There are always advantages and disadvantages with the hot weather depending on what you are doing. One of the disadvantages for me of the heat is that the Man Cave is more like a sauna on steroids! One of the advantages though is that the heat does assist greatly with the drying process of glues such as PVA. Using this to my advantage whilst excepting the sauna effects of the Man Cave I have been doing some ballasting on My Last Great Project layout. About two thirds of the layout is done but there is still much of the station board to do so I have been getting on with it!
Given the heat I have only been doing a short length at a time but after an hour of brushing ballast into place that is enough!
The goods yard has mostly already been ballasted with a 'dirty' ballast but the main lines are a cleaner ballast but there was a need to graduate between the two where they met. As usual it was soaked with a diluted PVA and in this heat it will be dry within 24 hours which gives me time to cool off with a diluted cool drink!
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