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4 hours ago, Indomitable026 said:

just Andy and John clearing their respective garages out.

 

There's no trailer big enough for that.

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2 hours ago, Geoff Cook said:

 

You mean when the back seat of your car was covered in empty wimpy cartons

 

Are Renault 5s still classed as cars? Used to love the engine overrun...

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58 minutes ago, Indomitable026 said:

Anyway, the whole purpose of the trip to Stafford was to pick up the remaining scenic board as seen below, now safely back...

 

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This is the middle scenic board, board 3 of 5, with a railway under bridge going over the canal.

 

So the Wimpy was purely coincidental then?!

 

Mike.

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1 hour ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

So the Wimpy was purely coincidental then?!

 

Mike.

 

No.

 

I drove all the way over to Stafford (Milford) for two hours for a wimpy and thought while I’m here might as well get the missing board...

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Ive spent most of the last two days working on BCB this weekend, mostly rationalising and dismantling items not required for its reconfiguration.

 

Jobs have included;

 

  • Dismantling the 5 lighting rigs/ front fascia supports including disposal
  • Re-configuring the end protection boards, including painting
  • Tidying up board ends and painting
  • Dismantled all A frame leg sets 

I’ve also finished the first set of legs on the tunnel board. I’ve re-used the legs that were previously used in A frame configuration. Pictures below. I’m not happy with it, it’s too flimsy, so i’m going to build new instead out of more substantial material.

 

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A bit more tinkering today.

 

I’ve fashioned a couple lengths of timber to allow me to reconfigure how the layout stacks. The system is something we used years ago on New Haden Colliery. These are jobs I never got around to when we originally built BCB.

 

Hopefully the pictures explain....

 

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Add a strip of ply on the outer lower edge of each endboard so the upper endboards sit on the lower endboards and the strips stop the boards from slipping.

You could add the strips along the top edge of the endboards so the upper board sit inside.

 

(That still doesn't make sense to me, I'll sketch something).

 

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Stu that's what it was originally like, if you look at the end of the boards in the last photo you can see that they would interlock which is ok if their are two of you loading the boards, they need to be placed exactly in the right position, if not in the right position their is the possibility of damaging the lower board 

 

The beams have the advantage that you can place the board on the beam and slide it into position which can be done by one person

 

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