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Vistisen

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I have just come back from driving 200 miles in the snow from Copenhagen, where I stayed with my friend who has started building track in OO-SF. I am frankly staggered by how good it looks and how smooooooth the points feel when running wagons through them. I like Tillig track, but his third attempt at a point is in a completely different league. It’s like comparing a BMW 3 series to a Bentley.

He reckons that I could do the same, but I don’t know, My normal measurement system when doing anything practical is +/- a bodge job or two. I'd really like to build track using a nail gun. He was talking about the points being 16.2 mm at the frog, but 16.5 at the end to match the SMP track. I have the distinct feeling that mine would be somewhere between TT and O gauge along their length. I work in IT and am used to using nasty command line complicated databases, I can work with very complicated security protocols and code in PL/SQL, and Perl and regular expressions, but I spent an hour with Templot and could not either import a jpg file of a track plan as a background or change radius of a curve to start my intended first point. What to do?

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Campaman

I also work in IT, coding and databases and now handbuild track using templot templates.

 

I started with playing with a simple left or right hand turnout template and moved on from there, I think far too many people try to run with templot before they can walk.

 

Its not hard to print out a simple turnout, after that run through the videos, and a good trawl round Martins forum taught me loads.

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A fellow Oracle man prehaps? I must give Templot another go. If I can code webservices against Oracle databases, I must be able to make a design for a  point of some sort. the problem is almost certainly that being an IT professional I must swallow my pride and RTFM.

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