Scalefour Forum

Hi David,

You are not alone. See 22 pages of discussion at:

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index. ... le/page-21

Martin.

I haven't been able to see what advantage would be gained by rescaling a plan against the 6" ordnance map, as I would have thought that using the 6" to locate structures was even more open to the risk of rescaling errors because the scale is so much smaller than the 25" plan I used t...

Subsequently I rescaled the image within Templot so that the 500' shown on the printed rule corresponded with a 2000mm dimension on the Templot ruler. Hi John, You probably know that Templot can now import historic maps from the NLS web site and scale them to your model size automatically. Even if ...

Do people think that this puts C & L at risk? C&L was apparently viable and profitable under Brian Lewis, before there was any involvement with Exactoscale. So there is no obvious reason why it couldn't be again. There is still the entire copper-clad trackbuilding market, and 00/EM. The arr...

I have stripped Google and Duckduckgo as best I can with searches such as Furness Railway Track Plans / Signal Diagrams et al and only found a few. Hi Gavin, Why not look at the prototype plans? NLS now have most of the Furness area in their slippy georeferenced 25" map: http://maps.nls.uk/geo...

The problem, I think, is that the download is a compressed Word document, which the operating system doesn't recognise. Accessing it via the IRSE website will work, but only, of course, if you have MS Word on the machine you are using... Here it is as a PDF for easy printing, no need for MS Word: p...

Brian Harrap has a nifty way of making crossing vees using a vice and big file.... :shock: described in his own inimitable way here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/37678-handbuilt-track/page-2?hl=harrap#entry439446 I've tried it and it works a treat! Steve I agree with Brian that...

At the cross sections B-B, C-C & D-D, it looks as though the head of the wing rails are planed on the running edge. Are we meant to be mimicking this when building P4 crossings? I cannot see any mention of this in the digests? Hi, It is the machining for the end flares. Bullhead wing rails and ...

with wing rails I'm not sure but I suspect the crossing nose foot was left on and the wing rail foot planed off Hi Keith, Colin, That's correct. The foot remains intact on the vee rails and is removed on the wing rails as necessary. Here is a scan showing the cross-sections. BS-113A Inclined design...

Re. electical connections: there does seem to be a solution for rivetted track construction and another for functional chair construction. Hi Colin, Using the rivets to make the electrical connections? This idea is fundamentally flawed as has been demonstrated several times over the years since the...

Is there a P4 table to show the correct distance for each gradation e.g. 1 in 4, 1 in 5 etc? Hi Julian, You don't need a table. The distance from the FP intersection point to the centre of the knuckle is the flangeway gap multiplied by the crossing angle. So for a 1:8 turnout in P4, that is 0.67mm ...

Below copied from the Templot web site. p.s. last week I noticed disc sanders currently on offer in Lidl at £29. cheers, Martin. _______________________________ It is much easier to file a vee after assembling it. Even easier if you use a disc sander. Here is some stuff I have posted before, showing...

One of the perhaps stranger aspects of this occurs with obtuse crossings in S4-X, where I have to choose "timbering as model" to get the timbering correct for exact scale track. Hi Tony, If that's the case it is a bug. The "as prototype" option should be exactly that. Just check...

Copied from the Templot web site: _________________________________ http://templot.com/martweb/red_pointer.gif These notes apply to UK-pattern bullhead track only. Setting the Curved Stock Rail : The diagram below shows the position of the set (bend) in the turnout-side (TS) stock rail, which matche...

One of the perhaps stranger aspects of this occurs with obtuse crossings in S4-X, where I have to choose "timbering as model" to get the timbering correct for exact scale track. Hi Tony, If that's the case it is a bug. The "as prototype" option should be exactly that. Just check...

What I find interesting is that the questions thread has had more views than the subject thread itself Hi Tony, The number of views is directly related to the number of posts, and largely meaningless. Every time there is a new post, the same people view the topic again, clocking up the number of vi...

Hi Julian, Here are some pics of an undercut switch. You can see from the shiny marks on the top of the blade that it starts to take some part of the wheel load at about the position of the second stretcher bar. Up until that point it is simply guiding the wheel flange, and is dull on top: undercut_...

If the knuckle is between two timbers it would be much easier to see the place where the bend should be once the timbers are stuck down onto the template. Prototype practice varied, I take it? Hi Julian, The distance from the vee to the knuckle varies with the crossing angle, but the spacing of the...

For track making you don't need expensive pliers. Here are a couple of ideas I have posted before: http://85a.co.uk/forum/gallery/2/original/2_041828_140000000.png http://85a.co.uk/forum/gallery/2/original/2_041840_270000000.png Despite costing nothing, the results are actually better than using pli...

Hi Tony, +1 from me on your latest instalment. Never too old to learn. :) Using a rotating rivet to align the wing rails is a brilliant idea. I have never seen it mentioned anywhere before in 50 years track building. Certainly never thought of it myself. Making the flangeway adjustment after the rai...

Do the distances in the table scale down correctly for us in P4? Hi Julian, Which table? Generally prototype dimension can be scaled exactly for S4 (S4-X in Templot), but not always for P4. The knuckle for P4 will be further from the nose of the crossing. Add on the amount of extra flangeway multip...

Do the distances in the table scale down correctly for us in P4? Hi Julian, Which table? Generally prototype dimension can be scaled exactly for S4 (S4-X in Templot), but not always for P4. The knuckle for P4 will be further from the nose of the crossing. Add on the amount of extra flangeway multip...

On my limited experience so far I found it difficult to judge how far from the crossing nose the knuckle should be. Hi Julian, The extent of the knuckle bend, and its centre, are marked across the gap on the Templot template: http://85a.co.uk/forum/gallery/2/original/2_061034_030000000.png You coul...

Much of the information that we take for granted now just wasn't available back then. Above all the item not available then was the digital camera. It's sobering to remember that at the time every press of the shutter had to be paid for . Twice. Once for the film, and again for the processing or ch...