hand made curved points

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dudley

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i needed a curved point to fit peco G45 track and a certain location. since christmas peco have bought out several componants for making your own track, all parts except the point blades. i decided to start a new point and see how i got on, it doesnt work out cheap as by the time you have bought the parts and then the rail costs rise. then lo and behold on the forum i bought a used point, needing attention so i decided to use the blades from that. its turned out ok i think so worth the effort.
 
Very interesting Dud. I'm going to be faced with a fairly similar situation soon, so I'll be looking at this closely. I must say that I hadn't thought used G45 turnouts would be easy to find
 
Wow Dud, that is good and an excellent bit of recycling of that damaged point too!

Think you could bend some LGB code 332 points for me with your Uri Geller touch?

Really impressed with your work....
 
Thanks gizzy, I thought you could get curved points in LGB, or similar makes? May be not.
 
dudley said:
Thanks gizzy, I thought you could get curved points in LGB, or similar makes? May be not.
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Yes you can Dud, but they are gert big things! Trainline and Piko make them.

Waiting for Piko to bring out their proposed Y point and R1 radius double Slip....
 
Very nice point Dudley:thumbup:
 
That looks the business
 
Yes it is a point lever by peco, it seems to work but the old point blades I used had lost the spring, would that make mine work and yours not?
 
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yes...i know...the germans! Noone can make things good enough for them....

Joke aside.

Its a wonderfull piece of work, congratulation for that.
BUT (now it comes) have a close look on your guardrails. I fear they wont do their job as they are by now. But thats a question of adjusting.
Those guardrails -for example- are the point of failure at the R3 LGB switches. its a very sensible question of ecaxt engineering. The LGB switches were wrong for about 0,4 or 0,5 mm, for what they made the rolling stock derail at the frog.

Me, i havent dared to built a switch on my own till now...because of those things.
Therefore: :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:



Greetings

Frank
 
Thanks for the comments frank, I did run a couple of items over it and they seem fine, I can always adjust the guardrails as required. I have always found that if you don't try things out, you never would do anything. I and don have a very close friend who has to have every thing perfect, nothing is good enough, yes you've guessed it, he hasn't ever done a layout, yes he's bought some very expensive trains and models, and no they don't come out the box because he's got nothing to run it on. I on the other hand will keep modelling, and one day may get it almost right, but we have a lot of fun on the way. Keep Gscaling in Germany fun.
 
One of the exhibition layouts at G-rail from Barrow-in-Furness has Peco track with one point made into a curved one and another into a Y-point - clever stuff and it's a delightful layout.
 
dudley said:
Thanks for the comments frank, I did run a couple of items over it and they seem fine, I can always adjust the guardrails as required. I have always found that if you don't try things out, you never would do anything. I and don have a very close friend who has to have every thing perfect, nothing is good enough, yes you've guessed it, he hasn't ever done a layout, yes he's bought some very expensive trains and models, and no they don't come out the box because he's got nothing to run it on. I on the other hand will keep modelling, and one day may get it almost right, but we have a lot of fun on the way. Keep Gscaling in Germany fun.
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Take five from me - well done (and said) and, well modelled:thumbup::thumbup:
 
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