Workshop fittings
Point levers
It was good to have a full house again and the banter was flowing...
Having produced three point lever units the previous week, Geoff explained how he had been investigating how best to produce the remaining units. We had a few packets of Roy Link plastic levers, and one had been fitted some months previously, which looked excellent. However, our general clumsiness (mainly cleaning track) had demolished the lever more than once, so he looked for another solution. Why not simply fabricate replicas of the three new ones? He showed how the base could be made from plasticard channel and the levers (slightly simplified) in brass. Laurence set-to on the lathe turning up the weights.
Stephen finished repairing the fence post at the board joint behind the water tank. A section of rail was glued deep into a reinforced timber block and that glued to the timber post. He then moved on to clearing the ballast and foliage from the areas where the new levers would be located and gluing extensions to the sleepers. Hopefully, some will look like whole sleepers and some extended.
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| Two of the whitemetal bases |
The extension sleepers will have fishplate fixing straps similar to those below, on the Leighton Buzzard Railway
Geoff continued to glue equipment into the workshop namely the brazier, drive-belt motor and wall bracket, motor controller and conduits. It's looking stunning.
The fragile paper belts will be added once the lighting has been installed.
