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141. What is 7mm scale?
... from: Nicholas Geti I notice that C&L components are 7mm scale and 31.5mm gauge. 31.5mm calculates to 1.24" in finescale O gauge. But what does 7mm refer to? posted: 21 Jan 2011 18:01 from: Martin Wynne Nicholas Geti wrote: I notice that C&L components are 7mm scale and 31.5mm gauge. 31.5mm calculates to 1.24" in finescale O gauge. But what does 7mm refer to? Hi Nicholas, "7mm" means 7mm/ft, the scale used in the UK for 0 scale modelling (1 :43.5 ratio). One foot on the prototype scales to 7mm on the model. 0 scale in the USA is 6.35mm/ft( 1/4"/ ft ), or 1:48 ratio. One foot on the prototype scales to 1/4" on the model. regards, Martin. posted: 21 Jan 2011 18:13 from: Alan Turner And in Europe 0 is 1:45 Alan Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called ...
... I would be enthusiastic about dealing with CL at all. I wish both parties well. posted: 6 Aug 2018 17:36 from: Martin Wynne DerekStuart wrote: given that the majority have previously opted for Exactoscale over CL components, I'm not sure where that leaves CL. Hi Derek, Andrew Jukes has made clear that he is interested only in EM and P4, and won't be having anything to do with 00. That leaves C&L with the entire 00 market, and the copper-clad market, and 0 gauge. All of which is an order of magnitude larger than EM/P4. Or at least it used to be, no doubt the arrival of the new Peco 00 bullhead range has changed things a bit. The addition of the Exactoscale range to C&L was a fairly recent development (since Brian Lewis's time), so its removal still leaves C&L where they were before. The big difference from Brian Lewis's time is that in those days the web site worked, and delivery was same-day ...
143. Map and baseboard
... the measurement entry option where you are asked to enter the co-ordinates for two opposite corners. For your "L" shaped baseboard you might want to draw the longer leg horizontal and the shorter leg vertical. Also the basic measurements in Templot are metric (I know there is a way of entering Imperial but I can't remember at the moment) so converting your longer leg of 12' x 2' to metric gives a metric size of 3658mm x 610mm. So your first point for the rectangle would have X= 0 and Y= 0 and the second point at the opposite end would have X= 3658 and Y= 610. For your second rectangle of the shorter leg, the length would be 2438mm x 610 and the points of insertion for this rectangle would have the following values- X= 3658, Y= 0 for the first and X= 4268, Y= 2438 for the second. If you want to depict smaller sized boards, you can sub-divide the larger dimensions to draw smaller rectangles. I find that ...
144. metafiles!
... topic: 3545 metafiles! posted: 6 Nov 2019 00:07 from: Martin Wynne I have been very feeble-brained. Just because everyone tells you a thing can't be done, it doesn't mean it can't be done. Just to see what happened I wrote (in Lazarus): var met_rect:TRect; met_handle:HWND; begin met_rect:=Rect(0 ,0 ,800,600); met_handle:=CreateEnhMetaFile(0 ,nil,@met_rect,nil); It compiled and returned a valid metafile handle! That means I'm well on the way to replicating the Delphi TMetafile functions. Wish me luck. Martin. posted: 6 Nov 2019 00:19 from: Rob Manchester Good luck Martin Rob posted: 6 Nov 2019 00:50 from: Martin Wynne Thanks Rob. Seriously it is only a start. And it is Windows only. But if I could get it going it would put a much brighter outlook on moving everything to T3 a lot sooner. cheers, Martin. posted: 6 Nov ...
... to unlock 90% of what Templot can do, you must understand how this works. But apologies if you have already found this. PEG: It is the red crosshair NOTCH: It is the white square Put down a turnout (a B8) and you should see the PEG at the toe (the sharp end). Firstly go to the GEOMETRY menu and have a look at the bottom two options PEG POSITIONS and PEG ON LINE OR RAIL. Select different options and see what it does. Now press CTRL-0 ,CTRL-1... CTRL-9 and see what it does with the PEG. Now, press CTRL-0 to put the PEG back to the TOE. Right click your mouse and PEG OPTIONS>>PUT NOTCH UNDER PEG and you will see the white square (NOTCH) appear around the PEG. Now right click and STORE& BACKGROUND Now put down a B6 turnout. Again press CTRL-0 to put the PEG at the TOE. Right click PEG OPTIONS>> SHIFT ONTO NOTCH and ...
146. P4 test track
... topic: 2748 P4 test track posted: 29 Sep 2015 10:20 from: Len Cattley Hi I need help, I have posted a file on share and show. Is it OK for testing 4-6 -0's the points and single slip are B7's? Len posted: 29 Sep 2015 10:34 from: Martin Wynne Hi Len, It looks ok to me. But everything depends on the actual 4-6 -0 -- wheelbase, sideplay on axles, etc. The leading truck is largely irrelevant, it would be just the same for an 0-6 -0 with the same wheelbase. For more help on P4 wheels, axles, minimum radius, etc., try asking on the Scalefour forum: http://www.scalefour.org/forum/ There is a Guest Book area for posting if you are not a member. regards, Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> P4 test ...
147. RAID PC Help
... topic: 1397 RAID PC Help posted: 2 Mar 2011 17:11 from: Ian Allen Hi everyone, Don't know if we have any really good IT people on here, but my RAID 0 arrayed PC seems to have lost Windows Vista. Now, a friend of mine has interrogated the drives and it seems there is a problem with the Master Boot Record partition. We have attempted a /FixMbr using the Vista OS disc, but this hasn't resolved the problem. /ScanOs still shows no Windows applications on the drives. Both drives are healthy and have no faults. At the moment my only course of action is to a data recovery company and have had quotes around the £900+ VAT mark, which I currently cannot afford unfortunately. Has anyone any experience with RAID PC's or any ideas of what I could try to fix the problem? Ian posted: 2 Mar 2011 18:30 from: mike47j Do you actually use raid 0? One big fast disk made from two small slower disks, but with double the risk of ...
... it looks like part of a database or spreadsheet file. How it came to be incorporated in your .box file is a mystery. So in case anyone here recognises this, here it is converted to plain text:...Bewdley South ÔX...Bewdley North 2002 t...Kidderminster 20...Arley mi...Hampton Loade 20...Bridgnorth d...[ ...ley...Exeter.: C...È...È...Exeter West 1970 2 t...Rotherwas Jcn 70...Resolven East 70...Radyr Jcn 1961 0...Radyr Jcn 1984 0...Radyr Jcn 1987 0...Bewdley North 1956 t...Par Station...Exeter Central 'B' t..........iddle Middle Line'.... Mid.... Mid...DP Exeter Middle Relief Line '...UR Exeter Middle Relief Line'.... R.... R...DM Exeter Middle Main Line...UM Exeter Middle Main Line.... M... M City Basin Main Line.. ...
... grid/data in imperial measurements. The grid itself on the sketchboard is in 1' squares. I now realise that the blue numbers on the left are from the box file grid which is behind the sketchboard. If mm are down the right hand side and bottom in blue, it is possible the top and left hand edge in yellow are in inches as 18'= 216". It's very confusing, particularly as it appears the track layout starts around 40" from the left. If that were correct surely the 0" datum should be in line with the 0" on the blue grid... Strange. posted: 2 Dec 2011 06:06 from: Martin Wynne Hi Gordon, The real problem here is that I haven't yet written the help notes for the sketchboard. That's the downside of working with a development version. First of all, the blue numbers on the extreme left in your first screenshot are the underlying grid labels on the workpad, they are not part of the sketchboard window. You may find it helpful ...
... heads and nut/bolt/washer detail may be good. Food for thought. Thanks very much for your input. Rob Rob, I'm assuming the square screw heads would be about the same as those used for bullhead chairs. What would the approximate dimensions of the clips be in your estimation? I have some FB Code 100 and I can take a shot at printing some samples of sleepers with clips to see how it looks. I've half a mind to dump all my 00 stuff and switch to (battery powered) 0, so it won't be a waste of time Andy posted: 8 Feb 2018 04:30 from: RogerW Light rail track- the track that we have at Hunsbury Hill is mainly 75lb and a few bits of 65lb. All is flat bottom, mostly spiked with cast steel baseplates to get the correct inward slope of the railheads, and hole for the four spikes. There are also sections using standard chair-screws with big lipped rectangular washers with a flat baseplate with two big holes to take the chairscrews, we ...
... how easy is it to move the shape to line it up with the bottom left corner and how to do it please edit One thought is to cut the plan from the paper and rescan, would that help in positioning it with the bottom left corner? Last edited on 22 Aug 2015 11:15 by Hayfield posted: 22 Aug 2015 12:25 from: Martin Wynne Hi John, To have the corner of the picture shape on the grid origin in the bottom left corner, set X and Y to zero (0). You will usually want the corner of the baseboards on the grid origin, which means you need to shift the shape afterwards (see 6. below). Your dimensions are a bit confusing. If you have drawn boards 8ft long as 255mm, the drawing scale is 1: 9.56 If entering 150dpi has produced incorrect results, obviously that was not the setting on your scanner. You should be able to set the dpi to whatever you want on the scanner preview dialog. I suggest 300dpi is a good setting ...
152. Printing Accuracy
... saw the "Print (and Preview) control template" options and must have overlooked the omission of the word ALL in the following "Print background templates....." menu option presuming that this was just duplication of the menu item in the "Print Now!" Menu. I've just been checking the print out that I obtained via the PDF. I've overlaid baseboard shapes and, because I'm using Spaceboard framed with plywood, have also overlaid the plywood frame measurements. The X positions across the layout are: 0, 5, 605, 610, 620, 628, 1522, 1530, 1539, 1544, 2144& 2149 (all in mm). The X positions as printed out and (with the pages) stuck together are: 0, 5, 605, 610, 620, 628, 1520, 1528, 1537, 1542, 2140& 2145. I'll acknowledge that my pasting together errors may account for about 1mm but it is funny that the first 6 reproduced as expected but there was a drop of 4mm overall ...
153. template origins?
... topic: 2396 template origins? posted: 3 Feb 2014 10:40 from: its_all_downhill Hi all, After a bit of a hiatus I have come back to my Temploting but am now trying to locate template at a distance from the baseboard edge (75mm) but in locating the Template at (X :0 Y:75) puts it in a different location to the Notch which I placed using GEOMETRY>NOTCH>SET NOTCH POSITION AND ANGLE at (X :0 Y:75) I have attached a screen shot. I have done a search for 'Origin' and have found some matches and think this might be to do with page margins of the printer? Obviously I can manually move the template to where I want it but am curious to the reason of the discrepancy. Thanks a lot. Attachment: attach_1741_2396_Screen_Shot_2014-02-03_at_10.30.44.png 165 posted: 3 Feb 2014 11:34 from: Martin Wynne its_all_downhill wrote: After a bit of a hiatus I have come back to my Temploting but am now trying to locate template at ...
154. Y Turnouts
... S4/P4 Symmetrical Y with a piece of straight track joined to the end of each branch line. I then looked at the rotation angle of each straight track and renamed those templates with the rotation angle. 2480_290100_250000000.png As you can see one is 5.05 degrees above horizontal and the other is 6.40 degrees below horizontal. I zoomed in as far as I could and lined up the Fine-Point Marker as close to the horizontal line as I could. I even joined another straight to the TP and it's rotation angle was exactly 0 degrees. Is this amount of error impossible to avoid or did I mess something up? My next question will be what happens when I try to create a #3 Y for my Timesaver trackplan? Will the sharper angles magnify this error? Mark C posted: 29 Jul 2012 12:17 from: Martin Wynne Hi Mark, I'm intending to delete the old Y-turnout tutorials because it is now much better to start from an irregular half-diamond when improvising. It's also not too difficult to create a proper ...
... the, 'fan', end of the three-way point system, which is a fairly rare occurrence on British rails. It is usually only two-way and certainly never more than three. somerights20.gif© Copyright Dave Hitchborne and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. 2095790_ed6ed758.jpg Ecclesbourne Valley Railway, Wirksworth Overall view of the station yard including the narrow gauge line. somerights20.gif© Copyright Dave Hitchborne and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. 2333264_7b709a24.jpg Temple Mills Yard, south end, with a 2-8 -0 View NW from Ruckhold Road Bridge. On the right is the shunters' mess-room and passing is Thompson O4/8 rebuild of Robinson ex-Great Central 2-8 -0 No. 3836, on its way to Stratford Locomotive Depot after working an Up freight/coal train from Whitemoor Yard, March. somerights20.gif© Copyright Ben Brooksbank and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club ...
156. First try
... my first try at a layout to fit in the small space that I have. It is a copy of 'Elan', a trackplan from Ian Rice's book 'Layout Design, Finescale in Small Spaces'. I have used, for me, the easiest method of lay the trackwork. I had some problems with the single slip, but using Brian Nicholls excellent instructions, I have cobbled together something that fits in the space. I would appreciate any comments as to whether it is buildable and run able. I will be using 0-6 -0 tank and tender locos. Regards, Graham Attachment: attach_1728_2393_elan_2014_01_25_1 449_03.box 428 posted: 28 Jan 2014 12:44 from: Graham Idle Here is the background. Attachment: attach_1729_2393_elan_14_01_25_143 7_41.bgs 382 posted: 28 Jan 2014 14:04 from: Martin Wynne Hi Graham, Thanks for uploading your files. You also need to upload the .sk81 image file from the \SHAPE-FILES\ folder. Otherwise the background shapes show a picture shape as a blank rectangle. regards, Martin. posted: 28 Jan ...
... I have just found a reference to the minimum distance between the adjacent rail and a signal post- 5' 1". Hi Peter, That's a very odd dimension. Where did you find it? is it from the edge of the post or the centre? To which edge of the running rail? The usual track spacings for multiple tracks (minimum) are alternating 6ft way and 10ft way. If a signal post is placed in the middle of the 10ft way, the centre of it will be 5'-0" from the outer edge of the running rail, or 5'-2.3/4" from the gauge face. A quick look at some GWR signal drawings shows them all dimensioned from the gauge face of the rail to the centre of the post. Assuming you have the required minimum spacing of 10ft way (15'-2" centres) for loops and sidings adjacent to double-track, I think you can safely place a signal post in the middle of that space. regards, Martin. posted: ...
... topic: 2354 Making tracks by J R Fairman posted: 28 Nov 2013 16:54 from: LSWRArt Does anyone have a copy of this book who could tell me what it covers. I cannot find anything on the web as to its contents. It is not expensive (£ 2.80 from Amazon 2nd hand) but no use buying if not useful. I am modelling LSWR pre WW1 in Gauge 0 and wonder if this will add anything to the info I already have in prototype line books, or from the 2mm society's new 'Track' book. Thanks, Arthur posted: 28 Nov 2013 22:04 from: Martin Wynne Hello Arthur, I have a copy of this book. It's an A4 paperback book with 56 pages. It is a very readable illustrated history of the former LSWR Permanent Way Works at Redbridge. It contains maps and lots of pictures inside the works, and interesting details about the manufacturing processes and trackwork developments over the years until closure of the works in 1988. The book was published in 1989 to mark the closure ...
... topic: 2214 trap points/ signals posted: 12 May 2013 22:18 from: stevo I'm building an 0 gauge LMS ex Midland country station, 1930s, with a passing loop on a single track line. There is a platform on one track only, a bit like Highley on the SVR. Two questions: as there's a passenger service that must use the platform road in either direction, would both roads be signalled bi-directionally? Would there be trap points at the ends of the passing loop? Stevo posted: 12 May 2013 22:46 from: Ian Allen Stevo, The approach to the passing loop from both ends would have a signal, with two arms (possibly on separate dolls), with the main route being on a higher doll, whilst that signalling the route into the platform on a lower doll. Some companies placed both arms on one post whereby the main route would be indicated by the upper arm. As for trap points, prototypically yes, however, this was not always the case. I know ...
... topic: 9 Interesting views in Google Earth posted: posted: 17 May 2007 19:07 from: Alan Pearmain Google Earth does not only show things on the ground (and clouds). (Found on another forum) using Google Earth, go to 52 20' 10.94" N/ 0 11' 43.29" W to see Avro Lancaster "City of Lincoln" flying over Huntingdon. Also, at 47 37' 03.28" N/ 1 0' 08.02" E (go to Vouvray, France, and follow the TGV line north-east)- a jet aircraft leaving a vapour trail far below. Alan Last edited on 17 May 2007 19:07 by Alan Pearmain Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Off track> Interesting views in Google Earth 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 ...
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