Good Evening people,
Life in Sproston is generally quiet, but occasionally something happens to upset the 00 gauge apple cart, as has happened just recently.
The Hornby 'B' set has had the incorrectly painted black roof extended down to and including the cant rail (which in this case now becomes the 'can' rail ....!! feeble attempt at humour).- one step forward.

The Hawksworth autocoach now has its roof painted white internally, the non driving end inside wall is finished in a fetching shade of wood brown, and the coach has had its ride height (which was slightly low) adjusted by putting a 1mm plastic collar round each of the bogie pivots to raise the body,- so the buffers now line up with the loco (64xx pt), and a small tension lock coupling has been re-fitted to the driving end. This had been removed previously (as it fouled the vacuum pipes and scale couplings fitted, due to the coach body being low) but will be required now to enable the autotrain to haul tail-traffic, necessary on the draught timetable I have recently produced for the layout.- Second step forward.

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All was going well, until one of the Seep slave point motors driving the panel LED's that repeat the lie of the points in the (hidden) fiddle yard refused to play ball. After much fiddling.( good name for a future GWR branch line layout?) I managed to make a second seep u/s... at this point I decided to quit whilst I was still ahead, and rushed out to my local model shop here in Kings Lynn and purchased two replacements.
Half of the next day was spent swearing and cursing, sitting in uncomfortable positions, burning myself and occasionally hitting my head on the underside of the layout framework, however at the end of the day the two defective slave motors had been renewed, and the indications on the panel once again were all working correctly.- One step back.

Until next time, "That's yer lot"...comments always welcome,
Regards,
SIGTECH.
(Steve.)