Soldering Sunday

Having Seep point motors on all 17 points (barring the catch point leaving the sidings) seemed like such a good idea.  I've just spent a large part of Sunday afternoon trimming 5cm lengths of wire, stripping the ends and tinning them with solder.  For 16 point motors that's 96 pieces of wire.

A packet of glass & ceramic tile drill bits arrived during the week.  I hoped to use these to drill holes in the acrylic that will form the surface of the control panel.  Having just tested them on an off-cut of 3mm perspex sheet I can confirm that they work well, certainly much better than the normal HSS bits that cracked the acrylic without fail.

Of course, now that I know that the control panel construction to go ahead, I will need to solder dropper wires to the 17 point switches and solder resistors and dropper wires to the 34 indicator LEDs.