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... topic: 356 Templot Club -- new forum software coming? posted: 7 Mar 2008 19:37 from: Martin Wynne Dear all, On the horizon is a new version of the software which runs Templot Club. Today I received this advance froth: The new version is a true web 2.0 product. It has great social networking tools to create an active community around your forums. We have spent a lot of time on the interface overhaul, and I think we did a great job! I am very proud to see that we are redefining the forum landscape. Personally speaking, taking an active part in the design of such an inspiring product has been a wonderful experience for me. Now, we are counting on you to unleash the full potential of the new WowBB. Hmm. I think I will wait and see before unleashing too much potential! It's now nearly a year since we moved from Yahoo to these Templot Club web forums. Before I start looking at this new version, it would be good to have some feedback. ...
... Aug 2010 11:54 from: Alan McMillan Thank you very much for your generous offer Martin, however as the job is not urgent, ie the house this layout will be constructed in is not yet built (!) I can wait for the new Pug you mentioned rather than inflict my plan on your precious time. It's actually been split into six separate .box files to speed up my computer's response time and comes to a sizeable 20Mb so sending them to you might be a problem. Is the next Pug on the horizon as I am happy to wait for the new "modify on rebuild" feature. Regards Alan Last edited on 4 Aug 2010 11:54 by Alan McMillan posted: 4 Aug 2010 14:47 from: Martin Wynne Alan McMillan wrote: Is the next Pug on the horizon as I am happy to wait for the new "modify on rebuild" feature. Hi Alan, I'm aware of the long interval since 0.91.c and I'm hoping to have a new Pug available quite soon, but I can't give a definite date ...
... the beast. I wouldn't worry too much. Predictions of doom are rife but quite often something pops up to keep the good work going. Occasionally something does leave a big gap; the successors to Blacksmiths Models and Coopercraft seem to have effectively hit the buffers. But by no means always. Nigel Hello, Well Templot would continue and people who wanted to build track would have to use the Brook-Smith method or use 3D printing to make their own stuff. Things progress despite the odds and new methods appear over the horizon whatever people may say or think. Regards, posted: 27 Jan 2018 12:19 from: Nigel Brown Trevor Walling wrote: Nigel Brown wrote: Think the issues are characteristic of the hobby as a whole. What would happen if Martin found a way of Templot being supported indefinitely, but all the firms such as C&L making important goodies for track building dropped out? It's the nature of the beast. I wouldn't worry too much. Predictions of doom are rife but quite often something pops up to keep ...
... ", it is in our interest that the hobby shrink until it becomes unattractive to the blood suckers. Ignore the boosters, they know not whereof they speak. They know only "bigger is better". Ignore the organizers, their hobby is "running a model railroad club" (they would be equally happy running a quilting club or a bird-watching club). Ignore those who say "we must grow or perish", if we grow, we will perish, the only safety is to vanish below the horizon." Roger, Brisbane, posted: 20 Oct 2007 00:49 from: Simon Dunkley Martin Wynne wrote: Is our glass half-full or half-empty? Depends, really. Are you filling it or draining it? Or more cogently, as a colleague puts it, depends if it is your round or mine... (As to Templot, did you develop it mostly for your own enjoyment, plus those who appreciate what you have done, or to make money? If the latter, ...
... parts. To avoid any confusion, I will try to get the version 3 out as soon as possible. All the best, Brian Nicholls. posted: 23 May 2011 19:00 from: Brian Nicholls Brian Nicholls wrote: To avoid any confusion, I will try to get the version 3 out as soon as possible. Hi All, As promised, I have now completed Version 3 of the "How_to_Construct_an_Irregular_Diam ond_Crossing_v3" document for use with Templot 0.91c, albeit a little late since the new pug is now on the horizon. The document has been fully updated and re-written and includes all additions and corrections. See attached PDF file. Unfortunately, it has considerably increased in size due to the following reasons: 1. Two (2) templates have now been used instead of the original one, to increase accuracy, therefore the instruction set has almost doubled. 2. An Appendix has been added at the end of the document, dealing with irregular switched diamonds, complete with instruction set. To some it may seem an awful lot ...
... different scale but have a look at 00-SF Yahoo Group to see what I mean and the type of gauge ideal for doing this, ordinary roller gauges are difficult to use for this. posted: 12 Jan 2012 07:05 from: Stephen Freeman In the absence of any correct pattern chairs being forthcoming you might consider the following combination. Plywood timbering with rivets every 4th sleeper and using half chairs of 4 bolt and 2 bolt Exactoscale chairs (C &L 2 bolts are a different shape). Otherwise on the horizon is the possibility of low-cost 3d printing, check out both the BBC News website, where I read yesterday of plans to introduce a $500 printer. I have also stumbled across something called 'reprap Mendel'. The only downside is that both would require 3d cad and to use Sketchup etc I will have to upgrade my Graphics Card. posted: 12 Jan 2012 07:36 from: Alan Turner Borg-Rail wrote: No both wrong! Its the distance from the the check rail face to the opposite running ...
... the first few years, that was in general the response from users. More recently the demand has changed to something more akin to a consumer product such as Microsoft Word, and I confess that has taken some of the shine off the Templot project for me. The constant request for more and more explanation, and repetition of the basics over and over again, has become wearying. I would love to be getting on with more complex developments while my brain is still up to it, but all I can see on the horizon is the making of yet more videos and web pages. Perhaps I am my own worst enemy -- I have just spent an hour responding to a post on RMweb about integrating Templot with AnyRail: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/96994-layout-design-software/page-2 #entry1817865 regards, Martin. posted: 14 Mar 2015 16:36 from: Martin Wynne Well I have to say I think the idea of starting beginners with a train-set oval is ...
... up how to use Templot with ease. I mentioned Three Ways purely selfishly as its the last common formation that has beaten me (Stephen from Borg Rail did both of mine for me) and I'd really like to know how he did it. So conversely in fact following the route of concentrating on the Companion would actually suit me and I'd think many of us "loyal subjects" very well! Thanks again for your apparently tireless enthusiasm in both programming Templot and replying to all our posts here and of course for broadening our horizons with both cricket and porridge. Kind regards Andrew posted: 10 Sep 2017 11:54 from: Martin Wynne Godfrey Earnshaw wrote: Undeterred I again created the slip roads manually over the auto creation and I still got longer slip roads. I cannot see a reason for this having followed the manual creation procedure to the letter or to be more accurate the single slip video. Please help me understand where I have gone wrong. Hi Godders, You haven't gone wrong. What you may have missed is this message: topic ...
... that a 0.4mm nozzle can create surprisingly sharp edges (0.2mm radius). This of course is the opposite of my experience with CNC 3D milling, where sharp corners are easy and narrow slots are difficult. However, if we try extruding in 3 directions rather than in 2D layers, a different dimension comes into play -- the diameter of the tip of the nozzle itself rather than the size of the hole in it, and the taper angle on the side of the nozzle. I can see some lathe work on the horizon. cheers, Martin. posted: 11 Dec 2018 08:01 from: Martin Wynne Hi Andy, A thought occurs (just the one?). If the bed is tipped to match the angle across the nozzle tips, and the g-code is edited to add a Z-component to every X move, it would be possible to print from both nozzles even when they are not level: 2_110051_380000000.png Angle exaggerated above. If the actual angle is say 0.5mm across 33mm, that's only 3mm across the width ...
10. A new trolley
... period I chose was the mid 1930's. As time went on I became more and more interested in earlier periods partly because there was more interesting rolling stock( earlier Dean engines and coaches although the latter had the big drawback of some frightening lining and colour schemes) and partly because as time went on my building abilities increased and under Iain Rice's guidance I found I could build smooth running chassis which was very exciting! So a whole new world of prototypes in the form of kits from Wills, Cotswold, Blacksmith etc expanded my horizons. Eventually I dared to try my brass making skills on a Finney curved frame Bulldog and then a Mitchell 43xx. Nothing I enjoy more than building a loco! So all of this preamble is to say I agree with you on the Dean engines; the Dean goods being a particular favourite. I am however rather fond of the Chuchward engines and Moguls in particular. Rather handily Malcom Mitchell includes a second cab and firebox in his kit. As the real weak point of the Mainline/ Bachman Mogul( of which I ...
11. 3D again?
... under exposure to UV light (indeed, many plastics can), unless you go for the higher cost resin printers which use UV to cure the finished prints. Certainly worthy of experimentation and I look forward to seeing what others come up with. As mobile phones continue to shrink in thinness, battery tech is going to continue to evolve at a fast rate, so even n gauge might be possible in a few years or maybe even less. There are exciting technical breakthroughs in battery technology that are meant to be on the horizon for both mobile computing, mobile phones and cars. One of those being solid state battery tech, which is said to offer much faster recharge rates, and much smaller, less weighty sizes of battery for a given output. Will be a little while still before that trickles beyond cars and high end phones though, but it certainly gives some hope that things could improve going forward. Remember, DCC is really a 1970s technology itself, so a new tech revolution for model trains might not be far off- whether it ...
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