This week on the Public Holiday I went over to Bob’s place and gave him his 12mm power and dummy bogies that rocked up in the mail last week. I installed the last 2.4m section of lights above Rocklea Sidings. On Tuesday I went to Jaycar and picked up some wire. The wire was installed between the string of lights above Rocklea Siding to the other half of that 5m string at the northern end of Acacia Ridge Yard. I spliced the wire into the power supply and gave it a test. Quite nice.
Now I needed to look at installing an additional string of lights above the trackwork between Glenapp Loop and The Risk. With the extra width added to the baseboard level above between Loco Pilly and Dutton Park, and also underneath the Yeerongpilly station, the section of layout is quite dark. So another string of LED lights is called for. I will experiment on how to install it. I was thinking of using another couple of lengths of plasterer’s angle.
Wednesday it was my job to install a new power bogie into my QR 2050 class railmotor. This was done and I also installed 5 sets of LEDs the 0402 type for the headlight, front marker lights and the rear marker lights.
On Friday I went to the other side of town and dropped off a load of 12mm bogies at the AMRA Clubrooms, for Luke and Guy. I had a good talk to Luke, and some other mates there - Barry and Anatol. Prior to that I stopped off at PK's for convenient parking and a free coffee. On the way home I did a Bunnings stop with two short extension leads and 2 additional lengths of Plasterer’s Angle procured. When home, I sprayed the plasterer’s angle silver and allowed it to dry overnight.
On Saturday I got around to testing the QR 2050. The lights were very bright. I might have to add some higher resistance to the various LED lights this week. But they all work and the loco runs better than ever. I really do think the previous motor bogie I had which sh@t itself was truly buggered from the beginning. It runs very nicely now, much better than before.
I then joined two lengths of plasterer’s angle together and then glued a 5m run of LED lighting to the plasterer’s angle and allowed that to dry. Later in the evening, I got my apprentice and he helped me hold the string of lights (4.8m in length) as I glued it and clamped it to the inside of the fascia above the Glenapp Loop to The Risk section.
Just for something to do, after receiving a question from Barnacle Bob on Friday concerning how to install the 12mm bogies, I decided to create a frame for my 12mm bogies to go into my 3D printed QR DH loco which I purchased from Modeller's Warehouse a while back. I created a frame to attach the bogies to, and built 4 side holding clips for the DH bogies. These were added to the frame, and I tested the DH frame of DC power. My dummy bogie was way out of gauge, so I fixed that and gave it a new test. So the DH test bogie is now running well on DC. I have identified a DCC chip and I have found a couple of LED lights. This week I will try and install the LED decoder and drill out some headlight holes in the body frame and add these.
