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- Thu Mar 26, 2020 3:37 pm
- Forum: Steam Locomotives
- Topic: Locos for East Coast Main Line coal trains
- Replies: 2
- Views: 640
Locos for East Coast Main Line coal trains
My over-ambitious ECML project pretty much ground to a halt in early-2017 with the first of a succession of health issues. I am still hoping to complete some specific sub-projects, but the grand design seems unlikely now to advance very far. The layout's main traffic is intended to be expresses (inc...
- Sat Nov 24, 2018 5:53 pm
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Exactoscale Products
- Replies: 78
- Views: 30564
Re: Exactoscale Products
Terry asks what our plans are for selling rail assemblies for turnouts in future. Our impression is that the market for the point kits as originally offered has been undermined by two factors.The first is the high price asked for the kits once moved to C&L and the second was the decision to sell...
- Wed Oct 31, 2018 11:35 am
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Chairs and Rail
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14760
Re: Chairs and Rail
I am trying to chase this through to a conclusion. To do this, I need samples of recent production of both mild steel and HiNi NS to do all necessary comparisons. I only need an 80mm length of each. It must be recent production and I need to know where it was purchased. Can anyone help? If I get a v...
- Thu Oct 25, 2018 11:49 am
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Chairs and Rail
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14760
Re: Chairs and Rail
This is a problem that could be caused either by too 'fat' rail or by chairs in which the rail space has reduced over time. Perhaps worth saying that the Exactoscale chairs were developed using rail from a substantial batch of code 75 mild steel BH rail I had delivered in 2003 (Some from Bernard Wel...
- Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:21 am
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Exactoscale Products
- Replies: 78
- Views: 30564
Re: Exactoscale Products
The Exactoscale Products website is now live.
see exactoscale.com
I am advised that adjustments have been to speed up loading of the site.
For fastest access, use:
https://exactoscale.com/
Andrew
- Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:11 am
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Exactoscale Products
- Replies: 78
- Views: 30564
Re: Exactoscale Products
OK. I was mostly surprised at the question about pricing. The standard price list applies to all outlets and is available on the site. The 'online service charge' will apply to all purchases from, and only from, the Exactoscale Products site. It is defined in my announcement as (currently) 10%, adde...
- Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:32 pm
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Exactoscale Products
- Replies: 78
- Views: 30564
Re: Exactoscale Products
When is it expected that the Societies stores will have track components and have pricing available ?
Sorry, but I'm not going to spend time answering questions when the answers are on the site.
Andrew
- Sat Sep 15, 2018 8:39 pm
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Exactoscale Products
- Replies: 78
- Views: 30564
Re: Exactoscale Products
The Exactoscale Products website is now live.
see exactoscale.com
Please let me know if you spot anything that is not clear or that doesn't work well, or even simple typos, etc.
Thanks
Andrew
see exactoscale.com
Please let me know if you spot anything that is not clear or that doesn't work well, or even simple typos, etc.
Thanks
Andrew
- Mon Sep 03, 2018 10:40 am
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Exactoscale Products
- Replies: 78
- Views: 30564
Re: Exactoscale Products
The attached announcement will appear in Scalefour News
The Exactoscale Products price list will be posted on the exactoscale.com site by 16th September, together with notes on the Pricing Framework.
Andrew Jukes
Membership no. 1054
The Exactoscale Products price list will be posted on the exactoscale.com site by 16th September, together with notes on the Pricing Framework.
Andrew Jukes
Membership no. 1054
- Mon Aug 20, 2018 11:42 pm
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Exactoscale switch chairs E4CH 501A
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2438
Re: Exactoscale switch chairs E4CH 501A
These may help
Andrew
Andrew
- Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:30 pm
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Exactoscale Products
- Replies: 78
- Views: 30564
Re: Exactoscale Products
I guess one should not expect great accuracy in postings on RMweb but it is a pity when carefully worded announcements have their meaning altered when ‘quoted’. What is ‘Exactoscale’? I am not the 'owner of Exactoscale’ but of the tooling and existing stock. Exactoscale is not a company and the arra...
- Wed Jun 06, 2018 10:42 pm
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Exactoscale Products
- Replies: 78
- Views: 30564
Re: Exactoscale Products
The RM web thread Martin provides a url for is astonishing. I will be giving dates here as soon as I can on the end-date for Exactoscale products being available from C&L and the planned date for the start of supplies from Exactoscale under the new regime. There is no point in doing this prematu...
- Fri Jun 01, 2018 11:46 am
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Ultrascale Updates
- Replies: 56
- Views: 15386
Re: Ultrascale now closed to new orders
I don't see how mould costs have anything to do with the issues I covered.
Andrew
Andrew
- Fri Jun 01, 2018 10:50 am
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Ultrascale Updates
- Replies: 56
- Views: 15386
Re: Ultrascale now closed to new orders
All a bit surprising. If you want to get tyres made, the unit cost falls steeply with batch size (and I can't see why that would be different if you made them in your own workshop rather than buying them in). At least with tyres, one size can usually, with few compromises, be used for a range of dif...
- Wed May 30, 2018 11:39 pm
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Ultrascale Updates
- Replies: 56
- Views: 15386
Re: Ultrascale now closed to new orders
Some of this reads as though I never made my announcements of 5th and 15th May. Exactoscale carriage and wagon wheels will be available, with the end of July as the targe date. We may have to hold back a little on this as sorting out supply of axles and bearings is proving more difficult and it woul...
- Sun May 20, 2018 5:24 pm
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Exactoscale Products
- Replies: 78
- Views: 30564
Re: Exactoscale Products
Thanks for the apology, Stephen.
Andrew
Andrew
- Sun May 20, 2018 4:08 pm
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Exactoscale Products
- Replies: 78
- Views: 30564
Re: Exactoscale Products
This statement - "Exactoscale was up for sale prior to the arrangement with C&L" - is nonsense. Exactoscale has never been up for sale. Why, in ignorance, write something so categoric?
The tooling and stock have, since Exactoscale Ltd was wound up, been owned by me.
Andrew Jukes
The tooling and stock have, since Exactoscale Ltd was wound up, been owned by me.
Andrew Jukes
- Wed May 16, 2018 4:50 pm
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Exactoscale Products
- Replies: 78
- Views: 30564
Re: Exactoscale Products
Alan
I meant the complete range.
Andrew
I meant the complete range.
Andrew
- Wed May 16, 2018 2:22 pm
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Exactoscale Products
- Replies: 78
- Views: 30564
Re: Exactoscale Products
I thought an update on my announcement of 5th May would be helpful. Initially, priority is being given to making carriage and wagon wheels available. The stock position is such that some turned components needed to be ordered and delivered before we can get moulding of wheels underway. Stock levels ...
- Sat May 05, 2018 10:57 am
- Forum: Product Information
- Topic: Exactoscale Products
- Replies: 78
- Views: 30564
Exactoscale Products
With the sale of C&L by Pete Llewellyn to Phil Reid, it was assumed that the Exactoscale product range would similarly move and continue to be part of the C&L ‘offer’. As owner of all tooling for Exactoscale products and owner of existing stocks, I also made this assumption and hoped that th...
- Thu Apr 20, 2017 2:42 pm
- Forum: Control Concepts
- Topic: Maximising Adhesion using Electronics
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5905
Re: Maximising Adhesion using Electronics
I think we all tend to look at things from the perspective of our own modelling interests. Mine are how to operate trains weighing up to 3Kg on a main line with 1 in 100 gradients. A particularly demanding requirement is how to accelerate a train from standstill in the storage sidings to a scale 80m...
- Wed Apr 19, 2017 6:26 pm
- Forum: Control Concepts
- Topic: Maximising Adhesion using Electronics
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5905
Re: Maximising Adhesion using Electronics
For what I'm suggesting, it's not motor speed that needs to be measured nor the rate of change of motor speed - it's abrupt changes in either motor speed or the rate of change of motor speed that's required. I now picture a thin slotted disc on the motor shaft as likely to be best for detection with...
- Wed Apr 19, 2017 11:37 am
- Forum: Control Concepts
- Topic: Maximising Adhesion using Electronics
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5905
Re: Maximising Adhesion using Electronics
What we’re mostly talking about is taking advantage of the fact(?) that static friction is greater than sliding friction. Equalising axleloads (after allowing for weight transfer effects, which are often ignored) and making sure the suspension design keeps axleloads equal is a logical starting point...
- Tue Apr 18, 2017 10:43 pm
- Forum: Control Concepts
- Topic: Maximising Adhesion using Electronics
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5905
Re: Maximising Adhesion using Electronics
No, I was thinking of a typical 6-coupled chassis with a single motor. In concept, what would be needed is a rotational speed signal from the motor shaft, perhaps a toothed wheel with a device counting the passing frequency of the teeth. As long as the loco was accelerating without slipping, the pas...
- Tue Apr 18, 2017 3:02 pm
- Forum: Track and Turnouts
- Topic: Re: Track and Wheel Standards
- Replies: 35
- Views: 12285
Re: Articulated beams?
Julian - Whatever we do, please don’t try to start attaching new names to standards. Two are enough - P4 for the original MRSG defined standards which encompass the Scalefour Society’s recommendation to set BtoBs at the P4 maximum of 17.75mm; and S4 as used by RayHammond and described by Digest 1.2 ...