16 Jun 2013
PCB Mounting Boards
Working on the next under layout mounting boards for the various electronics PCBs that control the points and occupancy detection (and perhaps signals later)...
Here are the next two (of 5 so far) completed, at least as far as wood and metalwork is concerned...
2 Jun 2013
Laying Cork and Thinking Track
I have been really busy working on a smartphone video monitoring system called Manything lately so haven't had much time for modelling...
Manything Website
The odd moment I have had, I have cut and laid the cork for the track work on the station approach board. As this is the first scenic section I have cut the cork at a 60 degree angle in order for the ballast to sit nicely on it.
I made the cutter shown below by cutting a piece of 2x2 at 60deg using the compound mitre saw, and the screwed a box cutter blade to the surface - it seems to work ok.
I have also tried using the suggestion from Richard at DCC concepts to modify a peco point to take away the horrible chunks of plastic that make it look very unprototypical.
The modification requires soldering copper clad sleepers to replace the original yeuchy plastic.
