Wayne Kinney

22 hours ago, woodcroft said:

Hi Wayne, I see you plan to produce an A6 turnout in P4,  do you plan to produce an A6 in EM and 00 please?

The A6 was at the request of the Scale Four Society.

My plans are for a B6 in EM and 00 Gauge, at least first. An A6 possibly further down the line (no pun).

Hi Guys,

I've tried my best to hold this off for as long as I could, but unfortunately with the rising costs of everything I've had to increase my prices. This is mainly due to the rising costs of resin, materials and bullhead rail.

Standard turnouts and diamond kits are now £29e, slips and crossovers are now £49e.

I've still tried to keep prices competitive and hope you can understand my decision :)

12 hours ago, Penrhos1920 said:

When are your P4 kits going to be available?  Am I right to assume that you’ll be doing B7 and 1in7 diamonds and slips?

Hi,

The P4 kits are currently available via the ScaleFour Society. B7's are already for sale and I am working on an A6 at the moment, followed by 1in7 diamonds and slips.

3 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Without gives your more space less clutter!

 

Mike.

I think without my wife, I would have less space and more clutter 😁😆😅

4 hours ago, Dominion said:

Here is a right hand and left hand B7 I have just assembled. However the right hand is the one in the foreground, and the left hand is the one in the back ground ! I did it this way as I wanted to maximize the minimum radius. The central of the 3 routes is laid out on a transition curve.

Wayne’s kits are versatile to fit curved locations with no problem.

Well done, Tom! This is a great example showing how the Finetrax turnouts can be moified and curved to suit. Thanks for posting!

5 hours ago, polybear said:

Hi Wayne,

I'm rather late to the party so apologies if this has covered before (I've not read the previous 75 pages - must try harder 🤣):

 

1.  Whose rail do you use in your 00-sf point kits?

2.  Do you sell the machined vees and blades as separate items, and do you have any plans to offer these for other turnout sizes (B8, C10 etc.) ahead of any potential kit availability?

 

Thanks

Brian

 

 

Hi Brian,

The code 75 bullhead rail is supplied to me by the EM Gauge Society.

Yes I sell these separately (buzz us an email). Yes I do plan to do other sizes and formations.

On 08/10/2023 at 22:14, billywhizz said:

Hi Wayne. Is there any progress with the crossover kits?

Kind regards. 
Bill. 

Hi Bill,

I haven't got around to taking photo's but if you email me I can provide the kits for sale before they get listed on the website.

Hi Tom,

I have designed and 3D printed them before, I think the resin material does hold up just about. I'll have a think about weather to offer them as a product on my website.

Hi Dave,

It the moment, the way the website is setup that's not possible. The website will be coming back online again in a week or so, don't worry :)

Any templates you need in the meantime, please email me :)

Hello,

You can download the instructions for the double slip build here:

https://www.britishfinescale.com/v/vspfiles/pdfinstructions/Double Slip Instructions.pdf

Thanks,

Wayne

Hi Guys,

Code 75 bullhead rail from both the EM Gauge Society or C&L Finescale will fit the Finetrax base chairs. SMP Code 75 bullhead rail is slightly thinner and has too loose a fit, unfortunately.

On 19/06/2023 at 23:51, Jack P said:

I've been working on a relatively simple crossover using the all rail B7 kits in EM.

 

A little bit nerve wracking as I had to perform some surgery to the actual turnout ends in order to make them fit together at the correct distance.

The lesser of two weevils appears to be cutting the sleepers away down the middle - with the other option being cutting them right between the chairs (likely too close) - and I didn't want to risk any breakages in this area. 

I then had to double down on this nail biting surgery and cut most of the webbing away on a few sleepers in order to get them to gently conform to the curve of the trackplan.

 

The results are below, i've tried to get a low enough angle to show the curvature (I've just noticed I completely forgot the checkrails on one of the turnouts).

 

 

The all rail kits are probably even easier than the original 'cast V' variants, the only part that required a little more forward thinking was cutting the point blades - as they're on a curve. Not a huge amount of extra effort, but not something I wanted to get wrong. 

 

Thanks again to Wayne for developing and then bringing them to market!

A fine job indeed, sir!

There will be, yes.

No C switches just yet, I need to first make some more diamonds and slips to match the other turnouts I've already released.

10 hours ago, billywhizz said:

Any word on when the B7 crossover might be available?

Regards. 
Bill. 

The CAD for the 00 Gauge version is basically done, just need to add the wood texture to it, build one up and takes some pics for the website.

Hi Guys, how are you all?

I will soon be offering printed templates for all my Finetrax kits, £2.49 each. This is especially useful for the larger 4mm scales where the templates are in A3 format, and you don't have access to an A3 printer. It's still possible to print 2 pages in A4, but it does require cutting and taping together.

My pre printed templates remove that need, and you can be confident that they are printed to scale.

Should see these on the website in the next 2 weeks.

35 minutes ago, TonyW said:

Has anyone used this track with foam underlay? 

My layout has Peco OO BH laid on DCC Concepts underlay.  I would really like to have a go at building a couple of these kits but suspect I would need to use cork underlay and glue them down well.  The layout is in a room above my garage with a temprature range of 5 deg C to 20 deg C.  I am planning to move back south to England so that top temperature will go up.

Thanks, Tony

Hi Tony,

They would require a solid base and firmly glued down.

Hi Guys,

Sorry to hear of the warping issue you have. Colin has kindly posted from the assembly instructions above:

All the bases go through a post heat treatment after they are printed and UV curved. This both helps with material strength and also it helps with warping. But this is, as previously stated, a by product of 3D printing and it seems to readmonly affect some bases more than others. The bases will require to be firmly glued down and ballasted. I have bases here that I’ve glued down with PVA over 3 years ago, they have not budged. Once glued properly while pinned flat, they are fine.

Mike, if you send me an email, I can send you a replacement base?

Thanks,
Wayne.

5 hours ago, hayfield said:

 

Perhaps you could supply the base only ? as 7mm scale modellers are more likely to resort to making parts

It was kinda producing the bases that was the issue :)

9 hours ago, KeithHC said:

Does this mean Wayne you are going into 7mm as well………

 

Keith

I did print one at this scale, looks great but, ...yeah nah!

Great work! Finetrax version, perhaps 😏?

1 hour ago, Sitham Yard said:

I presume you are saying that the worn rail is lifted so the top matches the new rail, if correct what happens about fitting fishplates please? Are they joggled to suit?

Andrew

Super Glue!!!!

Nice videos! The traverser works great and the loco runs nice and smooth through the Finetrax pointwork!

Plus narrower flangeways 1mm VS 1.25mm