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Hi,

Still working on baseboard sizes and think I might be getting somewhere; to make a bit of progress I decided to cut some more sleepers.  The sheet of 3 mm plywood that I got for free was cut to a length that would allow the cutting of 10 sleepers.  From its 2440 (8’) length; four lengths were cut which were then cut into strips 12 mm wide (1/2”) on a circular saw, lots of saw dust!  If sums are correct there are enough strips to provide about seven hundred 70 mm (2.3/4”) long sleepers, enough I hope for the whole job.  A drilling and cutting jig was made and few finished sleepers made.  First the plywood strips were stained and the jig used in drilling the holes and marking the sleeper length.  To speed things up a number of strips were stained and each end of the strips were drilled and mark for cutting when a number of strips had been done, they were cut and the process started again, boring but reasonably fast.  A number of chairs were fitted  to check the gauge was correct, this was done using a hammer and a piece of rail in the chairs to stop them breaking.

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Regards. 

Tony