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There has been limited time this week for modelling due to a trip abroad with work (didn't get back until 6pm on Saturday). Next week doesn't look good either as I am away all week.
The point construction for board 2 has stalled pending receipt of supplies from shop 1.
I was hoping to post a picture of the first finished board, however, after assembling the laminated sides and leaving to dry (not long enough, I was rushing to get the board finished for this post) I knocked it of the workmate as I was shaping one of the insert top boards 
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Of course it split apart at the corners, I tried to recover the situation with No More Nails (rushing again!) but the tube was rather old and the garage where I was working very cold. As a result this just left solid white gunge on the boards without appearing to offer any adhesive quality, to compound matters the glue didn't compress properly so left the joints open and out of line even when clamped hard. 
After a calming cup of tea the offending joints were split apart and cleaned up, then assembled again with PVA and clamped neatly. I'll leave the board to dry properly this time!
I then decided to make the cut outs in the top boards for the point motor on board one. This progressed nicely and the cut outs neatly made, however my smugness was short lived when I noticed I had two templates stored in the boxfile, for some reason I had kept hold of one the earlier trial template and placed this in the box with the final version, guess which one I'd used to mark out the point location and corresponding cut outs? 
I guess it's one of those weeks......
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