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A model railway dining table – Part 4.

Today I messed up. But then managed to fix it. I went out this morning to get the frame timber. It was bucketing down so the top was up on the car and I was worried about getting the timber to fit. I...

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A model railway dining table – Part 5.

Today I got the table standing up! First I ditched the idea of using dowels in the legs when a test proved I couldn’t drill a hole straight enough in the end of the cross pieces and I’d never be able...

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A model railway dining table – Part 6.

Right, where are we up to? In my last week before starting work again Mike helped me go get some wood with his trailer. The demolition place did have Rimu floorboard. And even better than that they are...

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A model railway dining table – Part 7.

Time to make the top! Unfortunately now I am working again the only time I have to do things is weekends and after work. Still progress is being made. I decided to do a simple lap joint on the ends. It...

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A model railway dining table – Part 8.

Another day where I rushed home from work and straight out to the shed. I trimmed the long ends and cut the ends of them in about 30 minutes. Easy once you know how. Amazingly the sides are all even...

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A model railway dining table – Part 9.

Tonight after work I went to New Lynn to get a new router bit. I got the widest I could, 25mm. I came home and gave it a try and it worked great! I used 4mm ply as my spacer this time which was just...

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A model railway dining table – Part 10.

Friday night I didn’t plane the top. I sanded it with the random orbit sander and that worked great. I then glued the corners. I had to make a few minor adjustments to get everything square. The fit...

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A model railway dining table – Part 11.

The table is finally nearly finished. Joss came up with some screws for the corners, the sides and the castors. I added two counter sunk screws to each corner from underneath. For the sides I worked...

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Railway table access panel.

Since I am soon starting a new job and will be working from home I really want to get the glass for my railway table so I have somewhere to set up my laptop to work on. Before I can get the glass I...

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Railway table glass.

I finally got organised and ordered the glass for my railway table! I got a piece of 8mm thick, toughened glass for it which cost $416 NZ. Was well worth it though. First I had to prepare the edges...

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