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Robin,

 

Very nice result. I must say, your attention to detail with this is somewhat higher than mine - all those bolts, etc! I can see you'll be doing quite a bit of work on the "Puffers" items!

As you know, I used the cast brass Mainly Trains stops for Delph, which gives you two ready made sides, similar to the ones shown in your next to last photo. I found it quite hard to assemble these with the cross beam and get everything in line and square in all planes, despite using some cardboard jigs to try to locate the 3 parts (and the sleepers). How did you manage this?

 

Dave.

Smashing! I'm generally lazy about buffer stops,

and just buy a kit.....

Your result however, shows an attention to detail,

and the sort of stunning result that can be achieved by making your own...

Robin,

 

Very nice result. I must say, your attention to detail with this is somewhat higher than mine - all those bolts, etc! I can see you'll be doing quite a bit of work on the "Puffers" items!

As you know, I used the cast brass Mainly Trains stops for Delph, which gives you two ready made sides, similar to the ones shown in your next to last photo. I found it quite hard to assemble these with the cross beam and get everything in line and square in all planes, despite using some cardboard jigs to try to locate the 3 parts (and the sleepers). How did you manage this?

 

Dave.

 

Dave,

 

Thanks again for the two Puffers buffers, they're much appreciated and will save me a bit of work. I will remove the beams and add a pair of pcb pads to insulate the units and add a few bolts.

 

I too have found it difficult to assemble the cross beam but adopted a belt and braces approach using a number of track gauges on the base track and also any suitable points on the sides. I have taken a photo of this when assembling the PHDesign buffers I made up last week which I will post on the blog shortly.

 

 

Robin