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... topic: 2739 009& 0-16.5 preset gauges posted: 30 Aug 2015 12:10 from: Hayfield For those like me who are not to clever at remembering things It would be nice if there could be preset scale/gauge settings for these two( I guess the sm32& 45 guys would also be interested) scale/gauge ration in the gauge/ scale selector. I do understand they are narrow and not standard gauges, and there are variants, but they are very popular scale/gauge combinations posted: 30 Aug 2015 13:11 from: Martin Wynne Hi John, I made the decision not to include narrow-gauges in the pre-sets. Partly because there are so many variants that they would completely swamp the list -- it is far too long already. But also because the timbering settings, rail-widths, etc., are not included in the gauge/scale settings. So simply changing the gauge and scale isn't sufficient if you still have 8ft-6in sleepers and 12" wide crossing timbers ...
... :21 from: Martin Wynne madscientist wrote: I was wondering if any member here has constructed Templot files for Marcway or C&L O gauge turnouts. I'm trying to build a track diagram in Templot and trying to avoid having to make all those templates Hi Dave, Are the turnouts already built? Otherwise you would probably do better to use Templot templates. The C&L ones are probably quite close, although they will be for 32mm GOG-F whereas many track builders in 7mm scale have gone over to 31.5mm 0-MF. Marcway templates are not based on the prototype and might be difficult to match exactly. See this topic for more about matching a 0 gauge Marcway tandem, and a BOX file: topic 3326 cheers, Martin. posted: 4 Feb 2020 15:17 from: madscientist No track is not yet built The person involved would like to use Marcway, but they dont provide paper templates AFAIK posted: 4 Feb 2020 16:12 from: Martin Wynne Hi Dave, Can you clarify? Someone wants to buy ...
... topic: 977 0-SF Track Gauges posted: 21 Nov 2009 17:10 from: BeamEnds It's been a while.... after a year and more that has suffered from the old Chinese curse "may you live in interesting times" the light at the end of the tunnel has finally stopped receding and I might actually get round to making some track. I tried to get some of these made (a long time ago!), but the bod who was going to do it has expired. Are there any available yet, or is going back to 0-FS going to be easier? Cheers Richard posted: 21 Nov 2009 17:55 from: John Shelley Jim Snowdon had some 31.50mm and 31.75mm gauges etched, you could try him to see if he has any left. Cheers for now John from 33820 St Ciers, France posted: 23 Nov 2009 16:02 from: Brian Lewis C+ L sells O-XF, (31.00mm), gauges. I fail to see why anyone should want any ...
84. A user gives up
... for my own use, and then simply "made available" for anyone who wants it. Which remains my position today. For example it has never been advertised in a model magazine and it was never actually launched as a product. The only ever advertising as such has been in the Scaleforum guide and on the RMweb forum while it was still privately owned, and that was done more as support for those organisations than as promotion of Templot as a product. I first showed an unfinished public version to modellers at the Gauge 0 Guild show in Telford in 1998, inviting them to leave their name and address if interested. Even that was not a planned outing -- the stand had been booked for the Hunslet loco as in previous years, and I swapped to showing Templot at the last minute just to see if there really was any interest in it. That produced enough interest to keep me working on a public version of the program for another 12 months, and a few of those who had seen it were frequently contacting me for news of ...
... topic: 593 Template Locations posted: 22 Oct 2008 00:33 from: Richard Spratt What point on a template is used to define its location on the pad? I'm trying to place one end of a template at x=350mm, y=1955mm. When I type those numbers into the F7 dialogue box it moves but peg 0 is at 360, 1979. posted: 22 Oct 2008 02:30 from: Martin Wynne Richard Spratt wrote: What point on a template is used to define its location on the pad? I'm trying to place one end of a template at x=350mm, y=1955mm. When I type those numbers into the F7 dialogue box it moves but peg 0 is at 360, 1979. Hi Richard, To move the current/control template to a specific location on the pad: 1. geometry> notch> set notch position and angle... menu item. 2. geometry> notch> shift onto notch menu item. Before doing that you would put the fixing peg at the ...
... 16 Nov 2009 06:39 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, I make no comment on y our radii but the attached template should help with your question Attachment: attach_689_972_3way_tandem_turnout _09_09_23_1744_52.box 249 posted: 16 Nov 2009 17:19 from: phileakins Borg-Rail wrote: Hi, I make no comment on y our radii but the attached template should help with your question Thanks Borg-Rail, that'll be a great help when I get to work on the final template. The point is only going to be used by loco's (0 -6 -0 and 4-4 -0 /0 -4 -4 plus an 0-4 -2, nothing more exotic) and freight stock, so the radii should be sufficient. The design is driven by how the available space is divided unfortunately. Phil posted: 16 Nov 2009 22:45 from: Martin Wynne phileakins wrote: There are several place where check-rails should seamlessly merge through turnouts and crossovers, but I get hopelessly lost in the various acronyms and options, so that anything ...
... of my baseboards and a C+ L 3 way tandem turnout B6/RH B8/LH with an overall length of 670mm on the centre road. Not a lot to ask for I know very best regards, Mark posted: 10 Oct 2009 21:36 from: Phil O Hi Mark Firstly welcome to Templot. This is for version 0.91c To make a background shape such as a baseboard outline click on:- MAIN BACKGROUND SHAPE change MY SHAPE to a suitable name ie. Baseboard 1 select RECTANGLE ENTER DIMESIONS X1= 0 Y1= 0 X2 for a 4ft board enter i48 templot knows this is an imperial dimension and converts it to mm. Y2 for a 2ft board enter i24. see above for your next board change Baseboard 1 to 2 X1= i48 this is where the end of board 1 finished Y1= 0 this is because it is on the same line as the 1st board X2= i96 4ft on from the start of this board Y2= i24 still a 2ft wide board your next board change to Baseboard 3 X1= i96 ...
88. The Spare Room
... Jim Thanks for taking the time to have a look at the design. The radii of the crossovers are a bit on the tight side, with the room being only nine feet wide I couldn't get them any larger. You will see that I have used quite long turnouts to try and alleviate the problem. By introducing suitable gauge widening, and imposing a speed limit through the crossovers, I was hoping it would be alright. My choice of prototype is the North British Railway circa 1913 so most of the locomotives will be 0-6 -0's, 4-4 -0's or 0-4 -2's with fairly small wheelbases. Unfortunately there will be no room to add a carriage siding. The station is designed as a bay platform which, as you say, will take up less room. This allows the rails to be pushed out to the extremities and for as large a radius around the room as possible. The next stage is to shove a few timbers too create interlaced sleeper turnouts, I'll keep you posted Regards Scott posted: ...
89. Pug version 091c
... - could you sell it to Autodesk I had a small funny when installing over 0.91b. The first time it didn't 'take' and I had to redo the installation. I've searched the hard disk to see if finger trouble had plonked it in another folder, but couldn't find anything. I also note that the previous views are remembered on the next session. Jim. posted: 7 Feb 2008 23:33 from: Jim Guthrie Martin, Just found a 'funny' on the layout drawing I'm doing at the moment. Displaying 0- 2000mm on the horizontal scale on my 1024 wide screen, all my background line shapes display. If I zoom in one notch on the mouse wheel so that the horizontal scale is 0- 1950mm, a few of the lines disappear, or are truncated. If I zoom back out, they re-appear as normal. I can't remember this happening in 0.91B, and I can't easily check since I over-wrote it this am WinXP Home on a Toshiba Laptop- 1024 x 768. Jim. posted: ...
90. Curved Layouts
... insert a turnout where eventually I want a half diamond for the same reason. Hope that helps. Raymond posted: 18 Dec 2013 17:04 from: Phil O I have to agree with Raymond, I always insert turnouts in plain track as this gives a much better flow to the switch and crossing work, otherwise your pretty well back to using propriety track with fixed turnouts. Cheers Phil posted: 18 Dec 2013 19:46 from: LSWRArt I have designed a station entirely on a curve as I am modelling in 0 gauge and have an overall length of only 5m. i roughly plotted where I wanted the track to go, then laid long lengths of plain track over this rough design. I also added some transition curves to soften some of the curves, so hopefully they almost disappears in the centre of the layout and are tightest farthest from your centre of interest. I then inserted points into the plain track. if you want several points in the same length of track, just Main> Store and background to make a duplicate ( ...
91. Rolling sleepers
... is with the F3 mouse action (or 3 key) on a turnout template, which makes a correct rail joint automatically. Then if you want it as a separate plain track template, click the tools> make split> make separate approach track menu item. On a plain track template the sleeper spacings always originate from the CTRL-1 end of the template (marked across with a line). So the way the sleepering responds when using the F4 length mouse action depends on whether the peg is at the CTRL-0 or CTRL-1 end. Try swapping the peg to the other end to see the different effect on the sleepering. Usually in a design you don't have a choice about which end of the template the peg should be at, so if necessary you can reverse the 0 and 1 positions by clicking the template> swap end-for-end menu item. The roll rails and sleepers functions don't change the length of the template -- they are intended as a tidying-up operation when the track plan design is ...
... Jun 2008 02:34 from: Phil O Hi Mark I have had a quick look at your track plan and there are four turnouts with a radius of 23" or less. This may well cause you operating problems unless using short wheelbase loco's and rolling stock. The offending turnouts are at the left hand end of your track plan and are currently numbered 118, 122, 144& 147. Cheers Phil posted: 28 Jun 2008 02:39 from: Mark B. Hi Phil, The biggest loco will probably be 0-6 -0 and 4 wheel stock so hopefully there shouldn't be any problems. Also I should of said that it is to fit in 8'x2' nominally. Might try to increase them though. Any recommendations on minimum radus for fine scale '00'? Cheers, Mark Last edited on 28 Jun 2008 02:43 by Mark B. posted: 28 Jun 2008 03:02 from: Nigel Brown Mark B. wrote: Hi Phil, The biggest loco will probably be 0-6 -0 and 4 wheel ...
... topic: 2706 0 Gauge Turntable posted: 10 Jun 2015 12:51 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, I've just done a Youtube video of an 0 Gauge 70ft Ransome& Rapier Turntable that I have recently built from a Metalsmiths kit. On the original video it runs smooth enough but when I view the Youtube version there appears to be some hesitation. Now this could be down to my Computer being fairly low spec by todays standards, the Broadband connection or some Youtube issue. Motorisation is from a geared 12v dc motor rated at 2 rpm. In this case control will be by DCC decoder, the rest of the layout will also be DCC controlled by NCE Power Procab 5amp system. To ensure the correct polarity of the turntable track a Tam Valley Dual Frog Juicer is used. Yes, I know the adjacent track is too close should be minimum of 9ft apart but t'was the only way to fit everything in, so I claim Modellers License. I'd like to know how it looks to others if possible. posted: 10 Jun 2015 14 ...
94. Another one lost
... certain ones were duplicated two or three times, but because they were in the same position in the background, I couldn't see that they were "layered" on top of each other. Then I was poking around in the menus to see if there was anything that would help tidy this situation up. I didn't find anything, but what I did find in the Storage Box menus was the item: Options> On copy to the Control Template> Copy onto Datum This means that the new control template is placed at the 0,0 location, away from the existing background templates, rather than over the top of the existing ones where it may not be seen. If this option could be made the default starting choice, then I'm confident that it would save a lot of confusion and error by beginners... Cheers Flymo posted: 16 Jun 2014 12:58 from: Martin Wynne TCLyth wrote:.... Oh, and it was less than 3 weeks ago that I first found out about Templot, and I'm already recommending ...
... Attachment: attach_1625_2253_tony_hagon_shed_t andem.box 288 posted: 9 Jul 2013 00:39 from: TonyHagon Hi Martin Yes, that looks a lot better... 'contraflexure'- that's the word I was struggling with and describes the S bend I was talking about perfectly. I will add the templates to my others and see how it goes, the timbering is the easy bit! Thanks.. Regds TH p.s. number 1 shed road was usually used for stores vans, certainly when I was there. Earlier it had been used for 0-6 -0T, 0-4 -4T and short w/b 0-6 -2T. I wouldn't like to have taken a West Country round there! T posted: 9 Jul 2013 14:54 from: TonyHagon Brilliant, Martin! I've just imported your templates into the plan and they fit perfectly! Many thanks, I owe you are least one drink! Now on to the rest of the templates which should be a doddle as they only need timber shoving.. Regards Tony p.s. What ...
... http://www.shapeways.com/shops/otr Last edited on 15 Dec 2011 14:00 by David R posted: 31 Oct 2011 22:59 from: Martin Wynne Hi Raymond, David, The recommended check gauge with the "industry standard" wheelset is 30.0mm. At 29.2mm B-B that allows an effective flange thickness up to 0.8mm. For older thicker flanges up to 1.2mm thick the B-B can be reduced to 28.8mm minimum (using 31.5mm track gauge). That means that without any gauge widening: 0-MF 31.5mm track gauge, 1.5mm flangeway gap 0-SF 31.2mm track gauge, 1.2mm flangeway gap (Slater's-type wheels only) 0-XF 31.0mm track gauge, 1.0mm flangeway gap (Slater's-type wheels only) Generally 0-MF at 31.5mm track gauge is now the preferred option to give good support through V-crossings and still accept a wide range of wheels and reasonable radii. regards, Martin. posted: 1 Nov 2011 08:40 from: Raymond Thank you David and Martin for his later ...
... forum posts about the curved crossing video but could not find it. I have attached a box file of what I am trying to achieve. I know it is not perfect as I have really struggled with this. Thank you once again. Regards Les Attachment: attach_2318_2910_Curved_Junction.b ox 204 posted: 9 Aug 2016 18:10 from: Martin Wynne Hi Les, You seem to have done quite well in creating the junction. But there is one big snag, and I don't know how to tell you this -- it's not 0 gauge. You have designed it using the fictional startup T-55 gauge at 5.5mm/ft. You should have received a warning about this a few minutes after starting the Templot session. It would be possible to do an instant conversion, but then of course it would not be 8ft radius, and may introduce some discrepancies. So I would recommend starting again in 0 gauge -- click in the gauge menu before you begin, and choose your gauge. 0-MF is now regarded by many as the best ...
... in each bogie frame aren't exactly parallel with each other, they will ride up and over turnouts when that turnout is set in the direction of the crooked axle. Then there are the 4 wheel goods wagons. So far, I've stuck with rigid wheel mounting. But non parallel axles create the same derailment problems. But how do you achieve parallel axles when using pin point axle bearings which allow the axle point to float around in the bearing? I spent around 11 hours fine tuning the suspension of an Alan Gibson framed Midland 0-6 -0T. All 6 wheels are sprung and I endlessly fiddled with spring tension and freedom of movement of each axle box, then found that there was insufficient side play on the centre axle in one direction as it was hitting the gearbox, etc etc. The locomotive runs pretty well everywhere without problems now, but it was yet another time when 0 gauge was looking very attractive. Unfortunately 0 gauge takes up too much room and is just too expensive for me. So I soldier on with 4mm, although ...
... posted: 22 Dec 2012 23:13 from: Martin Wynne stuart1600 wrote: But the problem seems to be a conflict between the slip switches and the central diamond V-crossings. Hi Stuart, A curved 1:8 diamond with fixed K-crossings is asking for trouble, especially with the wide GOG-F flangeways. 1:8 is the limit for fixed K-crossings, and then only in straight track. I would strongly recommend changing to a switch-diamond for the slips. Have you considered using 0-MF instead? The V-crossings on the slips can barely be checked properly because of the conflicting diamond rails. By reducing the 90mm track centres a little you may find the check rails fit better. The points of the slip switch need to clear the wing rail on the middle V-crossing. To achieve this you need to move the switch sufficiently to clear. This will shorten the slip road and reduce its radius -- another reason to use a switch diamond (i.e. no K-crossing check ...
100. Clifton Down
... yard by the time I arrived in Bristol, but I occasionally wandered down to the passenger station for a quick look on several occasions- my business was at one time at the bottom of Cotham Hill, almost "just across the road". Jim. Last edited on 30 Sep 2008 13:27 by Jim Guthrie posted: 30 Sep 2008 14:30 from: Martin Wynne Brian Lewis wrote: This plan is drawn in O-XF Hi Brian, I had a quick look at your plan. Actually it's in 0-SF (31.2mm gauge), not 0-XF (31.0mm gauge). I don't know if that was a typo in your message, or an error in setting the gauge/scale. The difference affects the lead lengths of the turnouts slightly. I also noticed that you have two sidings in the goods yard with less than 6ft way between them. They appear to be at 10ft centres (70mm) instead of 11ft-2in* centres for 6ft way (78.17mm). If your stock is less than ...
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