... mm) length of switch-rail (blade)= 360.0( 120.0 model mm) length of stock-rail from joint= 540.0( 180.0 model mm) deflection angle at blade tip= 1: 33.59 planing length (along stock-rail)= 92.41( 30.8 model mm) heel angle 1: 12.42 heel offset= 17.5( 5.83 model mm) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --- Timber spacings (to timber centres): switch-front is sleepered: spacing back from toe (blade tips) to first front sleeper (J1)= 26.0( 8.67 model mm) spacing back to next front sleeper (J2)= 29.0( 9.67 model mm) spacing back to next front sleeper (J3)= 29.0( 9.67 model mm) spacing back to next front sleeper (J4)= 0( 0 model mm) spacing back to next front sleeper (J5)= 0( 0 model mm) spacing forward from toe (blade tips) to first timber ( ...

... Foxit Reader. Make sure to select "No Scaling" when printing it. It takes me only a minute to do, so feel free to post any updated files for the same treatment. regards, Martin. Attachment: attach_540_791_paul_hamilton.pdf 330 posted: 21 Apr 2009 01:32 from: Paul Hamilton Thanks for that Martin, my pdf writer only went to A3 so thanks for this. Its off to the printer now and it whould be printed on a roll. One thing I noted is that about half way down the sleeper letters and numbers stopped. Is that because the PDF missed them or the reader I used is faulty? Very powerful facility for the next version of Templot. Look forward to it. I am most pleased to be able to do this myself. I wrote the print file to the pdf creator and saved it and then opened through parallels to print it out. Works well and fast! posted: 21 Apr 2009 07:50 from: Martin Wynne Paul Hamilton wrote: One thing I noted is that about half way ...

... British Railway circa 1913 so most of the locomotives will be 0-6 -0's, 4-4 -0's or 0-4 -2's with fairly small wheelbases. Unfortunately there will be no room to add a carriage siding. The station is designed as a bay platform which, as you say, will take up less room. This allows the rails to be pushed out to the extremities and for as large a radius around the room as possible. The next stage is to shove a few timbers too create interlaced sleeper turnouts, I'll keep you posted Regards Scott posted: 29 Dec 2008 02:06 from: Jim Guthrie Scott Willis wrote: The radii of the crossovers are a bit on the tight side, with the room being only nine feet wide I couldn't get them any larger. You will see that I have used quite long turnouts to try and alleviate the problem. By introducing suitable gauge widening, and imposing a speed limit through the crossovers, I was hoping it would be alright. My choice of prototype is the North ...

... reproduction of the LNER P-way standards book. Templot turns out a respectable version of this with the timbers sized and shuffled about, but when I try to stitch it into plain track it gets complicated with overlaps. The prototype, though dead straight, is complicated by one road being in 30' panels and one in 45' panels. I've tried laying a closure panel to the more modern spec to joint into the 30' road but it does not make a great deal of difference to the overlaps between timbers and sleepers in the six-foot. Would the real thing have coped with this through moving the exit road joint away from the crossing nose and would the plain rail used have been in 45' or 60' lengths. Cheers all Steve posted: 30 Mar 2012 12:55 from: JFS hi Steve, Can you post a box file for us to see the issue please? Regards, Howard. posted: 30 Mar 2012 15:00 from: Martin Wynne ESJAYTEE wrote: What would the lengths of blank rail supplied ...

... narrow gauge modelling there. Although the .83mm bit might be familiar, 18.83mm minus 11mm doesn't work- it's far too coarse for this application. The chairs and rail shown in the photo below are from the 3mm Society, so membership of several societies becomes useful! Have fun! 105_220431_590000000.png 105_220435_080000000.jpg Last edited on 22 Aug 2012 09:50 by Paul Boyd posted: 22 Aug 2012 13:33 from: Ian Bunch Thanks for the reply Paul I've had a look at your impressive work, top quality. Regarding S4n2, what sleeper spacing and sizes do you use? I've thrown together some templates using Templot and the above dimensions but guessed on 24" sleeper spacing and 4'3" half sized timbers. For some reason Templot adds about 4 overlapped timbers in the middle of the turnout. Odd, but not a major problem. My prototype track is spiked FB of light section so chairs are out. It'll be Code 40 glued to ply sleepers with the odd copper clad. Did you make your own track gauges? posted: 22 Aug 2012 18: ...

... the basic stuff...using the tools menu functions and F7 snapping. Martin. Thanks for that. I have not yet read much about the notch. I did discover F7 snapping when I upgraded to 0.91.c, and found it very useful. Howard. posted: 22 Dec 2008 15:47 from: Howard OK, I'm making progress. I now have a single point with three tracks. I changed 1) Tools| adjacent track centres (to 23 mm) 2) real| plain track options| rail length& sleeper spacings (to 60 feet with 26 sleepers) and then generator| rebuild all background However neither changes show up in the information panel for the track. If I now use "wipe to the control" to make the branch track the control template, then tools| make double track TS the new track is spaced 25mm from the existing, and not 23mm as required. Am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug? Or is it a "feature"? Howard. posted: 22 Dec 2008 16: ...

... topic: 1799 Painting trackwork- what and when? posted: 21 Jan 2012 13:45 from: LSWRArt Hi everyone i am about to start on track construction and would welcome some tips on painting. As I have to order everything to be sent out from the UK it takes time and is expensive, so need to try to get it right as far as possible first time:- I am going to dye the sleepers using wood dye. (if I can find a French equivalent of Dark Jacobean Oak stain)- Chairs- C&L are brown. Shapeways check rail chairs are grey- so none a nice murky steel colour. What make/ colour would you recommend to paint these?- Do I spray these while still no the sprue and then touch up as necessary?- Rail will be NS. What is recommended for a nice grubby track colour? Do I need to prime before painting? Can I spray or brush the rail before assembly or will it make it too difficult to push on the chairs. The ...

... of course!) Unless I'm signed in, they can't be seen, and it does sound like an interesting formation! posted: 30 Dec 2012 17:01 from: Adrian Marks 53_301159_510000000.jpg 53_301200_390000000.jpg Photos ©Public Domain Last edited on 30 Dec 2012 17:02 by Adrian Marks posted: 30 Dec 2012 17:05 from: Martin Wynne Thanks Adrian -- you beat me by 2 minutes in posting them. Martin. posted: 30 Dec 2012 17:25 from: Adrian Marks No problem Working out how the interlaced sleepers and straight timbers all fitted together might be fun. I think you'd have to work around all the crossings first, then fill in with the rest. It's a bit of a bonkers formation though, something that the GE seem to have excelled at. posted: 31 Dec 2012 10:56 from: Paul Boyd Thanks for the photos. Isn't it just a scissors, with the curve of the formation pushing the centre diamond into one of the running lines? Does look fun to build though! posted: 31 Dec ...

... topic: 3713 Masokits etched chairs for turnouts posted: 5 Jul 2020 10:08 from: Julian Roberts Hello folks Is there anyone who is using Masokits etched chairs for turnouts and diamonds? How do you find the system as a way of construction? I would prefer to go along the route of soldered construction on copperclad sleepers, rather than ply and rivet, or ply/plastic sleepers using glue and plastic chairs, even though I know the plastic chairs give a good quality of realism. The latest Masokits catalogue (No 19) hosted by the Scalefour Society refers to point kits, but doesn't then list any. The option seems to be a fret of 2 bolt chairs, and a fret of 3 bolt chairs, for pointwork. I'm now showing my ignorance, that I don't know much about chairs beyond the fact that there are special chairs for certain parts of the turnout. The catalogue also lists a fret of tiebars, so if anyone uses these, do you find they work for you? I had a Search of Templot Club ...

... exit length: 2_131540_240000000.png Unfortunately there are no spare keyboard shortcuts available for this, it will be necessary to use the menu. These main-road functions won't be needed very often, because the main-road exit is normally set via the overall template length. But they will be useful on occasions, for example where it is required for the main-road radius to change beyond the crossing. Previously that would have required a zero-length transition, with a corresponding change on the turnout side. Now a length of sleeper-less plain track can be pegged on over the timbers. Also useful where the main-road rails need to be shorter than the wing rails and check rails, for example when using V-crossings as partial templates in other formations such as a tandem turnout. See also the "second turnout close behind first turnout" video at: http://templot.com/sk5/switch_close_behind_v_crossing _.sk5 which now needs a bit of updating. 3. If templates have the trackbed edges/ ballast/ cess options applied, these ...