Subject:
|
Re: Question about point/switch modifications.
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.trains
|
Date:
|
Wed, 7 Apr 2004 21:53:44 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1298 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.trains, David Koudys wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Jason J. Railton wrote:
> > I'm impressed by the quality of these modifications, but can anyone direct me to
> > anyone who's done anything simpler. I'm talking about converting the branch so
> > that it's equivalent to two standard curves, whilst keeping it all as one piece.
> > Making the extra fractional curves and straights so that the point can work in
> > standard or modified configuration seems a bit too much work to me.
> >
> > Jason Railton
>
> My first modification was exactly that--one piece switch in which the curved
> section is equal to 2 standard curved sections.
>
> Look lower on the page--
>
> http://sparky.i989.net/ltrain.htm
>
> It's a pretty simple procedure--cut up a curved piece and cut the end off the
> switch. Stich the switch and the curved pieces together and et voila!
>
> Take care,
>
> Dave K
I'm following your mods with interest. Since I know it's not commercially
viable for TLC to make all these track shapes, I wondered do you make any of the
following to sell:
Half straights
Half curves
Diamond crossings (2 straights at 22.5 degrees)
2-switch crossovers, left or right handed?
Would you consider making any of the following:
Track pieces with concave / convex ends, forming the sliding tracks for a
turntable? The turntable track would be 80L long and the table would be
supported on a circle of inner radius blue or grey rails. I suggest cutting a
straight in half but with a curved cut of 40L radius, using 2 cut straights and
4 normal straights on the table, with the other halves of the cut straights
forming the orthogonal roads leading away from the table.
A switch with a branch of 1 curve + 1 straight? Then it would be the start of a
wider radius curve, 80ft with a curve on it or 120ft with a straight and a curve
in 8mm:1ft scale. Can you estimate whether this is possible, given the number
of curve sleepers that are in the switch?
A switch that had 1 straight + 1 curve for the main line and 1 curve + 1
straight for the branch? This would allow the two tracks to go through 90
degrees and become parallel 16L apart. It would be the equivalent of the double
curved switch used in OO and HO layouts, which saves a lot of space by putting
the pointwork on the corners of the layout.
Wide radius curves that would replace 0.5S+C+0.5S or S+C+S with a smooth curve
of appropriate radius? I think this would involve cutting and swapping lots of
pieces between straights and curves, but perhaps removing and bending the metal
pieces, rather than cutting them. These smooth curves would allow my tilting
Pendolino train to go at a full 9 Volts, pulling about 1.2 Amps from my PSU and
doing about 90mph scale speed! (at the moment it comes off at about 8 Volts
(80mph) on curves made from SCSSCSSCSSCS).
Just a few ideas for your experiments :-)
Mark Bellis
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Question about point/switch modifications.
|
| (...) Are you sure you really need these? (just about?) Everyone else that has done turntables has just left a 1 stud gap and everything worked out fine. The larger the radius of the table, the less trouble you'd have, I would expect. (20 years ago, 7-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Question about point/switch modifications.
|
| (...) Cutting straight?? Are you serious???? ;) (...) Done. Easiest modificaiton to date. (...) A good friend in rtlToronto made one. I may attempt this at some point. (...) Done, but on my way to ripping 'em apart and making them into the '3 in (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Question about point/switch modifications.
|
| (...) My first modification was exactly that--one piece switch in which the curved section is equal to 2 standard curved sections. Look lower on the page-- (URL) a pretty simple procedure--cut up a curved piece and cut the end off the switch. Stich (...) (20 years ago, 7-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains)
|
13 Messages in This Thread:
  
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
