This must be one of the most tweaked fiddle yards in existence. Originally built in 2009 for Rhiw 1, adapted for Svanda, readapted for Rhiw 2 and now..
The pre show set/test for Svanda’s showing at Eastbourne last week threw a curveball in a broken tie-bar spring on the No.1 point, i.e. the important one. No time to fix it, and as this would have possibly introduced a load more last minute issues, the decision was taken to do the show with the point being held over by a critically positioned lump of Blu-tak. Never let it be said that I over-think or over-engineer anything. However that was a quick fix and something needed to be done. This comes in two parts: co-incidentally I was due to drop off the 009 layout at Peco, so easy enough to pop next door to the exhibition and blag a replacement spring off of Andrew (he who makes Pecorama run smoothly).
I’d found a new Y point so decided to use this, relay tracks 1-4, and do the spring replacement on the bench. This also gave the excuse to replace the short sleeper-less length of track with something more substantial. Having said that, this has never given any trouble and proves that rails can work for at least two inches without sleepers under normal conditions. The track was removed as seen, and included pins, some UHU and still traces of the the Knightian staple gun repair carried out a decade ago at Global Rail.
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