Let there be light....

[tramcar trev]

?Let there be light? said the CEO and there is!!!

I have been busy underneath the tramway running cables for the lighting circuit. Its actually the Auxiliary Power circuit as not only the lights run off it but the sound effects; brass bands playing in the rotunda, snippets of soundtrack escaping from the cinema, Mr. Menzies ( It is my melancholy duty to inform you??..) speaking at the town hall, ahhh maybe I?ll skip Menzies and go with Nellie Melba et al. I?m pleased this tramway is elevated; running cables etc would be so much more difficult if I had to bury them with water tight joints etc?. I also learned a good lesson today; when I?m making lights ensure there is enough wire on them to make the connection to the power cable. It bought back memories, soldering fine wires upside down in a cramped space in a backyard?.. At least I wasn?t doing it with a torch held in my mouth?..

I felt I had to show some ?real? or perhaps ?tangible? progress this Xmas. Last year there were sneers of derision when I had trouble demonstrating the tramway?.
This year there are some LIGHTS at Hard Place!!!!
What could be better than lights at Xmas?? I?ve not been encouraged to climb ladders and hang them around the house as in previous years?.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzlFaY0s_QI

Unfortunately my photography lets me down, I could tender the excuse that my camera has no night setting, even if I turn the flash off it still fires if there is not enough light.... The lights look so much better in real life.

 

[mike]

very nice treve.. lights add so much to it... especily in the dark

 

[bobg]

That last one is just right Trev, full of old world atmosphere, all it needs is the tram driver stood alongside having a fag.

Now there's a challange; the glowing fag end, every time he takes a drag!

 

[tramcar trev]

That last one is just right Trev, full of old world atmosphere, all it needs is the tram driver stood alongside having a fag.

Now there's a challange; the glowing fag end, every time he takes a drag!

Are you throwing down the Gauntlet?? Is this a real challenge?? Ok well here is my solution to create the glowing fag....
Simple really, drill a 1/32" hole through the mouth of the smoker, insert a length of fibre optic and glue it in place leaving around 2mm sticking out of his/her mouth, paint the exposed bit white but not the end. Route the other end of the fibre to a convenient location where the glowing tip can be created by a randomly flashing red led, slow on, slow off would be ideal. The random flashing is no problem but the slow on & off may challenge me....

That's what I like about this forum, the inspirations I get from off hand remarks

 

[vsmith]

Wow That stoneworks looks nuts! I doubt I would have the patience to get that accurate to scale. Looks great!

 

[Nodrog1826]

Impressive lights there Trev.

Mind you that tram chock will give the driver a hernia...

 

[tramcar trev]

He would get his conductress to help him and while she is bent over...

 

[tramcar trev]

Wow That stoneworks looks nuts! I doubt I would have the patience to get that accurate to scale. Looks great!

Each stone hand laid.... Took me a few hours but it was the cutting and trimming that took the time...

 

[KeithT]

That last one is just right Trev, full of old world atmosphere, all it needs is the tram driver stood alongside having a fag.

Now there's a challange; the glowing fag end, every time he takes a drag!

Are you throwing down the Gauntlet?? Is this a real challenge?? .........................................

Err, Yes. If he is smoking it there has to be ......smoke.....
It looks great though. V atmospheric.

 

[bobg]

That last one is just right Trev, full of old world atmosphere, all it needs is the tram driver stood alongside having a fag.

Now there's a challange; the glowing fag end, every time he takes a drag!

Are you throwing down the Gauntlet?? Is this a real challenge?? .........................................

Err, Yes. If he is smoking it there has to be ......smoke.....
It looks great though. V atmospheric.

I thought smoke was second nature to you 'electric power' types, it's we gas-fired steamers that have trouble getting it to look right.