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Last night I lifted module 7 (Eureka). Up til now I have vacillated as to how complete the module frame would be while it was still downstairs on the fabrication platform. But after I’ve been working on the floor of the layout, with the module upside down, to install the basic wiring, I have decided to do more before I bring it up.
Even the clips for the legs I have sometimes installed upstairs, but I’m going to be trying to do more of it on the platform. For one thing, all the tools are upstairs, so I’m bringing drills and drill bits upstairs and down anyway, so not much additional effort to bring the components downstairs and attaching them, then carrying the whole thing up. I even added the terminal blocks at each end to this one, but not the wiring.
I’ve had a couple of 4x to rest the upside-down modules on, but there is more wood upstairs that I could use to raise the thing even farther above the floor to do this kind of work. And, the higher it is, the less far I’ll have to swing it when I get the legs installed and get it upright.
One reason I thought of this is module 7 is 7’6″ or so long, and I’ll be definitely be building more that will be this long. Modules that have curves with an effective length of 6′ or so are not that hard to handle.
Ron Merrick
