First of all, thanks again to everyone for the support.
Next. Lee and Mark, I will be calling upon your expertise when I get into the substation construction. I assure you.
Kenny, ideally, I need to make a perfect master and get them resin cast. To hand build all 24 isn't something I'm looking forward to since it basically took a week to build 9 of them. Let me find out if I can get them case and then we can discuss what to do.
I built 3 more HV towers today.
I changed my method a bit. Instead of notching the poles, I sanded a curved notch into the cross pieces. This simplified construction and allowed me to use the Dremel to make the cuts instead of sawing in the miter box and hand carving the notches. None of these poles support any kind of load so the strength of the glue joints is not that important. It's not like I'm building a working trestle which will support dead and live train loads.
I found out that I was rushing a bit when the glue joints fell apart when I was lifting the assembly away from the pins to turn it over and put the diagonal brace on the other side. I then re-glued and used clamps to let the glue set properly.
