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Re: Track Experiments
Well done Paul with your track experiments, it is something much needed.
I too have been experimenting, but only for personal use. I decided just to try plain sleepers with alternating ties under the
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Dave Noble
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Re: Track Experiments
The limiting factor is getting more on the build platform across the X & Y axis. Roughly speaking the print time doesn’t increase massively if you add more stuff in a layer as the system has to scan
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Paul Martin
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Re: Sculptamold
Paul,
I think it was you telling me that story that converted me to it too!
Cheers,
Robin
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Robin Edwards
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Re: Track Experiments
Hi John,
Right-o-way produce a cast nickel silver code 83 1:5 crossing that I’ve used with some success with Karlgarin code 82 rail.
https://right-o-way.us/catalogPage.php?partGrp=Frogs
They used
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jamesc0ldicott
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Re: Track Experiments
Again, I am speaking from ignorance but I recall reading somewhere that there is an optimal angle for printing and that vertical printing is not necessarily the best orientation.
Happy to have my
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Robin Edwards
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Re: Track Experiments
This is a really interesting development Paul. I'm assuming the main limiting factor is time not printed volume, although more volume = more resin cost. I wonder if you could get a larger quantity and
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John C
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Re: Sculptamold
Robin
Thanks for spreading the sculptamold word.
I should perhaps declare an inside track on the net curtain source. Annie works in the fundraising section of St Leonard’s Hospice here in York.
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Paul Martin
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Sculptamold
The latest EDM Models Newsletter has a handy tip for using Sculptamold as a plaster bandage styled product. As Paul says:
It works the same as plaster but it's cellulose based (paper). When it
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Robin Edwards
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Re: Track Experiments
Brian asking about printing directly on the build platform gives me the opportunity to talk about printers.
Suggesting I print on the build platform suggests he is thinking of an FDM printer. FDM
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Paul Martin
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Re: Track Experiments
Simply - its not that sort of printer. Detail in a seperate message
Paul
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Paul Martin
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Re: Track Experiments
Looks very intriguing Paul, I don’t know what sleeper size you are working on but here is an extract from a list originally compiled by Brandon Evans for the 7mm NGA handbook.
Railway
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Robin Edwards
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Re: Track Experiments
Hi Paul
Sorry, yes I did, and though I’d been told, I forgot you’d had to change plans 8-(
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Simon Jones
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Re: Track Experiments
Paul,
How come you can’t just print the sleepers on the table base without all the other support structure?
Brian
Rawbelle County Workshops
Qld. Aust.
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2019 8:58
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Brian
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Re: Track Experiments
Just to elaborate a bit more before you all go planning layouts using this flexible track this is some way off being a product.
It prints on a base similar to that shown above and all the support
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Paul Martin
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Re: Track Experiments
Simon, I assume you mean for the group curry?? Sorry won't be there as I am working here in York that day until late. Some clown decided to have an election
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Paul Martin
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Re: Track Experiments
Ooh, that is encouraging.
You’re most welcome to test if it’s idiot-proof by bringing a sample for the O14 idiot at Derby next week ;-)
Cheers
Simon
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Simon Jones
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Re: Track Experiments
I can see this filling a need in 014 trackbuilding! So thanks Paul.
David
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David Rae
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Re: Track Experiments
I don't think that you'll have any trouble selling this, even in kit form. Then you can start on the points!!
Ralph.
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Ralph Gaskin
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Re: Track Experiments
Paul,
Stick to grey, don't go down the Peco and everyone else dark brown. I think this probably goes back to track with Bakelite sleepers which would be dark brown, think old fashioned plugs.
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Frank Sharp
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Track Experiments
So I got a whizzy high end 3D printer
I wanted to build some 0-14 track
........... I wonder if.....
Here we have a yard length of 0-14 flex track with ME code 70 weathered rail.
Here it is a bit
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Paul Martin
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