Geoff the garden nav - 5/11/2009 11:56 PM
That does help, the check rails don't really have a wing, they are parallel to the running rail just chamfered off at either end.
The rails are stapled and soldered into place on each sleeper. Will try a bit of de soldering and bending the of ends in to make a wing. They are also rather short, complete replacement of the check rails may be the only answer will see, thank you.
The big issue with LGB R3s is that the check rail is not long enough, and, from the facing edge, starts much too close to the frog IMHO.
There comes a point ('scuse the pun) with model points (turnouts) where you have to compromise with scale, and make something that will take a substantially out of scale wheel profile.
I'm not a boffin, but I was lucky enough as a teenager to be given the Railway Modeller each month, and it was during this time that Protofour came on the scene, with a lot of useful explanations. :bighug:
Like the fact that on 1:1 trains, the wheel flanges don't do anything to keep the trains on the track, that's all down to the wheel profile; the only time the wheel flanges are used is when the back of the flange grinds on to a check rail. So you also get check rails on tight radius curves
On our model trains, the flange also does all the work of keeping the wheel on the track, and therefore is massively out of scale.
That's why points that work well also need to be substantially overscale in certain places.
Ah well, that's today's lesson over