PART 3 Enhanced By Vehicles How introducing road vehicles improved a model tramway

Continued from p.290 M.E.4749 August 9 Louvres Louvres are an important feature on any vehicle. I gave a lot of thought to this as a bit of a problem. In the end, I devised a simple jig tool that works well. For this, I made use of my very first lathe and combined drill press, Unimat S.L. This has a small machine vice which was fixed to the cross slide and allowed very fine positioning to be achieved beneath the drill chuck. I made a simple slotted bed and adjustable width side guards to accommodate possible widths of the louvred panels. Some mild steel stamping cutters of different widths were made to be held in the drill chuck which was then aligned exactly in position so that brought down firmly…

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