RSS Fetcher Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 On the Intercity Workbench - no new news. I had been hoping to start off this blog by transferring over the first entries from my Workbench Thread from the old incarnation of the forum using Martin Wynne's RMweb Transfer Utility, but as the servers are still down, I'll just have to fill in the missing pieces of the jigsaw later. For tonight I'll just post some new old news - showing some fairly recent progress on assembling the footplate of the kit. The Buffer Beams in the kit were a bit weedy to my eyes, so I sandwiched some strips of copper between the inner and outer faces to thicken these up. I'll still need to tidy the edges of these up at a later stage A couple of views of the footplate as originally assembled. I wasn't totally happy with how square I had managed to solder these so I screwed together a crude jig to hold these better in place whilst I attacked the joints with a small gas torch View the full article Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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