Generator room internal finishes
Workshop detailing
Pointwork levers
Just Geoff and Stephen this week - JL 'minding the fort'.
Geoff decided to make fittings to secure the somewhat vulnerable hinged doors on the workshop. The outer door was given a stay, fixed to the brickwork. The rear door only needed a tapered block as the back would never be seen, but Geoff insisted on doing it right. Stephen suggested a brick or block (as he would on his side gate at home), but Geoff decided on a barrel of workshop rubbish. A plastic barrel (from a military kit) was found and assembled, then lots of 'scrap' made to go in it. After a paint-job, it was slipped in behind the door. Stephen provided a block of wood, painted concrete grey, for the front.
Stephen continued with the new point lever installation, by making the dummy fishplates (with bolt-heads) to tie the new sleeper sections in place. The lever assemblies, previously primed by Laurence, were finished off and temporarily dropped into place. Some plastic rod was painted and cut to length for the actuators. The new elements were then painted.
The lever adjacent the platform access point needed to be close to the track, so Geoff made one of the ground-level levers as per the unit at the end of the platform.
The very first lever installed (by Roy Link) was removed, the sleeper extensions cut out together with some surrounding ground, and then reinstated at the correct spacing for a new lever - to be completed next week.
By now, Geoff had moved on to the generator room internal walls. These, he had previously produced on the computer using captured images of real glazed tiles. Initially, these were printed onto gloss photographic paper and stuck onto the rigid plastic walls, to great effect. However, general handling had damaged the gloss finish and some of the tiling had been rubbed off. These sheets were replaced with new sheets printed onto light card using double sided tape. A new panel will be created for the side wall to incorporate a door into the lobby.
