Clearwater Valley Railway Co.

[elwoodblues]

Jerry, you want another update, I have one for you, but it might be what you are expecting.  

Going to call this one

Now, For Something Completely Different

(Cue Monty Python's Theme song)

Solving A Small Problem.

Many many years ago I bought a mini miter saw for modeling use.



A you can see it is a nice size for cutting strip wood and even came with a stop.




it came with scribed line at 90 degrees and 45 degrees at both sides of 90  (the 20 degree line was one I added for a past project).

Seeing as the current project require multiple degrees required for the piles seeing as they will be installed on a slope hill side I needed a way to accurately mark the angle, rather that use the trial and error method.  I know what angles I needed as I draw all my templates in AutoCad. 




As you can see from the photo above, most protractors (I was going to say "all" as I didn't find any online, but you never know) don't start at 0 degrees at the bottom edge.




Using a metal edge and a razor saw I cut the bottom off at the 0 degree.  Now I have a protractor where I can accurately
set angles on my super duper teeny tiny miter saw.  

Now I need to start cutting wood for the Timber pile and trestle over Apache Creek. 

Thanks for looking in everyone.

[kyle creel]

Now that's pretty darn cool            

KYLE CREEL
G&D Ry Co.

[PRR Modeler]

Very ingenious Ron, and no I didn't realize that about a protractor.

[Larry C]

Ron great tool to have and It'll make the angle cutting much easier and way more accurate.

[Philip]

Nice saw! Please reveil those magic angle when you start cutting.

Philip

[Rick]

Ron, nice saw and that new protractor will be very handy to have.

[Jerry]

Well that is a really fine machine you have there.  A genius at work in the small world of trains!!

Jerry

[ACL1504]

Ron,

Very well done on the problem solving with the angles. I agree, that is one nice miter saw.

Tom

[elwoodblues]

Thanks for the comments and kind words Kyle, Curt, Larry, Philip, Rick, Jerry and Tom.The Mini miter saw was made many many years ago by someone somewhat local and cost me a small fortune at the time but it gas been worth every dime.  If the mini miter saw impressed you, wait to you see my mini drill press.   

While I have been swamped at work this week I still managed a little time at the bench.This episode is called........

The Bridge Crew gets to Work

Now that the template was made it was time to put the bridge crew to work




In order to hold the bottom of the posts in place I pined a scrapped piece of wood along the sloped bottom.I then used poles to hold the posts in place.





All the bent braces are glued and held in place with pins.  Once the glue was dry enough the bent was flipped ober and the bent braces for the other side were added.





All the bent braces installed on the first bent.





A small sneezing fit late and all four bents were completed.





All the cross bracing installed.

Now the fun part, installing a gazillion NBW castings. 

Thanks for looking in.

[Jerry]

Excellent work Ron!!

Jerry

[Pennman]

What Jerry said and more!
Nice How-to, thanks.

Rich