Another joint effort on the wiring.
Geoff had drawn up the board in Visio and printed it out. A suitable piece of hardboard was produced and the schematic glued down. Miniature toggle switches were purchased for the sections and cheese head set-screws for the point control studs. A few holes later and hey, presto! - a control panel (temporary, of course).
Laurence and Geoff set-to continuity testing between the loom end and the four board connectors.
With a carefully prepared list of the connections, it took no time at all to solder everything up. Who were we kidding? We still had more wires than sections and points without wires. However, once we'd realised that after recording all of John's sections, we'd decided to join some together and that we had new points needing to operate together on different boards, it all fell into place.
This is the whole of the loom! You'd think the way it gets tangled around everything that it was three-times the sizes, but no.
We'll have it finished early next week and we can test it all out. Bring some stock Laurence.
Buon comlianno! J-L
