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Superelevation strips


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When do you think you'll be at a stage to run something around the complete canted curve? It does look great in the photos but we bottled it when it came to the club layout! I assume the Tillig strip deals with the transitions adequately?

 

You can see the 'run out' of the Tillig superelevation strip. It starts at a point halfway along the transition curve and works very well in high speed 'push along' mode! If you are going to try this, when gluing the track to the strip with PVA glue (plenty needed), a lot of weight will be needed during the drying time, as the inner edge has a tendancy to lift if you don't!

 

Meanwhile a few more snaps of progress. More edging fitted and painting.

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That's a lot of weight in the last photo icon_wow.gif !

 

Indeed it is Andrew! Believe it or not it was neccessary to keep the 'lower' rail well down until the PVA took! The inner side had a strong tendency to lift when the track is laid onto the s/elevation. Nonetheless it all worked out well in the end! I think that it's proved that the extra effort of fitting the s/e was well worth it.

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Crikey that is a lot of weight! Thanks for the picture along the transition John, what was the radii of these tracks approx? Ours went down to about 3'6 and these are a lot larger I guess.

 

Should be good seeing some express steam locos charging around there!

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