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  • The Plug Track functions are experimental and still being developed.

    For an updated overview of this project see this topic.   For some practical modelling aspects of using Plug Track see Building 3D Track.

    The assumption is that you have your own machines on which to experiment, or helpful friends with machines. Please do not send Templot files to commercial laser cutting or 3D printing firms while this project is still experimental, because the results are unpredictable and possibly wasteful.

    Some pages of this and other topics include contributions from members who are creating and posting their own CAD designs for 3D printing and laser-cutting. Do not confuse them with Templot's own exported CAD files. All files derived from Templot are © Martin Wynne.

Additions to the Peco bullhead range

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A new video from Peco today:




The Templot 4mm/ft COT track (coming soon) is compatible with this range if you select the MEDIUM timber thickness. It is interesting to compare the prices, and how many turnouts you would need before a Neptune 4 printer pays for itself.

It's also reassuring to note that the Beer Forest continues to supply good quantities of bent timbers. :)

Martin.
 
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The other "thing", amongst others, is the unsupported point blade tips, still I don't suppose it will bother their prospective customers. The railjoiners are useful though.
 
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Peco has lots of frogs in their tracks too !

"Frog" is actually an acceptable term for a V-crossing. Nowadays it is mostly used in other countries, but was once equally common here in the UK. We still have the term used by some manufacturers of cast crossings.

What we can't have is a turnout referred to as a point. Points are the moving switch blades, almost always referred to in plural as a "set of points". Peco do get that right and refer to their turnouts as just that, unlike great swathes of the hobby and model trade.

Which makes me think that Peco do actually know a lot about track. The wild variations from the prototype which they go in for are purely for marketing reasons. Because marketing is another thing Peco know a lot about.

Martin.
 
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