Thursday 3 September 2015

An operating point - turnout - switch!!!


 First LH set of point together today. The inner rails and blade just tacked for the moment.

My standard bogie/truck runs through cleanly. But it really needs the check rail on the curve... It works! The motion is a bit draggy, but I’ll work on that.

I eventually decided to grind a relief nudge in the outer rails to seat the blades - which were machined from the 10mm width to nothing over 280mm. I have cut the fine end off at 1.5mm width.

So one (nearly) down. One half done, Two to go. I have all the blades...