{"id":319879,"date":"2025-11-20T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=3179b71ebc6b4cc65e967fcab9e988c4"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:56:25","slug":"hand-warming-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=319879","title":{"rendered":"Hand warming for Christmas."},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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 I while back I said no more 9mm track. Then I built a small 09 scale layout. Then there is this. There is link wiring to do and then there are questions. Will it be operated? Unlikely\/only minimally. The 009 layout has been hawked about by young Burnham on a couple of occasions, but this would be regarded as unusual. The pointwork remains at this time manual, but I have considered using the Peco switches and switch stand thing with the ‘new’ smart switches as an almost retro-step. Remember this is theirs, not mine. I am just the instrument.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Some of the early feed wiring fell into the realm of ‘entertaining’. I’ve not managed to this for a goodly number of years and ran a follows:<\/p>\n

The brain has two applicable reactions in this situation. 1. grab something which is falling. 2. keep hand away from the business end of a soldering iron as it is likely to be warm. In the split second in question, my brain confused these two reactions and placed them in the wrong order. I now have less skin on my finger than I did before the moment in question. Don’t let anyone tell you that half a century of experience makes you better at the job in question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 I while back I said no more 9mm track. Then I built a small 09 scale layout. Then there is this. There is link wiring to do and then there are questions. Will it be operated? Unlikely\/only minimally. The 009 layout has been hawked about by young …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13237,910,17868],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrics","category-points","category-tt120"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t