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No baseboard hell this time!

Turin 60

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I must confess that today I have done something I never thought I'd do, allow me to explain.

My small EM gauge layout "The Works Yard" has as its fiddle yard a small sliding sector plate running on some quite expensive drawer runners, the sliding action is really nice and smooth and so it should be for the price I paid for them :angry: .

 

However, because the movement required sometimes is beyond the end of the runners (in other words they are being used in the same fashion as they would be for say a kitchen drawer) I'm noticing a certain amount of droop :( . Which causes the rail alignment to drop and thus cause occasional random uncoupling by the DG couplings I use.

 

Also I am becoming more fussy about the handling and reversing of the stock and the potential damage this causes, also the delay before the exhibition visitor sees another train arrive on the scene. is this an age related issue I wonder?

 

So a new fiddle yard is in order. I already have a 9" Lazy Susan bearing, all I now need is a new baseboard for it sit & rotate upon :blink: .

Enter the nice people at Model Railway Solutions of Poole, found their website, phoned them up, had a chat and ordered a ready built baseboard. That was Wednesday, picked it up from them today at Eurotrack. You can't get better than that, looks a nice piece of work and they only charged £10-00 for assembly. At least being done in a proper workshop it should be good and true, and it is. Thanks very much guys.

 

I always try and make as decent a job as I can when building baseboards, and it is quite satisfying getting your little plywood piece of reality come together. However it's not my favourit part of this caper and I don't have a large flat work area to ensure that it all goes together flat and true. No problem this time :rolleyes: .

I now only have to build the fiddle yard on top of it.

 

John.

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Liddy

Glad to hear of your success. Please give us more details. I'm interested in the use of DG's in EM, I've tried them in 2mm and I'm considering them for 4mm, do you use them with a loop at one end only?

The idea of a sector plate running on a lazy susan bearing is a cracking idea. Can we have some photos pls

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Turin 60

Glad to hear of your success. Please give us more details. I'm interested in the use of DG's in EM, I've tried them in 2mm and I'm considering them for 4mm, do you use them with a loop at one end only?The idea of a sector plate running on a lazy susan bearing is a cracking idea. Can we have some photos pls

 

 

Hi Liddy, I've used the DG's for years in 009 so it seemed logical to use them for the EM as well. I do use a loop at both ends and very occasionally both loops rise up but I don't find it a big problem. I did try Sprat & Winkles (3mm version) but found they were giving me problems fitting them to "fitted" stock. So I,ll stick with what I know although I do feel that from some angles the S&W was less obtrusive and jarring on the eye.

 

John.

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Turin 60
Glad to hear of your success. Please give us more details. I'm interested in the use of DG's in EM, I've tried them in 2mm and I'm considering them for 4mm, do you use them with a loop at one end only?The idea of a sector plate running on a lazy susan bearing is a cracking idea. Can we have some photos pls
Hi Liddy, I've used the DG's for years in 009 so it seemed logical to use them for the EM as well. I do use a loop at both ends and very occasionally both loops rise up but I don't find it a big problem. I did try Sprat & Winkles (3mm version) but found they were giving me problems fitting them to "fitted" stock. So I,ll stick with what I know although I do feel that from some angles the S&W was less obtrusive and jarring on the eye.John.

 

 

Opps, forgot about the Lazy Susan. It's all just bits at the moment. Piccy's in due course.

 

John.

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fursty

Nice one John, looking forward to seeing it in action. :rolleyes:. What are you going to do with the old fiddle yard :bomb_mini:. Catch up next Wednesday :drink_mini:.

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Turin 60

Nice one John, looking forward to seeing it in action. :rolleyes:. What are you going to do with the old fiddle yard :bomb_mini:. Catch up next Wednesday :drink_mini:.

 

 

Hanging on to it for now, if in the future I need to sell the works yard it will at least be a fiddle yard to go with it!

 

John. :blink:

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