Sleeper

Depending on the variety of wood you want, and if you have a table saw to convert it to the sizes you can use...

A piece of 'out of favour' brown-furniture (with a little age) will probably give you a source of better quality, better seasoned wood, at far less cost..

PhilP.
 
PhilP said:
Depending on the variety of wood you want, and if you have a table saw to convert it to the sizes you can use...

A piece of 'out of favour' brown-furniture (with a little age) will probably give you a source of better quality, better seasoned wood, at far less cost..

PhilP.
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That would explain the shortage of antique furniture. Someone has been cutting it up to build a model railway. (Actually, it's a decent idea. Some furniture isn't worth trying to salvage. Now If I could just get my wife to agree to my definition of "worthless".)
 
PhilP said:
Depending on the variety of wood you want, and if you have a table saw to convert it to the sizes you can use...

A piece of 'out of favour' brown-furniture (with a little age) will probably give you a source of better quality, better seasoned wood, at far less cost..

PhilP.
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that is a very good idea, thanks.


David
 
PhilP said:
Depending on the variety of wood you want, and if you have a table saw to convert it to the sizes you can use...

A piece of 'out of favour' brown-furniture (with a little age) will probably give you a source of better quality, better seasoned wood, at far less cost..

PhilP.
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I can see the layout blurb now, stock by LGB, control by Massoth, track by Chippendale.

David
 
Check out the Cliff Barker range of products. His sleeper components are made from ABS, and he supplies the correct cement to weld them together. I've used his components to make all my point work, using reclaimed code 200 rail. My plain track work is all from him as well.

I made myself a rail bender, so I could bend his stainless rails to the correct radius, and just slide his sleeper units straight back on.

Check out my latest build thread for more details.
 
3 minutes of fame said:
Check out the Cliff Barker range of products. His sleeper components are made from ABS, and he supplies the correct cement to weld them together. I've used his components to make all my point work, using reclaimed code 200 rail. My plain track work is all from him as well.

I made myself a rail bender, so I could bend his stainless rails to the correct radius, and just slide his sleeper units straight back on.

Check out my latest build thread for more details.
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Thanks, I have some of Cliff Barker's track and I've looked at using his sleepers, because I'm an awkward ......... using his sleepers poses me with a decision point though, if I use his gauge 3 sleepers to accommodate 63.5mm gauge 1:22.5 scale trams I'll need to introduce ramping with the track I already have because of the different in sleeper depth, if I use his gauge 1 sleepers, which are compatible with peco track, the sleepers aren't long enough to accommodate the wider gauge at a later date, and with the track planned to be cemented in place adding a sleeper extension at a later date wouldn't be practical.

Cutting up a sheet of ABS is not what I really want to spend life doing but I think it could be my best option to get what I want.

My line will be just over 30m of double track plus the two balloon loops and sidings, so its not a short undertaking.

The track won't be sleepered in the same way a railway would be, the rails are being pre-curved and the usual number of sleepers reduced.

As with all my modelling a solution will appear and come to light.

Please don't stop the helpful suggestions folks, except for ideas of police stripes


David
 
Will you need track-power?

You could thread some 2mm(?) Rod, and use this to keep your rails in gauge.

PhilP.
 
PhilP said:
Will you need track-power?

You could thread some 2mm(?) Rod, and use this to keep your rails in gauge.

PhilP.
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The thought just now is to have the facility for DCC, all my 0 gauge are fitted with decoders.

But that isn't a bad idea, threaded plastic tube set to gauge with nuts on the outer rail, see, I post a question here and never entirely know where it will take me. A bit of fuffing about with drilling holes in the rails, but what ever I do is going to consist of some fuffing about, I now need to look at materials and the fuff factor for another option.

While the gears start turning on that idea, the plastic tube could be glued to something which is anchored to the base carrying the track. Now I need one of those icon thingys with an image of pooh bear sat on a log thinking, thanks.


David
 
PhilP said:
I would guess the plastic chairs, and the glue to bond them, would fail first?
Getting a glue to 'take' to a naturally oily wood, might be a challenge?

PhilP.
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Try 'near impossible'. Cliff Barker makes and sells chairs of various sizes, and, I bleeve, does PECO.
 
Filcris materials are easy to cut, but quite flexible in small sections.

I know you're concerned about the interface with the Peco track, but I think with some packing, you could get a very smooth transition.
 
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