Try scoring fairly heavy with a Stanley knife, razor saw or slitting disc,  then snap it. Score between tracks or across a row of holes, hold in a vice with the score level with the jaws to snap. I've also used shears on small pieces.

Hi Marty,
A bandsaw will work, may produce best results sandwiched between a couple of piecds of ply or hardboard. 
Paul

Cut the blank end off it, Marty.  Then it snaps easily using engineers pliers.

Start one end and work gently along, bending it as you go.

Waiting with baited breath here Marty.:shock:

Been… too… long….
Mojo returning…..


This should help….. Class 24 D5038 in two tone green with small yellow warning panel, running light engine on the Pentrecourt Halt diorama.





Aahhhhh….

Nice Marty,

will it be getting grubby:lol: 

 

cheers

 

Toto

I think it will have to Tom, it's very toy like isn't it? Something else to put on the "to do" list.
cheers
Marty

I don't know, it he way you have photographed it it doesn't look to toy like at all. I still like them mucked up though.:lol: it had me reaching for the catalogues. I have a class 24 but in BR blue ……… Needs messed up as well.

Lovely photo as usual.

Cheers

Toto

hehe… you got me itching to mess with it now :lol:

There was the occational clean one, after all  BR had to take them out of the box too
As usual Marty excellent piccy
Paul

 

A few more photo's posing some loco's wouldn't go amiss………. hint hint;-) these trees in the background are excellent too Marty.

 

cheers

 

toto

good to know the mojo is rising again,mine is running on empty too,like the loco but as the lads say a bit bright those hand rails gleam,,
:thumbs;-):cool:

Thanks Paul, clean? yes… the missus prefers them shiny new and doesn't understand why I dirty up the few that I have!

Tom, I'll see what I can do, I've decided to photo all my loco's and stock for insurance purposes. We were broken into a couple of weeks ago and had stuff stolen . Electronics and jewelry of course… but no trains thankfully.

[Rant] Low down, interbred, illiterate, unkempt, heartless scum. Not enough chlorine in the gene pool in my opinion. My only compensation is that the drug addled, petty, sniveling dogs have shorter life expectancy than I do and a significant part of that life is going to be as the love slave of their 6' 2" 145kg cell mate. [/Rant]

Owen, you had a blitz setting up the shed and getting the basics down, bet you feel like you need an overhaul!
Following on from previous posts regarding cutting circuit board, the band saw was the answer. Piece of…. board?





cheers
Marty

[user=19]Marty[/user] wrote:

Tom, I'll see what I can do, I've decided to photo all my loco's and stock for insurance purposes. We were broken into a couple of weeks ago and had stuff stolen . Electronics and jewelry of course… but no trains thankfully.

Sorry to hear about that Marty and I know just how you feel.   We had a burglary back in the 1970's - jewelry, TV, and my super Hi-Fi system all went - and it still rankles after all these years whenever we think of it.   It's the sense of outrage that an interloper has been in your house which is the immediate reaction but it does go in time so try not to let it get you down too much.

Ken.

 

Thanks Ken,

T took it the hardest, irreplaceable jewelry from family, friends and yours truly collected over a lifetime. Nothing seriously expensive, hardly worth their risk and effort but priceless to her.

You move on and thank your lucky stars that they didn't trash the place or torch it.

I've had my rant and I'll leave it at that, back to the railway.

This octopus is my test board for the LED point indicator lights to go into the control panel. It's been so long that I'm not quite sure which does what at the moment, but I know it works and I've got a wiring diagram that will get me back up to speed in no time I'm sure.





Cheers

Marty

I see you have one of those rare breed of octopus.., the one with 9 legs ! :lol:

Sorry to hear about the break-in, not meaning to bring it up again. I had a similar occuance many years ago. They ended up with about $3500.00 - $4000.00 worth of CDs (music). A lot of these were boxed sets, where there were only a handful in Oz and the rest I had ordered from overseas as I could not get them here. Then they pinched my flat-mates collection of foriegn currency he had. I recall this happened not too long after those Cash-Converter/hock shops had opened up all over Sydney… :twisted:

Anyway, to change the subject, nice looking loco. The two-tone green livery is one of my favourites. :thumbs

Cheers, Gary.

[user=19]Marty[/user] wrote:

Been… too… long….
Mojo returning…..


This should help….. Class 24 D5038 in two tone green with small yellow warning panel, running light engine on the Pentrecourt Halt diorama.





Aahhhhh….

Nice,  :thumbs


Looks too good to to dirty it up Marty.

As Paul says it could be brand new, or perhaps it's just had one of it's occasional washes.


Ed

Hi Gary and Ed, thanks for the thoughts and the comments.
I too like the Class 24 and was very happy to find during my research that they were used on the West Wales main line and Newcastle Emlyn branch.


Just to record the ongoing workings on the railway the pictures below show more of the development of the 9 legged octopus circuit board that is designed to work with a relay to change point indicating LEDs on a control panel.


The diagram that is meant to make sense of the wiring.






All soldered up and with the demo control board with track diagram and LEDs in place.





Soldering… must try harder… at least it works.





and a photo of Class 52 Western Yeomen D1035 in BR Green for the records. Reckon engineering is going to have to replace that bridge soon from the lean on that bridge parapet!





Wet and cold here today so hunkered down in the layout room soldering up droppers to the code 55 points for Llandyfriog Junction…. Huzzah.





cheers


Marty

Hi Marty,

 

another cracking scene with the western. looks well used and abused.:thumbs

 

pleasure to look at.

 

cheers

 

toto

Marty, the photo of the Western - if I didn't know better, you would not guess is it N scale :thumbs