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... topic: 2163 Adavoyle posted: 20 Feb 2013 11:52 from: JFS After our local S4 Soc AG meeting last night we had a discussion about seminal P4 Layouts and Adavoyle( http://www.templot.com/GNRI/adavoyle.htm) was mentioned. And the question was asked about it's current status. Can Martin/ anyone enlighten us please? Many thanks, Howard. posted: 20 Feb 2013 12:21 from: Martin Wynne Hi Howard, The Adavoyle Junction layout is now in the care of the South Dublin Model Railway Club: http://www.sdmrc.hobbysites.net/articles.php?article_id=4 I'm not sure about the current status of the layout. As far as I know it is still in working order, and Tony Miles has visited the club a few times to help them keep it so. I think it has been exhibited by them at least once. David Sutton of this parish may know more. Tony's BRM articles about the layout are available online: http://www.model-railways-live.co.uk/userfiles/files/ ...
... case" basis. alan@york posted: 28 Dec 2011 11:51 from: wcampbell23 Another potential option for securing loose ballast is the Scenic Cement from Woodland Scenics. It seems to be competitively priced compared with Copydex. Has anyone in the Club had experience of using it? Any feedback would be helpful. Bill Campbell. posted: 28 Dec 2011 12:44 from: Martin Wynne Tony W wrote: Problems only manifested themselves after some years Perhaps I can add a few notes about how we laid the track on Adavoyle Junction: ad5.jpg The track in this picture was laid in 1984 and first exhibited at Scaleforum in 1986. The photograph was taken 19 years later in 2003, and the track is still in fine condition now 27 years later (now in the care of the South Dublin Model Railway Club). More info: http://www.templot.com/GNRI/adavoyle.htm The track never gave us any problems, apart from the usual bumps and knocks after 20+ years on the exhibition circuit. It was never noticeably noisy, even ...
... so the full layout can be envisaged. I'll follow on with an explanation of the dock traffic later. Regards, Richard Attachment: attach_135_236_Mostynplan1.jpg 2821 posted: 17 Nov 2007 19:55 from: Martin Wynne Richard Oldfield wrote: Does anyone know of a P4 layout with reasonable gradients?- the most we can manage is a drop and rise of 3mm over about a metre of the dock branch. Hi Richard, I don't understand -- that's only about 1:300? Surely you can do better than that? On Adavoyle Junction the main line gradients are 1:100 on easy curves and the Monaghan Branch gradient is 1:60 and sharply curved. Your gradients would be mostly straight. We have never noticed any problems on the main lines, in fact often new operators are not aware that there is a gradient. On the branch line we have occasionally run 6 of Tony's quite heavy coaches up the bank, although it does slow the loco down a bit. regards, Martin. posted: 17 Nov 2007 20:35 from: ...
... topic: 511 PageSaver add-on for Firefox posted: 2 Aug 2008 09:44 from: Martin Wynne Here's a brilliant add-on for Firefox. Save a long page which doesn't fit the screen as an image file. The basic version is free. The pro version is GBP 8.00 and includes useful extra options: http://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/ Here's the Adavoyle Junction page saved with PageSaver (900KB image, broadband only). n.b. if you reply to this with a quote, please edit out the quoted repeat image. adavoyle_page.png regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Off track> PageSaver add-on for Firefox about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members and first-time visitors. indexing link for search engines back to top of page Please read this important note about copyright: Unless stated otherwise ...
... providing a clearance in the event any particles of ballast get underneath it. Hi Gordon, I could find only a scruffy sketch from 1975, so here's a new sketch. It's a good few years since I made any of these pins. They are quite quick to do, the groove doesn't have to be too precise, it gets filled with solder (stiffening the pin in the process). I used a form tool to make these pins in production: 2_060951_320000000.png____ These tie-bars were used on Adavoyle Junction (P4 21mm gauge) and gave no trouble during the 20 years it was on the exhibition circuit: ad7.jpg They are unobtrusive and can be further hidden by sprinkling a bit of ballast on top of them, and adding dummy prototype stretcher bars (we never got round to doing that). Assembly is very easy, because the switch blade foot locates into the pin dry, with a bit of packing from the stock rail. Then some phos flux, a dab with a loaded soldering iron, and you are ...
... I demonstrated the process and the results to Joe Brook Smith at an exhibition in 1986, he was overjoyed to see the final fully-chaired development of the rivetted plywood track building system which he had invented in the 1960s. A couple of years later, K&L (now C&L) introduced their plastic chairs and everyone lost interest in rivetted ply. I still have some of the chairing tools. I will look them out and take some pics. cheers, Martin. Hi Martin, And what a masterpiece Adavoyle is. I've often admired it (but only in pics unfortunately). I don't know, but I get the impression you might be bristling because I suggested you were being a theoretician. I know very well that is definitely not the case when it comes to prototype track and a lot of great models, but you are no authority when it comes to 3D printing. That's what got me bristling. I'm sure there are many parallels between injection molding and 3D printing but they are also different in very many respects. ...
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