Delivery 18
Quite a few screws to fit this time, to secure the bottom skirt to the base…
Delivery 17
A bigger box this time with a panel to cover the whole base, but while most parts have been assembled in minutes, such as the final overlay here, part 61 took a lot more time, and I did not see much…
Delivery 16
This adds the second motor to the one added to the stretcher last time and has both wheels mounted for one side. The second stretcher is started with another motor and wheel which will be completed next time. I've tested all three motors and we are read to roll when they fi…
Delivery 15
Well this adds the first motor to the last stretcher and has the first wheel mounted. The next set of parts will add another motor, followed by at least a third four weeks after that. There is a lot of waiting in this process. At least the second stretcher seems to have addressed the problem of it not screwing up tight enough as this one went together nic…
Delivery 14
Apart from screwing the last sections of the skirt base together, very little to do as we need later parts before the rollers can be added to the base plate. One little complaint is that the screws that secure the mounting brackets to the cross rail are a little long and needed a little fettling to allow them to lock in tightly. As supplied the mounting p…
Delivery 13
While the last set turned up a day earlier than normal, this month the parcel got lost in the Christmas rush and was two days late ... having been directed to the wrong depot initially. Tracking does sort of work, but some times the Royal Mail site does not give the details perhaps because things have gone wrong ...
Watching the Christmas films…
Delivery 12
Next parts turned up a day earlier than last time and I'm fairly sure the earlier sets were delivered on the Friday, so lets see when set 13 roles up. There was also another 'extra' item that I'd already been signed up for, but I think these are just well over priced and I had said to opt me out, but it seems you have to do it every time. T…
Friday 24 of October, 2025
OK all the magazines rescanned and a set of electronic copies in the folder. Next step perhaps is to OCR them so I can search for content, but I've got the Parts List pages as a single document and was going to scan through the recommended tools list, so I've just run ocrmypdf on that. And failed. While the block on white and white on red text has been recognised, the black on yellow boxes have been missed and those are the 'You will need' boxes. AH it's only some boxes th…
Wednesday 22 of October, 2025
One might think that I should have remembered to check things before scanning ALL of the magazines? More haste less speed! I had sort of spotted that some of the pages did not quite look right, but reducing the 600DPI scans down to thumbnails always causes some problems with rendering. It was not until I'd actually reordered all of the A3 scans down to A4 that I actually started to look closer and when stripping the assembly instructions, it became obvious that something was wrong. At fir…
Tuesday 21 of October, 2025
As this will be running in parallel with the Dalek project and is something I will pick up and put down at times then a separate blog diary is appropriate.
I have had a few problems due to a couple of parts going missing after the various movements of my property around different storage locations, but I've just received the final part, the sides of the tender, which has been a rather expensive purchase at 10 t…