{"id":3147,"date":"2009-05-13T20:41:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T01:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2009-05-17T09:24:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T14:24:19","slug":"mind-the-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=3147","title":{"rendered":"Mind The Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am 98.675% confident I got them all….<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

With the NMRA Train Show rapidly approaching, I am focusing hard on getting this damn thing running.\u00a0 Reaching that goal will take a lot of work over the next weeks.\u00a0 This week, I am spending most of my time working on the layout, and so far I am making pretty good progress.<\/p>\n

It took two full days to cut all the rail isolation gaps in all the trackwork.\u00a0 I worked very slowly and carefully being careful not to damage any of the trackwork and also to be certain I didn’t miss any.\u00a0 Missing one would be very not good.\u00a0 Some of the gaps can not be cut after the track is installed as they have to be done using a jewelers saw due to the tight clearances involved.\u00a0 Most of my time was spent studying the individual track pieces and determining where to make the cuts.<\/p>\n

After the gaps were cut, they sections were tested with a continuity checker to make sure there were no shorts or missing gaps.<\/p>\n

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The job wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. <\/strong>Until this stage in construction I could not cut any of the gaps as it makes the track sections weak, and I needed to handle them quite a bit, so I delayed the job until the last possible minute.\u00a0 This meant spending 2 years thinking about it and answering the question, “how you going to wire that thing?”.
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Today, I fit all the sections together and soldered them into a single piece.\u00a0 All the missing PC board ties have been added in.\u00a0 It is now, finally, all sitting in place.\u00a0 This was another job I have been thinking about for two years!<\/p>\n

It all went together well, fitting very precisely and seems to run smoothly when I push a car or two through it.\u00a0 Until the switch machines are installed, its very difficult to tell how well it will actually run as the switch points don’t yet seat precisely, need the switch machines to hold them tight in place.<\/p>\n

I still have another piece of trackwork to make, one final turnout.\u00a0 I will make that one up tomorrow and install it into the rest of the trackwork.\u00a0 Other than the straight yard tracks, its the trackwork\u00a0 construction is pretty much complete.<\/p>\n

Will have to make up a “Golden PC Board Tie” and have a little ceremony with some local dignitaries for the last solder.\u00a0 There will be speeches and polite applause.<\/p>\n

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A local dignitary inspecting some trackwork.\u00a0 He barked in lieu of applause.<\/p>\n

-T.<\/p>\n

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All Gaps Cut I am 98.675% confident I got them all…. With the NMRA Train Show rapidly approaching, I am focusing hard on getting this damn thing running.\u00a0 Reaching that goal will take a lot of work over the next weeks.\u00a0 This week, I am spending most of my time working on the layout, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4,8],"tags":[27,42,88,32,89,49,28,31,33,141],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting-gaps","category-front-page","category-track-construction","tag-cnj-bronx-terminal","tag-code-70","tag-gaps","tag-handlaid-track","tag-isolation-gaps","tag-switchpoints","tag-tim-warris","tag-trackwork","tag-turnout","tag-wiring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3178,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}