Thursday 28 September 2017

How to make sawdust from scratch

A big day today for Weddin Jct, well, yesterday as I type this. With a lot of assistance from a work colleague, Jason, all the flanges & webs for the L girders, plus the legs and horizontal braces, were cut from four 1800x954x19 sheets of plywood flooring. This material was salvaged from the construction of my employer's new factory in 1998, and carefully stored against the day when it would be needed for a layout. Six sheets were saved originally. One became the baseboard for Brendan's layout (after serving a term as a camera platform mounted on the roof of my VK Commodore). A second was docked short to become a third bed in the caravan. The last four were introduced to the circular saw yesterday afternoon. Here is the result:
 Jason making the first cut for an 1800x90 girder web.
 Me docking a 90mm girder web to length.
 A cup of tea was needed about 5 hours into the job.
 The sawdust beginning to take shape.
The piles of finished components just before midnight.

Now I can begin assembling the girders and pairs of half-thickness legs, before completing the braces & gussets.
That'll do for tonight, I can feel the fatigue beginning to kick in.
Cheers.





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