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501. Tramway track
... 2019 17:07 from: Andy Reichert "Pdf" Templates for near scale girder rail tram track are at: http://www.proto87.com/Street_track_templates.html These are published in two standards: HO Proto-87 16.5 mm gauge and RTR HO compatible, HO Street Fine. I haven't reviewed them for several years as I've been rather busy making up a full range of DIY kit versions for fellow tram enthusiasts for introduction this year. I'll dig out some pictures and post them shortly. Last edited on 25 Oct 2019 17:10 by Andy Reichert posted: 25 Oct 2019 19:28 from: Andy Reichert 726_251415_330000000.jpg Single 8" radius milled turnout base 726_251425_360000000.jpg Base with Rail and single points added. 726_251414_250000000.jpg Full Grand Union milled base, with pavement partially added 726_251416_190000000.jpg One leaf (1 /4) of a Grand Union under construction. Andy posted: 26 Oct 2019 10:52 from: Hayfield Wow !! !! !!! posted: 26 Oct 2019 12:01 from: Jim Guthrie That is excellent. I feel a need to ...
... too severe, so a suitable irregular diamond across a straight should be possible. But to add inside slip roads, the crossing angle can't be less than about 1:6, and preferably longer. For shorter diamonds it is necessary to make it an outside slip instead. regards, Martin. posted: 12 Apr 2013 09:47 from: Hayfield Martin That was very quick, thank you I will try and do a quick Templot file to illustrate the problem I have. Thank you again John posted: 12 Apr 2013 10:30 from: Hayfield I have just attached a quick plan of the proposed slip, I have only at this moment used rails without sleepers just to show the position of the 3 tracks. I overlayed a straight and curved diamond over a B6 then just added a slip road, I still have my doubts that it is buildable in 00 gauge. Any advice would be most welcome Thanks John Attachment: attach_1578_2194_offest_slip.box 255 posted: 12 Apr 2013 11:01 from: JFS I tried to post this a minute ago and ...
... switch is very close, so I used that as-is with some blanking on the switch front. It's not possible to read the dimensions clearly enough to do a proper custom switch. It needed only a slight adjustment to the V-crossing entry straight to match the 9500mm line, which I think is to the blunt nose, not the FP. I shortened the check rails by eye to the drawing. regards, Martin. Last edited on 18 May 2013 13:38 by Martin Wynne posted: 16 May 2013 10:34 from: Martin Wynne Hi Paul, I have had a fresh look at this. The 5277mm dimension is clear enough and I think confirms that the crossing angle is 1:7 RAM and that the 9500mm dimension is to the FP as you said and not the blunt nose as I previously thought. I will work up a proper design for this turnout and post updated files later. regards, Martin. posted: 16 May 2013 11:48 from: Franz Martin, Thank you for your efforts. I ...
504. taking steps
... topic: 3569 taking steps posted: 8 Dec 2019 15:11 from: Martin Wynne I receive a lot of spam email. One today is very strange: "You and I can walk in Number 10 together, Martin." How did they know my shoe size? Martin. posted: 8 Dec 2019 16:41 from: Rob Manchester Martin Wynne wrote: I receive a lot of spam email. One today is very strange: "You and I can walk in Number 10 together, Martin." How did they know my shoe size? Martin. Hi Martin, Sounds like somebody wants you to get involved in Thursday's elections. Do you prefer to be with Boris or Jeremy Rob posted: 8 Dec 2019 17:56 from: Martin Wynne Rob Manchester wrote: Do you prefer to be with Boris or Jeremy Hi Rob, I'm still looking for which way to go. I think I may have found it. 2_081254_170000000.jpg Martin. posted: 8 Dec 2019 20:41 from: Martin Wynne A grey day and troubled ...
... "John Arkell style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffee"Tunbridge Wells posted: 15 Jul 2013 09:43 from: Dave Summers Simon You could do worse than read this thread on RMWeb. David Siddall gives a blow-by-blow account of the trials and tribulations of building a 7mm scale turnout-in-a -bag. Don't let the scale bother you, the principles are the same. There are several other similar threads giving useful trackbuilding information and advice. Cheers Dave posted: 15 Jul 2013 10:06 from: Paul Boyd Hi all Arthur asked: have you any idea what is the difference between 406 and 435 and why you would use one rather than the other? I use both at work, and I've often extolled the virtues of 435 on this forum for track building. The gist of it is that 406 is a very thin liquid that's formulated for plastics (and rubber), but does act as a good general purpose adhesive. It whips into joints by capillary action very readily. 435 is a ...
... though? Hi Martin I don't know who Andy used, but I've recently discovered AllPCB in China. Just ordered ten boards, 1.25" x 2.5" for just over £18 total including postage. They arrived the other day and are fine. That's going to transform some of my thinking! Andy- that's some seriously impressive trackwork!! Cheers, Paul Last edited on 20 Nov 2019 22:00 by Paul Boyd posted: 20 Nov 2019 22:43 from: Andy Reichert The PCB came from PCBway in China. 10 boards up to 10cm by 10 cm Double side boards for US$5, but US $23 Shipping. So it pays to design several different trial boards per order for much the same shared shipping cost. Larger quantities of a single design are of course charged at normal (but reasonable) rates. I'm open to being mistaken on the number of connections. My reasoning to date is that these crossings are chained in pairs in both N-S and E-W directions, so the pairs of what would be common frogs are ...
... topic: 3512 C&L new 00 gauge 3 bolt chairs+ extras posted: 30 Sep 2019 10:21 from: Hayfield Phil at C&L has been busy in recent weeks and at Scaleforum he had test shots of the new 3 bolt chair sprue along with added extra chairs and fishplates, with a 2 bolt version close behind 982_300507_350000000.jpg This is the new aprus with 10 S1 chairs, 2 S1J chairs, 2 L1 chairs and a standard and reinforced fishplate (H section) To my knowledge its the first time the J chairs have been available in 4 mm scale982_300517_390000000.jpg The test shot has shown up an issue with the L1 chairs which is in the process of being rectified, Phil is hoping that these will be available by early November with the 2 bolt version close behind 982_300520_140000000.jpg 1 piece fishplates in 2 styles, normal& reinforced Phil told me about some other interesting future plans he has for the future posted: 30 Sep 2019 11:24 from: RedgateModels Looking at all that sprue make me think that the moulding company should offer ...
508. Saving Files
... topic: 2254 Saving Files posted: 10 Jul 2013 13:14 from: LPL All; Is it possible to save work, all ready done, onto a disc? I'd like to restore my computer but would rather save the files first. I have made some attempts on my own but without success. If, after all, saving files to a disc can be done, please, reply to let me know how. Thanks, ahead of time; Lu Luis Leistikow USA posted: 10 Jul 2013 15:03 from: Martin Wynne Hi Luis, Welcome to Templot Club. To save your work to a data file, click the main> save all templates... menu item. If you have already done that, and you want to copy all your files to a CD or external disk drive -- In My Computer go to the C: drive and copy the entire \TEMPLOT_DEV\ folder to the CD. In most CD burning software you can just drag that folder into the burner dialog. If you need more ...
... topic: 2249 Diamond crossing construction posted: 3 Jul 2013 10:47 from: LSWRArt On a diamond crossing, I am not sure what you call the piece of running rail with one end filed to an point between the K-rail and the check rail? More importantly, how do I make one? On the few pictures I can find it looks as if many modellers have left the rail straight and just filed the tip off at an angle. I cannot find any pictures of the real K-crossing crossing pre-grouping or even in the early days of grouping. But I would have thought that if you make the rail head like this, it will mean that the rail head is not supported at the tip by the rail web? So should these rails be made in the same way as a V-crossing point rail? i.e. bend 10mm (in 0 gauge) towards the running face, file railhead only on the running side to make the running surface straight again; and then file the crossing angle on ...
... CURVIFORM type of V-crossing. 4. Adjust the V-crossing angle to create the required radius in the diagonal road (F9 mouse action). 5. TOOLS> MAKE LADDER menu item. Thanks for reminding me that the help menu item isn't linked to the above -- it is now. There are still lots of dead help links, I'm afraid. I will see if I can re-word some of the above to make things a bit clearer. regards, Martin. posted: 28 May 2013 10:47 from: Martin Wynne richard_t wrote: Also the help menu item in the tools> make ladder crossover doesn't do anything. Sometimes a simple report such as this opens such a can of worms that I despair of ever getting Templot fully updated and less confusing for beginners. The introduction of irregular diamond-crossings in Templot2 meant rewriting the template generator to allow the turnout radius to go negative. In previous versions this was an error condition causing numerous error and diagnostic messages to be displayed. I removed all of those ...
... sound of it, is really great. A major hurdle ticked off the list. But if we are looking to release Templot3 as a practical replacement for Templot2, "seems to work ok" isn't good enough. Yes absolutely. I think this is clear, if T3 is to be a viable successor to T2. However, before I comment on the rest of your post, I need to think about it a bit more (and do a bit of investigation too). Cheers, graeme posted: 15 Nov 2019 10:20 from: Paul Boyd Hi Graeme You've got the bug! Yes, I do many layouts in Templot that will never be built, nor were ever intended to be built. This one is one I did a few years ago of Yatton on the GW main line south-west of Bristol at a friend's suggestion, just for the hell of it! I'd need to win the lottery just to be able to buy the space for that one! I may finish the timbering one day... 105_150516_150000000.png posted ...
512. PDF Export origin
... which would be appropriate in all circumstances has been a headache. I doubt very much that buying a new computer will make much difference. I am seeing the same effects here. It would make some difference, assuming increased memory, but maybe not enough to make a significant change. You can probably get everything in the PDF correctly by reducing the DPI (dots per inch) setting. I found that it worked fine at 100 DPI, but not at higher settings: 2_050720_070000000.png 100 DPI means everything is rounded to the nearest 10 thou. That's probably fine for the sketchboard items, but not good for the track templates. I usually recommend at least 300 DPI for those, and 600 DPI looks neater. Here is a close up from your plan at 100 DPI. You can see that the rounding effects at 100 DPI produce wonky rail lines and varying rail width: 2_050716_120000000.png That's probably acceptable in 7mm scale, but discrepancies of this magnitude would obviously be unacceptable in 2mm scale. So ideally you need to make some changes on the sketchboard so that ...
513. metafiles!
... (no WMF -- there are online converters if anyone wants the old WMF format), and the print-page previews. Whether it is enough to work in the Sketchboard remains to be seen. Because of licensing issues that will have to be in a separate helper exe anyway, at least for the present. It might even become a separate program in its own right TemplotSketch (closed-source). Likewise TemplotPDF perhaps, for the PDF export, which also relies on metafiles. cheers, Martin. posted: 10 Nov 2019 02:11 from: Martin Wynne The metafile export is now working in T3 quite well. Metafiles are vector files. That's great because instead of containing an actual image, they contain the instructions for drawing the image. Which means they don't have a fixed size and can be drawn crisply into a specified rectangle of any size. What has surprised me is how few graphics programs are able to handle metafiles properly. In fact I haven't found any. Gimp and Inkscape won't load them at all. Irfanview and ...
... other internal testing has gone well, so I am confident that we will have a final product ready before the end of the year.... Now that our beta process is underway, we are on track to have a production quality version of CrossOver 19 before the end of the year. We recommend that you wait for the production release if you can. I still have a nasty Windoze-based laptop that I can use for Templot in the meantime but look forward to the next Crossover update. Dave posted: 10 Dec 2019 19:59 from: Dave Summers Just received notification from Codeweavers that their upgrade to Crossover is now available. I have downloaded and installed Crossover 19 and can confirm that Templot 2.25b is now running quite happily on my Catalina-OS-based MacBook Pro. posted: 10 Dec 2019 22:39 from: newport_rod That's good news, thanks Dave posted: 12 Dec 2019 14:01 from: Eve Wallis I am using Templot on an iMac running OS Catalina 10.15.1 Would like to point out that Wine Bottler ...
515. Track construction
... we've invented Pritt in Tasmania yet? Have to hunt around. So: can you gentlemen advise on glues you prefer to use? N-S rail to plastic base plate to ply. I haven't discounted having some etches done but then I'll be glueing N-S to brass to ply hopefully in one go. Is there a good glue for this application. If I go this way there will be no holding of rail to base plate mechanically so it will only be glue. Cheers Simon Handby posted: 4 Jul 2013 10:08 from: Paul Boyd Hi Simon So: can you gentlemen advise on glues you prefer to use? N-S rail to plastic base plate to ply. I haven't discounted having some etches done but then I'll be glueing N-S to brass to ply hopefully in one go. Is there a good glue for this application. I've had very good results with Loctite 435. I've used this to glue plastic slide chairs to N/S rail and ply timbers. Where I've subsequently needed to remove the slide ...
... in your computer as that could be something to do with this issue?It involves a lot of processor activity to carry out some actions in Templot and something that size takes some time with slower processors especially if they are single core.I find I have to wait sometimes even with a triple core 3200Ghz processor when doing more work intensive processes. Trevor. posted: 2 Jul 2013 15:25 from: richard_t This PC has Intel dual core 2.66Ghz processor in it running at 3.2Ghz :- D posted: 4 Jul 2013 11:10 from: Martin Wynne Hi Richard, Thanks for sending the image file. At around 15000 x 9000 it really is far larger than anything I have previously imagined using, or tested, in a Templot picture shape, so I'm not surprised there are problems. Much the easiest solution would be to split it into several smaller picture shapes, and place them side-by-side on the trackpad. 4 sections each 7500 x 4500 would still be regarded as large. 9 sections each 5000 x 3000 would be more typical ...
... action should be available (adjust V-crossing entry straight). Will be fixed in the next update. It's not often an irregular half-diamond has a regular V-crossing, but it can do -- for example when it is required to form a crossover with a regular turnout: 2_110840_390000000.png Adjusting the crossing entry straight then allows some fine tuning of the lead length to fit the site. For example in the above screenshot the irregular diamond-crossing has angles 1:7.5, 1:8.5, 1:10. The 1:8.5 K-crossing angle means the K-crossings will need to be movable (switch-diamond), requiring point-motors awkwardly close to the baseboard joint. By increasing the crossing entry straight (see the marker, boxed yellow -- it would normally be near the V-crossing) I was able to shorten the half-diamond a bit. I then snaked (CTRL+ F6) the other half-diamond back into alignment with it. Note that I put the peg on ...
518. Timbering Question
... from: Phil O I have seen spliced timbering, where the two halves have been joined with a fishplate chair screwed to the two halves. Phil Last edited on 30 Dec 2019 21:14 by Phil O posted: 1 Jan 2020 09:40 from: FraserSmith Further to Alan's picture above, the arrangement below might satisfy your requirements. Alternate timbers are laid with gaps between ends. The gaps are in the four foot of a running line and one of the crossing lines. 3137_121655_330000000.png HTH Fraser posted: 1 Jan 2020 10:18 from: johndon Thanks for all the suggestions. John posted: 1 Jan 2020 19:27 from: Martin Wynne Hi John, That 25ft timber is not necessarily too long. Most companies kept timbers up to about 20ft as stock items. That's enough to span a double-track crossover, etc. Longer timber up to about 30ft would be ordered as specials from the timber yard, as needed. But they were expensive, so used only on heavy-traffic areas such as the throat of a main ...
519. Trying to use NLS
... the exact map I need form NLS. Whilst it seems wonderful and has the map I want, I can't locate it again! I'm after the West London Line from Kensington High Street to the Cromwell Road/A4 bridge to the south on the 25" to the mile series, post-1945. It seems to stretch over 2 maps what I need, but as I said, I can't fathom it out at all. I have the attention span of a goldfish when it comes to computer things. It's taken me 10 years or more to try to work out Templot and have built a layout using it with help from here, but this one has me baffled. Of course I then need to get that copied into Templot. Any help is appreciated. posted: 7 Sep 2020 01:43 from: Martin Wynne roythebus wrote: Good evening, I'm trying to download a map from NLS but can't for the lif of me fathom how to locate the exact map I need form NLS. Whilst it seems wonderful and has the map I ...
... any memory of a group it came from, so there is no way those things can be retained when it is stored. Sorry. Hi Gordon, Returned to this topic to say it can now remember the marker colour: 2_041020_020000000.png It will be off by default, but can be turned on using the above new menu option. The option setting will be included in your program preferences, if you are saving them. In the next program update. Thanks for the suggestion. cheers, Martin. posted: 14 Sep 2020 10:06 from: Martin Wynne Gordon S wrote: No need for a video, unless you enjoy making them.... I'll leave you in peace now... Hi Gordon, I've returned to this topic to say that I've just now discovered a video which I made less than 12 months ago, but which I had completely forgotten about: http://flashbackconnect.com/Movie.aspx?id=MTd0T1Pp4DIGd5QfbfBqQw2 cheers, Martin. posted: 25 Oct 2020 10:32 from: richard_t Do you have a plan ...
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