Central Arizona Chapter
January Minutes
The January meeting was held on the 12th at the home Andy O'Brien. Many
thanks to Andy for hosting, and serving that great lunch!
The meeting was called to order by CJ at 11:55. In attendance were
C.J. Hanselman, Steve and Debi Young,
Tim and Karen Johnson, Jim Poor, Andy
O'Brien, Chuck Weart, and Bill Nagel.
Old Business:
Clinics--CJ reports that Tim of Roy's Train World agreed to give a
clinic on locomotive maintenance. He will get back to CJ when he is
available. Steve noted that Roy's is about the only place around here
which works on Marklin equipment. Steve had a great experience with
maintenance on one of his locomotives. He was charged only $8 for the
repair. CJ also related a success story at Roy's.
Steve has a hand rebuild Marklin steam locomotive in need of some
repair. He would like to donate it to the club if someone is willing to
do the maintenance.
New Business:
Modules-- The template is done. As soon as CJ can get together with
Bob, they will pick it up. The next question is where and who will work
on the first module. CJ suggested building an end loop first. Then
anyone can build inner modules which can attach to it or to other inner
modules. One more end loop is also needed to complete a dog bone
circuit. CJ will send an e-mail asking anyone who is interested in
working on the end loop to reply to him. A place to build the module
will then be worked out, as well as dates for when it can be worked on.
Bill Nagel brought up the need to keep track of club assets such as the
end modules, and any club equipment. One possibility is for everyone to
keep track of their own equipment. It was mentioned that for shows that
would be a lot of wear on personal equipment. Chuck suggested we ask
other clubs what they do.
Chuck offered about 10-12 structure kits to the club. He will check on
what he has and get back to us.
After the meeting and lunch, we put our heads together and puzzled out
some of the coupler issues that some of us had.
The meeting was adjourned at 12:35.
Update on the membership dues and 2008 members: Bob communicated via
e-mail that he has sent to national ETE all dues and membership
applications he had collected from the December meeting. At the January
meeting two more members presented their dues to Jim. Jim gave those to
me, and I will send them on to the national ETE Monday (1/14). Paid up
for 2008 are:
Bill Davis, CJ Hanselman, Tim and Karen Johnson, Jim Poor, Alfred
Rayher, Bob Rebsamen, Chuck Weart, Steve and Debbie Young, Bill Nagel,
Ole Oest, Andy
O'Brien.
For the next several meetings, the venues will be
February - Bob
March - Fred (tentative)
April - Tim and Karen
Respectfully submitted,
Tim Johnson, Secretary