Revised track plan with loads of points deleted. Had to or there would be no room for buildings. The straight line to the turntable should be a curve, but I don't know how to draw one with PSP.
Is your crossover four sets of points or a crossover in middle??? _________________ mine is a pint of J Smiths Smooth please
Could do with something like that I was trying to figure it out with 4 sets of points and a crossover you need a lot of area in 00 gauge but in N you wont need so much, but also trying to figure out points so near to curve. No doubt when Pol has finished it we will be able to see. _________________ mine is a pint of J Smiths Smooth please
Had a look at Kato's list but no four way crossing is listed in HO strange i would have thought there would be one
For a point near a curve would a curved point not fit in better [/quote
I have curved points but they seem to be the ones that give most trouble, I have standard points which do work (abait a lot of pain) but now I try to use Express points as they seem less troublesome, but they are all getting very expensive, but my point was how do you get a crossover between 1 st and 2nd track and keep the two tracks relativly close??? all I could think was 4 sets of points. _________________ mine is a pint of J Smiths Smooth please
A pair of streamline points facing each other should give as close as you can get spacing for the tracks ...... not sure how they compare to code 83 i use here.
Here on my HO two points meet the overall width sleeper edge to sleeper edge is 3 inches wide as can be seen on the ruler laid across just over 7 & half inches for all four tracks furthest from the cam.
Sorry its a bit out of focus
Poor drawing , but this is what I meant Nick, to put a crossover in 00 would nead 4 points plus cross so would need a lot of space? _________________ mine is a pint of J Smiths Smooth please
Mine is the Kato scissors crossover Nick. Only uses the 2 wires to control everything. No cutting holes in the baseboard, no DPDT switches and no point motors to buy. _________________ Get off the line Bobby!
http://s160.photobucket.com/albums/t184/Poliss_album/
Still have bad dreams about the wiring on it but its still working okay . Must have taken about 16 or so hours as it was brought second hand with no wiring diagram and had never been used .Being a Marcway point they are not cheep . They do a 00 one too its only £71 the o gauge one is a lot more than that .
Edit for ..... Three people made a special trip to the exhibition to see it working _________________ Experience is something you don' t get until just after you need it .
The Shinnora is the one but £45 .20 needs some consideration :But that picture Pete put on for the 0 gauge is what I was thinking of, but price wise shall just have to keep thinking _________________ mine is a pint of J Smiths Smooth please
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The Shinnora is the one but £45 .20 needs some consideration :But that picture Pete put on for the 0 gauge is what I was thinking of, but price wise shall just have to keep thinking
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Mine is the Kato scissors crossover Nick. Only uses the 2 wires to control everything. No cutting holes in the baseboard, no DPDT switches and no point motors to buy. [/quote]
Peco and Hornby track is spaced to HO/Euro spacing at 4 mill between each sleeper , the space shoud be 6 mill for UK track so sleeper spacing shoud not be too bad . Its the code 83 rail that would cause more of a problem _________________ Experience is something you don' t get until just after you need it .
Dont have a rivet counters hat Pete only use code 83 .... not sure how it compares to track Dave already has down
I just have standard Hornby Flexable track which I find that even useing Peco points with Hornby can cause a problem there is the tiniest differance in Height which can sometimes cause a derail.
but with the price of thoses crossovers I think I shall stick to what arrangement I have, they do look good though _________________ mine is a pint of J Smiths Smooth please
By the way is any one experiancing the pages seem to be bigger on here they go off screen or is it just my computer _________________ mine is a pint of J Smiths Smooth please
It's happening to me too Dave. Does on quite a few topics, especially when pics are posted even if they fit my screen easily.
Glad I arn`t the only one, I have to slide left and right to see all message if it fills a line (if you know what I mean) _________________ mine is a pint of J Smiths Smooth please
its stopped it now.... it was doing that to me as well..... try clearing the cookies or something, it normally clears the problem..... _________________ * Percy: Isn't a Jubilee a sort of party? Thomas and I took some Scouts to one once.
* Thomas: That was a jamboree.
* Percy: Was it? Sorry.
Carn`t be that Bruce my a v g does that every day
no problem with normal e mails or anything else its just the forum pages _________________ mine is a pint of J Smiths Smooth please
Carn`t be that Bruce my a v g does that every day
no problem with normal e mails or anything else its just the forum pages
Hi Dave,
One reason can be pictures in posts are uploaded in a large format leading to the text running off the page ... must admit in earlier posts on my layouts i am guilty of uploading pictures without resizing them. _________________
See what you mean Nick, if I go back to previous page on this topic it`s o k but this page is out of space and it was me who put the picture at the top of the page, should have reduced it!! O well we live and learn every day.
When I looked again it was me who posted quote from Pol at top so got me even more baffeld, but it something to do with pictures. _________________ mine is a pint of J Smiths Smooth please
An incomplete URL without the opening or closing tags won't work properly and will show as text and stretch the page. These are examples of tags, []. _________________ Get off the line Bobby!
http://s160.photobucket.com/albums/t184/Poliss_album/
There was an *]* missing from the image url on Dave's drawing. That's what stretched the page. Fixed now.
Cheers Doug bet you had a little smile to yourself waiting for us to discover what I had done wrong _________________ mine is a pint of J Smiths Smooth please
I thought it was a pic that was too large at first. It was only when going into 'edit mode' that I saw the end tag was missing.
I used to write the HTML myself using HTML4 for my website. It was simple in the old days, but with the new fangled system, style sheets, active HTML or whatever it's called, it's too hard.
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The straight line to the turntable should be a curve, but I don't know how to draw one with PSP. 
the o gauge one is a lot more than that .
:But that picture Pete put on for the 0 gauge is what I was thinking of, but price wise shall just have to keep thinking 
only use code 83 .... not sure how it compares to track Dave already has down 