Luib Bridge

Track laying 95% complete,

another ......

and the last one for now .........

I have one more soldered joint to do where it crosses the baseboards on the good shed line to the rear. I may just do it now to finish it of. Then there is another maybe four sets of track feeds to go in. Next job ....... run the track BUS, fir the two UTP's, fit the Cobalts and switch 8 and connect up and get the polarity for the points synchronising correctly.

We are moving now. Soon be running trains.

cheers

toto

 

Thanks Chris,

I may get an hour tonight if I'm lucky.

 

Done a couple of track feeds but not much more. Things are still looking ok for having power to the rails. As usual, the hardest part will be sorting polarities and isolation joints out. I've left all the V rails with gaps on the turnouts. The outer rails have joiners. I may need to cut further isolation gaps yet. I might even put some King of insulation materials between the gaps in case of expansion. Hopefully prevent any shorts.

Toto

 

Hurtling towards the weekend. Looking to get some major progress made. Through the week has been a bit of a washout. Reporting week at work so my heads been wiped out. All going well a sharp finish tomorrow.

Toto

 

Wonder why

 

Colour what ...... all mine are just white ..... unless they've been caught by the soldering iron.

Back in the shed tonight and I have soldered on the rest of the track feeds. Now I have one more soldering job to do on one of the tracks between baseboard joints. That's next.

After that its 2 UTP's to cut out holes for and then we are on to the track BUS and soldering the track feeds to the BUS under the baseboard. I'll take them apart for that. Must go ..... things to do.

Might get some photo's up later.

cheers

toto

 

Ok. The last of the track joints over the baseboard sections is done. A little tidying up in general and the two UTP's fitted, one either end of the baseboards.

a general shot of the finished track work .........

and the UTP's .........

and .......

I'll do a little prep work for whats to come tomorrow. Look out the 2.5mm twin and earth for the track BUS and also look out the appropriate cable crimps to accommodate the cable joints between baseboards. I'll also be needing my Circuit Breaker and a switch 8 to wire in with the points and the main BUS cable.

Better go find them all.

cheers

toto

 

and tomorrows victims .......

cable crimp connections .........

circuit breaker ........

and a switch 8 ........

all ready to rock for tomorrows shift.

power before long ....

cheers

toto

 

I had ran out of decent brass screws to solder the track down to on the baseboard joins so used another kind. They are not as good. They were only used on two joints but I think I will buy more decent screws and swap the others out. I can sense that they will come back and bite me at a later date. I'll try and pick some up tomorrow.

Cheers

Toto

 

Hi Rob,

The UTP is just the connection plug in to plug your controller into. It gets connected via a plug in cable ( in the rear ) back to the main control system. You can have as many as you like and it means that you can unplug your controller and move to a different location on the layout to operate.

The switch 8 allows you to connect 8 turn outs which are each allocated a code which you pump into your handset to fire the turnouts. It's really just a big decoder really.

Cheers

Toto

 

Didn't plan to but you never know. I'll be hitting the shed shortly. I'll be starting with the track BUS etc. The replacement brass screws will have to wait until tomorrow. I'll be visiting tool station to buy them.

I'll post up a picture or two later.

Cheers

Toto

 

Well,

finally made it to the shed and started on baseboard one ........ here is the task .....

make sense out of that lot.

and I did and started by tidying the BUS droppers and tying them into place ......

Then cut into the main track BUS , strip the droppers and wrap around the main BUS.

a bit closer ......

and a wider view of the whole thing .....

Now ..... its ready for soldering up and attaching the crimps to the ends of the main BUS to provide interconnections between baseboards.

Back soon

toto

 

Soldering is done ( pictures later ) now on to baseboard number two ....... play it again Sam.

cheers for now

toto