Justme Igor
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As you would remember or not i made some turn outs and some three way switches out of aluminium strip and wooden sleepers.
With some promising results, all my own designed boogies (soviet ones) went over it with no pain...what else do you expect when you use templot......
But the comfortable temp in the shed went to a temperature that would make a man...uncomfortable/insecure....
With the words of Martin in my mind: why dont you try 3d printing your frogs....
Cous xt pvc gives me very good results for frogs, so why would I????
TIME...
This crossover in wood would keep me busy for 3 weeks with a cost of 5 euro
With abs filament it is going to cost me 20 euro...Here is the enjoining BUT:
This will cost me 6 hours of designing in the comfort of a wood fire in the living room after work and a lot more of precision....and the printer will do the rest....
What do you think?
Opinions comments ect are appreciated.
The abs has almost the same color as the azobe wood.
The print is not finished yet and the alu strip must still be cut for it, i suspect a 3 hours of work for this one...
What i did was pretty simple but tricky....
I made what i want in templot saved as jpeg, loaded into a 3d program(in my case 3d builder of windows) scale it to size precise, did my thing...converted to a stl---->gcode and print
Martin if you have time after archiving the old templot site, could it be possible that the tempot program could convert it to a stl?
I know regarding sleepres, fish plates nails frogs differend codes of rails ect and what ever design it is going to be a very hard task, there is simply to much.
Take the Soviet and the US of A railroads in the 30's and in the 60's for example, you will get 8! different railroads!...speaking only about the main lines! good luck for those that want prototypical correct in a certain time frame or area....
But a little room for the 3d printer? could that be possible?
Btw my sleepers are in the wrong size and distance...my mistake sorry, wont happen again.
Thanks in advance
With some promising results, all my own designed boogies (soviet ones) went over it with no pain...what else do you expect when you use templot......
But the comfortable temp in the shed went to a temperature that would make a man...uncomfortable/insecure....
With the words of Martin in my mind: why dont you try 3d printing your frogs....
Cous xt pvc gives me very good results for frogs, so why would I????
TIME...
This crossover in wood would keep me busy for 3 weeks with a cost of 5 euro
With abs filament it is going to cost me 20 euro...Here is the enjoining BUT:
This will cost me 6 hours of designing in the comfort of a wood fire in the living room after work and a lot more of precision....and the printer will do the rest....
What do you think?
Opinions comments ect are appreciated.
The abs has almost the same color as the azobe wood.
The print is not finished yet and the alu strip must still be cut for it, i suspect a 3 hours of work for this one...
What i did was pretty simple but tricky....
I made what i want in templot saved as jpeg, loaded into a 3d program(in my case 3d builder of windows) scale it to size precise, did my thing...converted to a stl---->gcode and print
Martin if you have time after archiving the old templot site, could it be possible that the tempot program could convert it to a stl?
I know regarding sleepres, fish plates nails frogs differend codes of rails ect and what ever design it is going to be a very hard task, there is simply to much.
Take the Soviet and the US of A railroads in the 30's and in the 60's for example, you will get 8! different railroads!...speaking only about the main lines! good luck for those that want prototypical correct in a certain time frame or area....
But a little room for the 3d printer? could that be possible?
Btw my sleepers are in the wrong size and distance...my mistake sorry, wont happen again.
Thanks in advance
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