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Gday all!
I was a little overwhelmed by all the responses and great ideas and tried to reply and quote everyone but it got way too messy. So thanks all!!
I think I will need to get space between the sleepers and the rails to complete the look. Id love to get some brass chairs but I am on the other side of the planet and nearly no one does bullhead parts here so I might try soldering small brass plates to the PCB sleepers and use a lower temp solder to secure the rails in the hope that the plates wont move during installation of the rails. Kind of like the pin method and the etch method except that once done I will need to fix on some plastic chairs to finish the look. I might be able to cut them off the Peco flex sleepers.
The Templot template with pin locations might help me placing those plates.
Will report back once I have tried it.
Cheers!
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Gday all!
I am about to begin the adventure of my 2nd layout. I had to sadly dismantle my first one when we moved house. This time I am using the Peco bullhead code 75. The points will be made with the help of templates generated by Templot. I really want to start making my own points as I was never satisfied with the locked geometry. I ended up butchering many turnouts to work to the point of wondering if I should learn to make them. I understand the concept of soldering rails to PC board but I have noticed that if one was to do this with the code 75 rail, then the rails on the points become lower than the rails on the flex track. That is due to the rails being suspended by the chairs and not sitting directly on the sleepers like they do on say, code 100 track. The PCB sleepers would have to be thicker and probably look a little odd. How are other modellers getting around this problem? Or does it just not stand out that much??
Sorry if this has been covered before.
Cheers!
Ben
Hayfields turnout workbench
in Permanent Way, Signalling & Infrastructure
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Ive lost (or is that gained?) a lot of time going through your thread after having you stop by and I thank you for your time and advice on my newbie thread. Truly inspiring stuff here mate.