... a video shortly but it will take several hours to do and Christmas stuff is getting in the way. Martin. posted: 23 Dec 2014 18:15 from: Andrew Duncan Hello Martin Thanks very much for the quick tutorial. I'll give it a go and let you know how I get on. A very happy Christmas to you and thanks again for all the help you've give me over the last year. Kind regards Andrew posted: 23 Dec 2014 23:15 from: Andrew Duncan Hello Martin Well I followed your instructions...well some of them -Delete the transition template to the control.- and lost the live template...? but it otherwise seem to work fine. I then went on to follow the next 4 lines which all worked fine as far as I could tell, namely- Move the peg along it to the intersection (CTRL+ F8).- Store and background.- Change to constant radius.- Click other template and make diamond-crossing at intersection. At this point it seemed to work ...

... believe the latest MERG has largely overcome the problem, as it can be configured to switch off the servo once it has reached the set position, there being enough resistance in the gears to hold the blades in position. It's not just a case of switching off... the control line is held high which prevents spurious noise confusing the servo and making it twitch. Judi MERG Kit Sales Manager posted: 30 Jul 2016 11:29 from: Stephen Freeman True but also if you don't mind me quoting from the building instructions, "The Servo4-F module is provided with the option that either the pulse drive is removed approximately 2 seconds after reaching the limit of travel omit jumper LK3), or is maintained (install jumper LK3)" Judi R wrote: Borg-Rail wrote: I believe the latest MERG has largely overcome the problem, as it can be configured to switch off the servo once it has reached the set position, there being enough resistance in the gears to hold the blades in position. It's not just a case ...

... topic: 3707 Making (actual real model) diamond crossings, and curved turnouts posted: 23 Jun 2020 17:53 from: Julian Roberts Hi Martin and everyone I've had enough experience making turnouts to feel quite confident with their construction, not least because of the advice and instructions here and on the Scalefour Forum. I haven't made any diamond crossings, and I have an irregular single slip to make. Is there any official instruction on making the K crossings to which you could refer me? I'm not expecting difficulties with a Templot template to follow- but it would be useful to know if there any tricks of the trade, and traps to beware of! Also, I have curved turnouts to make. The curve is very gentle. The issue with making blades fit the stock rails is to get the back straight where they mate with the stock rails. I surmise that where these are curved, the thing to do is make them as if straight, mating properly, and then bend both stock rail and blade together. Where the crossing ...

... "Login" and you are set for 5 years hassle-free access to Templot Club. This assumes that when you first logged in, you answered "yes" when Firefox asked if you wanted to have your password saved.* If you have forgotten your password and you didn't get your browser to save it, it's easy to get a new one. Click this link (which is also on the Login dialog): http://85a.co.uk/forum/login.php?reset_password=1 You will then be sent instructions by email for creating a new random password which you can use to login. Once logged in using it, you can change it to something more memorable by going to My Account> Password. If you have not only lost your password but also changed your email address, please let me know the new address and I can change it for you in the system, so that you can then use the above procedure to get a new password. I would just like to repeat that you have to do all this only ...

... gauge before doing anything with the maps in Templot? Unless you do this, all bets are off, and everyone forgets. Did you use the Templot screenshot maps function? That's at background> maps menu item: 2_141514_290000000.png I just tried with this URL for OpenStreetMap at Ipswich, and it worked fine: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/52.05086/1.14358 If you copy and paste that into the box above, add a name for the map, and then click the show map button, follow the instructions and you should see the map in Templot correctly scaled to match your track. However, what you see in OpenStreetMap has mostly been traced by amateur mappers (such as me) from aerial images. You may just as well do that yourself for your track planning, with greater accuracy. Also currently Google offers much better aerial imagery than is allowed to be traced in OSM for copyright reasons. Here for example I am aligning track over the yard at Ipswich. This turnout appears to be a B-7. If ...

... regards, Martin. posted: 4 Aug 2010 11:57 from: grog_polymer Thanks Martin (and Nigel who I forgot to thank) I did look at Exactoscale earlier and looked at the individual chairs rather than the turmouts. Are the block chairs the ones that carry the spacing web for the separation of the check rail to the stock rail for example? I can identify Bridge chairs from their narrower footprint in the turnout diagrams but cannot figure out the difference when I look at the individual Exactoscale chair images. Exactoscale say their instructions are in the PDF's of the product but the chair sets just seem to have pictures with lots of different chairs and tell you to look at the instructions to see where they go. I think an email to them may be in order. posted: 4 Aug 2010 12:41 from: Nigel Brown Hi Greg Not sure if Exactoscale produce block chairs as such; certainly the check chairs you were looking at are not the ones. You could produce a block chair by taking two bridge chairs and shaving bits off until ...

... answer you fully would require a total recapitulating of the material provided.. If you will take as read that my only interest in verbalising my thoughts is, and always has been, my belief that Templot deserves wider acceptance by beginners in near scale modelling, then read on. Because of the breadth of its capability and its dedication to cater for the smallest nuance of full scale practice, it has grown such as to appear a monster to the first time user. Almost everything can be achieved and in consequence the amount of instruction confronting the FTU has become prodigious, scattered and unsettling. Having collaborated over the years on several user manuals the ones that had sections, (broadly) 'what do you want to do', 'how to do it', 'how it does it', plus various examples in a logical connected sequence, always got the thumbs up. It is the orderly sequence that seems to generate a comforting reassurance of an authorised start or entry point. Templot operations on first sight can present an awesome prospect with it's array of video's ...

... -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --- Martin would you be kind enough to check, in sketchboard, that the two split images can be accurately aligned using my instructions mentioned above (and that they do actually align OK, also that the finished merge looks OK). Regarding the GER Society copyright of the drawing I used for the job, further information has come to light, it is written in their attached notes to the drawing, that original GER Stratford drawings dated 1903, 1907 and others were used to produce the John Gardner drawing I used. It is therefore clear, that GERS did not actually go out and measure a turntable, thus by the fact that I used only ...

... just no good at doing that. Martin. posted: 3 Oct 2018 21:47 from: Phil O Martin, I think your being too hard on yourself, creating Templot is your hobby and we thank you for it and I would like to think all other users do too. You have created a very complex piece of software, which you have continued to refine, but as you have improved it and added further functions, some of us have missed a few tricks along the way. If providing the online user instructions are proving somewhat difficult, could you not go on the road and do some demonstrations around the country at a some of the larger exhibitions and possibly a few seminars at Missenden Abbey where we can get it straight from the horses mouth. If these could be filmed, edited and places on Youtube it might overcome most if not all of the problems. There are lot of modelling how too's on Youtube, there would be no need to write it up, no need to find suitable software for showing stuff on screen that ...

... script that provides a GUI control panel for common Templot commands. This is the result. It makes no changes whatsoever to the Templot software. All it does is allow common functions to be invoked from a control panel. Optionally it can skip some of the startup dialogs and remap CntrlZ and CntrlY to undo and redo respectively in line with the standard Windows convention. All other Templot shortcuts and menu functions should operate as normal. I have placed the following three files in the Templot yahoo group here: Templot GUI Control 1 Installation Instructions- please read these carefully before installation 2 Example Screenshot 3 the script itself. and also attached below for those without access to the Yahoo group files. I'm sure seasoned Templotters with Windows will have little use for this. However, I'm hopeful there are others especially those running VMs who may find this useful. Finally please note this only works with pug version 0.91c and you need a screen at least 1280 pixels wide. All comments/criticism welcome. Regards John 1. Installation Instructions- please read these carefully before installation ...