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posted: 26 Jul 2009 10:57 from: David Burton
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There was an interesting topic on the forum last year showing pictures of a loose healed switch, with some suggestions on how to model them. topic 424 Having produced a plan for a small Great Western yard in the early 1920s using this type of switch, I now need to start building them. Fairly recently there was an article on producing loose healed switches in the modelling press. Try as I may, I have been unable to find it again. People in the various groups to which I belong can remember it, but have been unable to tell me where it was. Can anybody help please? Thanks. David |
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posted: 26 Jul 2009 11:57 from: Dave Summers
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There's no easy way to say this but you may have more success searching with 'loose-heeled' rather than 'loose-healed'! |
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posted: 26 Jul 2009 12:05 from: Martin Wynne
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David Burton wrote: Fairly recently there was an article on producing loose heeled switches in the modelling press. Try as I may, I have been unable to find it again.Hi David, Possibly in Scalefour News? Not recent, but from Matt Ots's MRJ index at: http://www.modelrailwayjournal.com Straight-cut point blades My recollection of that article was that it described a construction method for loose heels, but got in a bit of a muddle with the terminology. It mixed up "straight-cut" (joggled) switch planing with "straight switch" geometry, and loose heels. These are three separate features, not linked together. You can have "under-cut" planing with a straight switch, and it doesn't necessarily have loose heels -- the NER had both flexible and loose-heel switches on the same geometry. regards, Martin. |
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posted: 26 Jul 2009 12:46 from: David Burton
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Just goes to show how your memory plays tricks with you. The 1999 article was the one I had remembered. I had been looking at the article by John Hayes on GW vans in the same magazine several months ago and obviously noticed the article on switches. I then associated something recently seen as having to be from a recent article. Thanks, Martin, for the lead. And thanks to Dave Summers for the spelling correction! Regards David |
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posted: 27 Jul 2009 19:08 from: Richard Spratt
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David Burton wrote: .....David The latest Scalefour News has an article about building a Barry slip which includes a loose heal at one end. Richard |
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posted: 27 Jul 2009 20:05 from: John Lewis
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The latest Scalefour News has an article about building a Barry slip which includes a loose heal at one end. I did not realize there was a cure for a Barry slip.  |
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