Steam_Julie's Layout Blog

The screws which are bottom right of the third picture are high performance ones, and I can thoroughly recommend their use, they make the layout much stronger, and at very little extra cost.

 

they have deeper threads and are very hard, and thus they do not wear so much when being screwed into a hard material. Their grip into the end grain is excellent.

 

The only downside is they cannot have their sharp end cut off using a hacksaw or disk cutter.

 

Julie

Your layout is no longer unhinged! I meet an man at the 2mm AGM, in Bolton Lancs, who has definitely never done anything unhinged in his modelling existence. His name is Geoff Jones.

 

Lisa

Geoff uses hinges as the basis for jigs he builds, for example a jig to file thenose angle on a point crossing, you get the idea.

 

Julie

I think that's a clever solution  

 

I trust you also have a cunning plan for dis/connecting the track at the hinge line.  That inner curved track looks pretty tight, even for my 009 railway but, as long as your stock goes round it ....

 

Mike

The curve on the inside track is in fact no sharper than the front siding. Both sidings are gauge widened at the sharpest point.

 

Julie