RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted March 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26, 2020 Heavy-duty buss bars!! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted March 26, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Rowsley17D said: Heavy-duty buss bars!! I agree but I might as well use what I have to hand, waste not want not Anyway it’s not track it’s ‘ACME modular platform rigidity system complete with optional heavy duty lighting capability’.....patent pending Originally it is was the Bottom Orientated Large Load Overboard Capacity Kilowatt System but ACME decided that was just Boll.... Edited March 26, 2020 by chuffinghell 1 2 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted March 26, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26, 2020 (edited) It’s part of ACME’s Compatible Railway Accessory Program From their Systems Having Intelligent Technology range Edited March 26, 2020 by chuffinghell 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke123 Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 2 hours ago, chuffinghell said: I'm planning on attaching some form of bus bar for the platform lamps. I’m tempted to use some left over track glued to the underside 1) I can glue the track directly to the underside of the platform top 2) Easier to solder to 3) Each Rail is already isolated from each other 4) Will add some much needed extra rigidity 5) Don’t have to buy anything What a brilliant idea, i wish i'd thought of that last time i tried building a station! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted March 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, chuffinghell said: It’s part of ACME’s Compatible Railway Accessory Program From their Systems Having Intelligent Technology range Careful, Andy Y will be along with his blue pencil in a minute. Edited March 26, 2020 by Rowsley17D 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Nile Posted March 26, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26, 2020 Do you need special high intensity training to use it? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 Interesting. SWMBO says that I have a Degree In Contemporary Knowledge. Generally she just calls me a D*CK for short... Why have RMWEB not added a tumbleweed emoji? 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted March 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26, 2020 3 hours ago, chuffinghell said: From their Systems Having Intelligent Technology range When I worked for ECC, the tech support desk team had a policy of noting on a whiteboard who they had gone to see and where. I used to work in the I T department. One tech had waited months for me to call so he could legitimately write a rude word on the board. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted March 26, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26, 2020 (edited) I’m going to call it a day today and hopefully resume tomorrow I think I’ll get away with the vertical columns I’m going to re-lay the track to run parallel with the platform with the platform hard up against the wall. The wall runs out slightly and I would rather the station building be flat up against the wall. I should be able to sort it as the track is only down with PVA and I’ve had it up before Anyway enough babbling, here is the Station building mocked up in place Edited March 26, 2020 by chuffinghell 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted March 26, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26, 2020 3 hours ago, Rowsley17D said: Careful, Andy Y will be along with his blue pencil in a minute. Hopefully he’ll see the funny side, if not it’s been nice knowing you all 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted March 26, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26, 2020 3 hours ago, Rowsley17D said: Careful, Andy Y will be along with his blue pencil in a minute. Hopefully he’ll see the funny side, if not it’s been nice knowing you all 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted March 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 26, 2020 (edited) 9 hours ago, chuffinghell said: It’s part of ACME’s Compatible Railway Accessory Program From their Systems Having Intelligent Technology range Puts me in mind of the Fiddle Area Retention Tackle Wooden Apparatus. (Fabricated) as utilised on Mutton. Rob. Edited March 26, 2020 by NHY 581 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted March 27, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2020 (edited) As I suspected I’ve not had chance to do much today However, all the cross members are in and it’s all flat, level and square I’ve used a combination of sheet and square tubular sections to make a very strong back piece and rigid cross members So I could start on the tops Unfortunately the wall is not flat, or plumb so the building is hard up against the wall on the left but on the right the wall runs out leaving a 2mm gap There’s not much I can do about it this evening. I’m really annoyed but I’m going to take a look at it tomorrow with fresh eyes. On the plus side I’ve managed re-lay the track parallel to the platform Edited March 27, 2020 by chuffinghell 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted March 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2020 Might be a bit late in the day, but if you put a backboard behind the station for a back-scene then although the backboard would be "out" as the station building is now at least it would be flush against the backboard. Does that make sense? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted March 27, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2020 19 minutes ago, Rowsley17D said: Might be a bit late in the day, but if you put a backboard behind the station for a back-scene then although the backboard would be "out" as the station building is now at least it would be flush against the backboard. Does that make sense? Yes it makes sense, it may be a bit late for that now, unless I can unscrew the boards from the wall and pull it away from the wall ever so slightly to slide in a card background maybe 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Rowsley17D Posted March 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2020 If you have to do that, I'd leave well alone and try to forget the gap or what about a drainpipe? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted March 27, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2020 4 minutes ago, Rowsley17D said: If you have to do that, I'd leave well alone and try to forget the gap or what about a drainpipe? The gap is at the roof and chimney I’ll look at plastering a bump in the wall, I usually get a lump and bump when I try to plaster 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted March 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2020 It's hardly noticeable in the photo, and viewed from the front probably not at all. I'd leave well alone, at least for a day or so , and see how you feel then. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfaZagato Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Quell your OCD. The gap is minscule. If anything, a layer of colored papers to fill the gap & blend with the building on the wall. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted March 27, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2020 1 hour ago, AlfaZagato said: Quell your OCD. The gap is minscule. If anything, a layer of colored papers to fill the gap & blend with the building on the wall. It doesn’t show very well but the gap is about 1.5/2mm but @Stubby47 is right I’m going to carry on as if I was normal and I’m sure I’ll forget about it. I was probably more concerned about someone on here noticing it to be honest 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Alister_G Posted March 27, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2020 I think you are your own worst enemy sometimes... We don't care, it looks great, so leave it alone... Al. 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bogie Posted March 28, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 28, 2020 Steady on man, next then you'll be upset there is actually a wall there! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted March 28, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 28, 2020 9 hours ago, Bogie said: Steady on man, next then you'll be upset there is actually a wall there! funny you should mention that 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold pirouets Posted March 28, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 28, 2020 Maybe next time you go to the optician, get him to lower the prescription a notch in each eye and you'll never see things like that Either that or in a couple of days time we will see some ingenious solution, just don't go all Bernard Cribbins and decide that there wall is gonna have to go. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chuffinghell Posted March 28, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 28, 2020 20 minutes ago, pirouets said: Maybe next time you go to the optician, get him to lower the prescription a notch in each eye and you'll never see things like that Either that or in a couple of days time we will see some ingenious solution, just don't go all Bernard Cribbins and decide that there wall is gonna have to go. having a eye for detail can sometimes be a curse. I once fitted some skirting board that was out of square by only 3mm over 2metres and it drove me nuts 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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