Tonight, with the assistance of Jason's Irwin clamps to speed things up, I managed to complete the assembly of 16 L girders. With the pair done on Wednesday evening, I now have the full complement.
With luck, Jason & his framing square will come over Friday evening and we can have a crack at assembling the legs, horizontal & end diagonal braces. Once they are together, I can probably manage the assembly of legs to girders, and associated diagonal braces, gussets and splicing of girders myself.
When I first drew up the plan for Weddin Jct, there was no work bench in the garage. Twelve months ago, I spent a few evenings converting the remains of my old layout into one. This has eaten up about 700mm of depth in the garage. It is likely that I will only get to assemble the "scenic" half of the layout, and will have to leave the staging for now, until I can find a way to cull the contents of the garage to get that 700mm back!
Anyway, here's the completed stack of girders.
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| Ten 1800, two 1684, four 1277 and two 1150 mm long L girders complete. The flanges are from 38x19, the webs from 90x19, so the overall size is 109D x 38W x 19thk |
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