Beginner questions

[MontanaMax]

You lost me on the crossing template.  I’m going to get the two recommended tools for the switch template.  Is this something besides that?

 

From: Todd A Ferguson [via C&Sng Discussion Forum] [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2021 5:43 PM
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The other thing I can suggest is to build your turnouts on separate roadbed blocks so they can be built at the workbench and can be reused on another layout or if changes are made to the layout.

 

You will spend a little time constructing the turnouts but they will work very nicely.  The other thing to consider us if you want hinged points or the points moving as one piece with the closure rails.

 

I can build a turnout in about an hour with my #9 jig.  You can file points and frog pieces while relaxing or doing some TV watching too.  Like I said think about getting the crossover template and filing jigs.  I would do that if I purchased another jig.  The printed templates are handy for planning and building the odd turnout that doesn’t work with your jig.  

 

Also think about getting the point frog filing jig for a longer turnout number than your jig.  Get a number 8 if you get a 5 or 6 jig.  That way you can make a larger turnout easily if you need to because you can taper longer point and frog pieces.  And they will work fine in shorter turnouts too.  

 

And lastly get some ten thousandths diameter solder if you can.  I bought a 1 lb roll on eBay for $10.  That will last me the rest of my life.  If you can’t find it email me and I can send you a sample or 25 feet or so to try out.  One of the keys to beat soldering is a good flux and not using large sized solder for small jobs...  most people just end up a lot of excess solder on the joint.  That either looks bad or makes for a lot of cleanup work.

 

Todd

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On Jan 25, 2021, at 1:27 PM, MontanaMax [via C&Sng Discussion Forum] <[hidden email]> wrote:



Thanks for the advice.  I didn’t think a 5 vs a 4 would be that different but then I did the math and realized it was 20 or 25% less or more depending how you look at it which does seem to be a significant difference.

 

I also discovered that FastTracks has printable templates for their switches so I’m going to print some #5 and #6 out and see how they fit into my design.

 

From: Todd A Ferguson [via C&Sng Discussion Forum] [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2021 1:34 PM
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Subject: RE: Beginner questions

 

Think about a number 5 rather than a number 4.  4s are awfully sharp in my opinion.  TSG Media does a series of videos with Jack Burgess on his modeling on YouTube.  He talks in one video about his turnouts and an idea for extending the points if I recall to have better operation on sharp turnouts.  His videos are worth checking out.

Todd

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[SteveG]

A couple hopefully-useful tidbits I discovered drilling down on the FastTracks site:

--the frog and point filing tool for the 3-way switch also gives you #6 frogs.
--under the 'One of a kind' category on the site, there are switch assembly jigs for 3-way stub switches for HOn3 in code 55 and 70. This has a different geometry than the standard 3-way template, since there's no need to stagger the sections with the points. See: https://www.handlaidtrack.com/af-hon3-w-s-6-me55

I'm planning on using #5s, #6s, and the 3-way stubs for my attempt to replicate the Como yards.

Steve Guty
Lakeway, TX

[Todd A Ferguson]

Yes, and like I said earlier he custom made me a number 9 in Sn3 and then added them to most other scales and gauges.  If I had thought about it I would have made it an 8 1/2 as that is really what the narrow gauge used along with number 10.  

I have scratch built a few 3 way stub turnouts following the templates Lee Kleiden has with is stub info which we shared in the files section.  They are not hard to do and you can also just build half and get a regular turnout from the template drawings.  Nice to see him offering g these too though.

Todd

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On Jan 26, 2021, at 10:29 AM, SteveG [via C&Sng Discussion Forum] <[hidden email]> wrote:

 A couple hopefully-useful tidbits I discovered drilling down on the FastTracks site:

--the frog and point filing tool for the 3-way switch also gives you #6 frogs.
--under the 'One of a kind' category on the site, there are switch assembly jigs for 3-way stub switches for HOn3 in code 55 and 70. This has a different geometry than the standard 3-way template, since there's no need to stagger the sections with the points. See: https://www.handlaidtrack.com/af-hon3-w-s-6-me55

I'm planning on using #5s, #6s, and the 3-way stubs for my attempt to replicate the Como yards.

Steve Guty
Lakeway, TX

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