TUESDAY AT CHARLES

Another convivial evening sampling a variety of continental cheeses, one or two which had been skulking in Chas' garage for a couple of weeks, and were finally persuaded to appear for the evening.

Cholesterol levels on the rise!

It transpired that Tuesday the 28th of June was also Pats Birthday - so that got toasted...

On to serious stuff. A week or two ago Pat voiced a wish that the crane on Cardigan would swivel on demand. This is the crane in question: 

Charles took up the challenge, and last night produced the basic drive and mounting:

a 10mm diameter motor with a gear box which will have a belt drive to a pulley attached to the axis of the crane under the baseboard. The whole thing is less than 3" x 3"....

 

Next on the exquisite list, Colin brought along his latest 009 loco to show us the lining that he had done on the bodywork (all done by hand with a bow pen)

The complete locomotive was scratch built apart from the chassis, using a variety of bits of wire, pipe , brass and plastic card...

Oh, and real coal!