What happened at your workbench today?

[grizzmo]

A good day for working in the workshop today.

A fun project to make and I got to use all the toys ,machines in the shop.
The little ceramic button that wire goes through, was salvaged as a apprentice 40+ years ago. I knew it would come in handy one day.
Copied from a Proxon foam cutter, but made larger to suit G scale use, platforms, tunnel mouths, snow shelters, buildings and so on.
The "trolley" at the top can move to adjust the angle of the cut.

Other than the ni-chrome wire and motor controller (both uncovered in the recent cleanup). It is all made from salvaged or leftover material.
Still a bit to do on the fence, drill and tap a few holes plus painting. Yes the fence is ridiculously over engineered, but it was either over or under thickness as that's what I had.

 

[dunnyrail]

A good day for working in the workshop today.
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A fun project to make and I got to use all the toys ,machines in the shop.
The little ceramic button that wire goes through, was salvaged as a apprentice 40+ years ago. I knew it would come in handy one day.
Copied from a Proxon foam cutter, but made larger to suit G scale use, platforms, tunnel mouths, snow shelters, buildings and so on.
The "trolley" at the top can move to adjust the angle of the cut.
View attachment 350493
Other than the ni-chrome wire and motor controller (both uncovered in the recent cleanup). It is all made from salvaged or leftover material.
Still a bit to do on the fence, drill and tap a few holes plus painting. Yes the fence is ridiculously over engineered, but it was either over or under thickness as that's what I had.

I made a similar sort of thing, nothing like as good as yours. My problem now is getting the wire, initially I used an old electric fire the ones with the wound wire but once that broke (I should have saved more) Inhave not been able to use it since. I love your fence, from my experience with a cheep nasty circular saw a fence can never be over engineered to get accuracy.

 

[grizzmo]

I think it will be very useful for model making. I will need to experiment with wire tension, temperature setting and speed of feed.
I bought the nichrome wire off ebay, was a while ago maybe $10, 5 pounds in your money for a couple of meters.

 

[dunnyrail]

I think it will be very useful for model making. I will need to experiment with wire tension, temperature setting and speed of feed.
I bought the nichrome wire off ebay, was a while ago maybe $10, 5 pounds in your money for a couple of meters.

Thanks knowing the name of what to hunt for helps me, found plenty on Ebay.

 

[John Randall]

A shorter Baldwin
The idea of this is to provide another locomotive for the Grandaughter’s part of the garden railway.
A lot of Bachman Baldwins seam to get LGB transplants because of drive issues.
Turning the idea on its head I am using body parts tank and cab etc from the Baldwin on an LGB chassis/boiler which I am trying to keep standard other than run of a a radio RC van or tender. This also means it will negotiate radius one curves. It’s shown here mocked up to see what to do next !