Another 4 long days has given me Friday off, so I'm spending the day wiring. Started by attaching the point controllers to the board, then spent the entire morning session of the cricket connecting everything up. Did briefly consider trying to work out how to connect the frog wiring so it would work first time, but came to the conclusion that I could spend 5 minutes confusing myself and getting it wrong 80% of the time, or just put it together and get 50% wrong. Added to that is the excitement of figuring out which way the point will move under control anyway. Save for any wiring needed by the (non-laid) storage sidings at the back, I think that board is finished.

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Finished the morning by gluing down the 4th track on the main sector plate. Whilst that was drying I made a start on the control panel. As I've discussed before, this panel is for conventional control, and will be well lit by route and occupation LEDs. As a result, there was a lot of drilling to do - enough to empty the battery on my drill, and then discover the other battery wasn't charged. A bit annoying! The panel was therefore left with half the holes undrilled.

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Finished the day by preparing for wiring the right hand board. As usual, first thing to do was the marking of the track plan, followed by naming of the droppers, ready for working on tomorrow.

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