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Thank you chaps for the encouragement. I know a good part of my problem is my hands shaking so I have made up a jig to bring my Dremel down at a nice clean angle to avoid un-necessary ‘wobbling’! I found a 0.75 Dremel disk and whilst not as good as your super example I have at least achieved a funct...

Thank you Steve, Walking the Dog, I do appreciate your help. So I simply bought the strips from a store in the classified and just used Timebond to fix them to the Cork. Feels quite solid but the suggestion to pin is also appreciated. Where would you suggest I go for larger ones? I have just been ou...

I have made my first attempt at using PCB strips as in this photo. I know it’s not pretty but have a couple of questions please before tackling the real curve tomorrow. BTW it has to be on a curve as I am very tight for space. As you can see I have attempted to take partial ‘slices’ off the adjoinin...

Hi Rog,

After much time spent on house chores finally managed to get on with the hinges. This is the result and as you said will give me loads of clearance when the track goes down.

That is great feedback guys thank you very much. Brian that diagram really helps too, I had not thought about a ‘lateral’ fixing / locator where the boards come down so thank you. Away at the moment but will be modifying this as soon as I get home. Cheers Derek PS not related, what does BBCode is On...

Making some progress at last! I have taken your advice and completely reworked my Baseboards in Ply and I have to say it was much easier to work with than the Fibreboard stuff Hornby and Peco suggest in their literature. Whilst this all looks fairly boring at the moment it's a sort of testbed for th...

Sorry Broadoak, as a beginner on here how do I see your photographs? All that I have are ? ? ? Where they should be. Obviously I am doing something wrong!
Derek

Brian, Richard thank you both for the extra guidance, i will put this to good use when I have time to do a bit more. Richard I felt sure I followed the DCC instructions (I guess not now) so will have another go but this time following your advice and it does make sense compared to what i was doing, ...

Hi Brian well thats an eye opener for me! I can see now what you are describing in your Hints and Tips section (which is fascinating to a newbie btw) and will get ordering straight away! As an aside I had bought Dowels from DCC Concepts but they require a two step drilling process and whilst the pro...

Hi Brian, I have been reading your excellent article on Baseboard Construction, 1st class. Can I just ask what is ‘By using PCB sleepers and gluing and pinning or screwing the PCB to the end of the board you then soldering ‘ etc. What are PCB Sleepers I have not seen this term before? I am just usin...