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Chairs and White Metal Chairs


Maurice Hopper

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Yes, Shaker Chairs in the first instance.....

 

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Having completed my last Shaker Chair project.... (It is not a true Shaker as it has square lower back legs for reasons too complicated to explain here!),  I moved on to rebuilding some rather disappointingly short lived, plastic based, garden railway (16mm NG) points.  These had become rather twisted and out of gauge.  The rails were removed and reused with the remaining stock of white metal chairs, brass pins and screws, some fairly old (measured in decades) and some relatively new teak and mahogany sleepers made from workshop off-cuts.  Mine you the comment of disappointingly short lived has to be seen against some of the garden railway track I use being well into its sixties if not seventies......  Indeed there are a couple of lengths that are older than I am...

 

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So the bench became a dirty bench again... but it is useful working on newspaper as one can use it to mark out the batten positions, sleeper spaces and numbers.  That the whole assembly is bigger than one of the baseboards for my scheduled rebuild of Holtzappfel in 1/160 FiNe, will come as a bit of a shock in a week or two when work starts on the smaller opus.

 

..... And, as it is a nice day the track has been set out ready for testing this afternoon....

 

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Maurice,

 

And an excellent newspaper on which to work if I may say so. Although its current contents are more likely to depress than inspire.

 

I admire your ability to work in multiple scales. Every time I've worked in something larger than 2FS I feel as though I need my eyes recalibrated or a new set of eyes and larger tools to go with them!

 

Any chance that you will be at Wells next month?

 

David

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Nice chair and trackwork. Are you extending the garden layout or just relaying the track?

 

Don

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Just relaying some track.  Extensions are not in vogue these days.  Reducing is more my style.  Unfortunately, a little too much reduction on one of these as they are back on the bench for some adjustment before I screw them down!  Remembered the old B Lowke triangular track gauge is perhaps not the best tool to rely on without checking.   Also quite difficult to get to all parts of a point compared with modern roller gauges.

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