Greetings.

I have been able to fit some modelling on Glen"Miller"field in between f*rting about ( excuse French) with that 1F chassis and sorting out the usual weekend stuff like seeing my grandsons and getting some exercise.

Since sculptamolding the scenery, I have been itching to lay the yards and level crossing/ roads. I used good old air drying modelling clay, as I found this looked good on the abandoned Barnswell board. Rolled out with the best rolling pin, hopefully a good clean up and She won't mind too much... though she has been dropping hints about the number of railway boards littering the premises just now....

Anway, all scenic levels have now been shaped, and I am beginning to like the flow of this little railway. It is presently drying in the garage - I hope slowly enough to avoid much cracking.

I have still not fixed a backscene. The quote for an 8x4 sheet of flexiply was nearly £34, of which I need a strip 6ft x 12"!! I have put this on hold and need to rethink. The scenery therefore stops at present at the 1/4" slot allowed for this along the back and curved ends!

Back to the pesky 1F.

I had planned on rebuilding the frames, but, you know, the existing ones were ok, and so I had retained them when I binned the rest;so I cleaned them up and rebored the gear holes using society bearings to fix the distance exactly.

First problem - the motor worm would not reach the cog without catching on the drive gear below!

Solution - use a spare axle and a shaft adaptor to extend the reach.

Part soldered and part glued, it spins reasonably true and seems to work...

The motor is glued to the chassis with Araldite, but the drive shaft is held in place on the gear with a U plate fashioned from thin PCB suitable isolated, and also Araldited ( is that a permissable verb?)

The ratio is just about 40:1 - not great with this motor. Here it stays though until something more adventurous can be completed!

Well, that's me for the weekend.

Hope y'all managed to get some stuff done.

regards,

Chris

Addendum: The Gentleman's block, as described in comment below: