Loom building is continuing at a pace but with one day until
we are off to Skegness I am now getting a bit hacked off with waiting for the
thread I ordered last week. I will have to go and find some tomorrow otherwise
we will have a loom with no thread. I know exactly what will happen, as soon as
I go and buy some emergency supplies, the stuff I have ordered will arrive
while I am out, we’ll see…
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| Sue is working on the beaming frame - and a cuppa! |
For now, Sue is working on the beaming frame and I am trying
to get the new frame as far forward as possible before we go. I don’t expect to
get it finished but I will give it a go. Working from the super model plans and
a couple of articles published in Meccano Magazine in the sixties, is hard
work. Most of the construction is guesswork as the words are at best vague and
when the author gets bored with describing the model he brings the passage to
an abrupt end by stating that the modeller will be able to finish the section
of the model by close inspection of the photographs – yeah right!
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| So how does the reed fix to the slay? |
Not only are
the photographs not very clear but also there are not enough of them. Some
parts of the model are impossible to see, so guesswork and experimentation take
over slowing progress to a snail’s pace. Normally this is all part of the fun
but with time running out it all starts to get a bit tense. So it is time for a
break and to give this keyboard a bit of a work out. Not too much, I don’t want
to end up with this on the bench in the workshop.
OK, I feel better now, back to the building…
Ralph.
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