proto48 Irish 33.34mm gauge

[Stephen Freeman]

I thought you might like to see a couple of 5 ways I am currently building, basically stretcher bars and general cleaning up left to do. I know there are some minor adjustments left to do. I found it was relatively easy to test as it is close to scaleseven but fractionally wider with slightly increased flangeways, so very similar to gauge-widened S7. Of course the difference in scale makes it 5ft 3ins full size.

The rail is C&L code 125 with Exactoscale chairs. The timbering is 6mm x 3mm obeche.

 

[Phil G]

Very cool Stephen,
Any chance of photo at the switches end?
cheers
Phil

 

[Stephen Freeman]

Tomorrow

 

[Stephen Freeman]

Bit of a rush today I'm afraid, I'll try and do some better pics perhaps tomorrow.

 

[AndrewJ]

Hi Stephen, Wow! Impressive stuff!
Where do you obtain your obeche please?

 

[Stephen Freeman]

Hi Stephen, Wow! Impressive stuff!
Where do you obtain your obeche please?

Hobbies, if I remember correctly, still have some left over. (6mm x3mm)

 

[Paul Boyd]

I need to fabricate an excuse to build a 5-way turnout, just because!

 

[Stephen Freeman]

You may remember me building these! I have now found time to deal with the problem of fitting stretcher bars, I have now done these, mainly following the prototype really by drilling the stock rails and point blades so that I could fit some 0.9mm NS rod through. Actually installing the rods was probably the trickiest bit especially with the central set of blades, the toe end was slightly easier as I didn't have the extra rails to drill. The short inside blade is connected to the oppposite long blade through the opposite short blade. I opened up the holes slightly to allow the rods to move easily.

I did consider having stretcher bars through the stock rails but realised that the rods passing through the stock rails, in practice created more friction and them harder to move. I had to drill more holes in order to thread the rod through.

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