OO-SF double slip help needed

[Harry]

Hi all,

 

I am 95% of the way through a hand built OO-SF double slip needed for my slowly developing model of Swanage.

 

What has been completed so far works well and stock flows freely through it. 

 

However, I have now come to a problem. As you can see from the photos below, everything has been finished apart from the smallest pieces of track (the obtuse crossing check rails - apologies if my terminology is wrong!)

 

The basic problem is - there is no space to install the pieces with any chairs attached! Has anyone overcome this and could anyone suggest a solution? I have probably messed up the order and should have installed it earlier but bit too late now!

 

Any help is much appreciated. 

 

This is the bit I can’t fit in!!

[Siberian Snooper]

Yes they are obtuse check rails. Can you crop the 3 chairs back close to the rail and add a dab of super glue and do similar to the chairs for the check rail, it may not be pretty, but it should work, I had a similar situation with a tandem turnout. The difficult bit is ensuring there's enough chair left to grip the rail.

 

 

[roythebus]

As above, but for additional security solder a bit of scrap brass shim or wire underneath to hold them securely in place.

[Darwinian]

You could cheat and solder the ends to the inner running rail (not sure what the correct term is).

when I built mine I used copperclad sleepers in some places and soldered to those. Be a bit of a pain for you to take sleepers out now.

[hayfield]

Sorry but owing to being away on holiday I missed this thread, Firstly I build up the centre of the obtuse crossings using 0.5 mm copperclad strip

 

Double slip

 

Once tested and working well I trim back the copperclad pads to the rail sides so chairs can be fitted

 

Single slip

Next I replace the temporary ply timbers with plastic ones

 

Double slip

 

 

Sorry for switching between single and double slips but found the photos quickly

 

 

Exactoscale do a range of chairs for both slip and obtuse crossings, the above photo is the chairs for either a `1-7 or 1-8 slip, they also do a set of obtuse crossing chairs which will make either a 1-5,6,7 or 8 crossing, I have used these chairs for differing angles

I have built turnouts in both EM & P4 (00SF is EM -2mm) gauges using this range and the chairs functually with just the V soldered up on plastic timbers, providing you use one of the standard crossing angles provided for I think diamonds and slips can be built using these chairs functionally. I would not do this using ply timbers owing the potential bonding issues between ply timbers and plastic chairs

 

Exactoscale  https://exactoscale.com/track-components/

 

Slip chairs 4CH 504A

Obtuse crossing chairs 4CH503A

On the build I also used Common crossing chairs 4CH 502A and check rail chairs 4CH 403A (modified)

 

Hope this helps

[Darwinian]

That's a much better solution than mine Hayfield, why didn't I think to do that?  I had to cut down a lot of half chairs to put on my copper-clad sleeper strip.

[hayfield]

Darwinian

 

Its worth looking at the range of Exactoscale chairs, for turnouts, crossings and slips. If you use plastic timbers and standard size turnouts and crossings a lot of the chairs become functional. you could use the odd copper clad timber with the correct height spaces veery now or then, or ever use a brass chair, or as I have done make subassemblies.

 

Once you get used to the chairs you can to a certain degree go "off piste " so to say and use on non standard sizes, 3 ways etc. But just get used to using them. And I am forgetting the best bit they look so much better than chopped up chairs. Look out for the new C&L 2 & 3 bolt chair sprues with the bridge and J chairs