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Still on the fiddle!

KH1

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blog-0069627001424184071.jpgReal progress seems to have been very slow of late although very swan like (the only thing swan like about me!), there has been loads of activity of a not too obvious nature. Fevered work is going into a secret project but as it is a secret I a, can't tell you about it right now as it is a secret and b, probably shouldn't have mentioned it at all! Anyway, what I do have to show is the smaller fiddle yard extension almost finished. This has taken longer than expected as I have had to rework the points to it (still need motors fitting!), but will cover this in a future article when I am sure they work so I don't look even more foolish than usual. So, following pic shows track being held in place while glue dries so slowly because it is SO cold. Also, my new method of ensuring good track alignment with the use of a large chunk of PCB board securely screwed and glued.

 

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The real pain with this is sawing the strip and rails in half half, I just can't get a Dremel in even with an extension drive and the rail gap the disc makes is to big anyway. Only thing for it is about an hours worth of hacking away with a razor saw. One thing I have found though is that they can be given a second lease of life by breaking of the handle once the intended business end is blunt so you can then get a decent angle with the other end which is still pretty fresh.

 

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Now, one problem I have found with my new plan of hanging the extension off the end of the existing board is this....

 

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A seismic fault line has opened up in my previously near perfect baseboard join. Solution will be a prop at either points A or B on following pic. Have been looking at adjustable extending washing line poles on Ebay but will they be strong enough?

 

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Mike Bellamy
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Not sure which is more interesting - the extension to the layout or trying to recognise all the contents of your kitchen cupboard ! !

 

The secret project sounds interesting - I assume it's railway related . . . . . . . . ?

 

Mike

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Ah, and there hangs a cautionary tale..... On being asked by my lovely wife (who also doesn't complain [too much!], about me building  baseboards on the kitchen tops), what sweet she could make to accompany my brilliant starter and main on Valentines Day, I said something with cherries, there are some in the cupboard....... Well you can guess where this is going. She couldn't find cherries, I had to make do with pear cake and I have just found said tin holding my track down. Only solution is to sneak them back into cupboard and innocently say 'look they were here all along!' But I can't as she has taken to reading this blog!

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If they're anything like the contents of our kitchen cupboards, half the tins are fished out to discover they should have been used 12/18/48 months ago!

 

When I ever get to the stage of building baseboards, I want to try adding a saw-blade thickness shim between baseboards when track laying, so when the rails are sawn and the baseboards reassembled, the gap closes up. Thats my theory... anyone tried it in practise?

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