RMweb Gold queensquare Posted December 29, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 29, 2017 We have the makings of a fiddle yard........! Some way to go yet. Jerry 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted December 30, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2017 That shows very clearly that you cannot run the tracks parallel onto the sector plate. Each sector plate road needs to be perpendicular to the curved edge. Hence the dog leg to get the approach road at the right angle. I said sector plate but perhaps it is a turntable if so it would make life easier in the fiddle yard. Nice workmanship. Does the overhang of the PCB at the entry hold the edge of the sector plate/turntable down to ensure the tracks are at the same level? Don Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold queensquare Posted December 30, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2017 That shows very clearly that you cannot run the tracks parallel onto the sector plate. Each sector plate road needs to be perpendicular to the curved edge. Hence the dog leg to get the approach road at the right angle. I said sector plate but perhaps it is a turntable if so it would make life easier in the fiddle yard. Nice workmanship. Does the overhang of the PCB at the entry hold the edge of the sector plate/turntable down to ensure the tracks are at the same level? Don The dogleg is to allow greater spacing than normal double track to allow for my fat little fingers, there will eventually be ten roads. With an almost five feet long sector plate the amount of deviation from square to allow two tracks to line up is minimal. The overhang is indeed to ensure the tracks remain level. Jerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted December 30, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2017 The dogleg is to allow greater spacing than normal double track to allow for my fat little fingers, there will eventually be ten roads. With an almost five feet long sector plate the amount of deviation from square to allow two tracks to line up is minimal. The overhang is indeed to ensure the tracks remain level. Jerry I was thinking something shorter or a turntable type where the effect would be greater. I suppose you will need the 5ft length for the long trains even that would only take half of the long freights I used to see at Reading. This will be a special layout I think. Don Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisveitch Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 (edited) We have the makings of a fiddle yard........! Some way to go yet. IMG_1600.JPG Jerry Jerry, what's the little tool with the wooden handle and what looks like an old-fashioned razor blade clamped in it? (I'm sure that when I realise what it is, I'll wonder how I've ever done without one). Edited December 30, 2017 by chrisveitch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold queensquare Posted December 30, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2017 Jerry, what's the little tool with the wooden handle and what looks like an old-fashioned razor blade clamped in it? (I'm sure that when I realise what it is, I'll wonder how I've ever done without one). It's an extremely useful little razor saw that I picked up at a show a few years ago. The blade is very sharp and incredibly thin - you get several spares in the case. I use it almost exclusively for cutting rail at baseboard joints or, in this case on the traverser. The rail is laid across the joint, firmly fixed then cut, the very thin blade giving a really small, neat joint. Jerry 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisveitch Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 It's an extremely useful little razor saw that I picked up at a show a few years ago. The blade is very sharp and incredibly thin - you get several spares in the case. I use it almost exclusively for cutting rail at baseboard joints or, in this case on the traverser. The rail is laid across the joint, firmly fixed then cut, the very thin blade giving a really small, neat joint. IMG_1606.JPG IMG_1607.JPG Jerry Thanks Jerry - I had wondered if it was for gapping sleepers. Obviously I know now what I need one for ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted December 30, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2017 Obtainable from The Netherlands: Must get one! https://www.aviationmegastore.com/jlc-complete-anniversary-saw-set--p004-jlc-models-p004-aircraft-scale-modelling-tools/product/?action=prodinfo&art=70367 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EHSUK2001 Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Obtainable from The Netherlands: Must get one! https://www.aviationmegastore.com/jlc-complete-anniversary-saw-set--p004-jlc-models-p004-aircraft-scale-modelling-tools/product/?action=prodinfo&art=70367 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EHSUK2001 Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 JLC Tools are available in the UK: http://www.modellingtools.co.uk/jlc-saw-anniversary-set-9975-p.asp Jerry, Richard Wilson and myself all bought ours at Warley from them a couple of years ago. The blades can be stacked up with the supplied precision spacers allowing several parallel cuts. The JLC cutting jigs are also very well made. Edward S 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold queensquare Posted December 30, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2017 JLC Tools are available in the UK: http://www.modellingtools.co.uk/jlc-saw-anniversary-set-9975-p.asp Jerry, Richard Wilson and myself all bought ours at Warley from them a couple of years ago. The blades can be stacked up with the supplied precision spacers allowing several parallel cuts. The JLC cutting jigs are also very well made. Edward S Well remembered Ed, I knew I bought it at a show but couldn't remember where. A really handy addition to the toolkit. Jerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted December 30, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 30, 2017 Thanks for the information, that was just the question I was about to ask! Cheers, Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted December 30, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 30, 2017 JLC Tools are available in the UK: http://www.modellingtools.co.uk/jlc-saw-anniversary-set-9975-p.asp Jerry, Richard Wilson and myself all bought ours at Warley from them a couple of years ago. The blades can be stacked up with the supplied precision spacers allowing several parallel cuts. The JLC cutting jigs are also very well made. Edward S Even better! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post queensquare Posted January 1, 2018 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 1, 2018 A busy few sessions in the workshop over the holiday period has seen the sector plate make significant progress. The short cassettes will be used for running-round trains, turning/changing locos and adding/removing tail traffic Jerry 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Neat work there Jerry, time well spent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post queensquare Posted January 14, 2018 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2018 Fiddle yard is now back on the layout, all entry tracks done but only five of the ten roads laid as I have run out of rail! I've installed a simple alignment bolt made from telescopic brass section. Next job is to wire up the track work and point motors across the front of the colliery which will mean I can run trains over about two thirds of the layout - around thirty feet! Jerry 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted January 29, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 29, 2018 (edited) Nice spread of TM in the new BRM. Excellent stuff Jerry! Edited January 29, 2018 by Re6/6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post queensquare Posted March 23, 2018 Author RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted March 23, 2018 (edited) I've probably already got enough MR/LMS shunters for Bath but I was asked if I would build one of the half cab 1F 0-6-0Ts so I thought why not make a pair! I've not found any evidence of one working at Bath but 1741 was a long time Gloucester resident so no further excuse needed! Mine will be finished in unlined red with Dealey fittings and large 18" numbers on the tank sides. Some spent a short while in this livery although I've no idea if 1741 was one of them and in any case it would have been black by my period but I want a red one so that's what it will be. The customers will be lined red with Johnson fittings - I'm not doing the painting! The first picture shows the basic locos on the bench and in desperate need of a good clean up. The second is 1741 undergoing trials. She passed with flying colours pushing (no couplings yet) the test train up the bank with ease. I've managed to shoehorn 38grams of weight into her and keep the mechanism all but hidden. Jerry Edited March 24, 2018 by queensquare 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Nig H Posted March 24, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 24, 2018 I've probably already got enough MR/LMS shutters for Bath but I was asked if I would build one of the half cab 1F 0-6-0Ts so I thought why not make a pair! I've not found any evidence of one working at Bath but 1741 was a long time Gloucester resident so no further excuse needed! Mine will be finished in unlined red with Dealey fittings and large 18" numbers on the tank sides. Some spent a short while in this livery although I've no idea if 1741 was one of them and in any case it would have been black by my period but I want a red one so that's what it will be. The customers will be lined red with Johnson fittings - I'm not doing the painting! The first picture shows the basic locos on the bench and in desperate need of a good clean up. The second is 1741 undergoing trials. She passed with flying colours pushing (no couplings yet) the test train up the bank with ease. I've managed to shoehorn 38grams of weight into her and keep the mechanism all but hidden. Jerry Nice one Jerry. Have you got a shot of the chassis, and what motor did you use? Nigel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold queensquare Posted March 24, 2018 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 24, 2018 (edited) Nice one Jerry. Have you got a shot of the chassis, and what motor did you use? Nigel Thanks Nigel. It has one of the Farish 7mm coreless motors in it driving off the rear axle. The worm will be visible down by the firebox door but with the floor, backhead (lead), and crew I think it will be pretty unobtrusive. I've put a slug of copper tungsten in the boiler, lead in the tanks and in the bunker. She runs well and at 38 grams should have no haulage problems. I will take a picture with the lid off when I get down the workshop later. Jerry Edited March 24, 2018 by queensquare Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Collier Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 It has one of the Farish 7mm careless motors in it driving off the rear axle. I thought it was only Dapol that used careless motors Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jol Wilkinson Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 MR shutters with careless motors. A new concept or those bl**dy spell checkers again? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold queensquare Posted March 24, 2018 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 24, 2018 I thought it was only Dapol that used careless motors MR shutters with careless motors. A new concept or those bl**dy spell checkers again? Guilty as charged m'lud. Am I the only one that hankers for the days when spell checkers just checked things when you asked them, not changed words at random according to what they think you might want to say! Jerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Collier Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Guilty as charged m'lud. Am I the only one that hankers for the days when spell checkers just checked things when you asked them, not changed words at random according to what they think you might want to say! Veering off topic but if you've a smart phone open up a new text and keep tapping the middle highlighted word it's predicting. You can go on for hours with vaguely/worryingly coherent sentences. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Veering off topic but if you've a smart phone open up a new text and keep tapping the middle highlighted word it's predicting. You can go on for hours with vaguely/worryingly coherent sentences. Or not, as the case may be! Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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