Extension boards - fit hinge locators.
Extension boards - new support legs.
New point.
Cork underlay.
Some weeks we take a while to get started, but this week, it was all-go from the start. Geoff had drawn up the Y point on Adaptor board #1 (the non-exhibition engine shed) and settled down to make it. The sleepers would be printed circuit board cropped to match the Peco sleepers, so out came the guillotine. Geoff had two types of copper-clad board and the first and cheapest merely shattered when cropped. Fortunately, the other could be cut nicely. A quick measure of the Peco flexitrack sleepers arrived at 8mm wide, but after offering the first strip, a little over 8mm was agreed. The point was drawn in CAD and printed on lightweight coloured card. The sleepers were then glued in place and the rails prepared and soldered onto the sleepers. The card is thin enough that it can be cut closely around the point and installed with the point onto the baseboard.
Stephen and Laurence retrieved Adaptor boards #3 & #4 and checked them for a smooth abutment. Some some small timber and glue fragments had to be removed to get a good fit. The pre-adapted flap-back hinges were then fitted, to complete the final connection of the Adaptor boards.
They then discussed the support leg design floated at the end of last week and drawn up for the blog. A datum for the layout top was required and although an exercise had been undertaken the previous week to level everything, a sag in the main shelf was discovered that put the boards out of level. Stephen and Geoff discussed options and a length of steel angle was retrieved from behind the shed that will be cleaned up and cut to size before next week.
Meanwhile, Stephen pressed on gluing down the cork underlay around the long curve on the Adaptor boards.
By the end of the day, Geoff's point only lacked a wing rail and some check rails. Due to the Y being quite short, the blades were pivoted.
A great days work.
