Clevedon update and dabbling with a 7mm tractor
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Evening. It's been a while hasn't it?
Fear not, the silence doesn't indicate lack of layout activity, just the ongoing and rather mundane electrical wiring of Clevedon WC&PR. The second board is now done. I linked the two together for the first time on Saturday and we had trains running. Just the third one to go. I couldn't bring myself to post photos of the rats nest of wiring, but I have attached a shot of the underboard turnout operating unit involving an Exactoscale mounting plate and a roller microswitch. The operating rods are not yet shown but it works well. I need to buy one or two bits from Scaleforum next week so have crated the boards back up for a while.
And so to something completely different, namely the Steam and Things kit for the WC&PR's 2nd Fordson tractor. Those of you who have seen Weston WC&PR will know I've modelled one of these in 4mm EM, but this is an etched brass kit in the 7mm scale. I had a rather pleasant afternoon soldering bits of metal to other bits of metal and the photo below shows the result. I don't think I'm likely to go over to 7mm, it's all a bit too big for my liking, though it's easy to solder bits and pieces with the RSU. Again, I now need to purchase things like wheels and motors at Scaleforum. The tractor with the milk trailer will eventually make its way to the WC&PR group for display on their stand at exhibitions.
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