Recent content by conrod

Hi Sumpter250 and Nachoman Didnt take that long, a few hours, each of the four rail grooves only took a minute or so of actual cutting, the longest part is setting up the angles. By the way I didnt mill it, I used my trusty shaper, ex Narwee Boys High metalwork room, had one exactly the same at...

Thought you may be interested in a crossing fixture I whipped up to suit my No6 points

I was playing around and realised I might be able to fabricate a Y from the normal points by joining both outside rails and not using a straight rail, so i tried it. You start with two parrallel rails and bend them outwards But had trouble lining up the inside,, needed 6 hands.(see 01) So I...

Afternoon everyone Just spent a few hours putting my points and crossings down on a board. Its 8 foot long 1 foot wide, what fits comfortably above my bench. The domestic goddess doesnt know it yet but an 8 foot by 4 foot will be next, but that will take a lot of chocolates and flowers. Its...

Hi Nomad Yes Fastracks holds gauge when you use the track its built for, my rails are too wide on the base, but they are cheap. So I just run a file down each side a few times until it fits in the groove and I check before soldering.

crossing Just knocked up a 14 degree crossing, made one last night but not happy with it so unsoldered this morning and started again. Things I learnt...always use your rail gauge to check rail spacing and flange ways on each piece of track before and after you solder it in!!!! Crossings are...

Rail size 60103 Think so. I'm using flexi track lengths that I buy at the local hobby shop, its 100 thou high and the flange width is 90 thou. Are they correct dimensions??

Thinking about Fastracks Thanks Sumpter250, I've just made another two points, left and right used both sides of Fastracks jig at once, took just over 3 half hours . But spent some time thinking this time, I left the frog point till after I soldered the straight and curved outside rails and the...

I just made my first set of points, started about 5:45 pm today and was finished by 7:00pm, thats with cutting the sleepers out of PCB board myself. It took me longer to make the sleeper jig than to do the points!!! The shelf in the background above my workbench is going to become my shunting...

Thanks fellas, I'll do a length of "O" gauge flexi on one side of a platform and narrow gauge (HO) on the otherside, so i can have the 0n30 pull up one side, tranship the goods across platform to an "O" gage on other, Difference in rails wont be so noticable then many thanks

Evening everyone, can anyone advise how to model an interchange between standard "O" models and "On30" models. I have a length of "O" gauge track but the rails look huge when put next to the code 100 HO track. Should I lay my own code 100 track at "O" gauge centres???? Thanks

Greg; I inserted a straight and found that if I couple on the straight it works OK around the bends, before your comment I was trying to couple on the radius, now I know what I was doing wrong, many thanks

Bachmann Shay on 18 inch I brought my first 0n30 last week! Its the 28 ton shay, love it, runs well around a 36 inch diameter circle (18 radius) But kadee couplers dont seem to want to couple, have built a mining skip as well, can anyone suggest what I have done wrong, or is the curve too tight...