Compton castle
Western Thunderer
Wonderful! Tony
7mm The Derby Line: Basford North
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dibateg
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Thanks Steve!
I'm now catching up on the failures from the running session, well a couple of them never made it past the pre session test..
60886 had a derailing pony truck - I'd omitted to add the guide wire to it, I also added some lead weight. She just needs a crew now.
92069 was intermittently shorting, needless to say, on test, she behaved.....
I couldn't get the Wickam trolley around the layout without it stalling, so I added extra pick ups on the trailer - it runs round perfectly now.
I picked up the GC bridge etches last weekend, I just need to cut the girder sections from brass sheet, fortunately I have access to a flat bed guillotine which I hope will do the job, as I find it relly difficult to cut long straight lines in sheet material...
I'm now catching up on the failures from the running session, well a couple of them never made it past the pre session test..
60886 had a derailing pony truck - I'd omitted to add the guide wire to it, I also added some lead weight. She just needs a crew now.
92069 was intermittently shorting, needless to say, on test, she behaved.....
I couldn't get the Wickam trolley around the layout without it stalling, so I added extra pick ups on the trailer - it runs round perfectly now.
I picked up the GC bridge etches last weekend, I just need to cut the girder sections from brass sheet, fortunately I have access to a flat bed guillotine which I hope will do the job, as I find it relly difficult to cut long straight lines in sheet material...
mickoo
Western Thunderer
Tony, you need one of these.....
It's a scriber/skrawker, the blade is inside the hook and you just drawn it along a steel rule to make a grove, do three or four light cuts and then the groove is deep enough to take the edge away, then (depending on material thickness) do some bigger deeper cuts. Simply place the material over a edge and bend back and forth until the joint fails and leaves a nice straight edge, you'll need to dress is smooth as it has a sort of cusp on the cut edge; takes seconds to scribe and cut off chunks of sheet metal.
Of course you could always use a guillotine
It's a scriber/skrawker, the blade is inside the hook and you just drawn it along a steel rule to make a grove, do three or four light cuts and then the groove is deep enough to take the edge away, then (depending on material thickness) do some bigger deeper cuts. Simply place the material over a edge and bend back and forth until the joint fails and leaves a nice straight edge, you'll need to dress is smooth as it has a sort of cusp on the cut edge; takes seconds to scribe and cut off chunks of sheet metal.
Of course you could always use a guillotine
simond
Western Thunderer
I have found that they work best at a particular angle and it didn’t come to hand immediately - it seems to pay off trying a bit higher, or a bit lower, til the shavings come off nicely.
As I’m a cheapskate, I have tried grinding my own from used Stanley blades. Without a great deal of success. YMMV.
As I’m a cheapskate, I have tried grinding my own from used Stanley blades. Without a great deal of success. YMMV.
Ian@StEnochs
Western Thunderer
I do similar but using broken hacksaw blades. They work!