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1. EM Gauge options [Old Templot Club Archive: info may be out of date]
... topic: 3380 EM Gauge options posted: 29 Jan 2019 01:35 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Hope you are well. Would you take a minute or two to briefly explain the background to the EM-SF and EM4 options in the Templot gauge list. There was some correspondence in Model Railway Journal recently ago but the few recent MRJ's I have aren't the right ones for me to refer to. I have plans for some small cameo layouts that may be good choices for experimenting. Regards Rob posted: 29 Jan ... layout, providing there are no RTR wheels. Did I mention that EM-SF won't work with RTR wheels? EM4 is intended to allow EMGS and other EM kit wheels to be used on 18.83mm gauge track. In other words a sort of coarse version of P4, with 0.8mm flangeways. Wheels set to EM4 won't run on other EM tracks, and EM4 pointwork won't accept P4 wheels. So you are very much on your own if you choose EM4. There are some modellers wedded to 18.83mm gauge as a sort of ...
2. Building Yeovil Pen Mill in EM [Old Templot Club Archive: info may be out of date]
... Scaleforum thread, but nobody appeared to pick up on it. Here are a couple to save searching for them. Regards Tony. 2151_061306_570000000.jpg The critical area. 2151_061307_430000000.jpg posted: 6 Aug 2019 18:59 from: Rob Manchester Hi Tony, Do you have any experience in EM-SF with 0.8mm flangeways on diamonds or slips? I have sort of adopted it as my standard now as it gives nice running with a visible flangeway that looks very close to P4 but you retain some cross running capabilities with normal EM. I have only ... break down the DCC fed areas into smaller sections, i.e. using plugs and sockets to enable faults to be isolated more easily. As it happens I do have a passing interest in Yeovil Pen Mill as a good friend of mine always wanted to model it in P4 but sadly never got the chance, so it is nice to see it taking shape in your capable hands. Regards Tony. Last edited on 5 Nov 2017 23:38 by Tony W posted: 6 Nov 2017 22:28 from: Andrew Duncan Hello Tony Thanks very much ...
3. P4 Wheels on EM-SF track [Old Templot Club Archive: info may be out of date]
... topic: 3478 P4 Wheels on EM-SF track posted: 10 Aug 2019 20:14 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Just had an email from a old friend I haven't spoken with for years. He is just starting to put a layout plan together after being abroad for a few years. He has a stock of kit-built EM locos with back-to-backs set around 16.6-16.7mm so looks like maybe he had my idea of using EM-SF too The problem is he has a quantity of ... topic: 3478 P4 Wheels on EM-SF track posted: 10 Aug 2019 20:14 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Just had an email from a old friend I haven't spoken with for years. He is just starting to put a layout plan together after being abroad for a few years. He has a stock of kit-built EM locos with back-to-backs set around 16.6-16.7mm so looks like maybe he had my idea of using EM-SF too The problem is he has a quantity of ...
4. Making (actual real model) diamond crossings, and curved turnouts [Old Templot Club Archive: info may be out of date]
... to 18.2mm many years ago, the obtuse crossing still needs to be made to 18.0mm gauge for the best chance of reliable running. Hi Tony, When you do that, do you maintain the 17.2mm check gauge by reducing the flangeway to 0.8mm? See also the EM-SF option in the Templot gauge list. The EMGS published standard could do with updating to reflect the different back-to-backs for different wheel profiles (flange thicknesses): Gibson, Ultrascale, etc.: 16.6mm Romford/Markits: 16.5mm RTR ... be impossible to get the other rails to align properly to gauge. The distance between the vees varies with the track gauge, so you must use a template prepared for the actual gauge you are using. It's no good building an EM diamond-crossing on a P4 template, or a 00-SF diamond-crossing on a 00-BF template. You can get away with that sort of thing for single turnouts, but it won't work for diamond-crossings and slips. Also, if printing the template from Templot ...
5. EMGS gauge narrowing issue [Old Templot Club Archive: info may be out of date]
... prior to it that Penlan was responding to. I was just about to order some from the EMGS as it seemed to be an easy way of getting track for use away from the main bit of the layout. It is even worse for me as I run EM-SF at 18mm gauge and the whole point of using EM flexitrack is to get a wider gauge for the bendy bits, not a narrower one BTW who at the EMGS is responsible for product development and similar matters? I would have thought the Trade Officer ... here or on RMweb, Exactoscale has two track bases in their fast track range, but that is not because their track narrows, just that it is needed on curves under a certain radii. I have no idea though what these radii are in either EM or P4 gauges posted: 1 Aug 2019 13:22 from: Nigel Brown Hi Rob Measuring things like gauge can be fraught with issues. I notice Penlan was using what looked like one of the cheaper electronic verniers, in fact it may be the same as the one I ...
6. Track gauge query [Old Templot Club Archive: info may be out of date]
... -- -- --- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 200mm 20mm 300mm 24mm 400mm 28mm 500mm 32mm 600mm 35mm 750mm 39mm(from your example)....and no I am not going to run EM-SF round 200mm radius track I need to make some 3 point gauges for other odd modelling scales/track gauges some of which will be running round curves that tight. Mind you some of them are rather more generous with the slop built into the track ... posted: 5 Nov 2020 18:32 from: Rob Manchester Hello, Is there a right 'size' for 3-point track gauges? The spacing between the two legs that sit on the outer rail of the curved track seems to vary- my ready made EM and P4 ones seem to have the legs spaced somewhere between 26 and 30mm apart whereas Iain Rice shows some examples is his books that have the legs spaced very wide. My A-level maths was a long time ago, can anybody help with a formula for leg ...
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