Disposable body warmers

It's snowy and cold place here in Hakuba, so an old man like me needs to have something to warm myself up e.g. at my knees, waists especially when I need to go out for some.

Disposable body warmers have some descriptions which says something like

Hold this side out - not to your body

I am not sure why there is a face side and back side at a body warmer. What is the difference, anyone?? And.... for an old man with far sighted eyes,

It's very tough to read these small alphabet!!! lol...

If it's like the one in the pic above, I know it's for outside, not to my body side but some have stripes as well as descriptions in the same color which confuses me a lot. So, if I can ask....


This above is very much simpler and better to understand :)
( The large kanji combination says it's "outside".[ not to your body side])

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Take care of your teeth

Now I got my artificial tooth out of my gums. The artificial tooth is what I got when I broke my own tooth there by my ski pole when I lost balance when I skiied roughly 20 years ago. It hurt a lot when a pole hit the tooth, it even hurt my nerve all over all the way to my brain!
The hard part is now I can not pronounce English "th" correctly due to no tooth there. Silent "th" is okay, I guess but if it's noise "th" e.g. moTHer, oTHer etc, it's hard to do it.
And... I avoid laughing when I talk with my guests now. It's too funny to see me laughing without a tooth there when I see it in a mirror lol....
Until when I go to see a dentist next time - some more days - I need to stay with this situation which kinda sucks :(

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Making a layout #22 A river and a lake

Now time to make a river and a lake.Made an upper stream by Woodland "Realistic Water" provided by KATO.

Water Effect. Looks pretty white, but it gets almost milky white when you leave them for 1 day. Water Effect is to express waves etc at the water surface.

Making the bottom of a lake by some plaster sheets. Cut some 4mms thick board for the lakeside to stop water.

Trial for water gradation. Lake Aoki looks like green but Azusa river looks like blue.

Looks different when you put some realistic water there.

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A wheel cleaner

Improved the wheel cleaner which a regular poster to our J-blog presented me.

It seemed that electricity didn't reach the rails, so I added a wire around the red arrow to improve it. It works but a function to control motor cars' direction doesn't work now maybe because of this improvement. But anyway it now cleans wheels, yay!

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Tip of a soldering iron

Replaced it.Actually I have seldom soldered anything, have learned that tips of soldering irons are articles of consumption. They say we had better put some solder at the tip after getting rid of everything by wiping there so that the tips could not be oxidized.

Rail cleaning car at work

Click here

When it comes back, it looks like this.

Messy!!!!!!!!!

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Metro in Madrid '82

Metro in Madrid when I traveled around Europe in 1982

I wondered why train cars of subway in Europe were smaller than ones in Japan inspite of people there were bigger than Japanese. Same in Athens and Paris. Additionally I found that seats in Metro in Paris were what we called "box seats" on which people sit face to face having the window on their side. When I got on a metro in Paris, I had to turn a handle at the door clockwise and when I got off, I had to turn it counterclockwise!! It was a big culture shock. Perhaps there were no "rush hours" there.

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