April 17th, Bank Holiday Monday

The long weekend is nearly over, work has come to a standstill due to my list of jobs being fulfilled, and those other things to be done can't be done until some bits arrive in the post.

I purchased an Archimedes Drill some days ago, when I realised that the flexi track and streamline points don't have pre-drilled holes in them for track pins. I got it at Maplins, I can't remember how much it was - around £5.00 I think. It is a very good product though, and it comes with two different sizes of collet (word of the day!) which gives it a range from 0mm - 2mm. I already had some mini drill bits, minus their case unfortunately - so sizing them involves a lot of guesswork(!)
However, today I set about making holes in the sleepers of the curved section of flexi track that has, for now, been held in place by some small squares of double sided tape. I was going to count out the spacing for the holes, but in the end I decided to use the position of the track pins in the adjacent curve as my guide, and this worked just fine.

I will also need to make holes and place track pins along the length of the scenic section of track but I am waiting for some extra peco sleepers to arrive in the post, to fill in the unsightly gaps on this part of the layout, these are caused by the fact that the flexi track sleeper sections don't go over the fishplates, also I omitted to remove a piece of ugly sleeper section from one end of a curved​ piece of track (pictured) that would be visible and needs replacing.

Incidentally, I have found that there has been no need to hammer track pins in on this layout, some even pressure on a mid sized punch does the job and you don't end up with the pins going in farther than needed and bending the shape out of the sleepers! :-S

Enjoy your Bank Holiday all!