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Mr. M, I've had a moment to go back through West Orton's archival posts. Clearly, something on the level of museum quality, if I may say. The stills do not do justice for what you have achieved here. Perchance could you shoot up some video?
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Chops wrote: Wed Jul 20, 2022 6:41 pm Mr. M, I've had a moment to go back through West Orton's archival posts. Clearly, something on the level of museum quality, if I may say. The stills do not do justice for what you have achieved here. Perchance could you shoot up some video?
Thank you Chops. I intend to shoot a video in due course and hope to include a driver’s eye view (if I can get my minicam working - I have to find where I put it first. :cry: ).

I want to finish the signalling project first - I started work on extending a gantry to span the main and branch lines adjacent to the MPD. The intention is to have working semaphores - this will involve a fair amount of scratchbuilding for the linkages. Plan B is a cluster of bracket signals - I know how to do them. ;)

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I fabricated the crank pivot block for the gantry this morning. Basically it’s just laminated plasticard with alternating thicknesses (0.5mm &1.0mm) drilled to accept a pivot wire. I then added a couple of etched legs to tart up each end.
The prototype control rod is in place although the offset needs to be a bit larger - once that is finalised, I can make up four rods that need to be attached to the cranks before the block is permanently fixed in place.

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Remarkable. :shock:
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Progressing the linkages to/from the pivot block.

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Cor, that’s clever!
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All above board linkages completed.
I think the next job will be to prepare the switches on the control panel while I’m waiting for a fresh supply of handrail stanchions to arrive.

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Excellent. :)
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Fantastic work Steve.
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Great work Steve. Look forward to seeing the gantry operational.
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