Errr, Raleigh..... HO is 1/87. OO is 1/72. Some plastic models are made in 1/76. Never heard of 1/78, I guess we could declare it "R" scale....
Keep warm and have good night. Pieter Roos raleigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: and he admits his error - Just took in a small lot of H0 for disposal from an estate. Must have had that scale on my mind. It happens more often since I passed 70 - senior moments seem to multiply in number.1/64th is correct - 1/78th is H0. Thanks for pointing that out. It's nice t' know somebody reads my (yawn) contributions. A little white-out on the screen should fix it though... Raleigh in -1 Degree Maine, that's Minus 18.333333333333335° on the Celsius Gauge)... www.emporiumpictures.com At 08:37 PM 2/16/2008, you wrote: >Raleigh... > >I think you need to check the heater for fumes >I'm pretty sure the ratio for S is 1/64.....1/78 >might be close enough for horse shoes but a tad off for engineering.. > >gale >----- Original Message ----- >From: raleigh >To: >[email protected] >; [email protected] >Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 7:28 PM >Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Are you S Guage or S >Standard Gauge and does the height of the rail . . . > >and he notes - > > >From my mechanical engineering days, one inch to >one foot is expressed as 1" scale and most >manufacturing tracings were drawn to that or 1 >1/2" scale. The ratio S Gauge models bear to >their prototypes is 1:78 ergo 1/78th proportion. >While the definition of either scale or >proportion is similar, grammatically it expressed differently. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Pieter E. Roos Railroad Home Page at www.geocities.com/pieter_roos/pieter_1.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
