Model Railway Forum

sandy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 11:47 am Seems a lot of money to spend on a job that can be done with a 4ft level a pencel & tape measure.

That’s how I did it in the past but once you use a track saw it is a whole level of accuracy better. Mine came with two 1.5m tracks that can be linked together I can now split an 8’ X 4’ sheet of ply length ways with a high degree of accuracy something impossible to do with my previous professional circular saw certainly with any kind of accuracy.

Richard

There is never a reason not to buy a tool of any type.

Walkingthedog wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:18 pm There is never a reason not to buy a tool of any type.

Totally agree

Richard

The results of my labours.

2022-01-10_02-13-23 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

You can never have enough tools, but equally, you can never have enough sheds to store them in.

Good Job. By the way Steve, your paint shaker, is it any good?

If you have a garden then it is regulation to have a shed or two, or three never throw anything away, store it in a shed. A week after you have thrown something away you can guarantee you will need it.

Richard

Correct. For years I had a single 15 inch hinge in my workshop/shed and decided finally to get rid of it, what good is a single hinge. Next day the bin was emptied and that afternoon the bottom hinge on the shed snapped. No comment.

Walkingthedog wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 2:51 pm Good Job. By the way Steve, your paint shaker, is it any good?

It works well for the dropper bottles, but I also add two small ball bearings to each bottle to act as agitators - same principle as ‘rattle can’ sprays.
For the few pots of paint that I have, I use one of those paint stirring machines - like a whisk.

The shaker is a very cheap nail varnish shaker from Amazon - be careful when choosing one as some are in very effeminate colors.

Effeminate colours indeed. I’ll look out for them.

Tricky Dicky wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:22 pm

Walkingthedog wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:18 pm There is never a reason not to buy a tool of any type.

Totally agree

Richard

There is one reason. Cash shortage.