oldravendale
Western Thunderer
Thank you Jon. Actually I think you are too kind, having seen your work. But I'll keep pressing on.
This is the staging built from scratch. Spacing of the slats was the most difficult aspect. The centre one didn't quite work out but I'll tell myself that it's only between you and me, and I'll not tell anyone....... The holes for fitting the stanchions at the ends have been marked out and drilled. Those for the middle have yet to be drilled through.
Just so the fitting can be seen in place this is the staging dry fitted on the framework.
The next task was to work out how to fit the stanchions for the hand rails. I referred to the Derek Mundy book and his answer is so simple that I don't know why I never thought of it (!) The ends of some wire - in this case 0.5mm - are bent over, just enough to give an area to take some solder. At this time the lengths of the stanchions is unimportant.
This is the view from underneath after soldering the stanchions in place.
Having done this the stanchions can simply be bent vertical using the Mark 1 eyeball. The shot below is before the stanchions were straightened up.
The height of the handrail having been determined at a nominal 2 ft 6 in I straightened some copper wire and wrapped it around the stanchions, soldering it in place.
Finally the stanchions were cut back and the copper wire cut to length. This last shot shows the staging with hand rail dry fitted to the top of the post. Tomorrow I'll solder it in place, fix the dollies in place and prime the whole assembly.
Brian
This is the staging built from scratch. Spacing of the slats was the most difficult aspect. The centre one didn't quite work out but I'll tell myself that it's only between you and me, and I'll not tell anyone....... The holes for fitting the stanchions at the ends have been marked out and drilled. Those for the middle have yet to be drilled through.
Just so the fitting can be seen in place this is the staging dry fitted on the framework.
The next task was to work out how to fit the stanchions for the hand rails. I referred to the Derek Mundy book and his answer is so simple that I don't know why I never thought of it (!) The ends of some wire - in this case 0.5mm - are bent over, just enough to give an area to take some solder. At this time the lengths of the stanchions is unimportant.
This is the view from underneath after soldering the stanchions in place.
Having done this the stanchions can simply be bent vertical using the Mark 1 eyeball. The shot below is before the stanchions were straightened up.
The height of the handrail having been determined at a nominal 2 ft 6 in I straightened some copper wire and wrapped it around the stanchions, soldering it in place.
Finally the stanchions were cut back and the copper wire cut to length. This last shot shows the staging with hand rail dry fitted to the top of the post. Tomorrow I'll solder it in place, fix the dollies in place and prime the whole assembly.
Brian