I love design and building. I enjoy woodworking, electronics and model railroading while making furniture and storage for small spaces. You can also follow me on my Blog at petecreations.com to learn more about the pieces I build. Thanks for watching! Sincerely, Peter Waldraff
I really appreciate your channel and I am starting to get ready for my project. It is called Trains in frames frames by Steve. You can guess by my title what it's all about. By the way Steve's trains told me to look at your projects, which I already did. I'm enjoying your channel a whole lot! But I am in no way in the same league as you guys are.
Thanks Steve, and tell Steve from Steve trains thank you for the referral!! I’m not sure what league I’m in, Steve is far ahead of me in subscribers.😀 I wish you best of luck with your project. I look forward to seeing it in you tube! You got your self a subscriber. If you have any questions on any of my projects don’t hesitate to ask. Thanks again !!
I love everything about this but the train crossing sound. That would drive me insane hearing that over and over. I totally loved everything else you did. Close Encounters theme is spot on. Well done, sir!
They make flashlights like that. I have one,. you wind it up for 30sec. And it's good for some time. 5$ 20yrs old.. Still works. I believe they make radios like that too. No batteries.. Want to get one. Ps. Like your train man,.. pretty cool. Looks like you had a lot of fun making it,..and do after. Thanks for showing. A veteran 1Cav. Age 67.
Appreciate that! Yes they all take lots of time to plan and experiment. I would say for me personally I spend 75% of the time thinking, planing and experiments prior to building. Once I start building it go fairly quick. Then if I hit a road block in the building there is more thinking and solving. I love the whole process. Thanks for watching!
Very impressive,but I can’t figure out how your circuit works? Did you use a latching relay? Is the cap and resistor connected to the relay coil there to keep it held on( if so how does it get time to charge?) There does not appear to be a fly back diode across the relay coil? Tia
Here is a video of the circuit. I think it will answer all your questions. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JRzRFmBllho.htmlsi=C51x9SHAcEfdYgyH
@@PeterWaldraff brilliant the circuit is different to the one in the first video , this one makes perfect sense thank you for sharing your excellent work.
Quite charming. If the gems could appear in the truck, whilst parked in the mine and then cascade down the cliff at the top of the train run they could be endlessly collected and delivered.
Yes, and it’s easy to replace parts as they are exposed under the case. It’s my mistake used train layout, I crank it every time I’m near it. It’s addicting😀.
1. Flip Coffee Table is just AMAZING , 2. Close Encounter - amazing mechanism, 3. Epoxy River - incredible idea and execution, 4. The Tiny Train's Dinner is very cool - honorable mention
Peter, You make it so difficult to choose! Your integration of electronics, woodworking and model trains is spectacular. The Epoxy River is very impressive, but so is the coffee table. I like them both, but give extra points to Epoxy River for artistic effect. The Crank Generator Display gets an award in the novel concept category. Thanks for showing these projects.
Boy, hard to pick one of those. I think I would have to go with the Epoxy River. It isn't my favorite layout per se, but I love the completed piece as a whole. The Close Encounter table is awesome, but I really hadn't seen something like the Epoxy River before in terms of a small fold-down layout like that which doubled as an art piece. I've of course seen bigger fold-down layouts in the murphy bed style, but that small one that looks amazing folded up is really cool.
Epoxy River is my wife’s favorite also. Dont know if you read the quote at the start of that one, but she never knew it was a train layout, and thought it was a cool epoxy art piece. That is how I presented it to her, she said “that would be cool”. Then my daughter home from college mentioned the train inside and my wife was like “what!?!?”. I guess she does not pay attention to my builds🤷♂️🤣. Anyway thanks for your input, appreciated!
@@PeterWaldraff The coffee table i thought was awesome but as the video went on my eyes started getting bigger and bigger 😂 the one that rises up when you pull up on it and the one that looks like hanging art work on the wall till you open it up are deffinatly my two favorites, so number 2 & 3.
Jeez, the poor dog is just looking at it! Why even open the thing, if it’s gonna cause you to scold your pup for no reason!?!$? For just sniffing the dumb lamp??
