacement sets where the same as the Aline I think, but I have used the Alines in a couple of Athearn's,

  • @NYandAtlantic
    @NYandAtlantic2 ай бұрын

    Leave it as is one side will always be lighter than the other great job

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks2 ай бұрын

    Thank you just happy to be making progress on these buildings

  • @dencanski
    @dencanski2 ай бұрын

    I think the job can be done from underneath without taking the shell off...

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks2 ай бұрын

    True it can be done. I take the shell off not to damage ant of the details.

  • @NYandAtlantic
    @NYandAtlantic2 ай бұрын

    Looks great

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks2 ай бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @NYandAtlantic
    @NYandAtlantic2 ай бұрын

    The grey will give it a bit of contrast when done

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks2 ай бұрын

    Yes and after weathering it darkens up

  • @NYandAtlantic
    @NYandAtlantic2 ай бұрын

    Lol

  • @NYandAtlantic
    @NYandAtlantic2 ай бұрын

    Your bench is a big mess

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks2 ай бұрын

    Messy means a lot of work is getting done. Lol

  • @NYandAtlantic
    @NYandAtlantic3 ай бұрын

    Excellent job

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks2 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much!

  • @NYandAtlantic
    @NYandAtlantic3 ай бұрын

    I can’t do NScale due to eyesight or my little 4x8 would be a blast

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks3 ай бұрын

    Yeah it small for sure

  • @NYandAtlantic
    @NYandAtlantic3 ай бұрын

    What’s wrong with chessie system

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks3 ай бұрын

    Nothing just not my thing I don't like the colors but I do like CXS, and this maybe my favorite livery they had.

  • @NYandAtlantic
    @NYandAtlantic3 ай бұрын

    Nice car

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks3 ай бұрын

    There is going to be a lot of N Scale stuff come maybe a switching layout.

  • @NYandAtlantic
    @NYandAtlantic3 ай бұрын

    Cannot wait to see it completed

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks3 ай бұрын

    It's coming along pretty good few things I'll do different.

  • @davidbarrera308
    @davidbarrera3083 ай бұрын

    If I try to install that size decoder in that spot it always hangs up the front truck.

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks3 ай бұрын

    I fixed that issue by making a minor adjustment to the truck pick-up wires. I have two more SW7s that need decoders installed; one will be equipped with sound. I plan to construct brackets from Styrene for mounting the decoders and will likely upgrade the mounting in this one too. For the moment, however, it's operating on a local.

  • @whiteknightcat
    @whiteknightcat4 ай бұрын

    You opened the box upside down

  • @scottrectenwald1015
    @scottrectenwald10154 ай бұрын

    So what?

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks4 ай бұрын

    I do that so the sellers info is not visible. thank you for watching. There's mor to come with these hoppers so hit that notification button.

  • @NYandAtlantic
    @NYandAtlantic4 ай бұрын

    Stinks you have to rip it up

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks4 ай бұрын

    Yep, that one hurt. The wife saw what I had to do and asked If I needed a drink, I said just send the bottle no glass needed.

  • @NYandAtlantic
    @NYandAtlantic4 ай бұрын

    @@JackOnTracks lmao all part of the hobby

  • @UPRailfan
    @UPRailfan4 ай бұрын

    Very cool

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks4 ай бұрын

    Sometime simple way is the best way to do something.

  • @DaveSCHS
    @DaveSCHS4 ай бұрын

    Nice work. What color grout did you use? I see from your shirt that you're Setauket FD. My brother is Yaphank FD.

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks4 ай бұрын

    Thank you. I used charcoal/black grout. I was in S.F.D. many years ago.

  • @DaveSCHS
    @DaveSCHS4 ай бұрын

    @@JackOnTracks, I used black unsanded grout to ballast my yard tracks.

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks4 ай бұрын

    @@DaveSCHS that is unwanted as well. I have a bag of fine and medium cinders for my yard.

  • @Patriotvb
    @Patriotvb5 ай бұрын

    You gotta be in it to win it!

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Yes you do.

  • @Patriotvb
    @Patriotvb5 ай бұрын

    Thank you!!!!!

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    You're welcome! And thanks for watching. Email me at [email protected] and I'll get this out to you.

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Congratulations to PatriotVB on winning this Giveaway.

  • @jackseamon7064
    @jackseamon70645 ай бұрын

    👍

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    👍

  • @jackseamon7064
    @jackseamon70645 ай бұрын

    Nice video.

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @jackseamon7064
    @jackseamon70645 ай бұрын

    Enjoying these videos. You do a good job explaining what you're thinking about doing and why you may have changed your mind.

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    I appreciate that!

  • @jackseamon7064
    @jackseamon70645 ай бұрын

    Keep up the good work! 👍

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Thanks, will do!

  • @jackseamon7064
    @jackseamon70645 ай бұрын

    Nice work.

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Thanks you! there be a Ntrak build and a Free-Mo build coming up.

  • @jackseamon7064
    @jackseamon70645 ай бұрын

    Nice video. Good enough tools for the job. And everything does its job.

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Yes, they do.

  • @jackseamon7064
    @jackseamon70645 ай бұрын

    Nice music. This already elevates you above many channels. Good job taming the basement. Mine kept doing the same thing so I sold the house and moved to a double wide mobile home. 👍 Interesting channel so I subscribed.

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Thanks 👍

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    THE WINNER WAS DRAWN AND WILL BE ANNOUNCED FRIDAY SO HIT THAT NOTIFCAITION BOTTON. AND STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT GIVEWAY BUILD.

  • @w.rustylane5650
    @w.rustylane56505 ай бұрын

    I enjoy watching you kitbash the interior. You got some good ideas. Just sitting here drinking a beer and eating some hot ass salsa & chips. Who makes the goose neck lights? I like 'em and would like to put one on my barn. Cheers from eastern TN

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Thank you. I'll be moving to Tennessee in the next 18month.Those are Woodland Scenic. but if you look on Ebay there a guy that have them for like 10 for $10

  • @w.rustylane5650
    @w.rustylane56505 ай бұрын

    I got some Precision styrene glue from Yankee Dabbler that has a long metal applicator for precise gluing and it worked well for my Tichy flatcar build. It sets a little quicker than Plasturct glue and Mr. Cement and actually holds better. Cheers - TN

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    thanks for the info I've been a Tamiya guy for year. I would like to find some Tenex that stuff works great.

  • @w.rustylane5650
    @w.rustylane56505 ай бұрын

    Still here, following your progress as you complete the build on this very interesting building. On my new layout I plan on running a 12 volt buss wire along with a ground wire through the center of the layout. I've got several reels of 12 volt LED strip lighting I've been using to illuminate my coaches (passenger cars). They can be cut apart at every 3rd LED and already have the current limiting (ballast) resistors on each section of the LED's. I plan to use about 3 LED's per building and running wires as you would run drops to feed the tracks but instead use the drops to light the buildings. Cheers from eastern TN

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Thanks 👍

  • @w.rustylane5650
    @w.rustylane56505 ай бұрын

    I'm also a Ham radio operator. Cheers - TN

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Cool I'm a Ham sandwich operator. LOL😂🤣😂🤣

  • @w.rustylane5650
    @w.rustylane56505 ай бұрын

    I make my own rust powder out of 0000 steel wool & vinegar. I put about 2 or 3 rolls of 0000 steel wool in a quart jar and fill it up with vinegar & put it in the kitchen window for about a month. After most of the steel wool has dissolved and formed rust, I pour the mixture out into my stainless steel 11X14 photo processing pan (a flat baking dish would also work) and wait a couple of weeks for it to completely dry. I then use a single edged razor blade and pulverize it into a powder and store it in little snuff tins. Then just use it as any other type of weathering powder. I sometimes use my A-proxo knife to gouge the plastic and fill it with the rust powder mixed with some Elmer's glue (PVA). On the little gas tank on the Walthers chicken coops and farm buildings I painted it white and the stand a light brown. I then dabbed the rust on the bottom of the gas tank and it came out very nicely weathered with some rust bleeding through. Cheers from eastern TN

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Thats a good idea on making the rust powder.

  • @w.rustylane5650
    @w.rustylane56505 ай бұрын

    I just finished a Walthers Cornerstone chicken coops and farm buildings & they came out really nice. I hand painted every detail after installation. I think on my next build I will do like you did and airbrush the windows before installing as they can be painted more precisely with an airbrush than trying to hand paint everything. I see you switched from the built in applicator to a paint brush to glue parts. Think I'll start doing that too. Looks to be a lot easier using a small paint brush. Cheers - TN

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    That is awesome! And yes, the paint brush hade it much easier to get the glue where I wanted it.

  • @w.rustylane5650
    @w.rustylane56505 ай бұрын

    I've got a big ole hunk of steel 6 1/2 inches by 7 1/2 by 1 3/4 inches and it is perfectly square & weight about 17 pounds. I've got some welders magnets and use them for keeping my buildings square as I build them. I just found another little piece of square steel and will use it as well. I had ordered 3 1-2-3 blocks but the stupid post office lost them just after they had arrived. Really pissed me off. Cheers from eastern TN

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    I have some 1-2-3 blocks in my future

  • @w.rustylane5650
    @w.rustylane56505 ай бұрын

    After much swearing & cussing I finally finished the assembly of a Tichy Train Group flatcar. I watched another modeler build one in a video & I really liked the brake detail on the underside of the chassis (which no one will ever see). I followed the directions to a tee and wished I hadn't. In a previous step I installed the stirrups and when trying to install the extra added bronze phosphor wire grab irons I broke off every stirrup. If you ever build this kit install the stirrups as the LAST step. I did make some replacement stirrups out of some staples from a desktop stapler which were the right size. I think I spent as much time chasing small parts across the floor as I did building the model, LOL! Upon completion of the build I painted each board on the deck a different shade of brown mixing my acrylic paint in a plastic communion cup as I went along. It came out very realistic. Now on to a load for my flatcar. Cheers from eastern TN

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Stay tune there a couple of Tichy build coming up and maybe a few Flat Cars

  • @bigfoot13
    @bigfoot135 ай бұрын

    When are you planning to do the giveaway?

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    WINNER VIDEO WILL BE OUT FRIDAY

  • @w.rustylane5650
    @w.rustylane56505 ай бұрын

    The way I do bricks is to give it the white or black mortar first and let it settle into the grooves then come back and paint the brick faces. Another way is to first paint the brick faces making sure you don't get the color into the mortar grooves then come back and use a grout (white or black, etc.) and get it into the grooves. After getting the grout into the grooves, top coat with a flat lacquer or acrylic, whatever you use. That will seal the grout into the mortar grooves. You always want to use contrasting colors for the brick faces and the mortar joints. I like red bricks with black mortar or dark brown bricks with white mortar. Just so they contrast with each other. Cheers from eastern TN

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Thanks Ill be doing a red brick build shortly.

  • @w.rustylane5650
    @w.rustylane56505 ай бұрын

    Wife got me some emery boards from the dollar store & I use them for sanding sticks. Works great! Cheers from eastern TN

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Great tip!

  • @zzrguy1200
    @zzrguy12005 ай бұрын

    Looks great I like the controls for the lights.

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Thanks 👍

  • @Yuri-x2
    @Yuri-x25 ай бұрын

    congratulations man ❤

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Thank you 🙌

  • @NYandAtlantic
    @NYandAtlantic5 ай бұрын

    You do well enough for sure

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Thanks.

  • @paulatherton985
    @paulatherton9855 ай бұрын

    Great job!! Looks great!!

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Glad you like it!

  • @NYandAtlantic
    @NYandAtlantic5 ай бұрын

    That looks awesome you make it look so easy. Great job keep up the good work

  • @JackOnTracks
    @JackOnTracks5 ай бұрын

    Thanks 👍Just wise i could have figured a way to add the Freds without hacking up the inside

  • @cgdixon1
    @cgdixon15 ай бұрын

    How long before he takes his clothes off? 😮🎉😊