Wayne Kinney

Sure, give us a PM

I would need to design 2034 kits and sell 3.4M before it paid for itself....but I'm ready

It's Solidworks. Bloody thing cost my £5K back in 2010 (bought for my camera accessories business) plus £1200 per year support and updates (which I cancelled back in 2016). Think I was ripped off....

Many thanks, Patrick. Wait until you see the double slip

OK, final one for today... I think I've finished the CAD on the diamond crossing casting, a tried to do a little render. Shows the details on the chairs and casting, 'warts n all', I know it's not perfect, please go nicely!

Should follow the diamond fairly quickly, although there are other jobs that go along with it like writing instructions etc...

And the casting for 1in7 Single & Double Slips....

Sprue ready for casting in Nickel Silver:

Hi Dave, I haven't got that far yet as I'm working on the diamond crossing. In my example, I have kept the area around the casting straight and not cut the webbing over 4/5 sleepers. I beleive Martin's diagram showing the 0.06mm offset is only if you decide to curve through the crossing V also.

It will be cast in Nickel Silver, same as I do for the 'common crossing V frog'.

Hi Keith, Yes that's correct

CAD work progressing...

Thanks John, totally agree! So many wanting better looking turnouts will put in that send bend, I'm sure! I believe it is in the hands of the modeller/builder of the turnout. It's their railway after all

Agreed

Perfect! Modellers that wish to put the set bend in, whether from North, South, East or 'West of the Severn', can do so. That's the beauty of it Even my customers from from France, Germany, Austria or US can share the same freedom to decide Joking aside, I can certainly see the gauge narrowing when the turnout is curved. But my built in compensation into the bases overcomes this. I quote a recent review: Godders has expressed interest in attempting to curve the turnout kit. It will be interesting, giving the above discussion, how he gets on and how he finds the final running of stock.

Thanks Martin, I agree that a set bend would certainly minimize gauge narrowing through the switch which seems to become more of an issue when curving the turnout like this. However, I have previously mentioned a few times that I have made my own design adjustments in CAD to widen the gauge through the switch. Peacehaven is a long way away and perhaps too far to see that the gauge in fact widens from the switch toe, not narrows. Bellow are the actual gauge measurements taken with digital callipers..

Hi Phil, Actually, I've just seen you live in Peacehaven, as I do. You are more than welcome to arrange a visit to check out the kits (masks and social distancing of course ).

Martin's spot on! And yes, this get's buried under the ballast so is not seen

Thanks Godders for taking the time to build and review the kit! Yeah, the switch blade pin hitting the webbing of the base is my fault, I forgot to move the webbing 'outwards' to give clearance, like I have with the EM and 00 Gauge kits. I've already amended this for production, thanks for spotting the error! Nice to see you wish to try curving the turnout, I would love to see your results. I just did a small test and posted pictures of this on the other thread here: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/160234-new-range-of-simple-to-assemble-00em-gauge-pointwork-kits/&do=findComment&comment=4490169 Thanks again for your time!

Here is an example of curving a standard turnout. B7 00-SF right hand. Firstly, before cutting the webbing, I insert both stock rails into the base to support the base. I then cut away all the webbing except around the cast frog, tie bar and 'straight' stock rail. The turnout is now free to flex much like normal flexi track. I printed out a curved B7 00-SF template from templot. I went to the extreme and curved beyond minimum radius (750mm) down to 560mm radius. I thought this would be a good test. I flexed the turnout base (with only stock rails installed) to get the best possible match to the printed templot template. Here are the results after gluing it on the paper template:

I hear a bohemian rhapsody moment coming on

Me to

Party on Garth...

You can't stop the beat...