Captain_Mumbles
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- Sydney
Gday all!
Just after some advice and scrutiny of my first couple of turnouts. They work fine with wagons of any kind. You know, shoving a teak coach full pelt as quick as I dare works OK too amazingly. The gresley A1/A3s work fine, but the P2 and another loco with single axle front bogie just seem to go over it ignoring the switch blades with the drivers working fine.
The reasons I think might be?
-I have not left enough room between the set bend and the blade. Or the blade is not sharp enough.
-The front boogie might have not enough weight.
-The back to back spacing of the RTR bogie wheels isnt good enough for OO-SF
-The switch blades are too close. I set them to have the same gap as a check rail with the OO-SF gauge tool (DCC concepts). I saw that the flange of the front wheel was going over to the wrong side of the blade. So I increased the gap to the thickness of a PCB tie 1.5ish mm
Decreasing the distance between the switch blades did seem to fix it however I hope that someone can scrutinize the area of the switch, I hope the photos are good enough. There is a chance I got greedy with the looks in setting the switch blades too close?
Thank you for your time.
Ben
Just after some advice and scrutiny of my first couple of turnouts. They work fine with wagons of any kind. You know, shoving a teak coach full pelt as quick as I dare works OK too amazingly. The gresley A1/A3s work fine, but the P2 and another loco with single axle front bogie just seem to go over it ignoring the switch blades with the drivers working fine.
The reasons I think might be?
-I have not left enough room between the set bend and the blade. Or the blade is not sharp enough.
-The front boogie might have not enough weight.
-The back to back spacing of the RTR bogie wheels isnt good enough for OO-SF
-The switch blades are too close. I set them to have the same gap as a check rail with the OO-SF gauge tool (DCC concepts). I saw that the flange of the front wheel was going over to the wrong side of the blade. So I increased the gap to the thickness of a PCB tie 1.5ish mm
Decreasing the distance between the switch blades did seem to fix it however I hope that someone can scrutinize the area of the switch, I hope the photos are good enough. There is a chance I got greedy with the looks in setting the switch blades too close?
Thank you for your time.
Ben
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