Scalefour Forum

Thanks Andrew, plan now is to roll it out to the other pages. In case anyone wonders, I appreciate, at the moment that the pages are http rather than https and I am aware that some browsers will report it as 'non secure' I will, at some point, implement https but, as the pages gather no personal dat...

Thanks Gareth, it is supposed to be anchored to the bottom right of the page but clearly not...

Favicion now added 8-) As a go at handling fractions of an inch, I've started with a simple imperial to metric converter so you enter a length in feet, inches and fractions of an inch and get it converted to millimetres or meters... http://leyburnsolutions.com/scaleconverter/imperialtometric.php Fee...

I'll have a look, I believe they are called favicons...

Currently working on the ability to handle fraction of inches properly (i.e 1/2 rather than 0.5), it is proving interesting...

Thanks Alan.

This morning's update adds support for US/EU N at 1:160 and clarifies the current TT selection is British, I'll look to add Continental TT.

New version is up with improved navigation meaning you can get from one page to another without having to go back to the Home page.

John

Thanks Philip and Paul, much appreciated, working on a change to the Home button now...

John

An update: 2mmFS is now an option and entering a negative will produce an error.

John

Thanks Noel, I hadn't considered anyone would enter a negative number but that's what testing is for so thanks for that. My thinking with the current entry was that, if this was available to the 'masses' I wonder how many would know what the actual scale of N gauge, for example, was... I guess, idea...

Thanks Guy, the suggestions are most welcome. The scale one is easy enough and I'll take a look at the second.

John

In my professional life, I've been a software developer for over 20 years working on developing applications for Windows. As the future is 'cloud' I figured it was about time I learnt how to develop web based applications and figured, if I was going to learn, I may as well produce something useful s...

I'd be happy with either but I just about prefer A - it looks like it may have had a slightly heavier dry brushing?

Well it's not much but it proves that I can build a single slip (tiebars and some chairs still to be added) without stuff falling off, at least in one direction :mrgreen: Annoyingly, having made good progress with track laying and electrics, it looks like the new lockdown in the North East means tha...

seanmcs wrote:Well, we had this conversation about a year ago.

And here it is: viewtopic.php?f=40&t=6083&hilit=chairs

John

I believe that the proper term is extruded polystyrene. I used B&Qs own make acrylic no more nails type glue when I did mine. My concern with just using cork laid directly on top would be that if you did end up putting weight in a localised spot, there would be enough give in the cork for the po...

Having threaded over 2000 chairs over the last four months, a couple of pointers from someone who was a complete novice at building track with individual chairs: 1. It's difficult to tell from the photo but have you got the rail the right way up? I.e. the rail head is larger than the foot. 2. If you...

I used the extruded polystyrene for my first 'plank' layout and found, whilst making the board that it was very prone to denting and any such dent stayed dented and didn't recover, I certainly wouldn't have laid track on it without the plywood track bed...

grovenor-2685 wrote:I fitted my Masokits ones after laying the track, Wasn't particulary hard. I don't think fitting them to loose turnouts would be any easier.

Thanks Keith.

Thanks for that. How easy would you say they are to retro fit as I'm laying my track directly on to the boards?

John

There just seems to be something wrong or even unethical about a frog-juicer causing a short circuit in order to avoid one so for that reason alone I prefer relays or microswitches. You're putting a spike on the power supply too, for what it's worth. I'll be honest, despite the fact that I've decid...

Thanks Julian, I may take a look at them.

John

I decided some time ago to standardise on Smith's hooks and links. I accept that they are oversized but, having tried to couple up using scale hooks and links, I decided that life was too short...

Julian Roberts wrote:Thanks John. I'm trying out Masokits.

Are you driving the turnouts from the tie bars or are they just cosmetic?

On my, under construction, layout, I'm also using servos albeit controlled via MERG Servo4 boards. In an effort to avoid having even more wires going back to the panel where the switches are, I've decided to use Gaugemaster Frog Juicers to switch the polarity, mounted under the baseboards next to th...