... a hole in an old coin, or use something else. Turn the vee round on the block to make the second cut. The result is as shown after making two cuts on the sander. If necessary the bulk of the metal can be quickly removed with a coarse file or metal shears before finishing on the sander. Use a fine-grade sanding disc on the sander plate. If the vee gets too hot while sanding stop and dip the block in a bowl of cold water. The end result is an accurately aligned vee comprised of solid rail at the nose. All that then remains is to fettle the running edges at the tip and blunt back the nose to the specified width as shown on the template (0.25mm/10 thou for bullhead in 4mm scale). It's a good idea to take a few thou off the top of the nose so that it dips down slightly below the wing rails. This allows for the coning angle on the wheels as they run off the wing rail onto the nose, producing smoother running. But ...

... posted: 29 Apr 2018 23:24 from: Martin Wynne Nigel Brown wrote: Martyn, re your Glandyfi shot above, here's another Probably the same boat! Hi Nigel, Almost certainly. You certainly know your Wales, I didn't give the location (although a right-click would have provided a good clue). That's a great shot. Thanks for posting. cheers, Martin. posted: 30 Apr 2018 00:01 from: Nigel Brown Martyn I know the spot well. When they rebuilt and re-aligned the main road above the railway I was hoping they would leave a bit of the old road as a layby, because that spot has great potential for snaps and it was impossible before. They did! So if I'm heading north up the A487 and have a camera in the car and it's the right sort of day I often stop to see what sort of shot is available. Here's a couple of Canada geese: 528_291854_390000000.jpg and a distant shot of the Dyfi railway bridge: 528_291858_250000000.jpg Last edited on 30 Apr 2018 00 ...

... strangely irritating, and looks like a bug. With partial templates a typical sequence is 1. blank off, omit, or shorten bits of the control template. 2. store it. 3. blank off, omit, or shorten different bits of the control template. 4. store it. and so on. So it's essential that after storing the control template, it remains in place (or returns to it). Even when not using partial templates there are times when you want it to retain its position and alignment -- for example you may want to orbit or snake it to the next position, or use it in a function such as make transition. It's so easy and quick to show/hide the control template by dabbing the HOME key that this discussion does seem a bit pedantic. I did feel (and still feel) that having Templot in effect press the Home key for you to re-show the control template after storing is helpful. But if not, just one dab on the key hides it again. ...

... topic: 3660 changes in 226a -- 2. peg positions for outside slips posted: 6 May 2020 06:31 from: Martin Wynne There are two new fixing peg positions, OSXP and OSMP: 2_060123_450000000.png These make it a lot easier than previous methods to get an outside slip road aligned and to establish the V-crossing angles and positions. At least for a regular diamond-crossing: 2_060354_000000000.png That's a 1:4.5 diamond with A-7.75 turnouts. I have made a bit of video to explain the process: http://flashbackconnect.com/Default.aspx?id=3o4-PiKKPVaAXZsePJOwSA2 For shorter diamonds the same procedure can produce the type of half-scissors where the switch deflections are in the side road: 2_060339_590000000.png But again only for a regular diamond (both roads the same radius). The above was a 1:3 crossing with A-6.75 turnouts. (We don't actually have a name for a half-scissors with the switch deflections in the side road like a slip. A normal half-scissors has the ...

... the 2nd turnout (within reason). In this case, if you start with a right-hand B-8 it works quite well, creating 1:6.27 (in EM) for the 2nd turnout. Then do this: 2_100716_250000000.png You can now make any of the usual adjustments to the 2nd turnout (apart from changing the main-road curving). In this case you want to change to 1:6 for the V-crossing, before you continue making the tandem: 2_100720_280000000.png To get the finished tandem aligned with the diamond, group the tandem templates and then use the notch-linking function. Gordon asked about that recently: topic 3692- message 29889 I think I need to make some videos. cheers, Martin. posted: 10 Jun 2020 12:48 from: William Williamson Thank you very much both, I've always just clicked through that, but it makes alot of sense! Cheers! posted: 10 Jun 2020 13:54 from: Tom Allen william, i've done exactly the same. Parts of Templot Club ...

... the vee rails to be any longer than the standard size, but often they might be shortened to fit in complex pointwork, as Phil explained. However, if the vee in question in your screenshot was created as part of the make diamond-crossing at intersection function, Templot stops the diagonal-side exit short of the TVJP to ensure greater accuracy in matching the underlying curves. It is then your job to re-instate the rail joint at the marked location by rolling the rails on the underlying template to re-align the joint. See the second half of this video: http://flashbackconnect.com/Movie.aspx?id=pu2F-wveux5-EWGYuqPd3g2 Here's the relevant frame from it: 2_270720_140000000.png To customize the vee rails to some other length, go to real> V-crossing options> customize V-crossing> vee rail... menu item. The length is determined by setting the number of timbers spanned and the spacings between them. cheers, Martin. posted: 7 Jul 2020 11:09 from: Julian Roberts ...

... topic: 3668 diamond-crossings- help me find the words posted: 14 May 2020 11:46 from: Martin Wynne David G has asked me a question to which I know the answer. But I don't know how to explain it in words. There are two ways to create a diamond-crossing in Templot: 1. peg/align tools> make diamond-crossing at intersection This more often than not produces an irregular diamond. The maths is optimized towards preserving the underlying curving and radii. 2. tools> make diamond-crossing tools> make slip crossover tools> make ladder crossover This produces a regular diamond. The maths is optimized towards maintaining the crossing angles and track spacings. There are some situations where either method could be used -- but in curved track, method 2 produces a slightly different result from method 1. So the obvious question is -- which method do you use in any given situation? If it's closely connected to other pointwork it would normally be method 2. But not always -- a ...

... matter for whoever was compiling that bit of the map. There might be both historic and modern layers for some popular locations, or a what-if guided busway instead. As a drop-down list of available map layers. The reason for using OpenStreetMap as the basis is that it provides a copyright-free means of geo-referencing, so that the switch toe is the correct distance from the bridge and from the church doorway, and so that adjacent map tiles, compiled by different people or at different times, align seamlessly as you scroll across the map. Clearly doing the whole country is a silly pipe-dream, but it might be possible to start with a single location, and experiment with getting the tiles on the Templot server in the format used by slippy maps. As an overlay on OpenStreetMap, with the existing OpenStreetMap railway lines removed. The tiles on most slippy maps are PNG bitmap images, usually 200x200 or 256x256 pixels each. For this idea to work they would need to be EMF or SVG files, so that ...

... more. That and glasses can be a right pain. Regards. Trevor. posted: 12 Apr 2020 17:29 from: keithj15 Hi Martin, Many thanks for your help --- just what the old grey matter needed, some great links and samples! One of the templates I am working on is the old classic 3-throw.The LH turnout forms the main template size a V5 turnout, which I copied and swapped to a RH and placed this to the right of the first turnout so the two V's were aligned vertically. All good so far, and with your help yesterday I was able to crop and place the 3rd Frog from a Y to work with the other two. At this point I realised the tie bar and blades of the RH needed to be moved a couple more timbers to the right, but without disturbing its frog and V or anything else really. Simple, or so I thought until I tried......and failed. I had a look at your other 3-way samples, but didn't ...

... the tools> make... functions. There is no need to do that, because all the functions with "make" in their name automatically store the existing control template on the background for you, before making the new control template. After I place a template I need to curve it but in the center of the point, as to give the point a kick to line up as per drawing, How can I do this?? Sorry, can you explain a bit more? There are several functions to align the templates, one of the most frequently used is F6, which adjusts the curving radius. Make sure first that you have the red fixing peg at the end which you want to remain fixed. Here is a short Jing video, showing F6 in use: http://screencast.com/t /wJq5q8ShPc (I can't put captions in Jing, so I've used the screen keyboard to show key presses.) regards, Martin. posted: 9 Dec 2007 03:19 from: Stuart Mitchell Martin, Thanks for ...