... as a guide, then you need a stable paper that won't buckle with moisture, especially if you're going to slosh flux around. That definitely rules out photocopy paper, in my experience! Even if you use a "dry" method, the paper absorbs moisture from the air and can buckle and distort. I used to use roll paper but got bored of trying to get it to feed My current method to reduce the number of sheets is to use A2 board (somewhere around 250gsm) cut in half lengthways, so giving a single sheet the same size as two A4 sheets end to end (210mm x 594mm). I then set a custom paper size in the printer driver and off I go! For the printer you mention (Epson, not the place in Surrey) you might be able to use the same principle with A1 board to give effectively a single sheet equivalent to two A3 pages end to end (297mm x 840mm) if your custom paper size allows that. Once I have the printout, it's varnished with Ronseal to ...

... :31 from: Martin Wynne Dear all, One of life's many mysteries is why the Templot download is so much smaller than most other program downloads. It's only around 1.5MB. I've found that most other program downloads are typically 5 or 10 times larger than that. For software which seems not significantly more complex than Templot. With nearly everyone now on broadband, downloading Templot takes only a second or two, and sometimes it is so fast that you are not entirely sure that it has actually worked! The small size also gives the impression that it must be a fairly simple program -- anyone judging these matters on a megabyte-per-dollar basis must be none too impressed. So I'm pondering whether there might be a case for bulking it up with some blank space to make the download look a bit meatier and take longer. It seems a daft thing to do, and unfair to anyone still on dial-up, but I'm wondering if other software gets up to such tricks? Anyone know? At one time the smallness of a ...

... radius, instead of the usual 6ft way (44.67mm centres). I could then have gone on to do tools> make double-track TS if I wished. In the next program update, before which I will make a proper bit of video in a proper clear format, and explain all the settings. regards, Martin. posted: 19 Oct 2015 22:51 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, I don't personally see a problem with the quality of the 'fuzzy' video. Surely the videos are meant to give a quick demo to users so they can go off and experiment once they see the basics? Bells and whistles may add sales appeal to software but you aren't trying to sell anything here. What is more impressive than fancy videos is the way you manage to program all the extra features into Templot. Rgds Rob posted: 19 Oct 2015 23:14 from: Martin Wynne Rob Manchester wrote: I don't personally see a problem with the quality of the 'fuzzy' video. Surely the videos are meant to give a quick ...

... rail to reduce the incidence of fractures together with a corresponding alteration in the design of the chair. This implies that no change was made to the spacing of the sleepers. But the figures don't add up! Based on this evidence, the S& C rail introduced in 1870 and the I. S.& C. rail ntroduced in 1875 appear to have comprised seven sleepers at 3 ft centres bookended by ones with 2 ft 6 ins centres and end projections of 1' 1" to which the fishplates were attached, giving a total length of 25 ft 2 ins, whereas the rails are known to have been 24 ft long. I am not as bothered about the S& C rail, but I would like to know the correct sleeper spacings for the I. S.& C. rail. Can anyone help? My own guess is that the middle seven sleepers were 2 ft 11 ins apart, the outer pairs at each end were 2 ft 2 ins apart and the projection at each end for the fishplate was 1 ft 1 ...

... it then, but have forgotten 99% of it since! I've now started a new project- ordered the shed, booked a builder to lay the concrete foundation, booked the electrician, and drawn the track plan on the back of an envelope (designed around Peco 0-gauge track. Last night at the club I was told I should be building my own C&L track, so I guess I should be drawing up the plan in Templot as well. If there is anyone who can spare a few minutes give me a nudge into the right menus in those new dark unknown areas that were not even a twinkle in Martin's eye when I first started, I should be most grateful. Firstly I need to draw a 24ft by 13ft rectangle (the shed), followed by a second rectangle 103mm inside the first (the inner wall), then create the continuous running line (c /l 75mm inside the inner wall- works out at about 5ft 11ins radius at the ends, I think), then finally add a passing ...

... the individual Profile information which you may have entered. Which is a shame, but I'm wondering how much use anyone actually makes of it in practice? There is already a specific tickbox to make your email address accessible to other members and therefore allow them to send you emails*, so I will try to keep that function working (replacing the personal message functions which I removed some time ago because of different legislation), as that tickbox would seem to be the specific consent required by GDPR. *It's not clear whether giving consent to be contacted by other members applies only to those who are members at the time the consent is given, or also applies to any additional members who may join in future. And whether such consent is only meaningful if you can see a membership list of current members at the time, and whether such a membership list can only show members who have specifically consented to be on it. The GDPR is an utter minefield, let's hope some common sense prevails. cheers, Martin. posted: 11 May 2018 10 ...

... rails have flared ends to avoid this, but these rails can't. posted: 12 Jul 2017 01:21 from: Matt M. Hi Eric, Nigel beat me to the check rail question as I couldn't find my log in password. The cut-off for the diverging roads on Slide Points (Stub Switch in the American parlance), is governed by the the flexure of the switch rails. The curve the switch rail can produce from the fixed end with given length and still line up square to the diverging rails gives you the amount of face to face area you have to match up with the diverging roads. If the inner rails are working as a guard rail you run the chance that the wheel will hit the end of the rail square on derailing the vehicle and destroying both it and the leads. The gapping between the diverging rails should be set that there is no way that this is possible. You also have to allow for temperature fluctuations as well. With single rail Slide Points there is the chance in very hot weather that ...

... 9.0 model mm) spacing forward to next timber (S15)= 26.0( 8.67 model mm) spacing forward to next timber (S16)= 29.0( 9.67 model mm) spacing forward to next timber (S17)= 29.0( 9.67 model mm) spacing forward to next timber (T1)= 26.0( 8.67 model mm)____ v: 0.91.c© regards, Martin. Attachment: attach_799_1129_lswr_type_2_switch _7clm_p4.box 371 posted: 24 May 2010 11:26 from: donald peters Hi Martin, I like the diagram giving a clear explanation of terminology. A successor to my 'crib sheet' of yore except that that has all your terminological abbreviations installed on the face of the diagram as well. However, it is always on the wall above my pc. (necessities of a fading memory I regret to realise) May I make an appeal on behalf of an optically challenged( another failing personal service) regarding colours. To one of normal vision I am certain you can see no problem but to those of us with 'normal' colour indequacy ...

... making this available. I can see that you have done a lot of work there. It actually works very well -- much better than I expected. I tried a similar automation program on some other software and the results were very hit and miss. I know it's intended for your own use, so you have done what suits you. But for general use there does seem to be an awful lot of buttons for some of the more obscure functions which are only needed very occasionally. I do wonder if it's worth giving permanent screen space to a button for adjusting the mode 2 slew factor, say. If you haven't used it for a while it would surely take no longer to find it in the menu than among all those buttons? The great advantage of a traditional menu is that it instantly hides itself leaving the screen clear, without the user having to take any avoiding action at all. I know they are old-hat, but a simple menu system still works better than anything else for me. Comments welcome on this or ...

... track gauge first. cheers, Martin. posted: 30 Jan 2019 15:30 from: Hayfield Godfrey Earnshaw wrote: Hi Hayfield Isn't that too simplistic a statement. "The Exactoscale 0.8 mm check rail chairs would be fine for EM SF" Don't you need to qualify it by saying the type of wheels used (RTR or EM profile) If the statement is true for EM SF then it must be true for 00 SF, provided that the wheel profiles are the same. Cheers Godders Godders The first thing is it gives a 0.8 mm gap, if you choose to use this standard you follow the advice on wheels given With adaption these chairs can be used for both EM& 00SF gauges, as they have a common 1 mm check rail gauge On a 5 timber check rail I put the two outer chairs and 1 inner, I put two inner chairs on the stock rail (on smaller 4 timber check rails two outer chairs on the stock rails and two inner chairs on the check rails), I cut through the unused gap in ...