Last week I glued up 16 poles for supporting the overhead wire. These particular ones are sized to span both tracks on the straight sections of the road. I'll need another bunch whose horizontal arms can reach over both tracks on corners where the track spacing is somewhat wider.
I should note that these are decorative and not designed to carry current to the model streetcars. The vertical poles are cut from bamboo skewers, and the horizontal arms are 3/32" square section basswood. A straight pin, with its head snipped off, coated with superglue is used to hold the arm to the vertical post. A small triangular gusset cut from 0.020" styrene was glued into the pole/arm joint for additional strength. To finish off, a wire was strung between the end of the arm and the pole. and held in place with glue. For connecting the overhead wiring to the arms I have some pins and Japanese seed beads for making the wire hangers, but I still need to figure out how to attach them - there'll be some fun playtime ahead on that task :-)
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