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... amount of wires underneath have burgeoned. I've almost got all microswitches switching the correct polarity. I've even got close to getting the diamond crossings being switched by their adjacent turnouts. It remains to be seen whether the micrswitches stay correctly aligned to give reliable switching over time. I maybe worrying unnecessarily but I'm beginning to wonder whether I'd have been better off either using either Megapoint electronic control( as I did on the junction baseboard)or frog juicers for this? Does anyone have any experience of the Gaugemaster frog juicer. I have bought a couple but not used them yet and since read that they will only take a couple of amps( my ZTC has a 5 amp output) power going through them? The other problem of the microswitces is that they are bulky and despite the elegance of the Alu Rail brackets, being under the baseboard, am I asking for trouble having a system that can go out of adjustment and needs baseboard removal to get at them? In retrospect I think I may regret the microswitch and end up replacing them in part or ...
... enough hours in the day. posted: 30 Apr 2018 09:56 from: Stephen Freeman Had a look at the video on RMweb of the printer Andy, couple of things put me off. The need to cure and prime, can't think you'd need to do that with ABS or Shapeways prints. Could be useful for rolling stock etc though. Last edited on 30 Apr 2018 12:13 by Stephen Freeman posted: 30 Apr 2018 10:13 from: Nigel Fisher Andrew Have you thought that the reason nobody has bought your prototype crossing could be that nobody can find it. I went to the Shapeways site and looked through 16 pages of Train related material and did not find it. So I then searched for 'track' and still didn't find it. When I searched for 'crossing' then it came up, item 31 of 72 other results. I knew it was there, anybody else might just be browsing for it and might never see it. Nigel Fisher posted: 30 Apr 2018 11:24 from: Martin Wynne Borg- ...
... that you can flick to and from the electronic viewfinder instead (or even have both at once). So I've also now ordered a 49mm rubber lens hood. I'm assuming the outside diameter is also smaller than the 55mm ones, and not just the fixing collar. Also a spare battery on your recommendation, and a 49mm click-fit lens cap. This topic seems to be drifting further and further from Templot. I'm grateful to you and Nigel for rekindling my interest in this old photographic stuff from the 1970s. Having bought the X100F at the end of last year I've done little more than use it straight out of the box so far. The possibility of treating it as an upgrade to the Konica hadn't dawned on me. It even has a (digital) split-image rangefinder focusing mode. Now then, what can I do with an unopened bottle of Acutol? cheers, Martin. posted: 27 Feb 2018 23:16 from: Andrew Barrowman It doesn't get much fresher (or thinner) than this. 2983_271801_470000000.jpg Last week at ...
... vee (frog). I am totally new to this and nobody nearby (in Denmark) builds track! I have spent the last months getting to know Templot, and have now decided that the time has come to take the plunge and actually build something! Here is the plan for the turnout I am going to try: 3033_091632_110000000.jpg There are all sorts of challenges with it for someone like me. For a start, there's a slight curve, and also the turnout worked best as a B-6.75. I have bought jigs from scalefour, but they only do the whole numbers. I am hoping I can file a size 7 and then file it to fit. It's not that I am really concerned about- no doubt I will be when I make it! The questions I'd most like help with are these: 1. Is the pcb/plywood construction combo in any way sensible? I've arrived at it because with plywood I can use proper chairs but with pcb under the vee I can fix this solidly (also I can't work ...
... of the vee is controlled by a DPDT electrical switch. 2. Instead of the head of the pin, the new pin relies on the small 90degree bend. See http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f =8 &t =46997#p735929 which shows the new pin in the same orientation as the Peco pin on the right. 3.The three point gauge is made by Micro Engineering. Mine are code 55 ones but a quick check against some Peco Code 80 track suggests they would suit nicely. I bought mine from here: http://www.handlaidtrack.com/tools-supplies-track-gauges-c -9_37.php and would thoroughly recommend their service. Also bought my 0.5mm solder from them. You might also like to consider the following: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f =11&t =51055 One thing I cannot stress enough is that you need good quality templates to the standards you intend to build to. If you intend to use Templot be aware that Templot does not plot the outside ...
6. Despair
... Festiniog Railway based on 1960s trackwork where I've actually gone and measured turnouts in detail, or GWR templates based on the GWSG book. You can only transfer all that into Templot- no other program that I'm aware of can give you that. I'm hesitant to say this, but if you just want to spend time making track then maybe Templot isn't for you. If you want to spend time making track that conforms to prototype standards, then Templot is for you." Well, I wish I had known that before I bought it then. I am a model railroader, not a real life railroader. I bought Templot not knowing anything technical about the real thing but to create custom turnouts over plans drawn in Autocad. Have I done this yet? Nope, still *trying* to get to grips with the software because of too long many gaps in the learning process. If my lack of ability to gain the knowledge required to use the program is because I don't know about real standards or specs then I better not waste anymore time with ...
... pay my subscription this size has increased and you can purchase more space if required, I have not had cause to use the back-up yet, so i dont know how good it is. Overall I am impressed with the system. Paul posted: 12 Jul 2007 03:03 from: Bob Ellis Hi Brian, I am no computer expert, so I have refrained from contributing to this thread until now, but your last posting suggests that my twopennorth might be of some value, so here it is. I bought a new computer from Dell last February. I use computers a great deal because I am a wordsmith by trade. This is my fifth Dell (three of which are in current use) and I have found that company's machines very reliable and their after sales service good. The machine I bought in February came preloaded with Visa and with Office 2007. I have had none of the problems mentioned by previous contributors to this thread. Perhaps I have been lucky, they have been unlucky or it might be that they have ...
... it for nothing! All you need is a reel idiot guide for people like me who know nothing about rail or model rail building and a good description of the terminology and abbreviations. What is a TS and which side is the turn out side if that is what it means. Most times I seem to find a good definition to a term is better than a ream of explanation. In spite of the fact that I have now shown my ignorance, I am quite proud of the fact that although I have only just bought a product that is about to go free,it remains the best purchase I have made in the very short time I've been in modeling hobby posted: 28 Nov 2011 12:16 from: Tony W Hi Paul. This is precisely the sort of thing I am hoping my beginners guide will do, see my comment above. I really must press on with it and post it soon. Other things have been occuping my time recently as you may have noticed. MS is Main Side and refers to the mainroad track ...
... : 10 Jun 2008 01:02 from: phileakins Paul Boyd wrote: I really like your facing point lock- does it work? I wish! I also wish I had a pound for every time I've been asked that The thing is Paul- does that detector work? Very nice work, whose etchings, or are they yours? Phil posted: 10 Jun 2008 01:55 from: Paul Boyd Phil wrote: Very nice work, whose etchings, or are they yours? The etchings are from Ambis Engineering, bought from Fourtrack Models. Catch is, Fourtrack only list 7mm scale stuff at the moment, so I don't know what the score is regarding 4mm scale trackwork from Ambis. The fouling bar is just a lump of 1/32" T-section brass, set to just clear the flanges! posted: 12 Jun 2008 00:48 from: phileakins Paul Boyd wrote: The etchings are from Ambis Engineering, bought from Fourtrack Models. Catch is, Fourtrack only list 7mm scale stuff at the moment, so I don't ...
... whilst I am on a rapid learning curve for the software it is fantastic; hats off to Martin! Ian posted: 20 Dec 2011 20:30 from: alan@york Ian: You may wish to read Iain Rice's guide to making trackwork, from Wild Swan publications. Take a quick peek before buying. Ask at a show, especially where they have demonstrators. Join a club, so you can sit, watch, ask questions, and maybe borrow some gauges. From what I can recall, the packs I've bought from C&L didn't have the V/wing rail assembly (often called the "frog") made up, so you could use whatever gauge jigs you needed. And you could curve the V slightly. I personally use wood/plastic chairs from a mix of sources*, with copperclad where it doesn't show. Copperclad can be tweaked afterwards, whereas superglue/wood is harder to modify. But it is a pain putting cosmetic chairs onto copperclad. A lot of this is down to personal choice, which ...
... from: Martin Wynne Hi Paul, I'm also a long-standing RM reader (although nowadays in digital form only). Please feel free to be derogatory towards me. What an inspired decision by Sydney Pritchard to buy up a model railway magazine as a marketing tool for his Peco products. Still going strong 70 years later, as all around it print magazines are dropping like flies (Bauer recently closed about a dozen titles). cheers, Martin. posted: 8 Sep 2020 14:29 from: Nigel Brown I bought a lot, but not all, RM issues over the years, but storing them was a real pain. So I ditched most of them (probably too many) keeping only those I knew would be useful. However, a few years ago subscribed to the digital version; great, a monthly read and no storage hassle. Have also taken out a BRM one. I suspect that for someone who has been trained to use Autocad in their daily lives, using it for layout planning would be the natural thing to ...
12. Posted by email
... topic: 1992 Posted by email posted: 24 Jun 2012 12:15 from: Martin Wynne posted by email: Martin I think that I am about to give up on Templot and go back to a sheet of lining paper and a felt tip. I was quite happy with the original purchased programme (although I thought that you sold it too cheap) but I bought a laptop because I now go to my son's to baby sit my Grandchildren once a week. After some time (your website is Horrendous) I downloaded the current version but found that I could not use it there as I could not connect to his internet connection, next time I tried it at home I am now told that there is a new version and I must download that, so back to your website (and yes it is still horrendous) and after faffing about I give up I really cannot be bothered. Sorry to be negative but a great programme, but now in my opinion rendered useless. Yes I know that there are people out there who might ...
13. New user
... /viewtopic.php?f =88&t =45544 It is very worthwhile taking the time to go through each page of this topic and there are lots of good pictures. There is a learning curve with Templot but it is the best software for custom designed track and turnouts. Regards Bill Campbell. Thanks for your encouragement. I spent three hours last night with the menus and got the hang of navigating Templot which is where I was stymied. Now on to learning the actual content. In all the pictures and books I bought on building a turnout no one mentioned filing on both side of the point rail. The Fast Track Filing tool does not allow it as shown in their video. It is true I have not done any spiking but I bought some tools to try. Since I am going to be building an outdoor O scale railroad, I will be using plastic ties instead of wood. Plastic will be difficult to spike. I may try gluing first to hold things in position then drilling some holes for spikes. posted: 20 Jan ...
14. A user gives up
... of track design and basic alignment design to understand the underlying concepts. Everyone who I have encountered who claimed not to understand Templot also had no knowledge of surveying principles of curve design or track geometry. Alan posted: 16 Jul 2013 09:48 from: Matt M. Indeed it does. The layout receded into the distance while I learnt about the various phases of NSWGR plate laying. Often people seem to expect to understand both the program and the the complications of track work in an unrealistic time frame. "I've just bought Templot, next week I'll finish the layout". I think set track hs a bit to do with this... And they quit too fast as well. Possibly the unrealistic deadline. Don't take it personally Martin. Matt M. posted: 16 Jul 2013 11:02 from: Richard_Jones Alan Turner wrote: Templot does require some understanding of track design and basic alignment design to understand the underlying concepts. Everyone who I have encountered who claimed not to understand Templot also had no knowledge of surveying principles of curve ...
... first working with a specialist application I find it critical to understand the fundamental 'building block'. Maybe an example will help understand what I mean; a 2D CAD application 'drawing' is made of 'objects', where an 'object' is; line, arc, polyline, circle, NURBS curves, etc. There could also be 'objects' that contain other objects, groups of objects (arranged in layers?). The 'object' is the fundamental element. Fraser's comments on the WordPerfect (WP) Vs Word word processors bought a smile to my face- I remember those wars! The fundamental building block of MS Word is the 'paragraph'. A Word document is a collection of 'paragraphs' which are made up of 'characters' and arranged in 'sections'. There are also special 'paragraph' cases, e.g tables. Once you understand this structure controlling the 'formating/look' of a document is much simpler. If you apply a 'font' to a 'paragraph', it affects all characters in the paragraph whereas if you apply font to a ...
16. A new trolley
... here. Any new horizontal surface (of which there are many) seems to disappear rapidly. I keep telling myself that with time as I gradually use the stockpile of materials acquired over time, that things will improve, but the reality is that, even with all the new cupboard storage I have, things only seem to get worse. I also have a theory that random mini black holes exist that swallow items either never to be seen again or are magically regurgitated when one has given up looking for the item and then bought another one. Regards Tony. Last edited on 17 Oct 2018 17:06 by Tony W posted: 17 Oct 2018 18:08 from: Andrew Duncan Tony W wrote: Chaos theory certainly seems prevalent round here. Any new horizontal surface (of which there are many) seems to disappear rapidly. I keep telling myself that with time as I gradually use the stockpile of materials acquired over time, that things will improve, but the reality is that, even with all the new cupboard storage I have, things ...
... on the coil the points where set in a different position. With the condensator you could alter the frequencies of you volt, from 30 hz to 1kh, in steps of ~25hz or something so it would only power up the matching frequencie of that coil(condensator) So one power line is needed(two wires, nothing else!), every "set"(points and the switch) will be needing 2 condensators. I will look it up when i have the time, it was really cheap. If bought for 100 turnouts your cost would be not even 10 cents per turnout. Thanks for triggering this memory, i am going to need this very soon, i will post this for sure to help. With best regards, Igor posted: 20 Aug 2020 08:28 from: Martin Wynne Andrew Barrowman wrote: My target is to keep it down to less than $3.00 (call it 2.00 GBP) for each point set of points. Hi Andy, £2 seems extravagant, this is far cheaper (and more railwaylike ...
18. OT-Mac Computers
... --- In either case, the customer must also obtain Microsoft Windows. Officially this would be a full retail package, though I imagine many will push the licensing rules towards their limit and obtain an OEM copy. Costs- Leopard (free with a new Mac) is £85 Parallels is £50 Windows is from about £50 (OEM) or £170+ (Retail) What's the deal here with the OEM version? OK, so it is probably bending the rules a little, but I have recently bought an iMac (very nice apart from the very un-ergonomic keyboard), and want to put Templot on it. I have no other need for Windows on the machine, but cannot (legally) take the copy of Windows that came with the PC I no longer use (except for Templot) as that has passed to my daughter. I don't mind paying £50 to get Templot up and running (on a pounds per hour basis, I have found Templot very cheap. Also very expensive whilst on the ...
... cover TEMPLOT on two monitors, so the latest super duper Graphics card for gaming isn't on my agenda- I'd rather have a "Skoda" than a "Jag" in this instance, as they'll both get you from A to B!! You'll find that you'll end up using more than just Templot on two monitors! I tend to go for graphics cards in the Ford range I do video editing stuff, so like a little power and comfort, but I don't need to get anywhere at high speed! I've just bought Pinnacle Studio 11, and it had the cheek to tell me that my 5-year-old second-hand card wasn't good enough posted: 22 Jan 2008 17:02 from: Brian Tulley Hi Paul, Many thanks for the reply; a new Graphics Card is now on the way to me (after realising all the different output formats that are available e.g. VGA, DVI-A, DVI-I, DVI-D and purchasing the correct one accordingly!) so hopefully I'll soon be up and ...
... complete overkill. Certainly using non-uniform rational B-spline based CAD programs is beyond the capabilities and needs of people who have a business engraving knick-knacks for their local businesses to give to clients. After all, if Rhino or SoftImage is needed for modelling, I think you'll be left with precisely eight people left doing anything. The rest of your post was quite interesting, are you planning to post your scripts anywhere? Regards Nick Hi Nick, I think a bit of history is needed here. I first bought Rhinoceros about 12 years ago, long before I bought a laser cutter. It was a lot cheaper then, I bought it for two reasons, one; I wanted to escape from dependance on Autocad and their outrageous pricing (particularly here in Australia) and two; I was interested in rapid prototyping and Rhino could interface to that. After a couple of months I was sufficiently comfortable with the programme, that I abandoned Autocad and have never used it since. For many years I have earned my living providing CAD services ...
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