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Perfic Steve.

Lovely job.

Rochester ?

brian1951 wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 6:39 pmRochester ?

Wrong thread - silly old sausage.

Think he was getting your name confused with the bloke in Jane Eyre.

Its been a long day.

Some wall lights arrived from China this morning - another distraction from building some signals.

20220524_120847 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

20220524_120639 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

Great pictures - especially the first one - the guy looks bored and can't wait for his shift to end.

This week I made a start on the first of the signals for West Orton. I have a number of the Ratio L&NWR kits and this is probably the only one that will be built according to the instructions as I will need to choose between a gantry location or modifying the kits to make a triple.
Uncharacteristicly slow, this one post has taken three days so far as I am leaving plenty of drying time. I want strong joints as I am tempted to dabble with the black art of servo control.
Pray for me.

20220527_142214 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

20220527_142243 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

Five days in and I am quickly learning to detest these signal kits.
The cranks do not fit as described in the ‘instructions’, they have to go in upside down or they foul the brackets. The brackets seem to have a built in fault line causing them to crack at the slightest touch. And the supplied wire is too thick for the holes in the cranks, causing them to split.

2022-05-30_01-12-12 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

It as my hope that I could build these in their manual working mode with a view to adding servos at a later date - it’s not going to happen for the bracket signals at least.

And I still don’t have a completed signal to show for my efforts.