Since my last blog entry it has been one step forward and 3 backwards on several occasions. But now we can see the light at the end of the tunnel - or is it a headlamp of an oncoming train?
The double glazing was installing in the garage on budget and schedule. But the roof, wood burner and main door were not. I couldn't find a roofer who would touch the roof for less than £2000; all I wanted was the ridge re-pointed and about a quarter of the eaves tiles replaced. I couldn't find a wat
Today Dave and I have made a massive leap forward. Over the last few months I have first cleared loads of rubbish out of the garage and have then been making five fiddle yard boards with help form Dave and Rob. Today Fiona has helped Dave and myself completely clean the garage of 100 years of spiders, cobwebs and general dirt. We virtually emptied the last remaining items and have put up the new multi-purpose fiddle yard that will serve 3 layouts:
26'6 long for Awrhyllgwami Quarry and Pe
A second brake van with lamps at the veranda end. This has been a lot harder as there is so little space on the veranda to get my finger into to position the led. Its' not working yet because I need another flicker free unit.
I also need to touch up the damaged paint and weathering.
I just received two packets from DCC concepts, via Bromsgrove Models. The first is a sample pack of their FlickerFree lights and the second a packet of 6 working guards van lamps, in 4mm. After a little messing around with resistor values to get the reds the same brightness as a normal 1.8mm LED this is what I've achieved today:
The white lights stay on for about 10 minutes after removing the track power and the reds are still on over an hour later.
Phosphor bronze pickups are
2 sheds where delivered and erected in August and ever since then I've been trying to fill then with stuff from the garage so that the garage can become a layout room. On Wednesday the tool shed was almost finally filled with the garden tools. Today I've almost finished fitting 5 old kitchen cupboards and a worktop into the large shed, just 2 more shelves to go on the wall and them it will be ready to use. The only problem I can see it that it is a 1/4 of the size of the garage....
