BG John Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 I've discovered my trusty spirit level, that I've had for decades, is starting to turn itself into a banana. I couldn't understand why it was rocking on bits of baseboard I knew were perfectly flat! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free At Last Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 I find one screw hammered in on each side is all it needs to fit a hinge, the other holes are just alternative fixing points. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Careful folks... there's a little too much hilarity for a serious thread like this about something we never knew we didn't need. Remember us railway modellers are supposed to be thoughtful, serious types... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Happy Hippo Posted October 31, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 31, 2015 Now my dad - who did his apprenticeship in the 1930s - always called them cramps however there are two different things involved here. The purpose of a cramp, particularly so with a sash cramp, is that it is used to cramp things up, i.e. to pull them together or tighten them, while a clamp is used to hold things together for the sake of convenience instead of having to find a third hand from somewhere. In some sorts of woodworking there are times when things have to be cramped up to make a joint complete or tight or to assist in pulling the joints together (as with parts of a sash window - hence a sash cramp). Now if you want to join sections of a layout together and maintain vertical alignment with some degree of reliability here is an already on the market 'baseboard joiner'. Most folk will immediately recognise that it is a hinge but it is rather different in that it has a removable pin which is matched to the two halves of the hinge as a sliding fit and thus keeps them in perfect alighnment. Bit more expensive than an ordinary pair of hinges but a bit more precise than the old dodge of using ordinary hinges with the original pin removed and something else slid in to keep them together. DSCF0150.jpg Mike, One presumes the extra-accuracy is made by using wood screws of a differing head in certain of the fixing positions! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted October 31, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 31, 2015 Mike, One presumes the extra-accuracy is made by using wood screws of a differing head in certain of the fixing positions! At last - a fully rationalised scientific realisation of the purpose of two different means of securing and aligning the two halves of the hinge (without acknowledging the fact that I ran out of screws) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren01 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Maybe we have to wait till the 22nd Century to find out what this is all about?. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Hopefully, I’ll be dead by then....... Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
N15class Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 I started it because I wanted to share what I'd seen demonstrated at the Fareham Show. They are not being actively marketed as many have found/pointed out, and I'm hoping that will be changing soon. The leaflet I picked up doesn't have a photo or drawing ... otherwise I'd have shared it. I apologise to anyone who's been annoyed by this thread - I'll be more careful about what I post in future. Share what? There has been nothing shared. I am sure if it was any good, it would of been shared as every modeller I know wants the others to benifit from their knowledge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted October 31, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 31, 2015 Worth looking at the OPs signature and his day job.... Oh and that blog that he links to is part of a website with a primary purpose of being an on-line shop http://mixed-traffic.co.uk/about-mixed-traffic/ Online railway model shop The first function of Mixed Traffic is to deliver an effective online model railway shop. The shop is currently under construction so please bookmark the site for future reference. Andi Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted November 1, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 1, 2015 Of course, as we don't know what these joiners look like, we could already have them on our layouts and therefore not need any more. Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
backofanenvelope Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 .. and from that website.. Younger people, in particular, often use their mobiles or tablets in preference to a PC. Why, those pesky kids.. they will never be able to comprehend my 21st century device.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Woooo, hoooo! I've suddenly, officially, become young again. Kevin (Always uses iPad, never the PC) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wirey33 Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Could the OP provide the registered design number? Then we can all go to the Intellectual Property Office website and see the submission. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mick Bonwick Posted November 1, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 1, 2015 Only another 9 posts to go and we've reached the ton! Shakespeare could have written a play about this and called it, "Much Ado About Nothing". Oh! Wait a minute . . . . . . . . . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Still five months to go to April 1st. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper John Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Great read from start to finish. This thread gets my vote for RMW Random thread of the year Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Rather ironic that to go with DCC and all the up to their minute gismos, the American modular modellers manage with nothing more high tech than G cramps/clamps and a spirit level, while we all want the perfect joiner. If it ain't broke you haven't got a big enough engine... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 By the time the great invention is revealed someone will have invented and patented something for joining basedoards together securely. I would suggest they could be called something like "Baseboard joiners for the 21st Century" and they will be on baseboards all over the country. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KalKat Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 The only types of fastenening I've not seen for baseboard joining - Dzeus or camlocks 'fastenening' ? maybe that's what we should be using ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ian Posted November 1, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 1, 2015 I have a wonderful idea for joining baseboards... click for details. Mind you, getting them apart again could be tricky. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted November 1, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 1, 2015 I've just wasted an enjoyable 15 minutes reading about nothing, still it seems to be entertaing reading and writing about nothing. At this rate of progress someone will have provided us with it's 22nd century replacement, how long will that thread last. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Electro magnets and the boards sit on self levelling hover trestles, all powered by a Mr Fusion reactor! Now that's proper 21st century.Electro-magnets? - hope there's no power cuts or your layout falls apart.... oh and the havoc they would cause with Kadee couplers!! Hover trestles? - how do you keep your layout stationary? people would have to stop leaning on them pretty quick!! If the OP was really so keen on dragging us all into the 21st Century, surely he'd have invented something better than prehistoric timber products for our baseboards??!!?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 The only types of fastenening I've not seen for baseboard joining - Dzeus or camlocks 'fastenening' ? maybe that's what we should be using ? I was investigating them recently. Unfortunately it appears that while the principle would work, there aren't any commercially produced one of the right proportions for baseboard joining Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 I began reading this thread fearing that my brass dowels and coachbolts were woefully inadequate. Having got this far, I don't think I need have worried. I'm sure these new 21st century joiners are great but hey, so are my low-tech ones. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren01 Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Post: 1989900000. Star date: 2225. Still no clue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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