q1s in the west Pleye Wood

[dhjgreen]

Wow!

 

If I could build something like that, I wouldn't have a clue about how to wire it !

DCC two wires obv!

[Tim Dubya]

DCC two wires obv!

 

I can get it down to 3 but not 2...

 

1: Red = the red rail

 

2: Black = the black rail

 

3: Green = frogger* (green being an approximation of their natural colour) 

 

* Pecoboohoo talk for 'common crossing#'

 

# P4 Talk for 18.83 Talk

 

 

 

Cheers

 

Ed. Ison

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Edited November 21, 2017 by Tim Dubya

[Clive Mortimore]

Don't get too excited by *Cripplegate's point work. Things kept derailing on the knuckles (acute crossings) of the slip and I couldn't be bothered with sorting it out when I discovered Peco and started/built Sheffield Exchange Mk1.

 

Electrically it was very simple, just loads of wires. Two each for the feed to the three points and slip. Two to the knuckles of the diamond and then some to the various frogs from the point motors.

 

*Cripplegate being the only original of the gates in London Wall that does not have a road or a station named after it.

 

It found the bin when we moved.

[Tim Dubya]

 just loads of wires.

 

Ok, cool

[Clive Mortimore]

Hi Tim

 

Here is the drawing I done, it shows the position of the gaps in the sleepers and the isolation cuts in the rails.

 

Drawn on good old Windows Micro Soft Paint. 1 in 7 crossing angles.

Edited November 21, 2017 by Clive Mortimore

[Tim Dubya]

Cheers, will have a good look on the big screen when I get home.

[St Enodoc]

Don't get too excited by *Cripplegate's point work. Things kept derailing on the knuckles (acute crossings) of the slip and I couldn't be bothered with sorting it out when I discovered Peco and started/built Sheffield Exchange Mk1.

 

Electrically it was very simple, just loads of wires. Two each for the feed to the three points and slip. Two to the knuckles of the diamond and then some to the various frogs from the point motors.

 

*Cripplegate being the only original of the gates in London Wall that does not have a road or a station named after it.

 

It found the bin when we moved.

I'm with you there Clive. I'm finding out the hard way that the most critical parts of a slip are the knuckles/elbows/K crossings and how to check them.

[dhjgreen]

I must have been lucky, mine works OK

Edited November 22, 2017 by dhjgreen

[Tim Dubya]

I must have been lucky, mine works OK

 

That is fabulous!

 

Once (don't hold your breath) I finish the crossover and sort out the track plan   I'll be building another turnout for the goods siding(s) and I'm very tempted  to incorporate a slip  (in good ole LSWR style)....

 

It's a long way off but I like the idea of the challenge

[dhjgreen]

Originally started the layout late '70s, then life and work. Rejoined EMGS in 2006, steady progress since then, no need to rush these things.

[dhjgreen]

Ground signal anyone.  The disc is a real photo cut out using a Silhouette cutter; looks OK from normal viewing distance.

[Tim Dubya]

The disc is a real photo cut out using a Silhouette cutter; looks OK from normal viewing distance.

 

I'll get the Mrs on the case... was wondering the best way to proceed with the MSE ground signals I have to build - job jobbed.

 

Cheers

[dhjgreen]

Works for station totems too. When using the Silhouette, start with a large picture get the software to define the cutting outline, then shrink to the correct size, much better results ensue.

[timbowilts]

Ground signal anyone.  The disc is a real photo cut out using a Silhouette cutter; looks OK from normal viewing distance.

 Err, it doesn't seem to pivot the right way?

 

(From someone modelling the South Wales Valleys)

[dhjgreen]

Correct for my region

 

edit typos

Edited November 22, 2017 by dhjgreen

[Tim Dubya]

Correct for my region

 

edit typos

 

where would that be sir?

[dhjgreen]

The layout is Bury Bolton Street originally ELR.

 

Sir eh

[Tim Dubya]

The layout is Bury Bolton Street originally ELR.

Sir eh

Cheers geeza

[dhjgreen]

 Err, it doesn't seem to pivot the right way?

 

(From someone modelling the South Wales Valleys)

I'm being a bit slow and now get your point.  The Ratio kit is a GWR design, which I have LMSed by overlaying the photo of an upper quadrant disc.  I only realised when I was looking at the instruction sheet again yesterday.

[Tim Dubya]

Filed up one and a half point blades.

 

Stuck one point blade through the tip of my finger.

 

Plastered finger.

 

Cleared up claret.

 

Cleared up toys

 

Hoovered living room & stairs (was hinted at last night during wine).

 

 

Edit: Emptied Tumble Drier

 

 

About to build 'The Mother of all Vegan Curries'

 

Will Plaster Self.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See you lot tomorrow.

Edited November 25, 2017 by Tim Dubya

[Tim Dubya]

Having shoved a point blade, not once but twice through my finger yesterday, I'm going to hunt out some trainsets on the Warley thread.... there must be some somewhere Shirley?

 

[Clive Mortimore]

Don't keep calling me Surley!!

 

You be careful with those puncher wounds, I hope to bathed them when you stabbed yourself. You don't want to have an infection.

Edited November 26, 2017 by Clive Mortimore

[Tim Dubya]

Don't keep calling me Surley!!

 

You be careful with those puncher wounds, I hope to bathed them when you stabbed yourself. You don't want to have an infection.

 

Cheers nursey

 

I didn't and they're smarting a bit today, will chuck so stuff on them. (mek & cyano)

 

Pain stops play, must get a fumble for next time (thimble for people with sausage fingas)

[Tim Dubya]

more stock piling...

 

£10 delivered from the eBay.

 

 

love the mix of Napoleon & Empire

 

 

 

 

 

As my lecturer used to say to us:

"Action Not Inertia!"

 

Never did finish my foundation course

Edited November 27, 2017 by Tim Dubya

[dhjgreen]

1/32 inch .75ish mm you do not see that very often.

 

Edit: "Most historians agree that Gabriel Mouton, the vicar of St. Paul’s Church in Lyons, France, is the “founding father” of the metric system. He proposed a decimal system of measurement in 1670."

Edited November 27, 2017 by dhjgreen