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St Ouen JNWR - Getting in a Flap! - Updated

Lisa

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Hi

 

I also getting on with the baseboard construction. I now added the flap, to carry the off scene track, to allow the passenger trains to fully enter the platform. The buffer stops are off scene.

 

This has to be detachable or hinged to allow the layout to fit in it's carrying case. The photographs below show the flap folded up from the layout front. The flap in the up position also from the front and the the underside of the the flap in the up position.

 

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I need to adjust the height so that it is inline with the top surface of the main board.

 

There is a small gap between the main baseboard and he flap, to allow for the thickness of the backscene card!

 

Lisa

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Hi

 

The bottom sheets of ply has parts that have been removed on all baseboards, this is both to reduce weight and allow access for the wiring and electronics.

 

Lisa

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I hav'nt yet decided how to hold the flap in it's working position. I think that I need to finalise the exact position of the station building before I can decide.

 

Lisa

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An arrangement like a barrell bolt. Brass rod in a brasss tube sliding into another piece of brass tube to hold the flap in position. Retract to allow the flap to fold. Well that's my first thought. Second thought a bit of larger brass tube sliding in the next size up might be more ridgid for the same weight.

Don

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