Sunday, 7 April 2019

Track work and electricals

All the track work on Lynton has been packed with cork, card or whatever seemed to do the job. I'm not saying the track was bad but these new Heljan locomotives do put it to the test. The track was levelled checking as I went with a spirit level. On the electrical side of things I've moved all the main junctions onto one section of baseboard, the central section. This was quite a job. The reason for this was that the original Electricals were situated at the back of the layout under the hillside that rises behind the station. Many years ago the Electricals were easy to access. However in widening the scene to include the hillside the electricals became almost inaccessible under the hillside. I've now removed all the hillside and moved all the electrical joints and so forth onto just the middle section of the layout. Rather than go to the impossible job of re doing the electrics I've decided   to replace the hillside with removable sections . Renovating this layout has been quite a job. Might have been easier to build a new one from scratch ..... But well....hey ho.




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