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With good weather over the May Bank Holiday period, the work on the baseboards was completed. Apologies for the poor quality of the exterior pictures - my old digital camera can't cope with the contrast ratio when the sun is out and I'm going to have to learn better how to manipulate images to correct the problem. |
All the glass fibre work on the baseboards has been completed and the boards have now been set up on temporary supports to make the joint.The trestles were from a set made for an "S" scale dog track and are excellent for setting things up level on fairly uneven ground. The long brown implement is a builder's spirit level to do the setting up. I've also tried the track on the baseboard just to get a feel for how it might look :-) |
A closer shot of the track on the baseboard, placed in its position.The track has been lifted from the building board and glued to 5mm foam board which I am using as an experiment for underlay rather than cork. The foam board does have the advantage of rigidity which does help when building track off the baseboards. |
Now work starts on making the joint between the baseboards.From experience of setting up layouts, I find that a ledge on one side of a baseboard joint is of great use when mating the boards. Here, I've cut the rebates on one of the boards, and part sawed the other board end. The wood to be used for the shelf is a piece of 2" skirting board moulding left over from a previous job, but any piece of timber giving a ledge of about 1" (25mm) will do. |
The timber has now been screwed and glued to the hardwood end piece. |
The joint with the boards now turned over right way up.I try and make the joint as such as accurate for vertical alignment as possible so that the baseboards will naturally lie in alignment when set up level. Apologies for the slightly rough standard of joinery around the shelf wood :-). |
To hold the joint together, I use 3" (75mm) hinges with removeable pins.Here, one of the hinges is shown with the pin partly removed. The hinge does align the boards horizontally, so, when the hinge pins are inserted, the boards should line up and give accurate track end placement. If the baseboard joints and hinges become worn and an element of slop is introduced, it is possible to augment the joint with a bolt through the baseboard ends, or even a "G" clamp. However, with reasonable care, these joints should maintain accuracy, and the projecting shelf provides an element of protection for one of the board ends. |
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