... have any comments on my efforts at timber shoving and any other comments you might have.One of the most difficult areas I have had to tackle are the check rails. The 1mm flangeway check rail chairs are still not available which surprises me. I have tried to construct this part of the trackwork using a vaiety of chairs/methods but I am not happy with any of the results I have achieved so far. Does anyone have any suggestions? Attachment: attach_2216_2829_group_2016_01_21 _1717_40.box 282 posted: 22 Jan 2016 10:15 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, So far so good, I think. Areas of concern: Nothing to do with Templot but I think you may have to be very careful when you come to ballasting. Any water based adhesive (i.e. PVA or Copydex) could cause you great problems as they are likely to affect the wallpaper, which could well shrink on drying resulting in distortion and possibly worse (same goes for any templates left in situ). as to the 1mm flangeway, I'm sure others will point out that the critical measurement ...

... topic: 3441 Omitting background shapes from the output posted: 6 Jun 2019 15:18 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, As you know you can "switch off", shapes from appearing on the screen. Handy if you later want to put them back. rather annoyingly they still print, whether they are visible on screen or not. I've had to go through and delete them rather than just rely on a single click to hide them. Last edited on 6 Jun 2019 15:22 by Stephen Freeman posted: 6 Jun 2019 16:14 from: richard_t Stephen Freeman wrote: Hi, As you know you can "switch off", shapes from appearing on the screen. Handy if you later want to put them back. rather annoyingly they still print, whether they are visible on screen or not. I've had to go through and delete them rather than just rely on a single click to hide them. I thought that's what the "show on output" option did- controlled if they appeared on the print or not: ...

... topic: 3027 Annoying information panel and joining tracks posted: 19 May 2017 13:43 from: Stephen Freeman 1)This is more of I wish it wouldn't. I find that when I select a track or rail etc to alter the curve etc, invariably a "helpful" little dialogue pops up right over the bit I am trying to alter. I usually have to move the said box so that I can actually see what I am trying to do. No doubt some will say it's a helpful feature, but if we have to have it can it please be slightly offset? 2) Inevitably there are times when you want to join two tracks end on but you don't want to alter either of the other two ends for whatever reason. It would be so very useful to do this, adjusting any small mismatch with radii alterations perhaps etc. Templot has grown so much over the years, that there are now many functions of which I have made but scant use. Is this one of them and if it is what is ...

... would need to do that in order to make a crossover from it. When you do that, the partial template settings from the tandem template get copied into the new template derived from it. Hence the need to click the reset function afterwards (not before). It's a good idea to do that as soon as possible. Otherwise they may come back to bite you several templates later, for example when inserting a turnout in plain track. cheers, Martin. posted: 27 Mar 2020 09:39 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, probably not connected but when using the 3 way function I keep getting gaps of missing timbering but I cannot see where I can restore them from. None of the partial templates seem to have them missing. Do I really have to create bonus timbers etc? Seems creating the 3 way is probably quicker manually. posted: 27 Mar 2020 09:41 from: Stephen Freeman I see that it is related! posted: 27 Mar 2020 10:21 from: Stephen Freeman now sorted Parts of Templot Club may ...

... slip road rails. This is because of the wider than scale GOG-F flangeway gaps. An exact representation of the prototype K-crossings is possible only in S7, P4, etc. If you are using Templot2, you can modify the check rails to clear at real> adjust check rails... menu item. Creating a double slip simply means repeating the single-slip instructions, starting from the opposite half-diamond template. regards, Martin. posted: 15 May 2012 07:59 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, I had a quick look at the boxfile and there seems that there may be a slight bug in the current Templot. When I tried to alter it to a 1 in 8 diamond it complained about it being irregular etc. However I overcame this by going back to a turnout and back again. I haven't altered the K crossing check rails. Attachment: attach_1445_1958_Gauge01in8DS.box 219 posted: 15 May 2012 10:09 from: Martin Wynne Borg-Rail wrote: there seems that there may be a slight bug in ...

... 3rd set with no timbers it looked horribly wrong. So if anyone out there has experience with them that could help me get that finished that would be a big help as it's the only thing I am stuck on. Other than that I just need to shove some timbers and wait for C&L to re-open. Attachment: attach_2441_3030_theeloftplan.box 391 posted: 22 May 2017 15:28 from: Michael Henfrey and the background shapes file Attachment: attach_2442_3030_high_road_17_03_0 2_1841_56.bgs 350 posted: 24 May 2017 08:13 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, Slip looks OK to me, I'll have a look at the 3 way this am posted: 24 May 2017 08:43 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, I've had a go at the 3 way, just needs the timbering sorting out now. Borg-Rail wrote: Hi, Slip looks OK to me, I'll have a look at the 3 way this am Attachment: attach_2443_3030_high_road_2017_05 _24_0840_57.box 334 posted: 24 May 2017 11:05 from: Martin Wynne Hi Michael, Welcome to Templot Club. I noticed ...

... building area to the layout. I've never experienced gauge narrowing subsequently, well, gauge narrowing that would have in anyway been prevented by one sided glued slide chair, that is. Recently I've used cyano which comes with a little applicator brush, that seems to last much longer. My main issue has been the Rocket brand of cyano, where the cap gets glued to the nozzle and I can't get at the perfectly good glue inside without cutting up the bottle! Dave posted: 14 Jun 2018 22:36 from: Stephen Freeman In my experience even the most expensive cyanos do not work as well as we are led to believe. I find Gorilla super glue to work as well as anything. Plenty of butonone helps as well. I try to ensure that things don't come adrift in transit. Glue slide chairs to rail and then timbers posted: 15 Jun 2018 09:25 from: Graham Idle Hi, I can highly recommend Hafixs. I've been using it for several years, keep it in the fridge and never replace the cap without cleaning ...

... . Oh, and keep the bottle in the fridge when not in use- it's not cheap and it's irritating (!) when 3/4 of the bottle goes off before you use it I would have one reservation about all glued construction, and that's to do with rail expansion- make sure the sleepers/timbers can move as you're fixing them rigidly to rail which will move whether you want it to or not. I believe Tasmania can get mildly warm Cheers posted: 5 Jul 2013 18:43 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, Any chance of a protoype photo or two? I've got a few things for flatbottom in the pipeline but not I suspect, what you are looking for. They'd be in polyurethane resin when I do them, so it'd be a superglue job to fix them. posted: 6 Jul 2013 01:04 from: SimonH Happy to send a photo. I can see how to send it to you alone but how do I upload into this topic. Cheers Simon posted: 6 Jul 2013 08:06 from ...

... topic: 2329 Not able to restore timbers posted: 6 Oct 2013 10:16 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, I don't seem able to restore timbers as I used to be. If you select no timbering and then later use shift/F10 and click on the green bar to restore timbers, it doesn't and the option to restore timbers is greyed out. Is there some new way to do this or is it a bug? posted: 6 Oct 2013 10:46 from: Martin Wynne Hi Stephen, I can't reproduce this. It is all working ok for me. Where did you select "no timbering"? Which version of Templot? Can you post the .box file? regards, Martin. posted: 6 Oct 2013 11:08 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, Latest version. Real>>>>No timbering Template Number 20 DL0021 is the one. I did have a way round it as I had already saved it with timbering. Martin Wynne wrote: Hi Stephen, I can't reproduce this. It is all ...

... up for you. An outside slip was never going to work in that tight space, so I took the liberty of replacing it with a single turnout and a double switched diamond slip. I also eased the curve to make it less like it hand been built using Peco Setrack. The start and end points are, however, the same except for the siding that comes off the slip. I haven't done any timber shoving though. Regards Alan Attachment: attach_1340_1813_Herstmonceux.box 324 posted: 29 Jan 2012 21:34 from: Stephen Freeman AndyJ wrote: Hi there... I'm pretty new to Templot and been playing around with it for a while but i'm still struggling with a few bits.. Having taken the plungle in building my own track and just started a new exhibition layout i'm having a bit of a job setting out some point work. Mainly an outside slip with a diamond attatched to it. Could someone point me in the right direction to making this possible... Hopefully the file will be attatched to this post so you can ...