Options to avoid sharp corner, & steep grade ( Hind sight is wonderful)

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Re: Options for avoiding a sharp corner, Also on a severe gradient ( Hind sight is wonderful)


Clamped another piece to it,
cut out around & smoothed to identical shapes

 

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Re: Options for avoiding a sharp corner, Also on a severe gradient ( Hind sight is wonderful)


Butt glued them end on
Added plastic angle top & bottom,
and uprights at intervals

 

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So one side mounted on deck with ali angle,
short bit added to right to fit dogleg
and out into the sunshine

 

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Track test with long bogie wagon

 

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And with Garratt

now I can see clearances, joint of dogleg to main girder can be adjusted

 

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Just managed to upload a video of Stoneycombe on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqXftHeRMUU

 

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QUOTE(vsmith @ Aug 27 2009, )
Great video! Impressive layout!

I never asked but is this layout track powered or battery R/C ???

Dons reply...

Vic, it started off as track powered, but the drop out from the trees, and the general leaf debris,

OH and windfall apples & plums, tended to cover the rails with an insulating coat, so have gone over to battery power

The Garratt has its own onboard batteries ( ex wheelchair)

T Urn & Barcelona, with no room for all the gubbins on board, share the use of a battery control wagon, the one in the vid with the new black tarpualin on.
But I will be making some more control wagons of widely different shapes to vary what they pull, by being interchangable

 

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A few months back I was looking for a suitable boat that could negotiate the canal tunnel into the basin but still have a mast.

Did a Google & found that a Norfolk Wherry filled the bill ( drop mast for bridges etc.)
nothing suitable on ebay then, so saved the search, last week one came up, I was the only bidder & got it fot 4.99!! ( plus post of course)

Arrived in the basin today.

Pity there is a landlubber on board tho!!

Mast & sail raised after coming in thro the tunnel to dry off sails before furling.

 

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Bill is certainly no sailor, he got sea sick just coming along the cut!!

 

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He doesnt look green though, still that pic was taken "before"

 

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Must get them tyres down near waterlevel,
not doing any good up there!

 

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New Arrival in the Basin.
Samuel with his 1950s? classic,
looks like a DIY project
no deck varnish, & no screen yet

 

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Off top see the Basin Super

 

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I have been upgrading the photos on this thread from thumbnails

upgrading finished

 

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Picture of nearly finished bridge, on a hot summers day in August

 

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Rivet detail of join on top plates

 

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Canal Basin in the grip of winter

 

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Ice under the arches

 

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December, out in the frozen wastes,

leading to Sharks tooth Pass