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... topic: 321 Using Steel Rail- long term implications? posted: 22 Jan 2008 17:09 from: Brian Tulley Hi all, Whilst realising there are many "for" and "against" voters for Steel Rail I'm pretty much in the "for" category (hypothetically, because I've never actually tried it). However, I recently heard that a Mr. Norman Solomon wasn't so keen on Steel Rail, preferring Nickel Silver instead. Apparently this is because he has found past problems with soldered joints eventually failing. Bearing in mind that I am contemplating Ply& rivet construction (dinosaur I know) which does have several soldered joints here and there, I was wondering what experiences others have found with regard to long term reliability of soldered joints with steel rail? Fortunately the layout will be located in (what was) a bedroom, so corrosion etc. won't be too much of an issue I hope. Many thanks. Best Regards, Brian. posted: 22 Jan 2008 19:45 from: Bob Ellis Hi Brian, I ...
... topic: 662 Admin: Photos on Yahoo posted: 16 Dec 2008 14:56 from: Martin Wynne Dear all, Just a reminder for recent new members that we still have a Yahoo group annexed to this Templot Club site. It's well worth joining the Yahoo group to gain access to the Photos and Files sections. (Unfortunately unlike the message archive, Yahoo don't permit open access to these sections.) Yahoo have recently made some improvements to the Photos section. We now have a massive 100GB of storage space (effectively unlimited -- we have yet to scratch the surface of it), and pictures can now be displayed in their original uploaded size, no matter how large. There's some interesting stuff accumulated there over the past 8 years -- many thanks to everyone who uploaded it. If you haven't visited the Photos and Files sections recently, it would be worth having a look: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/templot/photos http://groups.yahoo.com/group/templot/files Here are a couple of example ...
... topic: 173 Are you using Vista? posted: 23 Sep 2007 21:16 from: Martin Wynne Dear all, I'm desperately trying not to have to buy Windows Vista( ), but I need some help. Initially there were several reports of Templot running fine on Vista. But recently I have had some reports of problems, and reading the Vista docs it seems that I ought to be making some changes to the installer program. So I would be grateful for some feedback. Are you using Templot on Vista? If so, any problems? Which version of Templot are you using? Did you install 074b first and then a later Pug, or did you just install the Pug and create your own shortcuts? Do any strange messages appear from Windows or Microsoft while using Templot? Does the "restore previous session" function work ok on startup? Assuming you are not using 091a (if so please upgrade to 091b), have you had any difficulty saving files to the default location( C:\TEMPLOT\BOX-FILES ...
... from Martin. posted: 7 Nov 2008 21:36 from: Martin Wynne Dear all, Today I'm working on John Watt's irregular diamonds, and I'm very aware that the code I'm using -- both for the diamonds and for mouse-action adjustment of check rails -- is now 5 years old since it was written, and it still hasn't made it into a Pug release. I'm beginning to despair that it ever will. I've written about this problem several times before, but I'm no nearer a solution. In recent months I have been able to spend almost no time at all on program development. All my Templot time has been spent on user support, not only on here but also on RMweb and elsewhere, and in emails. I recently turned 60, and I'm getting genuinely worried that the grey cells will fail on me before I can get everything done in Templot that I want to do. Already there are areas of the code which were crystal clear when I wrote them 20 years ago, but are now getting distinctly foggy ...
... myself and then commission Stephen Freeman at Borgrail to translate my efforts into a 'ready to print' and build trackplan. This approach would hopefully avoid my needing to spend considerable time learning about the niceties of Templot, instead I could get on with layout construction etc before moving on to track building. I am now at the stage where I need to practice track building (having no experience in this area to date) ready for a start on the real trackwork for TG. As a member of two Scalefour Society area groups I recently took along a suitable baseframe and Templot print section in the hope of canvassing opinion for a test track build 2297_091103_500000000.jpg The members of the S4 area group felt that a challenging test track build was the way to go and I therefore chose the above section. This won't be used on the layout, rather I can test various methods of attaching the track to the aluminium sheet/cork baseframe and include some practice of building track on plywood baulks (as this style of trackwork will feature on the two large viaducts of TG) ...
... : Martin Wynne richard_t wrote: I drop onto this forum quite a lot, and use the "New Posting" icon to quickly find the new postings. But of late this has become very erratic. Hi Richard, This is a known bug in the forum software. Jim Hale (our hosting provider) has been chasing it for years, and I've also had a go. So far no joy. What happens is that when any topics are deleted, the system loses track of which ones have been read. I recently had to delete some spam topics*, which is probably the reason for this happening now. The good news is that the system resets itself when the missing topics fall out of the "Recent Topics" scope. That's currently set for 14 days, so at the end of that time all should be back to normal. Sorry about any inconvenience in the meantime. You may want to set up your "Emailed Messages" so that you get all new postings that way and don't miss any. Fortunately it is very ...
67. Autumnal gloom
... ten or fifteen years, max, the lights will go out on railway modelling whatever we do The question is -- is it worth doing if just as I get it finished there is no-one left to use it? On the other hand, quite often on RMweb there appears a message such as this: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t =10036 which surely means the hobby has a bright future? Is our glass half-full or half-empty? Well, I'm 32 and recently got back into the hobby in a fairly serious way after 15 years or so of not giving it much thought. My main areas of interest are the 1950s/early 60s late steam era and the 1970s/80s blue diesel era, which you might find odd given that I wasn't even born until the mid 70s! Anyway, I for one have absolutely no intention whatsoever of letting the doom-mongers put me off pursuing my modelling! Please keep developing Templot, Martin. I certainly won't stop using it anytime soon ...
... the file from Visio into Paint then save as either GIF or BMP as required, I believe, this is where things are going wrong with the colour. I have Adobe Photoshop CS2 on board, but it will not even look at the Visio files, I have to convert them first then I can enter them into Photoshop for any post work on them. I am trying to find another way around this problem of file compatibility, but so far have drawn a blank. Regarding the initial drawing phase, I have just recently bought a second-hand copy of Autocad in a sale from a closure at a local industrial office site, but I need advanced 'driving' lessons to use it !! so I have to continue with Visio for the time being (it is quick to use though). Regarding the dithering, I must find a way of directly converting the files into the required outputs, if you have any suggestions, I would be most grateful for any advice so that the finished objects will look good and, save any post ...
69. Possible Bugs?
... reverted to their original lengths, twists, widths...everything. The worst part of it is I had resaved the plan before I noticed the problem as I was working at the end of the plan where there aren't many turnouts at all. It was only when I zoomed out that I noticed everything had undone itself. What happened? Regards Alan412_100447_240000000.png posted: 10 Aug 2011 10:17 from: Martin Wynne Alan McMillan wrote: I've had a bit of a disaster. Hi Alan, Before you quit Templot, main> recent files> reload> restore previous session If no joy, main> recent files> reload> restore prior previous session If old data found, save again under a different file name. Not much sympathy if you have been over-writing files in the Windows fashion. I went to a lot of trouble to ensure that you could just click Save without that happening. I will write again when I have had a look at what may have happened. regards, Martin. posted: 10 Aug 2011 18:03 from ...
... are stuck. There are bound to be a few teething problems with the changeover, but as far as I can tell most of it is working ok so far. One thing which isn't, is the indication of "new" unread topics. Several topics which you have in fact read may still show as "new", even if you mark them as read. That should sort itself out after a few days -- it's related to the change of time zone on the server, and the time limit on "recent" topics. If you find any other problems please let me know. The old site will remain available for a while until I can get all the web site links updated. However, it is now "read-only", which means that you won't be able to post messages there. You can do that only on this new site. If you want to change any of your profile settings, please make sure that you are on this new site (85a.co.uk in the address bar), as changes made ...
... topic: 856 Warning -- Firefox users please read posted: 8 Jun 2009 12:40 from: Martin Wynne This is a serious warning from a respected source. If you are using Firefox you may want to check Tools> Add-ons to see if Microsoft have installed this extension without your permission. Please be aware that modifying the Windows Registry is not for the faint-hearted, and could seriously damage your system if you get it wrong. In a recent update of the .NET framework Microsoft silently installs an extension to your Firefox browser if it is found on your system. This extension enables websites you visit with Firefox to silently install software on your computer, thus injecting the most serious flaw of Internet Explorer into Firefox. Microsoft installs this extension in such a way that it cannot be removed directly by the user -- it is listed in the Extensions list but Uninstall is disabled. This is not a bug -- this is the intended functionality of the Firefox extension, probably to enable Microsoft to install software on your machine when ...
... from 33820 St Ciers sur Gironde posted: 21 Feb 2020 20:24 from: Trevor Walling Hello, It could be a server somewhere on the route that particular bit of data is taking that has an issue. Regards Trevor. posted: 21 Feb 2020 21:09 from: Nigel Brown I've no trouble at all with emails. I used to have this problem some time ago; changing email suppliers cured it. At that time email was provided by my ISP, so the improvement came about by swapping ISPs. More recently I've changed to using an independant email supplier, so I can change ISPs without affecting email, if I want to. I recently switched my ISP from Phone Co-op, who were OK, to BT, to gain ultrafast fibre broadband, which is fine. Last edited on 21 Feb 2020 21:14 by Nigel Brown posted: 21 Feb 2020 21:36 from: Rob Manchester Hi Paul, I get two emails for each posting on Templot. One from Data1systems in Ohio which is where Templot is hosted ...
... topic: 712 Scaleing a drawing to 4mm. posted: 26 Jan 2009 14:34 from: Alberta, I wonder if anyone could help me out im totally stuck. I have recently been involved in a project& im trying to get the correct scale& size of a particular site. I used the google maps& managed to crudley get a rough dimension of the area to be modelled. I am& always have been terrible with maths it has never been a strong point so i wondered if anyone here could help me out to scale this size. The key to the google maps was a inch= 200ft Now my measuring with a tape gave me these measurements 2inch= 400ft 3inch= 600ft 6.5inch= 1300ft Now how do i scale these down to 4mm to 1ft& what would the above measurements be in ft& inchs once calculated because i,ve been sat here with a pen& paper trying for dear life& tearing my hair out at the same time Thanks Alberta. posted: 26 Jan 2009 14:58 from: ...
... Old Templot Companion to see them. I need to get the new site at least presentable, as it's linked from TDV. There is still a long way to go. regards, Martin. posted: 14 Dec 2011 23:06 from: Tony W Martin Wynne wrote: Hi Tony, I have now added your Beginner's Guide to the new Templot Companion site. Also Allan's tutorial. Hi Martin. Thank you for the above. I meant to reply to your earlier missive, but have been rather busy with other things recently. I agree very much with your comments, a picture and a thousand words. I thought quite a lot about what format I should use and was aware how large files can get once pictures are inserted. It was mainly this consideration that led me to the decision I made to go for the text only option. Alan's approach was quite different and in many ways is complementary to mine. I was very aware that I was duplicating much of what you have already covered in the Templot Companion hence my numerous nudges in ...
... to change to Templot3 rather than OpenTemplot. It is after all the logical progression from Templot2. We have in the last few days made some progress on the outstanding issues: High CPU usage: A kludge solution has been found which can be lived with until a proper fix is discovered. Thank goodness -- that had been a big worry. BOX and BGS file formats: We now have a working means of data interchange between Templot2 and Templot3, which I suspect was the main reason for the lack of interest previously. Recent new functions in Templot2 missing from Templot3: With the renewed interest in Templot3 there is no reason why I shouldn't progress that soon. I will post the code and we can get on with it. Missing Lazarus functionality: We are nearly there with the file viewer thanks to Graeme's help. For the remaining stuff I'm minded to create helper Windows executables. I've already done that with the Windows WebBrowser for the NLS map screenshots, and it works fine. The same approach should be possible with the metafiles, sketchboard and PDF ...
... topic: 121 Broadband and emails posted: 6 Aug 2007 22:53 from: Templot User -- -- -- from Nigel Brown -- --- Martin Wynne wrote: I think that is a bit sweeping. Recently I helped a friend get started with ADSL broadband. He's out in the wilds of South Shropshire with an ancient overhead phone line stretched half-way across the Clee Hill. The line has caused ordinary phone problems in the past, and there was a warning from the ISP that the length of the line may cause trouble. In the event and much to my surprise he's getting a very reliable 2Mbps broadband service with only very occasional drop-outs. In fact he is getting a better upload speed than me! The error-correcting system (BroadbandMax) used by BT Wholesale to milk the last drop of speed out of the old copper wires seems to be working very well. Hi Martin, Out here in the hills (mid Wales) 512K broadband is the max I can currently get. However. ...
... 10 Mar 2009 09:32 from: Martin Wynne Hi Pete, The background shapes are in separate .bgs file so that you can easily create different track plans on the same baseboards/ railway room, and re-use parts of your track plan and/or share it with others without including your baseboards. To provide an automatic save and restore function on the .bgs files will require a lot of fresh code, and yet another start-up option, so I will leave that out for now. There is a "recent files" function on the background shapes which makes it quite fast to find your current file. I want to look again at the whole background shapes function when the sketchboard is up and running. There is some overlap in those two, and the picture shapes functions need a separate dialog of their own to make them more easily accessible. regards, Martin. posted: 10 Mar 2009 22:50 from: Pete Brownlow Hi Martin, I've no real problem in having to go and manually reload the background shapes file each ...
... late hours! I did imply that I suspected the error message was down to insufficent memory as I know how big bitmap files can get, this PC has 768MB RAM whereas my desktop has 1GB, still small by todays standards, but enough for my needs with XP. The reason for trying to save the track plan as a .JPEG was to email it to someone that does not have Templot so he can see how it is progressing. I always thought that .PNG files were a Photoshop special and was most suprised when I recently discovered (by accident) that windows picture and fax viewer will open them. I am sure when I tried some time back it wouldn't. I will send him the file in both formats and hope he can read them. Thank for your reply. I also have a problem with printing large custom size pages which I think I should post separately as it is not strictly a TDV issue. Tony. posted: 11 Nov 2011 21:35 from: Martin Wynne Tony W wrote: I always thought that .PNG files ...
... much better presented as dialogs and property sheets. But those things require an order of magnitude more programming effort than the drop-down self-clearing menus. Also in the days of Windows95/98 they consumed far more of the system resources than the menu system. I do plan to replace the menus with dialogs, but as before it is a question of my time. Not just for the code, but the vast amount of web pages and screenshots which will then need remaking. Including for example a chunk of the recent single-slip video which I made only a few months ago. You will notice that all the more recent functions use mostly dialogs -- the sketchboard controls, dummy vehicle, platforms, check rail adjustments, etc. BTW Is there a reason( other than your many hours to code it) why printed output can't yet contain chairs? It would be a massive programming exercise because of the sheer variety of different prototype chairs and practice for different companies and periods. If you have chairs for bullhead then you also need ...
... whether to use18.83mm (1435mm) or 18.79mm (1432mm) track gauge. The difference is measurable -- it's about equal to the thickness of greaseproof paper. regards, Martin. posted: 17 Mar 2009 20:15 from: davelong Thanks Martin I'd known about the difference in gauges between 1in20 canted rail and vertical rail through pointwork, but I'm just not used to seeing fullsize gauge being decribed in mm. I'm not sure how the track gauges would work for building P4 at 18.79. I've been looking at Colin Craigs website recently but he offers a gauge but that has the 1in20 cant in the gauge. I'd been looking at using his PAN11 cosmetic clips for the pointwork, which should be ok for Vertical pointwork I reckon, being cosmetic. Thanks for the help. posted: 17 Mar 2009 22:28 from: John Lewis Martin Wynne wrote: If you are modelling in P4 you need to decide whether to use18.83mm (1435mm) or 18.79mm (1432mm) track gauge. The difference is measurable -- it's about equal to the thickness of ...
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