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posted: 19 Nov 2014 17:45 from: Trevor Walling
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Hello, I have notice rail joints are missing on some templates of diamond crossings and single slips. The crossing wing rails and closure rail joints seem to be missing sometimes or altogether in others. I have checked and the rail joint setting and marks are set to show. I am assuming that these formations should have joints in these positions.  Regards. Trevor. 2110_191244_320000000.png  |
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posted: 19 Nov 2014 18:21 from: JFS
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Hi Trevor. If it is a 1:7 there are no joints here. Never had a wing rail go missing on me though! Cheers, Howard |
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posted: 19 Nov 2014 18:46 from: Martin Wynne
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Hi Trevor, When you set a half-diamond template to have shortened check rail(s) for a slip, Templot omits the wing rail joint marks because they would be in the wrong place and conflict with the switch blades. There may or may not be some real rail joints there -- prototypes vary so Templot leaves it to you to put them where/if you want them when building it. For example on the GWR there is no joint, in a GWR slip the wing rail and switch stock rail are one piece of rail, with a joint close to the diamond point rail instead. In practice for 2-rail model wiring you need insulation gaps in the rails between the switch toe (tips) and the wing rail knuckle, so you must have a rail joint there whether you want it or not. If you are modelling 3-rail, clockwork, battery or live steam you can do it properly.  The same thing happens to the K-crossing wing rail joints when you select timbering as model for the diamond point rails because the timber positions are then changed. A rail joint must be mid-way between timbers, so if the timbers are non-prototypical Templot doesn't know where to put the joint -- it's over to you. All this sort of detail (and a lot more) should be in the single-slip video tutorial but I know that too many words just cause eyes to glaze over and then they don't read any of them. It's a difficult balancing act and it's the reason the tutorials take so long to make. I have moved this from "I found a flaw" to "Templot talk". regards, Martin. |
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posted: 19 Nov 2014 23:20 from: Trevor Walling
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Hello Martin, Your explanation has cleared that up for me now. Just the confirmation they could or should not be present depending on circumstances has answered what would have been the next question regarding electrical insulation gaps.I had suspected it may be something like that.  Thanks. Trevor. |
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