Monday June 28,2021

[jbvb]

Good evening, all.  Today I spent 5 hours in another modeler's basement trying to resolve a number of electrical problems.  Maybe 80% success but I have to go back if his layout is to be showable this fall.  No power districts, everything put together with suitcase connectors of 'fairly good' quality and no gaps anywhere they weren't absolutely required.  Add condensation showering down last winter from an outdoor-temp slab above and you'll guess why I needed a new voltmeter battery about 3PM. At least it was cool there (outdoors was not), and there were enough unsoldered rail joiners that I could usually make a gap without a Dremel.